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HR Most Influential Podcast
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The HR Most Influential podcast speaks to some of the practitioners, academics and consultants making up HR magazine's annual HR Most Influential list, which celebrates instrumental figures in the people profession.
We’ll be asking them to pull back the curtain on their working lives and explore the major issues facing the world of work.
HR Focus Podcast
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HR Focus dives into practical issues surrounding HR leaders. Interviewing expert guests, and bringing them questions from our own audience. If you would like to discuss featuring on the episode, please email jack.troutt@markallengroup.com
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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...
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...
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 purp...
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 In...
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/)...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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 brandin...
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 practitione...
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...
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 pe...
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 Organisation...
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...
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 ...
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, coveri...
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.
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.
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 wo...
HR Most Influential Thinker Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has dedicated much of his life to studying human intelligence. Now, he turns his attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) — and the effect it is having on the humans that use it. In episode four of season two, Tomas reveals: Why we need to humanise workHow algorithms are making us narcissisticWhich jobs are safe from automation Listen now and learn from the best.
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