Anthropy UK: Kamiqua Lake’s Reflections

Last week, I headed to Anthropy, which brings together responsible leaders and organisations to discuss how to make the UK a better place. This year’s theme was ‘reboot Britain,’ and the annual gathering convenes a cross-sector network of businesses and non-profits to discuss changing practices, building new partnerships, influencing policy, and transforming personal behaviour.

It was a packed three days at the Eden Project in Cornwall, and I came away with a few reflections and an important reminder: purpose, like power, isn’t inherently good or bad. It’s what we do with it that matters.

Joining Anthropy as a speaker and listener provided lots of food for thought on:

• The relationships between power, purpose, trust, and profit.

• The roles of government, business, communities, and individuals in shaping how we want to live, work, and play.

• The need for communications at the top table - there were lots of calls for campaigns, strong narratives, better storytelling and communications strategies that drive change, engagement, awareness and impact
  

  It was great to sit alongside Caroline Diehl MBE, Vivienne Artz OBE and Nishma Patel Robb to share learnings as an impact-driven business owner and with Lucienne Shakir, Charlotte Turner, John Drummond, Paul Lindley OBE and Dame Julia Cleverdon CBE to talk about the importance of humanity in business.

Anthropy is founded on the principle that the future is a shared responsibility - it will be interesting to see what unexpected collaborations form and how the conversations drive actions that make the UK a better place to call home.