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4th Mar 2025

Work is an Experience

Alan Thompson recorded on 06/11/2024

Alan Thompson is the founder and Managing Director of Business Dad Ltd.

And is often recognised from the back of his head, usually in a photograph at an event where he can often be found hovering around the food and drink table.

Having been a Business Adviser under the EU-funded AD:Venture programme from 2018-2023, working with new start to 3 year old businesses offering advice, mentoring and being the one to hold them to account. When the EU funding finished, he set up Business Dad Ltd to continue working with small business owners on their daily challenges.

In a career spanning 50 years he’s worked in Asset Finance for 2 major banks, Business Recovery for 2 large accountancy practices, run his own retail, e-commerce and consultancy businesses and he brings all of that lived experience to the table to help his clients to succeed.

If you'd like to work with Alan you can contact him at: business-dad.co.uk

Or find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanthompson-adv/

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About the Podcast

Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
What do you do?
Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?
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