In this season of the show, diving into the importance of health and wellbeing as an integral part of leadership. Work is killing us. Sure, fewer people die on construction sites or factories but it is killing us nonetheless...just much more slowly. Kathy Sharkey and I have worked together since her days as an HRD - first when she was a delegate on one of our programmes and later as a colleague running leadership programmes together. She is now working as a consultant and s...

Welcome back to the show. In this season of the Human Revolutionaries Show, I'm specifically diving into the importance of health and wellbeing as an integral part of leadership. Today's guest is Mark Francis, from Uspire Group. New Grandad Mark dedicates his spare time to working with leaders to help them step-change their businesses. He's a mental coach in individual and team sports and splits his time between Switzerland, California and the English South Coast. I particularly wanted ...

This week I'm talking to Jeannette Linfoot. She is a highly experienced corporate CEO turned Entrepreneur with over 30 years of global expertise. She is a mentor and provides individuals and boards with strategic advice, backed by her 'Brave, Bold, Brilliant' ethos, to help them foster high-performance and drive tangible results. She’s also deeply committed to diversity and inclusion, and champions initiatives like Balance the Board and Everywoman in Travel. She is the host of the 'Brave, Bol...

In this episode, which continues a season of shows focused on our health and wellbeing as leaders, I am talking to Dr. Arina Cadariu. Arina is a physician, educator, and public health expert with more than 30 years of experience spanning academic medicine, high-acuity inpatient care, public health leadership, and translational systems work. She founded Health In Context as a space for scientific integrity, narrative precision, and biologically grounded education, outside the noise of cl...

Welcome back to Season 3 of the Human Revolutionaries show! In this show I explore the future of work, leadership, organisational change and wellbeing, sharing my own ideas based on 25 years of experience as a coach, confidante to leaders, consultant and keynote speaker. I'm also talking to experts in their field to challenge my own views and some of the myths that feed unhealthy and unhelpful strategies and assumptions in business. This season I really wanted to focus on health, ...

Hi and welcome to the last show of Season 2 of The Human Revolutionaries Show! I'm taking a break over the summer and lining up some amazing new interviews for Season 3. But we're going out with a bang. Hima Vaghani is a thought leader and expert in leadership and DEI. She has had an international career spanning almost 30 years predominantly focused on advising organisations around the world on how they can create the conditions for their people to thrive and perform to the best of their abi...

Hello and welcome back!This week's podcast guest is Laura Overton. Laura and I have both been judges for the HR Zone Culture Pioneers programme for a few years now and got to know each other a bit better earlier in the year when we both worked on the awards show which was broadcast live rather than happening in person due to the pandemic. I really wanted to get her on the show because she always brings fresh ideas whenever we talk. Being judges means we get to see how we view the same st...

Hi and welcome back to the show. On this week's episode I'm talking to Kirsty Duck, HR expert at Face2Face HR. When I asked her what she wanted to talk about she said "Appraisals" which was a surprise since hardly anyone wants to talk about appraisals...which, of course, is the problem. How did we develop the annual performance management process and are there better ways? Well, that's what we are talking about in the show. Kirsty has over 20 years experience in HR and has spent much of her w...

Hi and welcome back!Working with the FA over the last year has been an eye-opening experience. I'm no football expert (by any means) but luckily they aren't expecting me to be. Instead, together, we are working to create an environment where everyone in the Education directorate can do their best work. That's how I met Butch Fazal, Coach Inclusion and Diversity manager for the Football Association. He has made a huge impact on the profile of inclusion and diversity within the F...

One of the first things this week's guest, Ginny Baillie, says is how hard it is for leaders to do nothing. It's comforting to be busy, to attend every meeting, to be the expert, to be the decision-maker, the one with the strong opinion...but is that really what we need of leaders? Ginny Baillie was one of Europe's first Master Certified Coaches and a veteran in the leadership development field. And she knows one thing - the way people talk to each other and the way they meet are rocket fuel ...

With the Great Resignation post-pandemic, many people are embarking on new roles. I've coached a lot of leaders in the weeks before they start a new job, helping them think about what they stand for in their new role, how to 'land' on day one, and how to work out where to start actually doing the job. Well, that's exactly what this week's guest has been thinking about and in the show she shares just what questions she's been trying to ask herself before she walks in to the office on...

I love wide ranging conversations about the future of work and these are always the sorts of conversations I have with today's guest on the show. I normally wish I was recording as I feel so many people would enjoy being part of our chats...and this time I did!Phil Quinnan is an independent consultant specialising in workforce strategy, planning and organisation design. Having spend 10 years working in the Middle East he recently decided to permanently relocate to his home in Italy. That's hi...

Hello and welcome to season 2 of The Human Revolutionaries Show!I've missed you!This season I've set up a whole bunch of interviews (well, conversations really) with people who inspire me with their thinking about the future of work and the issues facing us as we try to create spaces where people can do their best work. It's not just Covid that is changing how we think about work. As today's guest points out, it's also George Floyd 's death and the higher profile of Black Lives Matter as a re...

Hi and welcome back to the show. Dating app, Bumble, has joined companies like LinkedIn and Hootsuite shutting down for a few days to give employees a proper break from work. On today's show Natasha and Blaire talk about -* whether it's a good idea that other companies should follow* pandemic burnout* how to assess productivity versus busy-work* whether burnout is inevitable when a company is growing fast* whether our expectations of founders should be different to our expectations of workers...

Hello and welcome back!Please do subscribe, leave a review and share this podcast with your colleagues. That means more people know about it and can get involved in the conversation!This week we are talking about presenteeism. Maybe we were optimistic to think that the pandemic would mark an end to old style presenteeism and that hybrid working would mark the start of a focus on productivity and outputs instead. It seems that isn't the case. We talk about research that presenteeism is alive a...

Hi and welcome back to the show!This week we talk about a breaking news story relating to cool, punky beer company BrewDog. A letter from ex-BrewDog staff alleges a culture of fear, a cult of personality and a toxic attitude towards junior staff at the company. The founders have said they are sorry and that they would listen, learn and act but not everyone believes the apology or that there is a genuine commitment to address the allegations. We discuss the risks of presenting yourself as havi...

Hello and welcome back to the show!This week we've got two meaty topics - new research from the USA which suggests 1 in 4 people want to leave their job post-pandemic, and research which confirms that women are taking the brunt of the 'household management' during this time to the detriment of their mental health. We start by talking about mental load, particularly as single parents, and our own experiences during the pandemic. We cover what specifically is difficult and what might be needed ...

Welcome back to the show!This week we dive in to the thorny issue of PTSD at work and the role of NDAs and disclaimers inspired by a story about a former Facebook moderator who has been giving evidence about her experiences. We talk about recruiting and selection for people in such roles, the imbalance of power between the employer and the employee, when NDAs and other contractual caveats are cause for concern, and importantly, what HR's role is (alongside legal and comms) when it comes to cr...

Hi and welcome back to the show!This week we are talking salary transparency. More and more companies are opening up about how much their employees are paid and some are getting the staff themselves involved in setting salaries. 10Pines is an example of a business where a flat, self-managing structure has led to total openness about payrises and hiring decisions. Everyone gets involved. But what are the downsides? Would your business be ready from a cultural perspective to deal with this leve...

Hello and welcome back to the show!This week we are talking about the rise of a new kind of corporate consultants who are claiming to help with the spiritual well-being and spiritual awareness of employees. So is work, as one Guardian columnist rages "supposed to bring us money and stolen office supplies" and stay well away from enlightenment? Or, as one of these Spiritual Consultants suggests, is it important to find your inner 'monk' - your internal self, your purpose in life, your values, ...