🎙 New Podcast Episode: Leadership, Veterans & Building Better Workplaces

In this episode of Tap Into Something Better, I’m joined by Alistair Scott — a leader who truly walks the talk when it comes to people-first leadership in facilities management.

Alastair is:

• Founding Director of Maze Vanguard Group

• Founder of Integrated Estate Management (IEM)

• A driving force behind the IWFM Veterans in FM Network

• Board member of Veterans Can

• Ambassador for Care After Combat

• 🏆 Veteran Leader of the Year (Veterans Awards, Oct)

We dive into:

• Why ex-service personnel are hugely underestimated in FM

• How veterans bring real-world leadership, resilience and delivery under pressure

• Why compliance and sustainability must be treated as wellbeing and safety issues, not tick-box exercises

• A brilliantly simple way to think about building compliance (hint: think MOT, not paperwork)

• Why trust — not beanbags or foosball tables — is the single biggest missing ingredient in modern workplaces

This conversation is about more than FM. It’s about leadership, inclusion, purpose and designing workplaces that actually work for human beings.

🔗 Explore Alistair’s work and the organisations we discuss:

• Integrated Estate Management (IEM): https://integrated-em.com/

• IWFM Veterans in FM Network: https://www.iwfm.org.uk/community/veterans-in-fm.html

• Veterans Can: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veterans-can/

• Maze Vanguard Group: https://mazevanguard.co.uk/

If you care about: ✔ Better leadership ✔ Supporting veterans in industry ✔ Smarter, safer, more human workplaces

— this episode is for you.