Hosted by HR magazine · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 33 episodes
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HR Most Influential Podcast --- 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 --- 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 or angela.koduah@markallengroup.com
HR magazine hosts HR Most Influential Podcast, a news show with 33 episodes published.
What defines great leadership? And how can HR support the leaders of the future? Business leaders are facing rising pressure to take on a growing list of responsibilities, and employees’ expectations of people in leaders
Does flexible working actually work? Or are today’s ways of working stuck in the past? Alex Hirst and Lizzie Penny, who jointly ranked at #4 in our HR Most Influential thinkers list 2025, call for a radical rethink of ou
Are employers doing enough to support the nearly three million people in the UK who juggle unpaid care and work? Natalie Quilter, HR magazine’s #4 HR Most Influential Practitioner 2025, addresses this question and more,
Tim Pointer, HR magazine's #1 Most Influential HR practitioner for 2025, focuses on the transformational power of agility in business, offering tips on how to adapt to succeed. Pointer, who is portfolio chief people offi
Chief people officer Jacky Simmonds shares how Experian has fostered a thriving culture of innovation throughout the business, offering tips that other businesses can learn from. Since Simmonds joined the global data and
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
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 tha
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 servic
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 finan
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 inclus
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 professio
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 prof
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 gold
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, whet
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
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. Bu
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 adap
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
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 re
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 te
Alex Hirst
1 appearance on this show
Lizzie Penny
1 appearance on this show
David Liddle
Blind organist and composer · TCM Group
1 appearance on this show
David Blackburn
senior manager executive · David R. Blackburn Consulting
1 appearance on this show
Kerry Smith
Pastor of Discipleship and Family Ministries · Good News Church
1 appearance on this show
Neil Morrison
Chief People Officer · Severn Trent
1 appearance on this show
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
professor of business psychology at UCL and Columbia, chief innovation officer of ManpowerGroup, and author of books including ‘The Talent Delusion’ and ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Be...’ · Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab
2 appearances on this show
John Amaechi
Leadership Transformation Expert · APS Intelligence LTD
1 appearance on this show
Megan Reitz
Founder · Reitz Consulting
1 appearance on this show
Hayley Lewis
Dr
1 appearance on this show
Shereen Daniels
1 appearance on this show
Lord David Frost
Chief Brexit Negotiator and Europe adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson · Patterson Community Church
1 appearance on this show
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