Disruptive Hr Podcasts

Lucy to talks with MD of search firm Fortune Hill, Joel Barnett about the HR search market and what his clients are looking for from their HR hires.

Lucy interviews Tanith Dodge, one of the most foremost HR Directors in the UK about what it takes to get to the top of the HR profession.

In this podcast, Lucy interviews Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia to learn more about how they have continued to lead with the heart throughout the pandemic.

Karen chats to Maggie, the Head of People Operations at SME Xoserve about how they have transformed their approach to performance management and moved away from command and control people policies

Lucy to talks to Elena Aylott from Oriflame Cosmetics about how she has introduced Employee Experience and what they've changed as a result of the crisis.

Hear how Essex County Council transformed their approach to performance management. From research to ensure their approach was user-centred, to getting rid of ratings, becoming employee-led and focusing on ‘in-the-moment’ feedback!

Lucy interviews Aidan Geary, Director of Operations at Conde Nast. He talks about the challenges of running a global media brand during the crisis and some of the positives that have come from it.

Lucy chats with Inge Oosterhuis who heads up Global Innovation/Human Potential at Accenture about the trends she's seeing as a result of the crisis.

One of the upsides of the current crisis has been a shift in the way that leaders are communicating with their teams. In this podcast Lucy discusses these new leadership communication trends.

Lucy interviews Anne-Katrine Ahlefeldt-Laurvig Head of Global Leadership and Talent Development at Novo Nordisk. She describes her excitement about how the crisis has given her team renewed confidence that they can make change happen.

Lucy chats with Esther Wallington, the Chief People Officer at HMRC. She describes the changes in managers' and employees' behaviour during the crisis and how this can be built upon once it's over.

Lucy talks about what #BetterNormal leadership looks like and how we need to redefine our expectations of leaders after the crisis.

Lucy talks to Andrea Gordon, HR Director at Peabody Housing Trust. She shares how lockdown has led them to make dramatic changes to the way they recruit and onboard their people and how they won't be going back!

Lucy interviews Amy Girdwood, EVP People and Culture at media giant Discovery. She talks about how the crisis has transformed the way they communicate and led to new possibilities.

Claire Camara and Clare Fogden from The Coop share how they have begun to implement employee experience, or as they call it, ‘colleague experience’. Hear how they have embedded and used colleague insight in the design of HR products and the impact their new approach is having on processes such as performance management.

Lucy interviews Amy Brand, Global HR Partner for Swiss Re talks to us about how her company has changed during lockdown and what she wants to take into the new and #betternormal.

Lucy interviews one of the UK's most prominent HR Directors, Simon Linares. Simon has worked at many of the UK's biggest brands and we were delighted that he took some time to share what his idea of Better Normal looks like.

In this podcast Karen talks to Karl Burnett, VP of HR at A+E Networks about some of the great HR initiatives that helped A+E win the award for ‘Best place to work in TV’ in 2018. A+E Networks UK is a joint venture between Hearst and Sky and a leading media network reaching 60 million homes across 100 countries. Known for award-winning factual and entertainment content they have been entertaining and inspiring audiences for over 20 years and currently partner with over 360 operators broadcasting throughout the Nordics, Benelux, Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Karl joined A+E Networks UK as VP, Human Resources in July 2015. Based in London, Burnett manages Human Resources and Recruitment across all of A+E Networks UK’s territories, including offices in Poland, Denmark, Benelux and South Africa. The business currently employs over 200 people. Burnett joined A+E Networks UK from the BBC, where he held senior HR positions since 2010. Karl served as HR Director for BBC News and Radio, leading an inter

Our traditional approaches to onboarding had already been challenged even before the virus hit. Now, lockdown has made the old, classroom style of delivery impossible. In this podcast Karen and Lucy discuss how companies are re-thinking onboarding and achieving the same outcomes – or maybe even better outcomes – as a result of lockdown.

We hear from Katherine, who heads up HR at the NHS Blood and Transplant service, about HR on the front line during the crisis and how these challenging times have offered opportunities to do things differently.