My Way of Serving Was Not Through the Law

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My mother wanted me to go into law as a posted maybe accountancy. And that's not no slight on account because she wanted me to be a lawyer for social justice. Being born black in britainand particularly at that time, and ad it still is now, was a very, very cold country and an extremely overt racs country. So my mother actually raised us all to want to use whatever natural skills we have to serve. My way of serving, and in specificity, the community that i came from, but in generally any one who wanted to come in and partake. Was through the application of heart, through art.

Chris Hirst, Global CEO of advertising group Havas Creative, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership in this straight-talking podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. In this episode Chris speaks to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Artistic Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. He is also an actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. From 2011 to 2018 he was the Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, and he was Artistic Director for the Festival of Black arts and Culture, Senegal, in 2010. His series of eight short films, Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, was shown on BBC4 in 2019. He is a patron of Ballet Black and a visiting fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. If you enjoyed this podcast please let us know what you think by rating and reviewing No Bullsh*t Leadership on Apple Podcasts.

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