Take 5: The 5% Club Podcast
Take Five is The 5% Club’s podcast series designed to spark meaningful conversations about skills, apprenticeships and earn-and-learn pathways — in a format that respects one thing we all value: time.
Take Five delivers sharp, engaging discussions in just 24 minutes — 5% of your working day — making it easy to stay informed, inspired and connected to what’s really happening across the skills landscape.
Take 5: The 5% Club Podcast
Latest Episodes
Take 5: Phil Smith CBE, Chair Skills England, Episode 7: Finding Your Way - What an Apprenticeship Can Really Teach You!
In this episode of Take Five, Lindsay Conroy, Director of Policy & Strategic Engagement at The 5% Club, is joined by Phil Smith CBE, Chair of Skills England, and Maya Patel, Account Management Executive at AQA, f...
Take 5: Phil Smith CBE, Chair Skills England, Episode 6: Apprenticeships in the Company DNA
In this episode of Take Five, Lindsay Conroy, Director of Policy & Strategic Engagement at The 5% Club, is joined by Richard Gordon, SHEQ Director at AD Construction, and Phil Smith CBE, Chair of Skills En...
Take 5: Phil Smith CBE, Chair Skills England, Episode 5: Apprenticeships as a Strategic Business Investment
In this Episode, Lindsay Conroy and Phil Smith are joined by Sharon Blyfield OBE (Coca-Cola Europacific Partners) and Jon Hornagold (Amey) to discuss how apprenticeships have become a core element of long-term workforce planning rather than sim...
Take 5: Phil Smith CBE, Chair Skills England, Episode 4: Skills England Annual Report
In this episode of Take Five, Lindsay Conroy (Director of Policy & Strategic Engagement) is joined by Phil Smith, Chair of Skills England, to explore the key themes emerging from the recently published Skills England Annual Report...