John Mathers
Healthier Working Lives Enterprise and Design lead
- Co-founder Design Age Accelerator and Healthy Ageing by Design, Creative Venue
Contact details
Biography
My experience in the ageing arena. My experience in the ageing arena. I have consulted in the brand, design and creative industries for over 40 years. More recently I have focused on enterprise, supporting the start-up community, Chairing the British Design Fund and co-founded an accelerator focused on the use of design in the healthy ageing market.
The impact I’d like to make as part of the HWL programme. The impact I’d like to make as part of the HWL programme. I want the UK to be seen as a trailblazer in the use of design in the Healthy Ageing market and to play my part in making that happen.
Research
Healthier working lives for the care workforce
The programme assesses the challenges and opportunities for the over 50’s care workforce.
Project status: Ongoing
Events
Healthier Working Lives workshop: How do you cultivate an intrapreneurship culture in your organisation?
The workshop will explore empowering intrapreneurial culture, impacts to recruitment, retention, effectiveness and inter-generational well-being.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Impact: On the front line
In conversation with Alyson Vale, Business and Operations Director at Abbotsford Care - well-established care provider based across Fife, Scotland which HWL...
Impact: Across the sector
In conversation with Lynne Corner, Deputy Director of The National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) exploring the impact of supply and demand factors in...
Care analysis: retaining talent in the workforce
In conversation with Professor Annette Boaz, Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit.
Enterprise: Investing in care innovators
In conversation with Jim Newbery, VP of Education and Product at Codebase
Care analysis: retaining people in the care workforce
We met Oonagh Smyth, CEO of Skills for Care to discuss their recent report, The State of the Adult Social Care Workforce in England, that underpins the work...
Expert Perspective: Healthcare has always pioneered and will continue to do so
John has devoted his career in business to shaping, cultivating and building entrepreneurial cultures in organisations. He reflects on the power of innovation.
Intrapreneurship: Converting ideas into action
Steve McCreadie, CEO of The Lens, highlights the importance of ‘Intrapreneurship’, to create an environment that facilitates innovation and improves team...
Innovation Projects: Transitioning to digital care management
We meet with Callum Stuart, a mentor at Codebase, a tech ecosystem support organisation; and Vinay Patel, a care provider and co-founder of PredicAire, as...
Innovation Projects: Homing in on the right problem
We focus on a series of Older Care Workforce innovation projects working to co-design solutions - with Shain Khoja and Andy Robinson's work with care homes.
The Circle of Care
With each project, the teams’ first task is to collaborate to define their problem statement that is as a jumping of point to co-design a solutions that are...
Research
Healthier working lives for the care workforce
The programme assesses the challenges and opportunities for the over 50’s care workforce.
Project status: Ongoing
Events
Healthier Working Lives workshop: How do you cultivate an intrapreneurship culture in your organisation?
The workshop will explore empowering intrapreneurial culture, impacts to recruitment, retention, effectiveness and inter-generational well-being.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Impact: On the front line
In conversation with Alyson Vale, Business and Operations Director at Abbotsford Care - well-established care provider based across Fife, Scotland which HWL...
Impact: Across the sector
In conversation with Lynne Corner, Deputy Director of The National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) exploring the impact of supply and demand factors in...
Care analysis: retaining talent in the workforce
In conversation with Professor Annette Boaz, Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit.
Enterprise: Investing in care innovators
In conversation with Jim Newbery, VP of Education and Product at Codebase
Care analysis: retaining people in the care workforce
We met Oonagh Smyth, CEO of Skills for Care to discuss their recent report, The State of the Adult Social Care Workforce in England, that underpins the work...
Expert Perspective: Healthcare has always pioneered and will continue to do so
John has devoted his career in business to shaping, cultivating and building entrepreneurial cultures in organisations. He reflects on the power of innovation.
Intrapreneurship: Converting ideas into action
Steve McCreadie, CEO of The Lens, highlights the importance of ‘Intrapreneurship’, to create an environment that facilitates innovation and improves team...
Innovation Projects: Transitioning to digital care management
We meet with Callum Stuart, a mentor at Codebase, a tech ecosystem support organisation; and Vinay Patel, a care provider and co-founder of PredicAire, as...
Innovation Projects: Homing in on the right problem
We focus on a series of Older Care Workforce innovation projects working to co-design solutions - with Shain Khoja and Andy Robinson's work with care homes.
The Circle of Care
With each project, the teams’ first task is to collaborate to define their problem statement that is as a jumping of point to co-design a solutions that are...