“She’s Electric” – A Journey To the Future
We had to head for the beautiful Highlands for our first EV road trip! Be sure to watch my daughter’s video too
Entries by Sarah Windrum
Interview: BBC CWR Newspaper Review
I was honoured to be asked to be a guest on BBC CWR with Lorna Bailey this week to review the daily newspapers. The first story I chose was from the Financial Times on quantum computing. As many of you will know, technology is something I am hugely passionate about and the story was predicting […]
Interview: Festivals, Creativity & Bank Holidays!
It was great to be back at BBC CWR reviewing the newspapers with Phil Upton. As I begin my term as Chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership for Coventry and Warwickshire, I am keen to see it return to its former glory after the pandemic. ‘Boris on the Buses’ was my first story from the […]
Leading Strategic Change
In this assignment I am tasked with discussing how I propose to lead strategic change. The obvious role for me to use as context for this is the company I founded, but I hope to be able to understand how to apply the same learning to organisations where I do not hold an official leadership […]
Inspirational Dependency in Leadership
When I began the Strategic Leadership course I was conscious that as the Co-Founder and CEO of my organisation, my strengths and weaknesses as an individual were embedded in our company culture. Work with the team and an external consultant had identified our organisation ‘the person’ as a mix between Elvira the Princess of Darkness […]
Interview: Find a New Post-Covid Career
BBC CWR hosted a £10 million employment campaign this month to support those made redundant through Covid and I joined them on the last day to chat with Sandra Godley on top tips for finding new work. As one of the founders of technology company The Emerald Group and West Midlands Policy Lead for the […]
Interview: Doing Business in the Pandemic
Despite the circumstances, it was a pleasure as always to be a guest on local BBC Radio CWR talking to Phil Upton about how different industry sectors have had opposing ‘feast or famine’ experiences through the Covid crisis. As we are all aware, many companies in sectors like hospitality are really struggling; whereas other areas […]
How Do We Make Digital Thrive?
Originally published in November 2017, here are my reflections on making the culture of digital thrive