One Question One Question

It is perhaps somewhat unusual to invite the company Chairman, to the podcast to answer our question but, in true One Question style in this episode, Sarah chats to friend, chairman and founder of New Working Class, James Scroggs, to answer our single question, can we rewrite the rules of leadership? 

How do we define leadership in 2023? What are the tenants of true leadership? What role do business, society and perhaps more importantly education play in developing leaders of today and of the future? 

A thoughtful conversation challenging the way we think of leadership today. 

James Scroggs joined One Question in 2018, building on our community of leaders from business and society to reimagine the world through conversation and consultation. 

James is co-founder of New Working Class, a new college combining learning and working on the high street, as an engine for community regeneration. Widening participation in further and higher education, for those marginalised by the current education pathway. 

Alongside One Question and NWC, James is Chairman of CALM - Campaigning Against Living Miserably, a charity taking a stand against suicide. Through provocative campaigns, life-saving servicing and community, CALM advocates for standing together to show life is always worth living and change the fact that 125 lives are lost to suicide every week. 

Episode two of the brand new series invites Joe Twyman, the co-founder of independent public opinion consultancy, Delta Poll, to explore our one question, can we rewrite the rules of leadership? 

One of Britain’s best-known political pollsters, Joe previously worked as Head of Political and Social Research at YouGov and was a director at the founding of the company back in 2000. Before leading the Political and Social Research Team
at YouGov, Joe held a variety of senior positions within the company and was responsible for building the company’s online research operations. He also spent two and a half years in Baghdad as a director of YouGov’s Iraq operation from 2007 to 2010. He has published several academic research papers, worked as project director for five British Election Studies and regularly provides expert analysis for TV, radio and newspapers both at home and abroad. 

Joe joins Sarah in a conversation on what it means to be a political leader today. Can we maintain our faith in leadership when leaders who govern the country break the very laws they set? What does the future of democracy look like and so much more. 

Series 4 of the One Question podcast returns, asking, can we rewrite the rules of leadership? 

Episode one invites the Co-Founder of Word On The Curb, Ndu Uchea, to answer this series one question in conversation with Sarah.

Word on the Curb is a youth insight and communications consultancy that specialises in working with ambitious brands to engage with underrepresented Gen-Z and Millennials. 

Ndu co-founded the organisation with business partner and friend, Hayel, when the two were studying at the University of Manchester in 2013. Born out of a passion and desire to accurately depict and explore the opinions of the diverse environment they found themselves in, the pair taught themselves how to create content through online tutorials, uploading videos targeted at exploring youth opinions to their Youtube channel. A decade later, the company offers end-to-end communications services, from insight to behaviour-changing creative campaigns, working with the likes of the NHS, adidas and Spotify. 

Ndu joins Sarah in an insightful conversation exploring what it means to be a leader today. How have ideas of leadership shifted? And is the democratisation of leadership a good thing?

In the final episode of this series asking, can business make society better? Sarah is joined by Lucy Stephens, Headteacher of The New School, a new type of school on a mission to positively change the way we educate children in the UK, Sebastian Gray, Headteacher at Laurance Haines School in Watford and Karrelle Dixon, formerly heading up advertising agency, Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Karrelle is retraining to become a teacher.  

An integral perspective of the 2020 question through the lens of education, the role business plays in education, and whether the education system as we know it is really fit for purpose. 

In partnership with Bloomberg Media, Sarah is joined by CMO, Anne Kawalerski and Vice President of brand at Audi, Henrik Wenders, to answer our 2020 question, can business make society better? Through the lens of the marketing industry. 

An illuminating conversation on the responsibility of marketers in balancing a strategy based on core values and commercial success. The call for new metrics of success and the importance of 'practising what we preach' in business and in marketing. 

In Partnership with Bloomberg Media,  Sarah is joined by Adeline Diab and Claire Bergkamp to discuss the responsibility the fashion industry has in making society better. 

The fashion industry touches all of us, from high-end to the high street, but how great is the responsibility and is it fair? An honest conversation of the realities of fast fashion and a call to reframe consumerism.