Business
Craig Dearden-Philips MBE, social entrepreneur, angel investor, writer and academic joins us this week. Craig tells his inspirational journey from his first voluntary work to his present day social investment portfolio and social leadership publications. His first venture Speaking Up, was a system designed to support people with mental health and learning difficulties deemed by Craig necessary as the ones in place, both public sector and charity, where not achieving what they where designed to do. Craig recalls how he always wanted to “build and create things that benefited society”, and how his motivation to help others pushed him into his entrepreneurial endeavors.