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HR Most Influential Podcast

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28 episodes

1 week ago

Episode six of the HR Focus podcast features insights from Anna Oliver, HR director (UK) for biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, who shares what she’s learned from the organisation’s cultural transformation journey. AbbVie has spent 11 of its 12-year existence on Great Place to Work UK's Best Workplaces™ List, so Oliver is well-placed to deliver top tips and best practice: from how to cultivate a robust workplace culture, to ensuring that your HR team keeps its fingers on the pulse. It all star...

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Episode six of the HR Focus podcast features insights from Anna Oliver, HR director (UK) for biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, who shares what she’s learned from the organisation’s cultural transformation journey. AbbVie has spent 11 of its 12-year existence on Great Place to Work UK's Best Workplaces™ List, so Oliver is well-placed to deliver top tips and best practice: from how to cultivate a robust workplace culture, to ensuring that your HR team keeps its fingers on the pulse. It all star...

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Episodes (20/28)

HR Most Influential Podcast

HR Focus (6): Perfecting positive company culture

Episode six of the HR Focus podcast features insights from Anna Oliver, HR director (UK) for biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, who shares what she’s learned from the organisation’s cultural transformation journey. AbbVie has spent 11 of its 12-year existence on Great Place to Work UK's Best Workplaces™ List, so Oliver is well-placed to deliver top tips and best practice: from how to cultivate a robust workplace culture, to ensuring that your HR team keeps its fingers on the pulse. It all star...

1 week ago

19 minutes

HR Most Influential Podcast

4.5 Transformational performance management, with David Liddle

As HR professionals face ever-increasing scrutiny for delivering high performance in the age of AI, it’s never been more important to talk about shaking up performance management. And who better to discuss this topic than David Liddle, CEO of the global consultancy TCM Group and founder of the People and Culture Association?! This episode was recorded before David nabbed the number one spot in HR magazine’s Most Influential Thinker list 2025. He also received the Consultant of the Year ...

3 weeks ago

44 minutes

HR Most Influential Podcast

HR Focus (5): How to align wellbeing and ESG strategy

As the health of our natural environment declines, employers are under increasing pressure to look after the health and wellbeing of employees, and to take meaningful actions, rather than greenwashing – paying lip service to environmental commitments. To help HR professionals align these priorities, we gathered insights from two leaders of the healthcare and insurance provider Bupa: Rebecca Pearson, chief sustainability and people officer for Bupa Global, India and UK; and Anna Russell, corpo...

2 months ago

36 minutes

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HR Focus (4): Leadership success secrets from Admiral

In the latest episode of our HR Focus podcast, our editor speaks to Lorna Connelly, Admiral’s UK director of people, to find out the secrets to success of this 25-year incumbent on the UK’s Best Workplace list. The financial services company Admiral is a recognised champion of great leadership and exceptional workplace culture. For each of the last 25 years, the firm has achieved the UK’s Best Workplace employer recognition, from global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work. Und...

2 months ago

29 minutes

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4.4 Inclusion is the answer to everything, with Aggie Mutuma

Of all the components in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) umbrella, inclusion is rapidly gaining a prominence of its own. But why favour one above the rest? And why are people so excited about inclusion's potential for business? To answer these questions, we invited Aggie Mutuma, CEO and lead consulting director of Mahogany Inclusion Partners onto the podcast. Ranking fifth on our HR Most Influential practitioners list 2024, Mutuma is a trusted advisor for the CIPD and pa...

4 months ago

39 minutes

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4.3 Defending the profession, with David Blackburn

UK national newspapers have called HR a "parasite," "bloated" and a "shadow empire" – and the vitriol keeps coming. The criticism has been enough to drive the CIPD’s chief executive, Peter Cheese, to defend the profession's work in an open letter. But do the ‘HR haters’ have a point? Or is the profession simply getting caught in the culture war crossfire? We invited David Blackburn, who achieved the #2 HR Most Influential Practitioner ranking in 2024, on to the podcast to puzzle it out. ...

6 months ago

42 minutes

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4.2 Personal branding gets you noticed, with Georgina Kelly

As an internal-facing function, HR professionals are often shy to shout about their own successes in public. Georgina Kelly, our 2024 2nd HR Most Influential Thinker, has seen first hand how this can limit senior HR professionals' careers.As founder of GK HR Networks and the Women In HR Network, Georgina knows this applies particularly to women, who are less prone to self-publicise.In the podcast, she sits down with HR magazine editor Charissa King to discuss What personal branding actua...

7 months ago

37 minutes

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4.1 The future of HR (is giving transactional work the boot), with James Devine

Did HR miss its chance to win real recognition after the pandemic?Possibly.Can HR win that acclaim anyway?Absolutely.As automated HR technology becomes ever-more sophisticated, HR practitioners are being given a golden chance to do away with time-consuming transactional work and get stuck into real strategic people issues.But what's stopping them? All too often, it's HR themselves. In the premiere of the HR Most Influential Podcast series 4, our 2024 HR Most Influential #1 practitioner, James...

8 months ago

36 minutes

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3.6 Taking the pulse, with Tiger de Souza

Once, HR professionals could walk around the office or factory floor and see employees' mood for themselves.Now, the workforce is more separated than ever. So how can HR rebuild connections within its organisation, whether for hybrid office workers, or far-off franchisees?The task that now faces HR is to rebuild its ability to 'take the pulse' of its organisation. It is a task that Samaritans executive director of people and culture, and two-time HR Most Influential practitioner, Tiger de Sou...

1 year ago

33 minutes

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3.5 How to work with your CEO, with Kerry Smith

No matter where you are in your career, it's important to get on with your boss.But for an HR leader, it's vital – and not just for selfish reasons.In episode 5 of series 3, we dive into why CPOs and HRDs are uniquely positioned to support their chief executive, and how a healthy partnership between the two delivers long-term success for both parties' objectives.To explore how these two strategic leaders can work together to transform their organisations' fortunes, Kerry Smith, chief people o...

1 year ago

37 minutes

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3.4 Don't let DEI die, with Woosh Raza

You've seen the headines: "DEI must die," "Progressive diktat," "A lightning rod for controversy."It is no secret that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are taking flak in the court of public opinion.But beyond the media spats, like Elon Musk's "DEI must die" quip, HR leaders across the western world are seeing real cuts to their DEI budgets.In Episode 4 of series 3, Woosh Raza, director of people, culture and inclusion for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCV...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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3.3 Siding against stress, with Rachel Lewis

The UK is in the grip of a mental health crisis.Some 20-30% of UK working adults showing signs of emotional exhaustion, and burnout has been stuck firmly on HR's agenda for the past four years.And while HR is well adapted to support employees' mental wellbeing – does the responsibility really lie fully on HR?In the latest episode of the HR Most Influential Podcast, Rachel Lewis, multi-award winning occupational psychologist and programme director at Birckbeck, University of London, sits down ...

1 year ago

38 minutes

HR Most Influential Podcast

HR Focus (3): How to introduce AI to talent management

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform HR.But just like any tool, it needs direction.After all the hype of 2023, it's fair to say that we're all quite excited – or worried – about AI. But how many of us actually know how to start introducing it to our jobs in a useful way, beyond asking ChatGPT a few questions and getting bored?In the third episode of HR Focus, we look at how HR leaders can introduce AI to their talent management processes – in a controlled and purposeful...

1 year ago

39 minutes

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3.2 When change meets resistance, with Pam Parkes

Change – the only constant of the past few years – is notoriously difficult to navigate.And for every successful change initiative dreamed up by HR strategists, there are several more that never survived contact with reality.In episode two of series three, Pam Parkes, executive director at Essex County Council for people, service transformation and technology services, shares from her long experience of leading change to show how even the best change strategies can fall apart.Exploring the id...

1 year ago

36 minutes

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HR Focus (2): The Talent Mismatch

The skills needed by employees have evolved rapidly over the past few decades, with employees racing to keep up with time.But with just 30% of CEOs confident that their business has the skills it needs, why do talent teams so often find themselves fighting a losing battle?Jo sits down with experts Dominic Holmes (Cornerstone) and Suki Kaur (Avask Group) to find out exactly how to supercharge a skills strategy.Read Cornerstone's UK Talent Health Index ebook now here.The Talent Health Index sel...

1 year ago

36 minutes

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3.1 Hyper-personalisation, with Bertie Tonks

Does your phone ever show you adverts for things you hadn't even realised you wanted? Hyper-personalisation may not be new to customer experience teams, but has only recently broken onto the people profession scene.To explore the phenomenon, we kick off season three with Bertie Tonks, chief people officer of Collinson Group, and 2023's #1 HR Most Influential practitioner.Tonks delves into his own efforts at introducing a hyper-personalised approach to the people profession, covering its...

1 year ago

37 minutes

HR Most Influential Podcast

HR Focus (1): SME Talent

In the war for talent, how can David beat Goliath?In the first episode of our brand-new podcast, HR Focus, we zoom in on the difficulties facing SMEs in finding, retaining, and developing talent.HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher first speaks to Luke Hicks, of HR software company Cornerstone, before turning to Grace Mansah-Owusu, organisational psychologist and talent specialist, for answers to the audience's questions.Stay tuned on our LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/13051957/) for t...

2 years ago

40 minutes

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2.7 Understanding employee experience, with Jabbar Sardar

Employee experience has become a defining feature of modern HR practice.Weaving together the threads of wellbeing, reward, development, organisational design... and, well, just about all of HR, it has become a crucial lens through which HR leaders take strategic decisions.In our latest episode, HR director of BBC Studios, Jabbar Sardar, invites HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher in to learn just how it earned its 91% Glassdoor rating.

2 years ago

36 minutes

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2.6 Putting the 'S' in ESG, with Neil Morrison

When so many companies accept ESG as a fact of life – why do so few commit to the 'S', societal good? HR director of FTSE-100 water company Severn Trent, and two-time HR Most Influential listee Neil Morrison is a passionate proponent of organisations' need to serve the communities they draw on.HR magazine Jo Gallacher sat down with Neil to discuss how companies can build a 'circular economy' for people by working with their communities.

2 years ago

35 minutes

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2.5 Solving the hybrid working conundrum, with Gemma Dale

HR Most Influential Thinker Gemma Dale has literally written the book on hybrid and flexible working – twice over. A lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, author, consultant, and previous HR Director, Dale uses her practical experience and vast knowledge of work to investigate why flexible working is getting results for some, and not for others. HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher speaks to Dale to find out the lessons learned after three years after the pandemic put hybrid work i...

2 years ago

41 minutes