The Lens: UK Responsible Business Podcast
The Lens: UK Responsible Business Podcast
Join global business leaders and emerging future leaders for an unscripted conversation that will challenge the way you think about responsible business.
Every month, The Lens: UK Responsible Business Podcast brings together a global business leader and an emerging future leader for an open and unscripted conversation. It will challenge the way you think about responsible business. Listen, rate and subscribe on Acast, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your preferred podcast provider. The Lens is created in partnership with One Young World.


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Every month, The Lens: UK Responsible Business Podcast brings together a global business leader and an emerging future leader for an open and unscripted conversation. It will challenge the way you think about responsible business.
This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Michael Herron, Head of Atos UK&I at Atos Group, an AI-powered digital transformation provider, and by Giselle Gonzales, Founder of and CEO of EqualReach, a social enterprise that connects teams of displaced and host-community tech talent with dignified digital work.​ In this episode, they discuss digital skills in an AI world.
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Grant Thornton and CAIN Educational Foundation​: Social mobility: Is business doing enough?
Our host Sarah Travers is joined by Malcolm Gomersall, CEO of Grant Thornton UK, and May Asagba, Founder of CAIN Educational Foundation, an organisation based in Lagos dedicated to empowering underprivileged Africans.​ In this episode, they discuss the role of business in education and the need to inspire people from a young age to create greater social mobility.

Principality and Ecomak: Responsible transformation with people, planet and place at the heart of change
Our host Sarah Travers is joined by Iain Mansfield, CEO of Principality Building Society, and Ronald Mugaiga, Managing Director of Ecomak Recyclers, Uganda, a climate tech Africa-based startup that transforms plastic waste into low-carbon construction materials. In this episode, we discuss Responsible transformation with people, planet and place at the heart of change.Â

Meet our host: Sarah Travers
Sarah is a former BBC news journalist and TV presenter, with a keen interest in stories and the people that shape them.
Sarah is a familiar face to many in Northern Ireland, where she was an anchor in the BBC newsroom for 17 years, covering high profile stories throughout the Northern Ireland peace process, and key events like the London 2012 Paralympics and BBC Children in Need.
Since setting up Bespoke Communications, Sarah has coached hundreds of people in media training, presentation skills and leadership development. Sarah is always warm, engaging and encouraging in her training sessions, as she shares her wealth of news and media insider knowledge.
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