In celebration of B Corp month this March, Uncommon are bringing together a panel of innovative businesses, thought-leaders and inspiring founders to share their B Corp experiences. They’ll discuss why the movement of business for good is important and what B Corp today versus tomorrow looks like for them, their communities and the global B Corp vision.

Learn from our expert’s experiences and take away invaluable insights for your own business, as well as a deeper understanding of B Corp and its new accreditation laws. Leave feeling inspired by tangible takeaways for your own business.

Hosted by leading lifestyle journalist, Jessica Salter, join the below panel for an inspiring conversation;

B Corp branded breakfast will be hosted before and breakout sessions after the panel discussion with some of our speakers should you wish to find out how your business can become a business for good.

08.30 Arrivals and breakfast

09.00 -10.00 Panel discussion

10.00 – 10.30 Networking and opportunity to meet the panel

We look forward to seeing you there. 

More on the Panel and Hosts:

Uncommon

Uncommon create exceptional spaces for work. With locations in Borough, Fulham, Liverpool Street, Highbury & Islington and from April, Holborn. It has a vision to create truly sustainable environments for their members, team, and partners to thrive in, setting ambitious genuine market-leading targets across environmental and social. Uncommon was awarded B Corp status in 2023 with an impressive point score of 98.2. In a short period Uncommon has achieved, amongst other things, PAS 2060 carbon neutrality standard, reduced operational emissions, reduced plastic waste across all sites, developed a supplier code of conduct and, the biggest achievement of all, secured B Corp status.

uncommon.co.uk 

Jessica Salter

Jessica Salter is a lifestyle and interiors journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in The Telegraph and The Times. Her work covers lifestyle, health and wellbeing, celebrity profiles, business, interiors and craft. Jessica was formerly commissioning editor at the Telegraph Magazine, features director at Stylist and deputy editor of Women’s Health. She was awarded the Scott Trust Bursary in 2005. In addition to her journalistic work, Jessica is a content editor and consultant and is a ghostwriter for a range of publishers.

Kyle Soo

Kyle Soo is the Partnerships & Product Manager at B Lab UK, the charity helping raise awareness of the B Corp movement nationwide. A criminal lawyer for almost ten years, Kyle shifted his focus to business as a force for good with a particular focus on combining design, facilitation and storytelling to create networks and communities in service of people and the planet. He is also a Lego Serious Play Facilitator and runs the popular PechaKucha Nights in his home city of Manchester.

Lucy Squires

Lucy is the B Corp lead at allplants and spearheads the Marketing team to inspire the UK to eat more plants. Lucy earned recognition as Grocer Top New Talent in 2019, and has previously contributed her expertise to other B Corporations Vita Coco and Rubies In The Rubble. allplants makes Ready Meals, with a difference. allplants hold a B Corp score of Outstanding, putting them in the top 0.1% of UK food businesses for sustainability.

Jamie Wild

Jamie is Co-Founder of Feragaia, The Original Free Spirit. Feragaia launched in 2019 with a mission to redefine alcohol-free drinking through a new category of ‘Free Spirits’ that aren’t defined by trying to be something they are not. Feragaia is distilled by drinkers at their home in Fife, Scotland.

Christina Brooks

Christina Brooks is the Founder and CEO of Ruebik, a leading talent attraction agency, which specialises in recruitment and inclusion consultancy. As a life-long diversity inclusion advocate her mission at Ruebik is to impart her knowledge and lived experiences to help better the lives of the disenfranchised,encompassing social mobility, gender, ethnicity, and disability. She has over 20 years’ experience in the talent attraction field, including Global Executive Talent Lead at Rolls Royce, with executive search roots in investment banking and private equity.

Aisling Connaughton

Aisling is co-founder of Cyd Connects, a women-led sustainability consultancy created to inspire positive change. Her 17-year global career in PR spans sustainability, marketing, and communications. As Sustainability Solutionist at Cyd Connects, Aisling leads businesses through the B Corp process to build long term strategic competitive advantage. Aisling holds a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths University of London. She is a proud member of the University of Cambridge Wo+Men Leadership Centre and received a scholarship to the Cambridge Judge Business School Rising Women Leaders Programme. Having held positions within multi-nationals such as L’Oreal, Aveda, Clarins, Liz Earle Beauty Co. and then Huawei Technologies, Aisling understands the challenges inherent in instigating systems change in the corporate world.

Magda Al-Nugaidi

Magda Al-Nugaidi is Uncommon’s Managing Director and oversees their ESG programme. She focuses on Uncommon’s success through increasing profitability, implementing best sustainability practices and deploying technology to streamline processes within the wider business. Magda’s true passion comes from driving real change. For the last two years, she’s been central in creating and managing the execution of Uncommon’s ambitious ESG strategy. Her greatest achievement has been securing B Corp status – a project to which she dedicated over 12 months of hard work, leading on the laborious submission process. Today, Magda generously shares her knowledge and experience with Uncommon’s members who are interested in the B Corp certification by providing one on one support. In her life outside of work, Magda continues to lead an environmentally conscious life with a personal goal to live net-zero.