Talking with Tech Leaders · 2024-06-07 · 39 min
From senior manager in the NHS to tech founder & entrepreneur: it sounds like a leap from one end of the spectrum to the other. But, after 28 years working with the health service - a career culminating in roles as CEO and Board Member - that’s the move that Amanda Philpott , our guest for this episode of Talking with Tech Leaders, made. When she personally experienced age-related hearing loss, she saw the dire need for earlier intervention - and an opportunity for an innovative solution. Having left her high-profile management role, she became a different kind of leader: a healthtech entrepreneur, improving public health from a different perspective, when she co-founded eargym with DJ Andy Shanks in 2020. Talking with host Michael Phair, Amanda explains how hearing loss is continually overlooked as a workplace issue and discusses the potential for tech-enabled training to limit the social and cognitive impacts of the condition. She explains how the hearing tech platform is designed to tackle the hearing loss epidemic, by empowering users to test and train their hearing regularly through immersive games.
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