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How Metro Bank Is redrawing the SME playbook

How Authologic is rewiring digital identity from the ground up

From a Welsh football club to an American wrestling powerhouse, Rob Edwards is reshaping sports ownership with a disruptive, people-first strategy.

Old-school knit, new-school attitude — clothes that mean something.

The smart business response to global disruption

If you're a founder, CEO, MD or business owner and you're looking to shorten your sales cycle, secure investment, energise and engage employees, as well as make connections and grow your network, building a strong reputation is important.

In a media landscape that often overlooks diversity, Kunda Kids is redefining children's stories by centering African heritage and creating a new model for representation and entrepreneurship.

In the fiercely competitive world of start ups, identifying the right problem to solve can be as challenging as building the solution itself.

Many view disability as a limitation. However, for others, it's a compass that points them to not what they can't do but to everything they must try.

After over 20 years in financial services, I've learned one vital truth: you don't have to choose between motherhood and the boardroom. However, you must choose boundaries, purpose-led leadership, and the courage to reject outdated office politics that frankly weren't designed with women in mind.

If, like me, you've been watching the neo-Western drama Yellowstone on Netflix, you'll know the real drama isn't in the battle for cattle or land, but in who takes over the family ranch that Kevin Costner's John Dutton and his ancestors have spent nearly 150 years protecting.

At the edge of spring and the start of something else, May is more than a marker on the business calendar for Oliver Chapman. It's a moment of clarity—a quiet pivot point when introspection gives way to strategy.

The current tariff-driven economic disruption is undoubtedly severe. Policies telegraphed prior to the election were not taken seriously, forcing many businesses on the back foot.

In the UK capital, somewhere off the corridors of power, Karim Fatehi OBE, CEO of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is doing what he does best: advocating for business while carefully navigating the crosswinds of policy, politics and persistent economic unease.

Let's face it- running a business is basically professional fire-walking. If you've built something worth scaling, you're constantly balancing momentum with fragility.

Leadership, at its core, is about making decisions that define the future of your organisation. Few decisions carry more weight than steering a business through transformation.

The 24-year-old reinventing your tap water

Why David Milner only bets on brands built to shake up the system

As tech start-ups race to capture users and scale fast, Tribela is taking a different path — one grounded not in disruption, but in responsibility.

As we watch with awe, trepidation, or (for some) excitement and hope, the roll out of rapid changes happening across the globe in 2025, I wanted to stand still by something which I am really finding hard to understand.

Battling imposter syndrome and startup uncertainty, one founder built a pathway back to work for skilled professionals sidelined by bias—proving that a career break should never mean a broken career.