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John Drummond

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John Drummond is Chair of Corporate Culture. He has been a consultant to dozens of organisations over 20 years. Clients have included water companies, regulators (Ofwat), telecoms (O2, BT), energy (EDF Energy), government organisations (NHS, WRAP), retail (ASDA, M&S), banking (Bank of America, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group), FMCG (Unilever) and many others. He is the architect with WRAP of the RecycleNow campaign and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns. His expertise includes long-term strategies, culture change and behaviour change at scale. He was recognised by HR magazine as one of the most influential thinkers in HR 2021. He is the author of several reports including: Future proof (2022), The Human Organisation (2021), Innovation for Everyone (2021), Transformation, Reason and Human. John started life as an award-winning journalist. He worked with IBM for seven years and was group director of communications with United Utilities in the 1990’s. He flirts with photography and song-writing.

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Being a human organisation (part 2): Understand people’s social nature

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What makes an innovator (part 1): Be curious and open-minded

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Being a human organisation (part 1): Understand people

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A festival of inclusive innovation

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Creating human workplaces, starting with our own

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