Rob Valentine, Director of Leeds and Birmingham, Bruntwood (Chair)
Rob has worked with Bruntwood for 21 years, in that time performing a number of different roles, but mostly focussed on investment and development. As Director for Leeds and also Birmingham too, he is deeply passionate about the regional cities and the part they play in the economic and social development of the UK.
What does Rob look forward to exploring further at our event?
Our known challenges are all too acutely apparent; the climate emergency, genuine inclusivity, endemic poverty and the structural obstacles to social mobility. None of these challenges are mutually exclusive - they're all related
Whilst these challenges are recognised, they're going to take decades to fix with much of the responsibility for fixing them sitting with Generation Z, who as a demographic group have a very different value set to my generation; Generation X.
Z's are generally more socially aware, progressive in their thinking and recognise that we need a new way of doing things, a reprioritisation of our values. This is why I'm interested to hear from our future leaders; what their priorities will be and how they propose to tackle them.
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