5.4: Focus on future-ready leaders, with Danny Harmer
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 ...
30 Apr 45min
5.3: Why autonomous working is the future, with Alex Hirst and Lizzie Penny
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 ...
30 Mars 46min
5.2: How to better care for carers, with Natalie Quilter
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...
6 Feb 45min
5.1: Adapt to win, with Tim Pointer
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 portfol...
19 Dec 202548min
HR Focus (7): Innovation success secrets from Experian
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...
13 Aug 202532min
HR Focus (6): Perfecting positive company culture
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 transforma...
29 Juli 202519min
4.5 Transformational performance management, with David Liddle
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 di...
14 Juli 202544min
HR Focus (5): How to align wellbeing and ESG strategy
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...
27 Maj 202536min
