Episode 3
It takes two: the relationship between CEO and digital lead
We talk to Louise Macdonald, CEO, and Kirsten Urquhart, Digital Services Director at Young Scot
This week Zoe and Paul speak to Louise Macdonald, CEO, and Kirsten Urquhart, Digital Services Director at Young Scot.
Relationships between CEOs and digital leaders can be a marriage made in heaven- but they can also go wrong. Louise and Kirsten have achieved huge amounts together at Young Scot and we wanted to find out what makes their relationship tick. They told us how they put young people front and centre of what they do, getting digital skills onto boards, why staff need to be empowered to innovate- and why digital offers reason for hope in dark times.
In their roundup of tech news, Zoe and Paul talk about video call overload and the Facebook boycott campaign.
Notes and links –
Young Scot https://young.scot/
Arundhathi Roy article ‘The pandemic is a portal’
https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
Video call overload
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/zoom-fatigue-video-conferencing-coronavirus/
Facebook boycott campaign
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225139
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Editing by Paul Thomas and production from Alexey Sibikin
Music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music