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Purpose: Transform Domestic Electricity Use

What do you do when your business purpose requires your customers to change their behavior?

For Powervault, the London-based manufacturer of renewable energy storage systems, the answer is to use technology make the change not only easy, but financially rewarding.

Robin Stopford, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer explains Powervault’s approach in this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

Powervault transform their customers’ energy usage, helping them lower their electricity bills and minimise their carbon footprint - with confidence. Since inception in 2014, Powervault has been at the forefront of energy storage technology.  Their high-quality, intelligent solar batteries are designed and manufactured in their UK factory.

Robin is the CEO of Powervault, a scaling clean tech company he joined in November 2023.  For the past 20 years Robin has led corporate development for both public and private equity-backed global industrial groups, including both strategy and M&A, latterly adding divisional leadership and turnaround to his roles.  Robin started his career at Rolls-Royce and Bain with a Wharton MBA.  Trained as a business coach Robin seeks to create an environment where people feel like valued members of a winning team on a worthwhile mission.

Robin Stopford

How Culture and Purpose Propelled a Turnaround

Culture and purpose are powerful tools when you are challenged to turn around a business that isn’t reaching its full potential. CEO Kevin Davidson used both to successfully turn around Norman Broadbent plc, the London-based executive search and recruitment firm.

This year the firm announced its best financial results in over a decade, with a 41 per cent increase in revenues.

Kevin Davidson discusses how he did it, on this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

Purpose Powers Moderna’s UK Growth

Messenger RNA and personalised medicine promise to transform how we prevent and treat disease.

Darius Hughes, General Manager in the UK and Ireland for Moderna, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, wants the UK to lead the way.

Learn how he uses the company’s purpose to attract and keep the talented professionals he needs to achieve that ambition, on this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

Now-Next-Later: Developing a Purposeful Strategy

Teach your team how to say “no”, and don’t put an end date on your strategy - instead focus on “now-next-later”. This unconventional advice comes from Ben Peachey, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. He also finds Purpose and Ambition more realistic than mission and vision.

Learn how these beliefs, and using Theory of Change maps, are key to refreshing and implementing the institute’s purpose-driven strategy. On this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

Make Health and Safety a Purposeful Strategic Concern

Employers and health-and-safety professionals face an increasingly complex array of challenges as they try to make workplaces physically and psychologically saffe.

Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher is Chief Executive of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. Listen as she explains how IOSH is equipping employers and health-and-safety professionals to deal with their ever-widening remit, on this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

Purpose Drives New Approach to Regulation

Tap water must be safe, reliable and high-quality. The purpose of the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) is to ensure that public water supplies in England and Wales meets those standards.

Delivering on that purpose has required solving a set of complex interrelated challenges, and developing a new approach to regulation.

Marcus Rink, Chief Inspector at the DWI, describes the journey on this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

AI Plus Purpose Powers Sustainability

Purpose can unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence coupled with the Internet of Things, to help businesses reach their sustainability goals.

That’s according to Dr Elisabetta Castiglioni, CEO of A1 Digital, the European technology services provider. A1 helps companies globally to translate digital potential into business results.

Learn how the belief in digitisation as a force for good powers her organisation’s purpose, in this episode of The Purposeful Strategist.

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