Breaking stereotypes: How a diverse and inclusive workforce can be integral to your business

Navigating your career and knowing when’s the right time to take the next step can be a daunting obstacle, so in this episode we discuss advancing your career in financial planning and top tips in which to do so effectively. We’ll delve into hurdles that financial advisers might face earlier on in their careers and how they can overcome them. We’ll also discuss the best ways to effectively grow your client base, your skills as a financial adviser, and ultimately achieve your goals and ambitions. Joining our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones for the discussion is Chanelle Pattinson, Co-Founder and Financial Planner at Money Means, and Julian Hince, Head of the Quilter Financial Adviser School.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you have spent a portion of your life pursuing and building a career in the sporting industry or the military, there may come a time when you find yourself retiring or leaving the sector before you are ready to give up work altogether, and in this episode we discuss why you should be considering a career leap to financial advice. Our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones, is joined by ex-military Patrick Glennon, Director at Patrick James Solutions, and ex-golfer James Reiss, CEO at David James Wealth, and together they discuss the abundance of transferrable skills you’ll uncover from people with these career backgrounds and the value they can add to your business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Building a business for the first time can seem like a big step, in this episode we focus on the options financial planners have when it comes to taking full control of your career and starting your own financial planning business. We discuss how financial planners can free themselves from the restrictions of employment to create a business model that enables you to work to your own agendas and goals. Joining our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones, for the discussion is John Kerr, Recruitment and Establishment Director at Quilter Financial Planning, and Sam Bedlow, Director at Amplify Wealth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this myth busting episode, our host Hannah Vaughan-Jones debunks the common misconceptions that young financial advisers face coming into the industry and the progress the industry has made in the last decade in it’s acceptance of younger workers. They discuss why young financial advisers are so integral to the future of the sector, and more importantly the value these advisers can add to your business. Joining Hannah for this episode is Susie Laws, Director and Chartered Financial Planner at Fiducia Wealth, and Sarah Waring, Financial Planning Director at Quilter Financial Planning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode focuses on how new technologies can help elevate your business. Technology is forever evolving and innovative solutions for businesses continue to emerge every day, and taking the time to introduce some of these innovations into your practice, whether that be updating your website, activating your social media presence or upgrading the payment technology you use, could expose your business to higher levels of efficiency and ultimately, success. Joining our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones for the discussion is Simon Cockfield, Marketing Manager at Citrus Financial Management, and Linford Brown, Director at Money Tree Wealth Management, and together they dissect the different avenues businesses should be exploring in order to take that next step in evolving your working model.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recent years have highlighted the growing need for more diversity and inclusion to be demonstrated in workplaces, and now we need to be asking ourselves how much progress has been made? In this episode we focus on diversity across the spectrum, including racial, gender and sexual orientation and how having a diverse workforce benefits businesses and clients. Joining our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones for the discussion is Darren Miller, Co-Founder of the Black Business Institute, Annabel Lumsden & Tarnia Elsworth, Directors at TP Financial Solutions, and Andy Lei, Financial Adviser at Unividual.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode focuses on how looking after your wellbeing is integral to your work. Now, more than ever, we are seeing how important a good work life balance is for workers, and sometimes it is easy to lose sight of this philosophy. Are financial advisers taking on too much work? Not sleeping enough? Working too many hours? In this episode we discuss how looking after your own wellbeing can have a positive impact on both your wider business and your clients. Joining our host, Hannah Vaughan Jones, for the discussion is Nick Elston, inspirational speaker and Founder of Forging People, and Kevin Kennard, Managing Director at David James Wealth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recruitment is often tricky especially for financial advisers; with a finite supply demand is high for their services. In this podcast episode we investigate why it’s so hard to find advisers and what firms can do to attract them in an era of stiff competition. With this in mind our experts discuss recruitment strategies, planning development and how to make your offer more appealing, especially when taking on young advisers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Starting a new career is never easy, especially in the midst of a pandemic! In this podcast episode our host Hannah Vaughan Jones chats to three new advisers to the industry, focusing on their experience so far, how they decided to jump ship into something quite new and how they’ve found their first 12 months.   Have you ever thought about working in financial planning? Maybe it’s time you did. An honest, interesting, and inspiring episode for anyone considering a career move, or trying to decide what to do after some time out of the working world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The world has changed so much in the past eighteen months, and with it, so has our working style. In this podcast episode, we chat with two advisers and a behavioural scientist about how they and their clients adjusted to ‘the new normal’. The pandemic forced advisers to reimagine the way they interacted with clients, and with this came a different type of connection. But with life beginning to return to ‘normality’ many advisers are asking themselves if they should discard their new skills and return to the old way of interacting, but is that the way forward, or is a hybrid model the answer? Join us as we discuss all of this and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.