Disruptive Hr Podcasts

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.

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 inter

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.

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.

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.  

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.  

Disruptive HR founders Lucy Adams and Karen Moran discuss some of the key changes within L&D and examples of companies approaching it differently.

On this podcast, Lucy is joined by Colleen Fuller, Chief People Officer at Salsify. Previously Colleen was the Head of Talent and Employee Experience at Vistaprint and on this podcast she talks to Lucy about how they adopted Agile principles within HR while redefining their purpose within the organisation. A great example of how ‘Employee Experience’ is based at the heart of the Vistaprint transformation.  

Join Lucy and Karen of Disruptive HR as they discuss how employment policies can be designed in new ways. They explore what moving to a more ‘adult to adult’ approach means in practice and how HR can begin to get rid of their role of ‘compliance officer’

Conversations over HR process is almost always better. In this podcast, conversations expert Dik Veenman tells us how to do them well.

Claire Camara and Clare Fogden from The Coop share how they are building leadership capability in new ways including focusing on the behaviours they need in the future, taking out tired processes and changing the ways leaders are chosen.

Suzanne Roddie, Head of Performance and Talent at Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays talks to Karen about how they have revamped their entire approach to Performance Management. Learn how they co-created their new approach and how they will be rolling out this new feedback-led culture. Suzanne also shares with us their new values and how this has led to an interesting piece of work on changing behaviours within the organisation.    

Suzie Welch, Former Group People Director at Pizza Express talks to Lucy about how they’ve developed a new Leadership framework which is unique to them and that will help them make a real shift in the performance of the business. They are also in the process of introducing flexibility to all levels of their workforce and shifting their approach to Performance Management, moving away from a formal, annual review to one where the employees own it.

Tracey Waters, Head of People Engagement and Development at Sky talks to Lucy about how they have moved away from a classroom based learning approach to one that is learner owned. They identified 9 pain points in the employee life cycle and worked on creating continuous learning experiences around these pain points while applying marketing techniques to effectively engage with the learner. Tracey also shares how they’ve successfully used Looop as a platform for their training content.