Business Leaders from Yorkshire and Beyond

William Gaunt

Once renowned around the world for fine worsted cloth, Sunny Bank Mills [https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/] in  Farsley, Leeds is now a thriving centre for business and the arts. In my latest podcast, I speak with William Gaunt [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wgaunt/]who alongside his cousin John Gaunt is joint MD of the family-owned company behind this historic textiles mill. We discuss their reinvention of the site, the social undertakings of business and what we can learn about successful regeneration and creating communities.   If you haven't been to Sunny Bank Mills, I thoroughly recommend a visit! This occasional podcast series is brought to you by Bernard Ginns, director of Branksome Partners [https://www.branksomepartners.com/], a specialist communications consultancy founded in 2016, and formerly business editor of the Yorkshire Post and a staff reporter at The Mail on Sunday.

Dame Linda Pollard

From a mill-working family in West Yorkshire to the top of the NHS establishment, Dame Linda Pollard [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dame-linda-pollard-dbe-hon-lld-45bb3a25/]shares her remarkable journey in our latest episode. Until recently chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Linda is now embarking on new ventures in diagnostics technology and culture as incoming chair at Leeds Heritage Theatres.  We discuss her early career in male-dominated workplaces, building marketing and fashion businesses, women in leadership, and why, in the words of her mentor Baroness Lockwood [https://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special-collections/our-collections/papers-lockwood/], you have to "keep pushing the door". This is an occasional podcast series featuring interviews with business leaders from Yorkshire and beyond, presented by Bernard Ginns [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardginns/?originalSubdomain=uk], director of PR consultancy Branksome Partners [https://www.branksomepartners.com/], author and former Yorkshire Post business editor and Mail on Sunday staff reporter.  With original music by Leila G and editing by Ian Hodgson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-hodgson-208a41184/].  This occasional podcast series is brought to you by Bernard Ginns, director of Branksome Partners [https://www.branksomepartners.com/], a specialist communications consultancy founded in 2016, and formerly business editor of the Yorkshire Post and a staff reporter at The Mail on Sunday.