John Murphy: Increasing Employment through Work Integration Social Enterprise

In this episode, Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh and Míde Power talk to John Murphy (MSc in Education and Training Management, 1999), Chief Executive of Speedpak Group, a social enterprise that operates commercial businesses and training courses to support long term unemployed people get back to work by providing real work experience.

John highlights how trading, training and transforming are at the heart of Speedpak Group.

The conversation explores the relationship between occupational therapy and Speedpak Group as a social enterprise. John explains how respect and choice is important for work integration social enterprises. John also discusses how the organisation’s partnerships have helped massively with running the social enterprise. Such partnerships include Mick Kelly and Grow It Yourself.