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2019 Edelman Global Trust Barometer: The Year that Trust was Recognised as an Opportunity not an Institutional Crisis
January 22, 201920190401-280
They say that the Chinese symbol for the word crisis is the same as that for the word opportunity. They are two sides of the same coin. In reviewing the results from the 2019 Edelman Global Trust Barometer, you can sense a shift from trust as a crisis, to trust as an opportunity. This is particularly the case for business leaders where the headline statistic is that 76% of the 33,000 respondents across 27 countries say that the CEO should take the lead on change rather than waiting for government to impose it.
Read more ›Importance of Trust when Recovering from Failure: Interview with Bob Holt OBE, Executive Chairman, Sureserve Group Plc
January 14, 201920190401-190The Sureserve Group employs over 2,300 people, delivers award-winning projects across the UK in building, improving, maintaining and developing buildings and services for social housing, schools and colleges. The company generates annual revenues of £299.5m. In this interview, The Group CEO, Bob Holt OBE, talks about the importance of trust as the foundation for strong leadership to help businesses recover from past failure.
Read more ›Trusted Executive Foundation Interview with Ciaran Bird, UK Managing Director, CBRE
January 8, 2019Ciaran was appointed UK Managing Director of CBRE in January 2013. CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management. Ciaran played rugby for London Irish for ten years as a back row and professionally for three years. In this interview, Ciaran talks about his beliefs about trust as a sportsman and as a business leader, and the importance of “teamship” in developing high trust cultures.
Read more ›The Role of Trust in the Legal World: Interview with Peter Jackson, CEO of Hill Dickinson LLP
December 10, 2018Peter was elected as Hill Dickinson’s first CEO in 2016 having been Managing Partner since 2006. Hill Dickinson is an international commercial law firm with more than 840 people, including 175 partners and legal directors. The firm acts as a trusted adviser to businesses, organisations and individuals across the world and from a wide range of market sectors. In this interview, Peter shares his reflections on the role that trust plays in the legal world and its highly competitive marketplace.
Read more ›Trusted Executive Foundation Interview with Howard Kerr, CEO of BSI Group
November 27, 201820190401-060Howard was appointed Chief Executive of BSI Group in January 2009. He has played a leading role in developing a new generation of standards to help organizations become better governed and more responsible. In 2017, for the 18th consecutive year, BSI achieved record revenue of £473m and an operating surplus of £59.5m. In this interview, Howard talks about trust being at the heart of this independent, not for profit company that has been in existence for over a century with a distinctive self-owned and self-governing structure.
Read more ›Trusted Executive Foundation Interview with Andrew Selley, CEO, Bidfood UK
November 1, 2018Andrew Selley is the CEO of Bidfood UK who are a leading foodservice wholesale distributor and the preferred supply partner for over 60,000 customers across the UK. Andrew is also a Commissioner on the RSA’s Food, Farming & Countryside Commission. In this interview with the Trusted Executive Foundation, Andrew highlights the critical importance of trust in supporting the transformation at Bidfood UK.
Read more ›Trusted Executive Foundation Interview with Peter Gibbs, former Director of Brakes Group
October 19, 201820190401-020Peter Gibbs was formerly the Director of Brakes Group, a leading supplier to the foodservice sector in the UK, Ireland, France and Sweden serving tens of thousands of customers across Europe every day. In this interview, Peter shares with us his views on trust and its power in creating a clear cohesive and proactive foundation within organisations to support change and performance improvement.
Read more ›Trusted Executive Foundation Interview with Martin Grant, Executive Vice-President, SNC-Lavalin
September 24, 2018In 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired Atkins, one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, creating a global fully integrated professional services and project management company with over 50,000 employees and annual revenues of approximately £7 billion. After several years as the CEO of Atkins’ Energy business, Martin is now EVP of Engineering & Consulting, in SNC-Lavalin’s Oil and Gas business.
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