"I was a clinician, but at East London NHS Foundation Trust I was encouraged to take on management and leadership responsibilities so I kind of fell into it really."

"From a very young age, I assumed that I would have to work harder to do well."

"There were some jobs I did not get but I don’t know if that was because I’m a woman or because of my ethnicity."

"It wasn’t my career plan."

"Customers don’t care what shopping channel they use."

"They should ask themselves the question: ‘Does race really matter?’ and they should not just follow the WRES because they have been told they have to."

"You are always going to need highly specialised individuals, But the pandemic has highlighted the need for greater versatility and adaptability within healthcare."

"It is a great opportunity for retailers as it provides small retail businesses with a shop window to the world, driving exports of British products rather than just being a physical place in the community."

"What is required in Northumberland will be different to Devon, to London to Kent, etc."

"They need to have a debate around why it matters."

"There are some really practical things that we can do."

"In my early adulthood, I spent three years in Israel, with Judaism as part of my everyday. Back in the UK, I wanted to make Judaism part of my everyday here, too — and found that Progressive Judaism matches my value system, my integrity, and the way I live."

"We must change attitudes and behaviour."

"We believe that we can best achieve this as one united movement, now representing one third of all Jews who are affiliated to synagogues in the UK — and we’ll be better able to reach out to all who identify as Jewish, but have not yet joined a community."

"Being innovative is crucial in our line of work, and yes it brings a lot of value to try something."

"I believe you don't have to do something new for the sake of doing something new, just consider things that have worked well so far."

"I’d never really been all that aware of the scale of it all when seeing statistics quoted in the newspaper until I started working in the industry."

"I honestly don't think a day goes by, certainly a week, where I don’t learn something from each other."

"We're always learning from each other, which I think that is really valuable."

"We stand at the start of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Diversity and inclusion must be at the top of the agenda to enable recovery from the pandemic"

"Many retail business are just watching with horror almost at the mess that has been created."

"I think many retail business are just watching with horror almost at the mess that has been created and how it’s so late, and from a business point of view you would never, never leave everything to the last minute."

"It was promotion for a country manager position."

"I was running a very big team; hundreds of people and hundreds of thousands of dollars, actually millions, hundred millions of dollars."

"I have to say, looking back over my shoulder the person they did choose did not last very long."

"They were opening shops like billy-o as loads of people were buying things on credit. At that time you did not have to be a great retailer to enjoy a measure of success. But now it is the customer in charge and digitalisation is largely driving it."

"Our world has changed fundamentally, and it has changed overnight."

"That ability to deliver pretty low inflation or even deflation in non-food over the last five years or so has been dependent on frictionless movement of goods across borders, and to the extent that goods are imported from the EU, or from countries that the EU has a trade deal with, as there are no tariffs on those goods coming in."

"Some years later, many years later, I went back in a very big leadership position because they came looking for me."

"The digital revolution has had a major impact on the way consumers shop. It’s a game-changer."

"If we’re on WTO tariffs, and if we have any friction at the borders, that will put costs up for retailers and hence prices up for consumers."

"It is really important that every organisation signs up."

"I was gobsmacked by it at the time because back then you were routinely talking hundreds of thousands of pounds for some of these larger “gold standard” government projects."

"Technology is giving rise to a pace of change that we have not ever seen before. For the customer it’s great."

"My ambition is for this country to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its technology leadership position and growing a diverse and inclusive skills base."

"Companies are more successful and profitable if they have diversity at the heart of their businesses."

"Let’s inspire kids in to digital, have more young women joining and staying in the tech sector & encourage diversity in the boardroom."

"I believe that the UK can sustain its position as a magnet for digital investment and for tech talent."

"The boys who work at Waste Warriors are like my brothers and I am ashamed that I can only pay them a meagre amount for the efforts they put in. They hike up and down the mountain, every week, in every season, in every state of health, just to pick up the garbage. They go from door to door collecting garbage from the homes that are brought down from the remote villages in the mountain for proper disposal"

"I guess with that in mind, from a leadership perspective, the motivation levels of the team and the happiness of the end customer."

"For me it’s important to know what failure looks like, after all, success is always on the other side of fear."

"Startups are uniquely positioned to embrace diversity and I think that’s because they are full of ideas, they have a mindset which is very entrepreneurial and their ideas can change the world."

"I invested in Ed Hollands on Dragon’s Den; Ed has the ‘Driven Media’ business, which is a very simple business in the concept of advertising on the side of lorries."

"What I saw in Ed when he came through the doors was a very raw young man, but someone with a lot of potential."

"We’ve moved on from that, we’ve taken away uncertainty, which is good; that breeds positivity in British enterprise and the economy."

"I love investing in young entrepreneurs. I am a big supporter of entrepreneurial hubs and accelerators."

"So I believe that diversity is the only way that you can really create competitive advantage."

"So role modelling for diversity comes from the top."

"Today Waste Warriors has several projects working across tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh. My heart will always lie in the Dharamshala but that project has reached a very difficult point,""