HR Disrupted

Interview: Andrea Gordon (Director of HR, Peabody)

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!

Interview: Amy Girdwood (EVP People & Culture, Discovery)

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.

Interview: The Co-Op Colleague Experience

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.

Interview: Amy Brand (HR Partner CF & EU Swiss Re)

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.

Interview: Simon Linares (HR Director)

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.

Interview: Karl Burnett (VP Human Resources, A+E Networks)

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 international team of 50 HR professionals. He previously held roles at Nickelodeon UK and Channel 4 Television.

Karen and Lucy discuss onboarding during lockdown

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.

Interview: Katherine Robinson ( People Director at NHS Blood & Transplant Service)

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.

Interview: Caoimhe Keogan (Chief People Officer) & Alex Miell (Director Of People & Organisation), Moneysupermarket

Caoimhe and Alex talk about a range of innovative approaches at MoneySuperMarket including how they are doing onboarding in different ways such as experimenting with app based solutions.

 

Interview: Nebel Crowhurst (Director of HR & Communications at Roche)

In this interview Nebel shares how she uses ‘agile hr’ as well as some great innovations in performance management and employee engagement from her period at fashion retailer River Island.