What Nick Millican Wants Local Councils to Understand
A planning decision rarely feels like a story. It looks more like a file, a timetable, a set of drawings, a deadline that arrives on a Tuesday. Yet to Nick Millican, the CEO of Greycoat…
Flavio Maluf on Balancing Growth Ambition with Financial Prudence
Aggressive growth and financial discipline often conflict in corporate strategy, yet Flavio Maluf has achieved both at Eucatex. His approach to managing expansion while maintaining financial health offers lessons for executives balancing competing priorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvPYE8Bw98…
Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez: From Caracas to Global Business Leadership
The journey of Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez from his birthplace in Caracas, Venezuela, to becoming a global business leader exemplifies how diverse experiences and international education can create exceptional entrepreneurial vision. Born in 1980, his…
Rethinking ROI: Nick Millican’s Human-Centered Investment Case
The first sign a building is working is not a spreadsheet. It is a Monday morning. You can see it in the lobby, in the pace of the lift queue, in whether people look lost…
Practicality With Vision: The Dual Mindset of Michael Shanly
A town’s future rarely announces itself. More often it sits in plain sight as a half-used site, a tired high street, a forgotten stream that once gave shape to a place. The developer who can…
Building Better Policy: Nick Millican’s Take on Housing Reform
Housing reform is often discussed as if the barrier is a single gate. Change the planning rules, increase targets, release land, and the homes will follow. Then you visit a large site that has been…
Why Michael Shanly Still Thinks Like a Problem-Solver
A town regeneration site does not announce itself as a puzzle. It looks like scaffolding, hoarding, traffic diversions, and the slow negotiation between what a place used to be and what it might become. The…
Simbi Wabote on Creating Culture Within Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy has a distinct sound. The shuffle of memos, the cadence of meetings that end with “noted,” the quiet gravity of a file that can stall a decision for weeks. People tend to talk about…
Nick Millican’s Thoughts on Building Wealth Without Extracting It
In real estate, wealth is often defined by what can be taken out of a property—how quickly it can be flipped, how aggressively it can be optimized, how many basis points can be shaved off…
Dame Alison Rose on Partnering With Law Firms to Shape EDI Strategy
Within most corporate EDI efforts, the legal department tends to operate at a distance—there to vet language, ensure compliance, and sign off on the fine print. But under Dame Alison Rose’s leadership at NatWest Group,…