Conscious Leadership Now with Loughlin Hickey

Hi, my name is David Wetton and welcome to the Conscious Leadership Now Video Podcast

The intent of this Podcast is to encourage you as a leader to embrace Conscious Leadership, by giving you access to some of the world’s leaders in the field of Conscious Leadership, both in practice and in thought.

Today my guest is Loughlin Hickey, ex Global Head of Tax for KPMG and a member of their Global Executive Team.

Loughlin trained as a chartered accountant and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . He became a tax specialist at KPMG where he served a broad client base and had a number of managerial roles over a 30 year career there. For the six years prior to his retirement in 2011 Loughlin was Global Head of Tax and member of the Global Executive Team.

Loughlin is one of the founding Trustees of Blueprint for Better Business and is also an Senior Adviser to Blueprint, which is a charity that exists to help businesses to be inspired and guided by a purpose that serves society.

You can find out more about The Blueprint for Better Business, Five Principles of a Purpose Driven Business here:

https://www.blueprintforbusiness.org/explore_principles/

He represents Blueprint for Better Business in presenting a more human centric view of business to business school students and as experts in the field of purposeful business in research into responsible business .

https://www.blueprintforbusiness.org/

Loughlin was an advisory panel member on the Cabinet Office Mission Led Business Review and the Centre for Social Justice report on Making Business Work for All and is a contributor to The Purposeful Company project run by the Big Innovation Centre.

http://www.biginnovationcentre-purposeful-company.com/about/

He is also a co-founding member of UK21 which is a forum to help create an economy that works better for people and planet .

https://www.uk21.org/

Loughlin was also a Governor at Heythrop College , the specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London. He was made a Fellow of Heythrop college in 2019.

You can connect with Loughlin via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/loughlin-hickey-888a6339/

The people and resources Loughlin mentions as being an inspiration for his conscious leadership journey are:

- Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia Works

- Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever

- Archbishop Vincent Nichols

- Sister Helen Alford

https://todayscatholic.org/sister-helen-alford-to-explore-the-purpose-of-business-feb-28/

The resources Loughlin mentions are:

Papal encyclicals:

- Caritas in Veritate

http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html

- Laudato si

http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Books

- Viktor Frankl's book 'Man's search for meaning'

- Kate Raworth's book 'Doughnut Economics'

- Maurice Glasman's book 'Unnecessary Suffering'

- Professor Alex Edmans' book 'Grow The Pie'

- Jonathan Trevor's book 'Align'

If you’ve enjoyed this Podcast and my approach to Conscious Leadership, then please know that I Help Aspiring Conscious Leaders develop Purpose-Led, High Performing Leadership Teams through 1:1 Coaching & Tailored Leadership Programmes.

If you sense I can help you, then please look me up, David Wetton, on LinkedIn and let’s jump on a conversation together.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwetton/

I truly believe that Now is the Time for Conscious Leadership; and with all the inspiring, heartfelt work you, as viewers, are doing, I have no doubt that Conscious Leadership will become a thriving reality.

…Making a difference for the greater good of All.

So until next time, I’ll leave you with a blessing from John O’Donohue:

‘May the light of your soul

bless the work you do

with the secret love

and warmth of your heart’

…And so it is