What I liked about this submission is how eStar has taken a proactive approach to employee engagement and development. I liked their emphasis on leadership development, career progression, and DEI – especially their efforts to increase female representation in an industry that is traditionally male-dominated. Their investment in workplace improvements, flexible working policies, and wellbeing initiatives like SimplyHealth access shows a strong commitment to employee support. Their submission makes it clear they are doing a lot to strengthen culture.

This is clearly a business that is going places and they’ve conveyed that with a very strong submission. What stands out is a positive duality of focus – being both customer and employee-centric. From a people and culture perspective, success that the business is achieving is clearly being shared through all the positive work that’s ongoing to make it as good as it can be.