Creating Futures

Get back as you give back by offering pro bono volunteering opportunities to your staff!

This week's episode is with the incredible Ed Mayo, CEO of Pilotlight. Pilotlight connects skilled workers with charities who need their support - allowing employees to volunteer using the skills they use at work in a charity setting!

Ed has had a long career in charities. Starting out as a computer programmer in the private sector, he was driven by wanting to do good and he's volunteered throughout his life, so he understands first hand how beneficial working out can be to develop your career while also making a difference.

Ed has worked for a wide range of not for profits and campaigns before coming to Pilotlight 3 years ago, including the record breaking Jubilee 2000 campaign, petitioning for cancelling third world debt by the year 2000, and he has fascinating insights to share: from what volunteering can do for you as an individual to how it can benefit your workplace culture to how charities can balance their business needs with their commitment to their cause.

Your bias could affect your skills shortage.

Hear the best bits of Salt's Neurodiversity webinar with experts from DivergenThinking explaining the social stengths-based model and what it can do for your business. Co-founders Natasya Jones and Anton Ashcroft share what needs to change and why in the modern workplace to leverage the power of Neurodivergent thinking for the benefit of all, and your bottom line. They also interview Grace, a creative in Media and Publishing, about her lived experience of working before and after her late diagnosis of ADD.

Many of the traits employers and hiring managers are looking for – innovation, creativity, analysis - are ones that Neurodiverse candidates possess in spades. Everyone benefits from a more inclusive workplace – it raises employee well-being and retention – but in times of skill shortage and such a competitive job market, many don’t realise the impact of Neurodiverse inclusive hiring on their bottom line.

Maggie Murphy is the CEO of Lewes FC, the first football club to pay their male and female football players equally. 

With a background in anti-corruption and good governance, she's not the usual football CEO, changing career after the FIFA scandal showed her how little those governing football cared about women in the sport. 

She and a team of amazing women broke the Guinness World Record for highest football game ever played to raise awareness about this issue - and since then have formed a charity 'Equal Playing Field' that seeks to support women in football with camps, coaching and campaigns.

Support Lewes FC and learn more about their activities: https://lewesfc.com/

Support women's football with Equal Playing Field: https://equalplayingfield.com/home

This ia a great episode where our team chats with freelancer, contractor and Digital Nomad, Rita Batalh, who's been working across Strategy, Program Management, and Digital projects for all sorts of businesses around the world. She shares everything from her transition to top tips for anyone starting out.

Whether you're a #digitalnomad or not, you're going to want to have to listen. 🎙️

We want everyone to feel comfortable being their whole self at work - on the good days and the bad. In celebration of #WorldMentalHealthDay this year Salt's leaders have shared their take on mental health in the workplace in and out of the pandemic in our latest Creating Futures podcast.

Let's get ready for Season Two of Creating Futures from Salt. The show that speaks to incredible people on their career journey. Today we take a look back to some amazing people we spoke to on topics including inspiring children, setting boundaries, diversifying stem, Olympics to business and community building. There really is something for everyone. Listen, enjoy and con't forget to subscribe for Season Two on on inclusivity and diversity, mental health, wellbeing, and careers. 

Welcome back to Salt's podcast, Creating Futures for our 5th episode!

This week we're in South Africa with Salt's Senior Consultant Nicky Fastovsky who spoke with Danielle van Duyn, co-founder of Run for Coffee. Run for Coffee SA is a female collective of women who run together 2-3 times a week and provides networking and socialising opportunities too.

Run for Coffee was started by Danielle and co-founder Cleo Marco who casually joined forces to improve their ability to run during the first lockdown. Fast forward nine months and it's growing rapidly with over 150 members in Cape Town, 100 in Johannesburg, and soon to be launching in Durban! They've also partnered with brands including Puma, Adidas, Shackleton Brewery, Cotton On, and lots more.

In this episode, Nicky and Danielle talk about how Run for Coffee started, growing in different cities, balancing their side hustle, working with people you trust, creating opportunities for women to network and make new friends as well as getting fit, and so much more.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

For the 4th episode of our podcast, Salt's CEO, Elliot Dell speaks to Sarah Lindsay: three-time speed-skating Olympian and co-founder of Roar London.

In this episode, Sarah shares with Elliot more about her journey to the Olympics, starting Roar London, and provides lots of positive tips and advice from backing yourself to why you shouldn't be scared of failure or changing direction.

As a European gold medalist, double world silver medalist, ten-time British speed skating champion and a strength and conditioning coach for several Team GB Figure Skaters competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics, Sarah’s experience is second to none and is an inspiration to anyone looking to reach their full potential. Sarah launched her personal training brand, Roar, in 2016 and has opened two further Roar sites in London as well as her new class concept, Roar Metal, available in West London and online. As a personal trainer she is behind the successful transformations of celebrities such as the likes of Ellie Goulding, Henry Holland, Professor Green, Vogue Williams, Nick Grimshaw, Pixie Lott and Sheridan Smith to name a few.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Welcome back to Salt's podcast, Creating Futures, for our third episode!

This week, Salt's Wallace Williams speaks to Marie Ettien, Senior Biomedical Engineering Student and President of National Society of Black Engineers UB Chapter, who is going to change the world, one prosthetic at a time.

In this episode, Wallace and Marie talk about encouraging more girls into STEM, the challenges of being a young black woman in Engineering, proving yourself and never giving up, and what companies need to being doing in terms of Diversity and Inclusion, plus so much more. 

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Welcome back to our podcast Creating Futures for our second episode.

This time we’re in New York with Salt’s Associate Director, Elizabeth Kayler and Lauren Marinelli, VP of Sales - Growth at Vox Media, the leading independent modern media company. 

Lauren currently leads the Growth sales team at Vox Media and has a proven track record of scaling digitally native businesses, with previous roles at Brit + Co, Refinery29, and ELLE. 

In this episode, Elizabeth gets to hear more about her career journey and discusses boundaries at work, motherhood and careers, and what really makes someone stand out from the crowd.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

For the first episode of our podcast, Salt's CEO Elliot Dell is joined by David Harris, CEO of Engage, Enrich, Excel Academies to delve into where all careers and dreams start… in schools!

They talk about the positives and challenges of the pandemic on young people, including adapting technology into teaching, the importance of social skills and emotional intelligence, growing up online and on social media, plus lots more.

Hope you enjoy this episode!