Behind the Be the Business movement is a unique team of passionate colleagues, expert business leaders from some of the UK’s most successful companies, and dedicated ambassadors. We’re all here to help business leaders realise their productivity potential.
The Be the Business team
At Be the Business, we have one thing in common – we're working hard to help leaders of small and medium-sized businesses boost productivity and improve the UK’s economy overall.

Anthony Impey
CEO
Anthony is always looking to apply his skills as an entrepreneur to find opportunities for us to innovate and grow so that we can help even more business leaders transform their productivity..
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Paloma Sackman
Head of customer engagement and insights
Paloma leads the team dedicated to ensuring the resources we provide to business leaders are meeting the real needs they encounter when looking to improve their companies..
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Helen Puddefoot
Director of strategic partnerships
Helen leads our strategic partnerships team with the mission of mobilising the resources of the private sector to support businesses in efforts to improve productivity..
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Our board, the Productivity Leadership Group, features some of the UK’s leading businesses from manufacturing (Rolls Royce, GSK) to financial and professional services (Lloyds Banking Group, McKinsey & Co), to technology (Facebook, Amazon).

Tera Allas CBE
McKinsey Center for Government
Productivity is a win-win for businesses and the people who work there, and not just financially. Well-run firms also have happier and motivated employees..

Sir Roger Carr
BAE Systems
At BAE Systems, we have the benefit of scale, capital and the ability to attract and retain first class people. We want to share our knowledge and skills with other companies..

John Boumphrey
Amazon
At Amazon we’re fully committed to helping UK firms grow productivity – particularly digital technology adoption, and we love the work Be the Businesses is doing to help make this a reality..