Setting up a charity, building a values-based culture and developing young people with Giles Miskin

Giles Miskin, Founder of The Colour Works and The Colour Works Foundation talks about his entrepreneurial journey and how he is using his business as a force for good plus:

• Navigating dramatic career changes - from working in further education to plastic widget production and on to people development and organisational culture change.
• How he went about setting up a charitable foundation to complement his core business
• Transforming people’s understanding of themselves and their relationships through a powerful personality profiling tool
• Making a dramatic difference to young people’s confidence by giving them a deeper understanding of their personal talents and gifts
• How his business vision, model and team has been evolving to meet rising demand
• The importance of becoming dispensable as a company founder by building a team to complement your skills and allowing yourself to ‘get out of the way’
• How he worked with his team to shift the business online in response to Covid
• Balancing a focus on KPIs and numbers with less tangible shared culture and values
• The importance of interdependence and diversity, humility and social justice

You can find out more about Giles’ work at The Colour Works and TCW Foundation