//Mark Topley - Driven with Purpose E104

Mark Topley, founder of Purpose Driven Business and UK dental industry leading authority on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy, joins us this week on the podcast.

In this episode Mark chats about his early days working as a teacher and how the skills he learnt in teaching have provided invaluable today.

He talks about his change of career and how this saw him enter the dental sector, albeit in an interesting way, and his work today helping people to become great leaders and build purpose driven businesses with strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies.

He reflects on what this looks like in a dental practice and considers, in his experience, how dentistry compares to the other sectors.

Finally, Mark lets us into a secret about his talents within the music world!

Topics:

- Tell us about your early days working as a teacher

- What skills did teaching gift you that have proved to be valuable transferrable skills?

- Explain your career move into dentistry

- Tell us about your role today helping people become great leaders & build purpose driven businesses

- Explain what is meant by a business with strong ESG and CSR strategy?

- What does this look like in a dental practice?

- How does dentistry compare to other sectors?

- Are we in a time where a modern-day business has to create success that positively impacts their stakeholders, the environment, and their wider community?