The other day, I caught up with the head of a ventures team at a global bank. She’s smart, accomplished, and making waves, with one successful accelerator programme cohort under her belt and another soon to launch. But when I asked about recruitment for the second cohort, her face fell. …

We’re honoured and excited to share the news that we’ve made it into Escape The City’s Escape 100 — the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022 We applied along with over 13,000 other companies and were selected into the top 100 ranking. We’re proud to be alongside peers…

By Abi Freeman and Constanza Robles Fumarola In our work as Behavioural Innovation practitioners, we have witnessed innovation evolve into a science with its own dedicated academic papers, an established industry in its own right projected to be worth $1.5bn this year. Decades of working with corporates, governments, startups, have…

It’s B Corp month and at Brink we’re asking what benefit truly means, and how we could do better When my cofounder Lea and I set out to build Brink, we felt that the traditional model of business (in which return to shareholders has highest priority above all else) didn’t fully resonate with our values. …

We asked Brinksters and here’s what they came up with Last month I wrote about the 36 questions to fall in love with your team and the psychology behind it. When we build deeper relationships and trust amongst our colleagues, we spark the kind of connections that pay dividends when it’s time to work together at pace and navigate challenges…

Despite everyone’s hopes and best efforts 2021 has been yet another year filled with uncertainty and doubt. We’re all ready for brighter news given Omicron, the intensifying climate crisis, setbacks in gender equality and supply disruptions and shortages making recovery even more uncertain. At Brink we have been very fortunate…

People often ask me: ‘how can we run more productive team meetings?’ My reply? It depends on your objective, of course. But it also depends on what you mean by productive, and that’s where things get particularly interesting. If, by productive, you mean burning through a to-do list, divvying up…

After the year we’ve had, it will come as no surprise that many of the books, podcasts and articles championed on our 2020 list are stories of hope, from reassessing our definition of value to healing in nature. …

Getting evidence into the hands of business leaders to help them take better care of their people. We’re living through a health and economic crisis For business leaders, our job of running a healthy business and answering to shareholders, whilst sustaining a healthy and productive workforce is going to be challenging as tight budgets are shrinking and uncertainty abounds with C-19 and the recession and global shocks of a US election, Brexit and more.