Richard Yarrick-Holmes

LLDC's Procurement Leader, and Leaders Council member, Adwoa Owusu-Banahene, has received the Outstanding Contribution to Procurement Award at the Tomorrow's Procurement Festival of Achievement awards ceremony held in Birmingham.

M3 Floodtec, the Worcestershire-based flood prevention specialists, have broken new ground in the world of flood-prevention with doors that provide protection from flooding while simultaneously allowing easy navigation for wheelchair users.

Leaders Council member Manea Kella have been shortlisted for the House and Listed category in the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards 2023. The nomination is for their Rural Retreat project.

The government had commission a review of the shortage occupation list last summer, with the expectation that additional industries would be added to the list, thus making it easier for migrants who work in those industries to come to the UK.

The National Enterprise Network has released a report entitled ‘Adding Value Across Enterprise’ that urges the government to prioritse enterprise support for small businesses in the UK.

At this year's Davos conference, Duke University technology ethicist, Nita Farahany, discussed a future where managers can monitor the brainwaves of their employees to determine their focus levels through wearable technology.

Leaders Council chairman Lord Blunkett will be speaking to the membership on two occasions in March.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, has criticised the prime minister and health secretary for their failure to negotiate with NHS staff, which has led to ‘the biggest strike in the history of the NHS’.

The Leaders Council exists to celebrate and support leadership. It is not typically in our nature to mock or pour scorn on failures of leadership. And yet, The European Super League debacle has left us with little choice.

A large-scale study is currently taking place to ascertain whether lockdowns may have an impact on allergies. As we await the results, due in the summer, we look to the Leaders Council’s resident allergy expert Naomi Szakacs for insights into allergies more generally.

Global consulting firm Sionic has called on financial services to ‘radically accelerate a different style of inspirational leadership’ in the sector. Peter Stone, the firm’s managing partner and one of financial services’ leading experts in organisation transformation and leadership development, has today (11th Feb) issued a powerful call to arms.

Driver Require, Kieran Smith’s specialist driver recruitment agency, made history last week. The Stevenage-based outfit became the first agency in the country to achieve three specific qualifications.

Energy minister Anne-Marie Trevalyan has announced £11 million in government funding for the latest round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF). The hope is that this will help talented energy entrepreneurs turn their ideas into real products and services. But Matthew Fleming-Duffy, director of Cherry Mortgage and Finance, has warned that good intent does not always lead to tangible action.

Paul Turner, director of the company whose innovative research into electrical vehicle integration with light weighting technologies paved the way for the modern electric London taxi, has called on the government to do more to support the nation’s innovators.