Growth For Good: Expert Series
As your business grows, things can get messy fast. But scaling doesn’t have to mean drowning in detail. So, take five and let’s focus on growth that’s smart and manageable.
December 16, 2024
Growth for Good
Growth for Good is an initiative dedicated to showcasing how businesses and leaders can achieve meaningful, sustainable growth. By putting purpose at the heart of operations, we aim to celebrate the innovators, collaborators, and visionaries shaping a better future for their communities.
Growth for Good
Growth for Good is an initiative dedicated to showcasing how businesses and leaders can achieve meaningful, sustainable growth. By putting purpose at the heart of operations, we aim to celebrate the innovators, collaborators, and visionaries shaping a better future for their communities.
Vision
Drew’s vision extends beyond immediate success; he’s committed to creating lasting, positive change that empowers both current and future generations. Through mentorship, advocacy, and collaboration, he’s dedicated to building resilient communities and guiding leaders to achieve sustainable success.
Mission
“My mission has always been straightforward: to recognise opportunities and connections, seek out good people, appreciate and learn from innovative ideas, effective practices, and valuable experiences, and put all of this to work.”
Decades of Purpose-Driven Leadership
Drew Hendry has dedicated his career to driving sustainable economic development that benefits businesses and communities alike. With a unique blend of experience spanning the private sector, local government, and national politics, Drew’s leadership has been instrumental in shaping positive change across the Highlands and beyond.
Committed to Growth for Good
Throughout his career, Drew has been guided by a simple yet powerful principle: Growth for Good. He believes that true progress happens when economic growth uplifts communities, supports young people, and fosters innovation. Now, as Chairman of teClan and as the driving force behind Growth for Good, Drew continues to focus on sustainable growth, using his experience to mentor emerging leaders and support projects that drive long-term impact.
The ‘highlighting’ part of the mission.
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November 21, 2024
What a week – It just keeps growing!
Firstly, thank you to all new subscribers who have joined the Growth for Good journey. It seems to have caught the moment, as it were.
November 15, 2024
Proven Record in Business & Public Service
Drew’s journey began in the corporate world, where he held executive roles in a multinational retail company. Driven by a passion for innovation and growth, he later founded teClan, a digital marketing company based in Inverness that quickly became an industry leader. His entrepreneurial success in the private sector laid the foundation for his transition into public service, where he continued to champion the Highlands’ economic potential.
As Leader of the Highland Council, Drew spearheaded transformative initiatives, including securing the Inverness Region City Deal, which brought significant investment into the region to boost infrastructure, innovation, and community growth.
As a Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch, and Strathspey for almost a decade, Drew became a voice for the Highlands at Westminster, achieving key milestones such as making Inverness a Gigabit City to improve digital connectivity for residents and businesses alike.
