138 Hidden Potential with Clare Richmond

Social innovator and community catalyst, Clare Richmond, is passionate about harnessing the energy and innovation of a grassroots approach to discover the power of the community. Working with existing resources to improve resilience and agility and developing collaboration and innovation, Clare encourages organisations and communities to work together to deliver a common goal through the recognition, release and application of the huge hidden potential of their people.   KEY TAKEAWAY "You already have what you need. You just need to release it. So start small, but start somewhere."   ABOUT CLARE RICHMOND Clare is the founder and director of SpeakTo, a consultancy that specialises in working with leaders, organisations, and communities to release hidden potential, to achieve more with less. Inspired by her work on a ground-breaking, grassroots initiative to re-energise her local high street community (The Crouch End Project), Clare set up SpeakTo in 2007. She has since worked with public and private sector organisations, advising them on employee and community engagement, leadership, and sustainable management. Clare has an MA in Creative Leadership, where she specialised in developing a programme to bind these two approaches together and a set of principles to guide the process. Clare is a fellow of the RSA, an inspirational public speaker and panellist. She is also an expert contributor for BBC Radio, industry publications and the press.   CONNECT WITH CLARE Twitter - https://twitter.com/ClareRichmond1 LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/clarerichmond/ Website -  www.speakto.co.uk   ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, iTunes #1 Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall  Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY Clubhouse @amyrowlinson https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/  https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/ HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.