This Much I Know

As Senior Vice President of HR at AstraZeneca, Rebekah Martin understands how an inclusive culture drives innovation and success at all levels of the business.

In today's rapidly changing business landscape, Shelly Dickinson, Head of People at Dreams believes a People-First Strategy is vital for creating a workplace where colleagues feel valued, empowered and motivated.

Susanne Iser, Director Strategic Recruitment & Talent Acquisition, Beiersdorf AG, a CEMS Corporate Partner, shares her excitement for the generation coming into the workforce.

Hazel Hendley, Chief People Officer, Ordnance Survey on her business’ journey to being a progressive workplace.

Jim Holland reflects on a career which has taken him from the Navy to creating an environmentally impactful business.

For the past 20 years Steve Pratt has been working as an interim manager at HR Director level.

Gary McDowell, Chief HR Officer with educational resource supplier Findel discusses how to get top grades in leadership development.

Jesper Diget, Group Chief People Officer at professional services and solutions firm, emagine Consulting, believes in reinforcing company values to ensure it retains the best people.

Amy Bloomfield, Head of HR at bathroom retailers Victoria Plum, discusses the challenges of attracting and managing a multi-generational workforce.

Sharon Marsh, Executive Director of Resources at Livv Housing Group and FCIPD discusses the impact a collaboratively designed transformation of their HQ has made to culture, building colleague relationships and the impact the building has had on the balance of hybrid work patterns post pandemic.

Andrew Bott, Director Talent Acquisition at Medidata discusses the challenges and successes of finding talent in the Life Sciences sector.

"Our Philosophy on Enabling People's Growth: Transforming for Impact." - Kameshwari Rao, Global Chief People Officer, Publicis Sapient.

Debbie Irish, HR Director for Northwest Europe, HP Inc. first joined 3Com as an HR administrator. Her career has been varied as she has risen up the ranks, but possibly her best move has been always to say ‘yes’.

Ann Chambers, HR Director at Ecotone UK discusses the need to offer added value to employees as part of a workplace culture that makes people feel fulfilled.

In this edition, we caught up with Sophie Austin, HR Partner at Monahans, who believes in championing a culture where colleagues are empowered to play an active part in creating a more sustainable world.

We all know the statistic that 70% of change initiatives fail to deliver intended value. Think about that – that means that for every work week spent on change, 3.5 workdays are wasted.

In this edition of the series, Nisha Marwaha, Director, People Relations and DE&I at Virgin Media O2 tells us about her experience leading her teams through one of the biggest mergers on record and maintaining a sense of belonging amongst her employees throughout.

Chris Rayner, Swissport’s Chief People Officer discusses his business’ response after the pandemic and how a new recruitment strategy is helping them tackle peak travel season.

Craig McCoy has spent nearly 40 years in various HR positions, first in permanent roles and latterly, deliberately as an interim. His early career was in tech and the media sector including companies such as BSkyB and BT. In the last decade he has worked extensively in the healthcare sector working with companies as they restructure, grow and acquire other companies.

As they say, the only constant in life is change – and that is certainly something which has characterised my career of nearly two decades working across both public and private HR teams.

In this edition we caught up with Claire Morley-Jones, HR Director of Wonder, who believes in the power of technology to change the daily world of HRs everywhere for the better.

In this edition we caught up with David Mason, Head of Global TA Delivery at Philip Morris International who believes you cannot create change for the future without respecting the past.

In this edition we caught up with HRD Jayne Casey who believes HR's sweet spot is combining people management with commercial outcomes.

In this edition we caught up with Benefex Chief People Officer Kathryn Kendall who spearheads a culture of inclusivity and believes ‘life is too short to dread Monday mornings’.

We caught up with Marine Fournier, international HR specialist, who believes in the power of technology to change the daily world of HRs.

We caught up with Karen Sinnott who is a passionate organisational development advocate and believer in the power of HR to support the UK's recovery post-lockdown.

In this latest edition we speak with Kim Clarke, HRD and specialist in the financial sector human resource leadership. 

“Data is everything. It helps you shape a factual story in order to influence business leaders on people initiatives, which can improve retention of securing new talent. That’s what makes HR so valuable and exciting right now.”

“This is a special time in business - things are changing and business can help lead societal change.”

“You’re better off not asking people’s opinion at all if you’re not going to take it seriously” - Orlagh Hunt, founder of Human Leadership Consulting