Tom Clarke-Forrest, Sport4Life

Tom Clarke-Forrest is the founder and CEO of the youth-focused charity Sport4Life. He joins Stephen Willson to explore the middle management challenges for a founder  developing a business from start-up to thirty employees, balancing fund-raising and operations. The parallels with commercial businesses are numerous and striking.While growth has always been an objective the issue takes on new proportions with the prospect of working nationally .

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The Middle is a podcast series exploring the challenges of improving middle management since that is widely acknowledged as having the biggest impact on organisational performance. Each podcast will feature an interview with a prominent executive from a wide range of contexts including public, private and charitable sectors. The host is associate professor Stephen Willson from Birmingham City University Business School.