Glos B Local Webinar - The workforce of the future
Gloucestershire B Local is hosting a best practice webinar on what the workforce of the future might look like.
Agenda
- Explore which challenges businesses are seeing in the workforce
- What negative things to recognise
- Case study solutions e.g. catering to people from different backgrounds (esp. neuro-diversity) and re-imagining a positive workplace
Presenters
Sue Eskins
Sue Eskins is an ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and founder of Coaching in the Cotswolds, supporting individuals and organisations to create success at work while protecting happiness, wellbeing, and performance. She works with people at all levels, not just senior leaders, helping them navigate change, confidence, and career development in sustainable ways.
Her background spans nursing, education, and leadership, training at Guy’s Hospital in London and working across intensive care, hospice care, district nursing, and internationally in Australia. She later gained a PGCE and lectured in higher education, developing a practical, people-centred coaching style.
Her offer includes walking/talking coaching and equine-assisted coaching, offering powerful, individual approaches that improve clarity, resilience, and self-awareness for individuals. She specialises in ADHD-informed coaching, supporting neurodivergent people to thrive. Now retired from nursing, She runs her coaching practice, volunteers with the NHS Leadership Hub, chairs a hospice charity, and chairs the Stroud Business Women’s Network. Based in the Cotswolds, she works with clients locally and nationally to build happier lives and healthier workplaces.
Sarah Taylor Phillips
Sarah Taylor Phillips is a Brand Marketer turned Talent, AI and Longevity/Future of Work strategist. She partners with B Corps and values-led employers to build purposeful, sustainable work and careers where experience is valued, flexibility is normal and inclusion spans every life stage.
Earlier in her career, Sarah built a multi-million interim management start-up that changed how organisations accessed marketing leadership and specialist expertise. By championing flexible, outcome-led assignments and valuing “been-there-done-that” capability, the model helped combat ageism and kept experienced talent visible and hired.
Today Sarah supports early and emerging talent, returners, and senior leaders, helping organisations recognise potential, create intergenerational learning and design modern roles (interim, fractional and portfolio) supported by AI-enabled ways of working. She is the founder of Career Voyage, and her viral #CareerDecline posts (55–65+) sparked wider conversation about gendered ageism and the “missing middle” of talent.
About Gloucestershire B Local
We’re a network run by businesses, for businesses: sharing social and environmental best practice in Gloucestershire.
We aim to:
⭐ connect businesses who want to do more for People & Planet
⭐ create positive impact at a local level
⭐ promote being a force for good to benefit people, communities and the planet
We use the B Corp framework to support progressive organisations also striving for the same purpose, while encouraging those with growth plans which consider people and the environment to join us. Check out the 60+ Gloucestershire B Corps here.
If you are a Gloucestershire-based business who would like to join this network, you can sign up to our:
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