Achieving True Culture Success While Scaling and Transforming, Insights from Amabel Grant

The Lucent Perspective

“If you want to be a great place to work and you want people to come to work with you… Then really being able to demonstrate that you care about social value as a strategy in your DNA. That really matters to people.”

Our special guest in this episode, Amabel Grant, shared her insights on how to become a great place to work by delivering on social value goals. I am really excited to share this episode with our listeners as Amabel shares insights on the following areas:

• How to become a great place to work, and how doing so will positively impact your clients and employees.
• Focus on social value - what it really means and how to balance it with commerciality.
• The growing importance of ESG in procurement
• Important core focuses when scaling your business.

Amabel is the CEO of Bloom Procurement Services which is the leading public sector fully managed marketplace for professional services.

Episode Outline and Highlights

• [01:40] Top tips for developing a positive working culture and employee experience.
• [03:40] Amabel shares their trademark behaviors and how they chose them.
• [07:28] The working culture’s direct impact on business.
• [09:15] How Bloom consistently embeds the trademark behaviors within their team.
• [12:55] Fostering a consistent work culture for startups.
• [19:15] Amabel discusses what the private sector can learn from the public sector.
• [22:01] Discussion on Social Value and how it aligns with commerciality.
• [24:26] How businesses are being assessed under ESG (Environmental Social Governance) credentials.
• [28:58] Core focuses when scaling a business.

Rebecca Hastings, Founder and Director at The Lucent Group
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Rebecca has extensive talent and executive search experience supporting digital and technology businesses through complex changes and fast-paced scale-up periods. She works with businesses advising on C-level, technical, sales and commercial appointments, workforce planning, strategic talent management, recruitment processes and associated technology and employer brand development.

Chapters

1. Achieving True Culture Success While Scaling and Transforming, Insights from Amabel Grant (00:00:00)

2. Top tips for developing a positive working culture and employee experience. (00:01:40)

3. Amabel shares their trademark behaviors and how they chose them. (00:03:40)

4. The working culture’s direct impact on business. (00:07:28)

5. How Bloom consistently embeds the trademark behaviors within their team. (00:09:15)

6. Fostering a consistent work culture for startups. (00:12:55)

7. Amabel discusses what the private sector can learn from the public sector. (00:19:15)

8. Discussion on Social Value and how it aligns with commerciality. (00:22:01)

9. How businesses are being assessed under ESG (Environmental Social Governance) credentials. (00:24:26)

10. Core focuses when scaling a business. (00:28:58)