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We're SOPEOPLE and we bring to you HR, Unfiltered - a podcast getting honest about some of HR/People's really interesting and sometimes challenging topics. Find us at www.sopeople.co.uk and we hope you enjoy listening as we grow our Podcast capabilities and dive into some really interesting discussions, sometimes just the two of us, and sometimes with special guests.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWe're SOPEOPLE and we bring to you HR, Unfiltered - a podcast getting honest about some of HR/People's really interesting and sometimes challenging topics. Find us at and we hope you enjoy listening as we grow our Podcast capabilities and dive into some really interesting discussions, sometimes just the two of us, and sometimes with special guests.
HR Unfiltered - brought to you by SOPEOPLE is hosted by SOPEOPLE. The show has published 32 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Have We Made Managers Scared to Manage? HR, Unfiltered S2E2" (19 October 2026, 58 minutes), "S2E1 - BRACE FOR IMPACT! (The ERA, AI and MORE!)" (12 October 2026, 39 minutes), and "Season 2, Episode 1: BRACE FOR IMPACT! (The ERA, AI and MORE!)" (12 October 2026, 39 minutes).
HR Unfiltered - brought to you by SOPEOPLE publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 32 episodes.
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Episode #33
Managers are being asked to navigate more complexity than ever. So why does it feel like we’re getting worse at helping them actually manage? This week, Dean and Sue ask whether we’ve created a generation of managers...
Episode #32
After a summer spent working across fractional, interim, consultancy and coaching roles, Dean and Sue compare notes on what they're seeing across organisations - and the patterns are impossible to ignore. The Employment...
Episode #31
After a summer spent working across fractional, interim, consultancy and coaching roles, Dean and Sue compare notes on what they're seeing across organisations - and the patterns are impossible to ignore. The Employment...
Episode #30
To close out season one, it's just the two of us and we've saved one of the most important topics in people leadership for last. Psychological safety has had a decade of utter hype. Google gave it a TED Talk moment, a...
Episode #29
What happens when an FCIPD-qualified HR consultant spends their evenings performing as an award-winning drag queen? In this candid, funny and surprisingly thought-provoking conversation, Tom Henderson-Griffiths (better...
Episode #28
What if the biggest risk posed by the Employment Rights Act isn’t legal at all? In this episode of HR, Unfiltered, Dean and Sue are joined by employment lawyer Dan Smith from People Law to explore a provocative idea...
Episode #27
<p>What does it take for HR to be seen as a genuine business function rather than a support service?</p> <p>In this week's episode, Dean and Sue are joined by fractional Chief People Officer and one of HR Mag’s Most...
Episode #26
<p >Dr Jo Burrell is a Clinical Psychologist, co-founder of Ultimate Resilience, and co-author of the 2026 HR Mental Wellbeing Report which is now in its third year and drawing on data from nearly 3,000 HR...
Episode #25
<p >This week, Dean Corbett and Sue O’Callaghan are joined by leadership consultant and former CPO Lorna Baines for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had yet about leadership, HR and organisational reality...
Episode #24
<p >Everyone says they care about AI ethics. Very few organisations are actually doing anything meaningful with it. This week Dean and Sue sit down with Oliver Hill - Head of HR, qualified AI ethics practitioner, and...
Episode #23
<p >Erica Farmer, author of AI for People Professionals and host of AI for the Average Joe, joins Deano for this episode to state the obvious and less obvious... AI has landed in HR - but most organisations are still...
Episode #22
<p >Sue is back. And we've brought in someone who has spent her career in rooms where the numbers matter, the pressure is real, and the conversations people most need to have are the ones nobody's having. Carolyn Hobdey...
Episode #21
<p>In this episode of HR, Unfiltered, Deano is joined by Michelle Hartley for a conversation that goes far beyond “showing up differently.”</p> <p>Michelle shares her experience of burning out three times in a single...
Episode #20
<p >Deano catches up with Anwen Bottois, founder of Purple Sky Consulting and host of the HR Strategy in the Hot Seat podcast. Anwen spent over two decades as an HR leader across manufacturing, not-for-profit, British...
Episode #19
<p >Thirty years of employee engagement surveys, billions spent, and the data is getting worse, not better. In this episode, Dean and Sue take a hard look at why the engagement model isn’t working, and why many...
Episode #18
<p >In this episode, Deano flies solo and is joined by Sean Miller, who brings nearly 30 years in HR (incl. L&D and OD), and is a specialist-in-training in organisational transactional analysis, for a conversation about...
Episode #17
<p >Chris Manning joins Dean and Sue, and makes a compelling case that employee experience isn't a platform you buy or a project you launch; it's the sum total of every process, system, approval chain and human...
Episode #16
<p >What happens when AI stops being a shiny tool and starts quietly reshaping how work, judgement and even identity function?</p> <p >In this episode of HR, Unfiltered, Dean and Sue sit down with futurist Matt O’Neill...
Episode #15
<p >What happens when you invite a VP of Client / Customer Success to hold talk about HR? Turns out, quite a lot, and most of it grabs us in all the right ways.</p> <p >Rachel Rewerts has spent 15 years in Customer...
Episode #14
<p >What happens when a CEO with a psychology degree bans Friday meetings, challenges “bring your whole self to work”, and tells CPOs to get commercially dangerous? Find out in this episode, when Luke McKeever joins us...
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fractional Chief People Officer, board advisor, investor, international speaker, Reward Gateway | Edenred
MD, People Sorted
secondary school leader and educator, Brentford Football Club
independent HR and workforce transformation consultant, Great Bend tennis
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