The Middle
The Middle is a podcast series exploring the challenges of improving middle management since that is widely acknowledged as having the biggest impact on organisational performance. Each podcast will feature an interview with a prominent executive from a wide range of contexts including public, private and charitable sectors. The host is associate professor Stephen Willson from Birmingham City University Business School.
The Middle
Tom Clarke-Forrest, Sport4Life
Tom Clarke-Forrest is the founder and CEO of the youth-focused charity Sport4Life.
He joins Stephen Willson to explore the middle management challenges for a founder developing a business from start-up to thirty employees, balancing fund-raising and operations. The parallels with commercial businesses are numerous and striking.
While growth has always been an objective the issue takes on new proportions with the prospect of working nationally .