EVENTS What do we really mean by the word Respect in 2021 ?
MDHUB RESPECT 2020/21
LEADERS AWARDS As a Noun, respect is to honour ... and that is what the MDHUB instinctively felt was the very best description to acknowledge the incredible response that our members had to the pandemic. The MDHUB were delighted to be able to finally hold their long overdue Leaders Awards in the glorious setting of Ridgeview Wine Estate on Ditchling Common in July. Under huge safari canvas tents in the wine garden, beneath long overdue sunny skies and with a field kitchen set up for the occasion with English lavender table decorations accompanying the ice buckets of Ridgeview Cavendish, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, it really was the most perfect setting.
❛❛ The MDHUB Awards are
designed by the MDHUB Team to reflect the current business landscape ❜❜ The RESPECT 2020/21 Awards provided MDHUB members a very welcome opportunity to gather not just as fellow business leaders but as friends. To reflect upon and respect the unprecedented events of the past 15 months and to acknowledge the contributions and achievements that our members have made to their businesses, and the support that they have given to their fellow peers. The warmth of the atmosphere and the non-stop smiling showed how much our members have missed seeing each other. The commitment to each other could not be clearer, whether their company had the best year ever or barely traded in Covid times they willingly set aside 2,400 hours to support each other, which is a huge and very important
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commitment from a business owner, not just to their own business but to support others as well. We proudly say that “we help leaders develop and we support them as they lead” and, like many of the entrepreneurs that we work with, as an organisation we were put to the test to deliver on our promise to our members. Our belief in the depth, emotional engagement, understanding and carefully handled challenge provided by our facilitated peer learning and business support has proved its worth throughout this turbulent period as the running of over 300 workgroups demonstrates. It has also been the most transformational time for our members, as both entrepreneurs and leaders, as they have done what they all so brilliantly do – innovating around the most challenging of situations, energising and collaborating in order to survive and in quite a few cases experienced stunning growth. Fiona Shafer, Managing Director of MDHUB commented at the event, “As members you have all demonstrated leadership at its very best and at a time when, let’s be very honest, leadership has been woefully lacking not a million miles from us at a higher level ... or was it that that higher level of leadership is right here, right now?” We would like to thank all of the amazing people who helped create this event together: the Hospitality Team at Ridgeview, Simon of Simon W Desmond Catering and Poppy of Poppy Berry Photography. Our generous and fantastic Award sponsors, TEK Express and PVL (UK) Ltd for the Ridgeview and EllieEllie for the Award engraving – without whom this event would not have happened.
