As Director of W&W Jewellery, Richard is committed to pushing our bespoke jewellery business forward and devising new ways to enhance both the creative experience our clients have working with W&W and also the exquisite custom jewellery we create. Always seeking new opportunities to learn and develop, Richard has been selected to take part in this year’s Gallagher Leaders Scrum!
Created by insurance broker and risk-management company, Gallagher. The Gallagher Leaders Scrum brings together eight men and women who have impressed with their vision and business management skills. The winners have the chance to attend exclusive networking events as well as benefit from the expertise of renowned business leaders and participate in panel talks and interactive workshops from business and rugby specialists Simon Massie-Taylor, Wayne Barnes and Sarah Willingham.
Richard and the other winners celebrated being selected at a special event at this season’s Gallagher Premiership Final 2024 which took place on 8 June at Twickenham Stadium, London.
Richard commented: “Thank you to Gallagher for the recognition and opportunity to join the Gallagher Leaders Scrum 2024 with Wayne Barnes at the Gallagher Premiership Final 2024. Congratulations to Northampton Saints and Bath Rugby for an incredible season finale as well as Twickenham Stadium for the capacity crowd and simply brilliant atmosphere.”
Alongside Richard, this year’s winners include Daniel Bradshaw, who is the Global Head of Warehousing at Joseph Joseph Limited; Laura Dawson, Chief Executive at SPROUT(ED); Paul Graham, Engineer at Siemens; Benjamin King, NPD Manager at Tata Consumer Products; Nicola Simmons, Associate director at Reed in Partnership; Rob Treanor, Vice President of Operations at Sphere Fluidics Limited and James Trevillion, Founder and MD at White Label Cocktails Limited. You can read all about Richard and the other winners in the Telegraph’s coverage of the Gallagher Leaders Scrum.
The Second Scrum
The second part of the scrum took place at The Belfry on 27th June. Richard and Simon spent the morning playing a round of golf on the Derby Golf Course with Simon Massie-Taylor (CEO Premiership Rugby) and Ugo Monye (former England international rugby player and Broadcaster).
Whilst Simon rediscovered his golfing prowess and won, Richard wasn’t so lucky, which resulted in them running late for a delicious lunch, hosted by Jill Douglas, with the rest of the scrum as well as Wayne Barnes (Barrister and former International Rugby Referee) and Nathan Hines (former Scotland international player) who was representing Gallagher.
The afternoon started with a workshop led by Gallagher’s Steve Bent with fascinating insights and ideas across the wide-ranging topics of leadership and culture. This was followed by Wayne Barnes, Sarah Willingham, Ugo Monye and Simon Massie-Taylor, guided by Jill Douglas, sharing their experiences and ideas of leadership.
Small businesses are rarely part of events like this so thank you to Gallagher for the opportunity and everyone involved for sharing their wisdom.
We look forward to sharing more about the next stage in this exciting opportunity.
