Management Meets PODCAST

Experienced international business development professional. Creates, develops and delivers a successful external engagement strategy, through a strong understanding of discipline-specific market trends and collaboration with business leaders and our fantastic alumni network.

I serve as Dean of the School of Management, at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, where I began my career. Before Re-joining Bath, I held senior roles in research-intensive universities in the United Kingdom (the Universities of Warwick, and Birmingham) and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. As Dean of the School of Management, I am responsible for the strategic direction of one of Europe's leading centres of business research and education. As a member of the University's Executive Board, I also contribute to the leadership, positioning, and prosperity of the wider University. In a former life, I am a leading scholar in the fields of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. Specifically, my research explored firm-stakeholder relationships, the strategic management of these, and corresponding impacts on company performance and reputation. I continue to serve as an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management, as a member of a number of journal editorial boards, and served for a number of years as a member of the scientific committee of the Chartered Association of Business School's Academic Journal Guide.

Becky Toogood is the Alumni Engagement Communications Officer for the University of Bath, School of Management. With a first-class degree in journalism and a marketing background, Becky has experience in digital, print and multimedia communications. Working in higher education, Becky likes to showcase those leading innovation in their respective areas to celebrate success in the community, whilst inspiring others.

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter. The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.” Her TED talks have been seen by over 13 million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award, was one of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2021 and was chosen as the “Medium Best of the Best” business book. ,. She became a member of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, in recognition of her lasting impact on management thinking. She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She chairs the board of DACS and is a parish councillor.

Joy Harcup is an executive coach and board performance reviewer with the international coaching firm, Praesta LLP. She works with individuals, top executive teams and boards. She has 20 years’ experience coaching clients in the FTSE 100, public and not-for-profit sectors. Joy was President of the UK Board of the International Coaching Federation, the largest global professional body for coaches. A former lawyer specialising in dispute resolution, she has published academic research, in Management Learning, on the impact of coaching, following her MBA from Bath University. She has also sat on boards in the educational and not-for-profit sectors.

Having started his career as an Actuary, Wilf became a ‘serial’ CEO. With almost four decades of experience in the Life and Health insurance sector, mostly throughout both Asia and Africa, he’s been delivering high-scale and impact transformations, alongside sustainable business growth. Wilf thrives on creating purpose-led, values-based and innovative organisations, with an external orientation and multi-stakeholder perspective. Driven by customer centricity and entrepreneurship, Wilf is committed to employee engagement and digitisation, with a focus on execution, capability building, and performance delivery. He’s an ngaging and empowering leader, passionate about developing collaborative and high-performing teams that enhance shareholder value. Since completing his EMBA with Bath in 2000, Wilf has lived in seven Asian countries Singapore (thrice), Hong Kong (twice), Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and China) serving Allianz then Prudential. Last year. Wilf became Chairman of LivWell Asia, a young Singapore based, Asia focused digitally led integrated wellness ecosystem.