The Growth Business Lucy Thorpe

Business is in the grip of a mental health crisis with employees reporting record levels of stress, worry and even sadness.Are you ready to build compassion into your business processes.and win back productivity as a result?This month Lucy talks to the Champion of Compassion Nigel Kilpatrick about the Gallup survey findings and what we can do about it...Contact Nigel on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelkilpatrick/) Listen to The Compassion Show (https://lnns.co/A1PkVou2pSg)

IT professionals are a powerful knowledge community but post-covid, some of us have been left isolated.In this episode of The Growth Business the founder of The Channel Community talks to Lucy Thorpe about pulling together, overcoming confidence issues and promoting equity.Useful linksCoachere - www.coachere.com (www.coachere.com)The Channel Community - www.thechannelcommunity.com (www.thechannelcommunity.com)

As AI comes of age - will anything ever be the same again? ChatGPT is being hailed as a major turning point - set to sweep away everything from Google to a whole bunch of familiar jobs. And while we're all familiar with hype cycles this seems to be the real deal.In this episode of The Growth Business, Lucy Thorpe talks to former senior BBC tech journalist Jane Wakefield about AI, the technology economy and as International Women's Day approaches they chat about the on-going issues with gender bias and equality in the tech sector.

Creating an inclusive workplace is more important than ever as we embrace diversity within teams. In this month's episode of The Growth Business podcast, Lucy talks to Change Optician Dr Emma Langman founder of BAKERFISH about conflict, allyship and leadership goals as well as why your boss could be bad for your health!

Emotions are part of the buying process whether we like it or not - so why aren't more B2B tech companies seeking to understand how to grab our audience from the get-go? It takes only nano seconds to makes an impression so how do we make it count?Consumer psychologist and founder of the consultancy Humanising Brands Kate Nightingale is Lucy's guest this month - together they look at how improved brand communication can make all the difference to sales.Kate Nightingale is on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-nightingale-kasia-slowikowska-1895981b/)Humanising Brands Behavioural Retail Consultancy (https://humanising-brands.com/)

From the fuel crisis to the trust crisis, it's certainly been a tumultuous year! Luckily another 11 guests have taken the time to talk us through it and reflect on some of the lessons learned.So here we have it, the 2022 best of... episode of The Growth Business in which Lucy looks back over what her guests have revealed about the world we do business in today.