Keynote speaker presentation at the Bristol Business School ‘Unlocking Performance through Employee Engagement' Conference.

1. Engaging the team through purpose
and culture

4. Whycreateagreatplacetowork?
10% year on year
growth
£80m turnover
67% NPS
Sunday Times Top 100
Best Companies

5. At Ella’s Kitchen we care about each other, we care about the world we live in
and we care about making the absolute best food for tiny tummies.
We believe that if we’re all aligned towards a clear direction, grounded in the stuff
we’re passionate about, then our team will thrive; free to deliver amazing results
and feel rewarded doing it.
We’re guided by our values. They set the tone of our culture and we look out for newbies
who will be a natural fit to our values and complement and contribute to our business.
We believe to achieve strong business growth, we need to nurture our people, because happy
people do the best work. So we invest in our people to be the best they can be and encourage
a culture of leadership so that everyone feels valued and empowered.

6. Buddy is our friend who helps us understand what it means to work at Ella’s
Kitchen + guides us in our behaviours + relationships every day.
Our values are at the heart of Ella’s Kitchen, it’s how we recruit newbies,
it’s how we judge + reward success, it’s how we make decisions and it’s how
we make sure Ella’s Kitchen is always a super fun + rewarding place to work!

7. Invest in a happy, healthy
team
Engage the team in the
purpose and mission
Involve
everyone in
building the
strategy
Promote
autonomy
Build
development
opportunities into
individual
objectives
Have great managers
Ella’s ingredients

8. Engage the team in the purpose
and mission

9. We passionately believe that businesses can and should be a force for good, so that’s
why we joined the B Corp movement.
B Corps aspire not only to be the best in the world but the best for the world.
As members of B Corp we actively contribute to solving social and environmental
problems as well as making sure that we are a super tip-top employer which promotes
the wellbeing of our people.
It’s what we’ve always been about, but now we have lots of other friends in the
business community who think that way too.
And we’re passionate about leading the movement in the UK to encourage other
businesses to become B Corps too, because then the world will be an even better place.
Being a B Corp means that we are focussed on, and driven by, Our Mission and
Our Dream.

12. Everyone at Ella’s has the opportunity to volunteer at local
charities that are related to our Mission. We call these
‘Mission Days’.
We also have ‘MAD Days’ (Make a Difference Days!) which allows
each individual to spend a day volunteering for a cause that’s
important to them.

13. Involve everyone in building the
strategy

14. Our strategy day

15. Promote autonomy

16. We strongly believe in enabling a culture of leadership at Ella’s Kitchen.
We don’t believe that leadership is something which is defined by your
job title.
Leaders at Ella’s role model our values and support their team. With a
clear strategic direction and our mission and values to guide you, anyone
can lead at Ella’s.
We believe that encouraging autonomy enables people to grow and
develop and to feel fulfilled. It helps us create a sustainable business
where contribution and responsibility are spread across the whole team
rather than control being held by the few.
You should feel ownership of your projects and be clear on your roles +
responsibilities. You’ll be guided by our strategy, mission and values and
supported by your manager.

17. Build development opportunities
into individual objectives

18. Our strategy is to ‘Invest in people to do their jobs well, achieve their
potential, and make a difference’.
Personal growth means different things to different people – it is
available to everyone, but not the same for everyone.
Your development is your responsibility. We support your self-
improvement and we’ll support you with a great working environment
(smart colleagues, challenges, honest + constructive feedback, fun) but
you control your development. That’s why we give everyone a personal
development pot of £1000 to help you achieve your aspirations.
As a small business, there may not always be enough growth
opportunities for everyone, so sometimes your personal growth journey
might lead you beyond Ella’s.

19. Invest in a happy, healthy
team

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23. Have great managers

24. Having great managers is really important at Ella’s. After all, people are more
likely to stay happy and fulfilled in their jobs if they have a great manager.
We understand how much difference a good manager can make to a person’s
potential and that’s why we have created our own 4-day programme for all
our managers – we call it ‘Super Buddies’.
It’s great because it’s really valuable training if you are a manager, with
lessons you can take with you wherever you go, but it also means there is
consistency in approach as well as clear expectations set on what
it means to be a good manager at Ella’s.
And it’s great for all our Buddies too knowing that their managers are well
trained and focused on supporting and developing them.

25. Invest in a happy, healthy
team
Engage the team in the
purpose and mission
Involve
everyone in
building the
strategy
Promote
autonomy
Build
development
opportunities into
individual
objectives
Have great managers
Ella’s ingredients