Explore the latest thinking and practices for non-profit leadership and strategy.
In Good Company:
With Juliet Bouverie and Mike Adamson, Martyn explores the questions: What is systems change? Why should it be a priority for mission-led organisations? And what are the implications once we start to take it seriously?
Seminars:
Strategic yet Agile. Martyn shares different approaches to help enable your organisation to be strategic and planned, yet also agile and adaptive.
The Earned Income Opportunity. In this seminar Martyn shares his approach and takes charity leaders’ questions on where to start and how to grow their commercial revenue.
The Future of Charity Leadership. Taking insights from the pandemic, longer term trends, and the challenges facing the sector now, Martyn draws out what this means for the future of charity leadership.
Conflict and Courage with Martyn Drake and Marlene Chism. Martyn talks with author and speaker Marlene Chism, about how we turn conflict from a negative into a positive.
Future of Volunteering with Martyn Drake and Catherine Johnstone, CEO, Royal Voluntary Service. Exploring the changes we’ve seen in the landscape over the pandemic, and the opportunities and challenges it’s created for non-profits.
Value Led Growth with Martyn Drake and Hamish Mackenzie. Exploring how you can turn “what you do” into an incredibly compelling value proposition.
Anti Burnout with Martyn Drake and Dr Mike Drayton. Exploring the psychology of leadership, lockdown, and how to avoid burnout in the workplace.
Income, growth, and sales. How non-profits can generate a step-change in income and profitability of their products and services through learning how to ethically sell far more effectively.
Shorts:
Head Space. Taking just a couple of minutes out during a task to let your mind wander, has a huge impact on your productivity and your creativity. Here’s how we know.
Profit and Impact. Martyn explains a simple tool to create the right conversation in charity executive teams, about how to prioritise for profit and impact.
Capita and Carillion. Whatever happened to Capita and Carillion? Insights and lessons for organisations delivering social services contracts.
Inspired Design. Inspiration can come from anywhere… anywhere that is, except the niche you’re working in right now. Here’s how some of history’s most iconic innovators got their inspiration. How will you get yours?
Say Thank You. The simplest way to dramatically improve your productivity, as proven by research.
Keep It Fresh. The reason that some high profile retail and restaurant businesses are failing and closing outlets has nothing to do with the economy or consumer confidence.
Interviews:
Mark Lever, CEO of The National Autistic Society talks to Martyn Drake about the sector’s most pressing challenges, and how business thinking is becoming increasingly important to its future survival.
Catch 22 CEO Chris Wright talks about Public Sector outsourcing, social business and the role of entrepreneurialism in reducing gang crime.
Richard Hawkes, until recently the CEO of Scope, Chair of the Care and Support Alliance and trustee of VODG, talks candidly and compellingly with Martyn Drake about Scope, public service provision, and the big choices the sector urgently needs to make.
Petra Ingram, the CEO of the £20m international animal welfare charity, The Brooke, shares her experience of developing a simple, yet powerful Theory of Change, and using it to not only transform practices and programmes, but to redefine the organisation’s long-term direction and strategy.
Amanda Batten, CEO of Contact a Family, talks through her learning from her first year at the helm; how she unpicked the essence of the organisation and created a powerful new strategy for the future.
Sharron McIndoe, Head of Training and Consultancy at the National Autistic Society, talks to Martyn Drake about her experience of building a £1.5m profit-making commercial business within the mission and the culture of a large national charity.