IoD Policy Voice Podcast: Recent Episodes
IoD Yorkshire & North East
Welcome to the IoD’s Policy Voice podcast series. IoD Policy Voice enables you to make your voice heard through monthly surveys on key business issues. Launched in 2008 to help fulfil the terms of our Royal Charter, Policy Voice seeks IoD members’ opinions on the issues that matter to business leaders. Our Policy Voice podcast series is hosted by Rasmi Dube, Policy Voice Ambassador for Yorkshire & North East.
In our latest podcast, IoD Governance and Policy Ambassador Rashmi Dube chats to David Spillane of Pocketworks and digital ambassador for North Yorkshire.
David and Rashmi discuss digital transformation – what it means and how it enables companies to work efficiently and communicate effectively with customers of all ages.
David heads up digital strategy for Leeds-based Pocketworks, which operates in the field of user-based mobile digital solutions.
What does corporate governance mean to your business?
Dr Roger Barker, IoD Director of Policy and Corporate Governance, says understanding this subject is critical to becoming a director.
In our latest podcast, Dr Barker chats to IoD Governance and Policy Ambassador Rashmi Dube about transparency, ethics and building trust in your organisation.
Rashmi and Roger also discuss how organisations can address issues around diversity, inclusion and mental health.
Meaningful collaboration is critical to business success and a cultural shift, together with Covid-19, has only accelerated the demand for sustainability.
Rashmi Dube speaks with Andrew Griffiths, IoD London Ambassador and Director of Digital and Community at sustainability programme The Planet Mark. In a wide-ranging conversation, they talk about the power of consistent and meaningful networking and the importance of key values, clear purpose and vision to align meaningful collaborations.
As businesses emerge from a period of damaging lockdown, what lies ahead in the next 90 days? In her latest interview, IoD Policy Voice Ambassador Rashmi Dube meets Karl Pemberton, managing director of Active Financial Planners, Chartered Director and chair of the IoD North East (South) branch. Rashmi and Karl discuss how directors can move on from the initial phase of fire-fighting into a period of strategic thinking and robust business planning.
In her latest podcast, Rashmi interviews Richard Smith, chief operating officer of 2M Holdings, IoD West Yorkshire branch chair, Fellow and Chartered Director.
Richard talks about the benefits of IoD Chartered Director status and his personal journey to achieving the qualification.
He discusses how the qualification helps directors to understand their responsibilities and assists with effective time management – a topical issue in the current climate.
In her latest podcast, Rashmi chats with Vickie Brown, finance director of Distinction Group, about her success in working with HMRC as a test case to defer import VAT and duty.
Vickie explains how Distinction Group was forced to suspend production due to Covid-19 and subsequently worked with HMRC, backed by the IoD, to defer VAT and duty on its imports from the Far East and protect the cashflow of the business.
In our latest IoD Policy Voice podcast, Rashmi Dube meets Polar adventurer Alan Chambers MBE and ex-Special Forces officer Wayne Hoyle of Extreme Leaders. Alan and Wayne have experience of navigating complex and uncertain landscapes and both faced challenges that have pushed them to their physical and mental limits. In this interview, Alan and Wayne talk about how directors can deal with the considerable change and challenge posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Late payments cause major problems for small businesses, damaging cashflow and occasionally putting the future of a company at risk. This has never been truer than now, with Covid-19 heaping more pressure on already stretched company finances. In her latest podcast interview, Rashmi Dube interviews Small Business Commissioner Phillip King to discuss how the organisation works, how it resolves issues and why, in the current climate, it is vital to accelerate payments to suppliers.
In our latest episode, Rashmi interviews Charlotte Armitage, business psychologist and managing director of the Yorkshire Academy of Film and Television Acting (YAFTA). Rashmi and Charlotte talk about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and how isolation affects our mental health. As our everyday family and business routines change dramatically and face-to-face interaction is reduced to a minimum, how do we protect our mental wellbeing?
This episode features an interview with Edwin Morgan, Director of Policy at the IoD. Edwin joined the IoD in 2010 after a career as a civil servant in government. Edwin outlines his role in seeking out the views of business leaders across the country to feedback to Whitehall decision-makers. Key mechanisms for feedback from the regions include the monthly Police Voice surveys which track the opinions of around 1,000 IoD members on the issues and challenges facing businesses in 2020.