#19 RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS - Why Doing Good Drives Growth & Purpose

This episode of Fresh Perspectives explores how businesses can balance commercial success with meaningful social impact and why purpose is becoming central to long-term sustainability.

Rob Brown is joined by Peter Gallanagh, UK & Ireland CEO at Azets, to discuss the firm’s partnership with The King’s Trust and what it means to be a responsible business today. We explore how organisations can move beyond profit alone, why alignment of values matters when choosing partners and how purpose can bring people together across a growing business.

Peter explains how Azets has embedded its purpose of improving the lives of clients, colleagues and communities into the business, and how this partnership supports that in practice. We discuss what involvement looks like day to day, from mentoring and enterprise challenges to fundraising and community engagement, and how giving people different ways to contribute drives participation across the firm.

The conversation also looks at what businesses gain from partnerships like this beyond reputation, including stronger employee engagement, better collaboration and the development of future skills such as empathy, resilience and communication. We explore how social responsibility is becoming increasingly important to younger talent and how it influences recruitment, retention and culture.

Peter also shares how Azets measures success in these partnerships, why long-term commitment matters more than short-term activity and how businesses can approach building their own partnerships in a way that is authentic, sustainable and aligned to their values.

You can connect with Peter Gallanagh on LinkedIn.

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