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Andy Bostock manages more than 1,000 staff as a senior partner with one of the world's Big Four audit companies KPMG. He also leads the annual audits of some of the biggest local councils and hospitals in the Midlands (of the UK).

In discussion with Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi, Andy reflects on three decades with KPMG - and on the need for better funding for local government and the NHS.

He also highlights why local business people must talk up their cities; why staff who want to get on should spend more time in the office; and how the most successful leaders have built their careers on being kind to their colleagues.

To mark the opening of Nottingham Business School’s new Postgraduate and Executive Education Centre, three experts come together to discuss the future of business education.

They are, the President of the European Foundation for Management Development Professor Eric Cornuel, the Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools Flora Hamilton, and the Dean of Nottingham Business School Professor Baback Yazdani.

In a candid discussion hosted by Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi, they talk about impactful research, challenging technologies and why business schools will only be truly successful if they embrace a higher purpose.

They also agree that business schools should be proud to generate the revenues that underpin other university departments.

Mary Storrie set up the Rosie May Foundation after her ten-year-old daughter was murdered at a Christmas party in December 2003.
Since then – under Mary’s charismatic leadership – the Foundation has raised millions of pounds to educate children, empower women and help families lift themselves out of poverty, across the world.
In this episode of the NBS Business Leaders’ podcast, CEO Mary tells Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi about personal grief, pink taxis and the power of lifelong learning.

Designer Lorna Holder has enjoyed a four-decade career in fashion, film, books, theatre and the arts.
And it started after she became the first black fashion graduate from Nottingham Trent – back in 1975.
Born in Jamaica and brought up in Nottingham, she has a great passion for her African heritage.
In this episode of the Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast, Lorna tells Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi about the importance for leaders to listen, to deliver and to continually reinvent themselves.

Charlotte Henshaw MBE has represented GB at a remarkable four Paralympic Games.
The Nottinghamshire athlete – who had her legs amputated when she was just 18 months old – has won Paralympic medals at both swimming and canoeing.
And she’ll be going for gold again this summer, in her fifth Games, at Paris 2024.
In Episode 42 of the NBS Business Leaders’ Podcast, Charlotte tells Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi about the highs and the lows of her career so far – and how she sometimes struggles to deal with the anxiety of expectation.
Her passion for her sport – and her love for her home town of Mansfield – shine through. Her thoughtful reflections on her success suggest a future in the highest echelons of sporting administration awaits.

Rob Swann joined Nottingham-based manufacturer Termate as a teenage apprentice, in 1989. Thirty-five years later, he now owns the company. In 2007 Rob lead a management buy-out of the SME, which at the time was owned by his dad. Since then, Termate has been on a big export drive – to the point where international sales of its electrical insulation products now far outweigh domestic business.

In episode number 41 of the Nottingham Business School Business Leaders’ Podcast, Rob tells Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi about the stresses faced by small business owners – and why they really need to look after themselves.