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Engage For Success - Employee Engagement

516 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

The movement for employee engagement. Committed to the idea that there is a better way to work, a better way to enable personal and organisational growth.

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Radio Show #537: The Impact of a Game Changing Culture

April 22, 2024 16:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MB

Special Guest: Claire Smith: Chief People Officer at Movera In this episode, we will discuss the impact of a positive culture within the workplace. Claire will talk about her experience in award winning organisations who had strong, positive cultures within their workplaces and the benefits of such. Claire will share some key takeaways on what you can do within your business, no matter what size, for the benefit of your people and customers. She will highlight the impact of her work within M...

Radio Show #536: Developing Spiritual Intelligence and Capabilities

April 15, 2024 16:30 - 31 minutes - 13.9 MB

Special Guest: Yosi Amram: Author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership: How to Inspire to be Inspired Yosi Amram, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, and an executive coach catering to CEOs, entrepreneurs, and other influential leaders. Previously a founder and CEO of two companies that he has led through successful IPOs, he has coached over 100 CEOs – many of whom have built companies with thousands of employees and revenues in the billions. He is a pioneering researcher in the fie...

Radio Show #535: The Latest EfS Engagement Survey

April 08, 2024 16:30 - 30 minutes - 27.2 MB

Special Guests: Dr Sarah Pass and James Court-Smith Join us to hear the initial findings from the Engage for Success 2023 survey. This is the second Engage for Success national survey, established to examine the current state of employee engagement in the UK. We will be discussing the EFS Employee Engagement Index and the 2023 UK engagement benchmark. Listen as we reflect on variations in engagement levels according to organisational size, sector, and the level of action (or inaction) in o...

Radio Show #534: How best to engage employees with sustainability strategies

April 01, 2024 16:30 - 30 minutes - 27.4 MB

Special Guest: Jo Hand: Co-Founder of Giki Jo is Giki’s co-founder and has worked in sustainability since 2006, is responsible for Giki’s engagement programme, clients and partners. She specialises in behaviour change, climate communications, employee engagement and personal carbon footprints. Jo is a former BBC Panorama journalist and executive committee member at CDP. The Race to Zero is global campaign rallying nations, industries, and individuals to unite in the fight against climate ch...

Radio Show #533: The Effect of Self-Image on Performance

March 25, 2024 17:30 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MB

Special Guest: Suzana Mihajlovic: Author of Your2Minds Suzana Mihajlovic is the founder of Your2Minds Pty Ltd. She is a multiple best selling author and elite level performance and success coach. Her expertise has been featured in many prestigious podcasts and business magazines and most recently in Times Square, New York. Suzana Mihajlovic has had a wide calibre of experience and expertise all of which distinguish her from the ordinary. She has been referred to by her clients as the “missi...

Radio Show #532: How organisations can drive equal opportunities

March 18, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 13.9 MB

Special Guest: Alison Green: Director of WOMBA More than 80% of parents in the UK are in employment yet there’s remarkably little research. The research that has been conducted tends to disregard the experience and role of working dads – perhaps reinforcing the notion that this is a ‘woman’s issue’. We have started with a unique, binary gender equal piece of research to explore the perspectives of both working mums and working dads. The aim of our research is to help parents returning to wo...

Radio Show #531: Workplace Culture, what is it and why does it matter?

March 11, 2024 17:30 - 29 minutes - 25.9 MB

Special Guest: Jo Moffatt, EFS Advisory Board Member & Strategy Director, MD Woodreed We will be discussing the topic of workplace culture: what it is, how it is defined and why it matters, not only for organisational and corporate success but also for health, wellbeing and engagement of the wider workforce. This is in advance of Jo speaking at the Health & Wellbeing @ Work conference at the NEC in Birmingham on 12 March. Join us as we discuss workplace culture. Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #530: Giving Support and Resilience to Leaders and Teams

March 04, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 13.9 MB

Special Guest: Jeffrey Klubeck: Author of The Integrity Game®️ Jeffrey Klubeck is retired Professor of Communication and author of The Integrity Game®️ which is evolving into a comprehensive soft skills development company. As a world class coach, Jeffrey has worked with entrepreneurs and high performance teams in 12 countries across 4 continents. He is also the founder of Get A Klu, Inc. which serves small/micro businesses and solo-preneurs with productivity and accountability frameworks. ...

Radio Show #529: Leading the Listening Organisation

February 26, 2024 17:30 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

Special Guests: Mike Pounsford, Kevin Ruck and Howard Krais Leading the Listening Organisation was published in December 2023. This book explores tapping into employee voices for better decisions, innovation, and performance. ‘Leading the Listening Organisation’ offers practical strategies, based on global research across 500 organisations, to create resilient workplaces where open communication and fresh ideas thrive. Essential reading for leaders, HR, and communication professionals. Top...

Radio Show #528: The Benefits of Strategic Communication

February 19, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 14.1 MB

Special Guest: Sharn Kleiss: Internal Comms & EX Strategy and Gary Moss: Internal Communication Director at Gallagher’s Communication Practice Sharn Kleiss (she/her) is Strategy Partner: Employee Experience & Insights at Gallagher’s Communications Practice, and has worked in the employee engagement field for a decade. Sharn’s expertise is focused on the interplay between internal communication and employee experience, and this comes to life in Gallagher’s annual State of the Sector report, w...

Radio Show #527: The Future of Work: Wise Firms Versus Foolish Firms

February 12, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 13.8 MB

Special Guest: Joey Havens: Author of Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture Joey Havens has a 30+ year history of growing leaders and elevating others based on a personal purpose of helping people see and realize their full potential. He recently retired from HORNE, a top 25 CPA firm, after serving in several roles since joining them in 1984, including as an executive partner where he led more than 2,000 team members to build the Wise Firm, HORNE’s people-...

Radio Show #526: How to realise a competitive advantage through mental health

February 05, 2024 17:30 - 32 minutes - 14.4 MB

Special Guest: Geoff McDonald: Geoff McDonald Consulting Limited Geoff’s background in teaching, HR, marketing, communications and sustainability is considerable. His experience during his 25 years with Unilever (a global corporation with a turnover of £50 billion and 170,000 employees in 90 countries worldwide), has taken him around the world, working across Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, Australasia and Asia, Europe and the Americas. His HR experience has spanned leadership and talen...

Radio Show #525: How To Get People Engaged As You Grow

January 29, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 13.9 MB

Special Guest: Catherine Chabiron Catherine Chabiron is an established expert in Lean management with a professional journey spanning over 40 years. Her expertise in Lean thinking has been largely shaped by her experiences within the automotive industry, where she has lived and breathed the Lean philosophy. Catherine is not only a Lean executive coach but also a renowned author. Her notable contribution, “Learning to Scale at Theodo Group: Growing a Fast and Resilient Company,”  exemplifies ...

Radio Show #524: A Blast from the Past

January 22, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MB

Our guest for this show cancelled so we are replaying our most downloaded show... Special Guest: Phil Sherwood, Head of Volunteering and Workforce Training. London 2012 Olympics In this 'blast from the past' Show #20, Find out how the Games Makers programme for London 2012 fits with the Engage for Success Four Enablers. 70,000 volunteers in 860 roles across 80 venues working 8 million hours for free - here's your chance to find out how they did it from an engagement perspective. Host: Jo D...

Radio Show #523: How to Build and Scale an Employee Volunteer Program

January 15, 2024 17:30 - 30 minutes - 13.7 MB

Special Guest: Melissa Hackmeier: Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, Sustainability & Social Business Innovation at Merck Life Science Education and engagement are fundamental to all Melissa Hackmeier does at Merck Life Science. As Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, she leads the development and implementation of employee and community engagement strategy, programs and nonprofit partnerships, as well as communications to raise awareness about these initiatives....

Radio Show #522: Better Communication to Foster Competent Workplaces.

January 08, 2024 17:30 - 31 minutes - 14 MB

Special Guest: Maria Marukian: Speaker and Host of ‘Culture Stew’ Maria Morukian is a recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and intercultural competence. Maria is the President of MSM Global Consulting, and an adjunct faculty member at American University’s School of International Service. She previously served in leadership and organizational development positions at the U.S. Offi...

Radio Show #521: The Impact of Behaviour on Performance

December 18, 2023 17:30 - 41 minutes - 36.8 MB

Special Guest: Chris Turner: Consultant in Emergency Medicine Radio Show #521: The Impact of Behaviour on Performance Have you ever had a professional interaction that has left you feeling disrespected? Left you feeling distracted and not performing at your best? It turns out that this isn’t just you, it’s all of us. Chris is consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is interested in governance and highly performing teams, and this has led hi...

Radio Show #520: 10 Retention Tips for 2024

December 11, 2023 17:30 - 18 minutes - 7.96 MB

Join our host Andy Goram sharing his 10 retention tips (his guest couldn't connect and will be rebooking for next year!).

Radio Show #519: Helping organizations create a team of productive employees

December 04, 2023 17:30 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MB

Special Guest: Gerald Leonard: Founder of the Leonard Productivity Intelligence Institute Gerald offers a unique productivity approach to accomplishing more every day. Gerald J. Leonard PMP, PfMP, and a C-IQ Coach; he's the Publishing Editor, CEO, and Founder of the Leonard Productivity Intelligence Institute, as well as the CEO of Turnberry Premiere, a strategic project portfolio management and IT governance firm based in Washington, DC. Gerald is also an Author, TEDx Speaker, Management gu...

Radio Show #518: Ground Up: Elevating Employee Voice for Continuous Improvement

November 27, 2023 17:30 - 30 minutes - 27.4 MB

Special Guest: Paul Reid: Founder and CEO at Trickle Paul started his career as a software engineer, before launching a market-leading tech business that became well known for being a great place to work – with a real focus on putting its people first. The culture that Paul and his team rooted in the business was key to its success, which saw them repeatedly win customers against globally recognised brands with 1000x more staff. Paul’s business was acquired after 15 years, and the subsequen...

Radio Show #517: Neurodivergence in the Workplace

November 20, 2023 17:30 - 30 minutes - 13.6 MB

Special Guest: Cathy Brown, EFS Advisory Board Member, Former Exec Director What's it like being a neurodivergent leader? How do you lead and manage neurodivergent employees? Cathy speaks about her own personal experience of late diagnosis with ADHD and how she asked for reasonable adjustments and got practical help through Access to Work. Join us as we discuss neurodivergence as a leader and as an employee. Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #516: Bridging the gap from academia to the real world

November 13, 2023 17:30 - 32 minutes - 14.2 MB

Special Guest: Alex Eade: Marketing Manager at Footprint Digital Lifelong learning and keeping education at the core of everything we do is paramount to the team at Footprint Digital. Our industry, digital marketing, has often been seen as smoke and mirrors, with clients confused about what agencies are actually doing for them, and agencies using this confusion to their advantage. Footprint Digital was set up to be the antithesis to this, demystifying and humanising marketing to help clients...

Radio Show #515: Drivetime catch up with show hosts Andy and Jo

November 06, 2023 17:30 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

Join two of our three hosts - Andy Goram and Jo Moffatt - in conversation. Catch up on the latest from the world of employee engagement and Engage for Success.

Radio Show #514: The Power of Reconnecting with Nature

October 30, 2023 17:30 - 27 minutes - 24 MB

Special Guest: Rosie Tomkins: Founding Partner of N-Stinctive, Leadership Development & Executive Coach & Author In this episode, we’ll explore the essence of her upcoming book, “Let Nature Be Your Compass,” set to launch on October 31st. Rosie’s passion for rekindling our connection with nature and harnessing its invaluable lessons will come alive as we discuss real-life anecdotes and actionable strategies from her book. Tune in to discover how you can revitalize your innate strengths, shar...

Radio Show #513: EMPLOYMENT IS DEAD: How The Metaverse Will Radically Change the

October 23, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.2 MB

Special Guest: Josh Drean: Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute Josh Drean is Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute, Web3 Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and Co-author of Employment is Dead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024) He is an HR Transformation and Metaverse expert who marries web3 technologies with workplace strategies. As Co-founder of The Work3 Institute, a research, and consulting agency focused on human-cent...

Radio Show #512: Culture, Climate and Conflict.

October 16, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14 MB

Special Guest: David Liddle: The TCM Group At a time where the terms culture, climate and conflict are hot topics for every organisation, David Liddle will be examining these three areas through the lens of his 30 years work as a facilitator, a mediator, a coach, a leader and an accomplished author. Having completed a degree in race relations in the early nineties, David went on to set up one of the first specialist mediation and restorative justice organisations in the UK. For 7 years he p...

Radio Show #511: Diversity Without The Cliches

October 09, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 13.9 MB

Special Guest: Simon Fanshawe: Co-Founder of Diversity by Design Simon will be exploring the value of diversity…not the clichéd version so many of are routinely subjected to in our work by so-called diversity experts, but rather the core of human difference that lies at the heart of it. We only talk about diversity and inclusion because we are different and we cannot understand each other. It is our attempts to do so, and our frequent clumsiness with each other, that makes this journey so i...

Radio Show #510: Living a More Productive Life in a Progressive Culture

October 02, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 27.3 MB

Special Guest: Jane Sparrow: Author and Founder of The Culture Builders and Tuddl Jane is a business culture, people and performance expert. Author and thought leader in culture and wellbeing, she provides advice and support to some of the best known brands (and the emerging ones) including OVO Energy, BBC Studios, Costain, Selfridges, HSBC, Rugby Premiership and Salesforce. She’s well known for creating and sustaining high performing teams and cultures. Jane is passionate about enabling ot...

Radio Show #509: Addressing Staff Well-Being in an ‘Action-Oriented Manner’

September 25, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MB

Cigna Healthcare, a global health service company, is calling for CEOs and business leaders to make a public commitment to allocate five percent of their annual working hours to changing organisational cultures while addressing the issue of staff well-being in an ‘action-oriented manner’. The initiative aims to support and inspire leaders to place more focus on the mental health of their employees in order to break the stigma of mental health in the workplace and help staff feel safe and supp...

Radio Show #508: Flexible Working in Organisations

September 18, 2023 16:30 - 32 minutes - 14.2 MB

Special Guest: Jane van Zyl: CEO of Working Families Working Families mission is to remove the barriers working parents and carers face in the workplace. They do this by empowering working parents and carers to understand and use their workplace rights, by supporting employers to create, build and sustain flexible and family friendly workplaces and by advocating for practical positive policy change. The majority of the employer members employ more than 250 people. Coming into the charity in...

Radio Show #507: The Vulnerability of Leaders

September 11, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MB

Special Guest: Lorna Leeson, Executive Coach Lorna is founder of Little Tent – a Coaching and Culture Consultancy that partners CEOs and their teams to help make positive cultural change happen. Working one on one and with senior teams focusing on how their behaviour and dynamics shape the business culture, and as a result drive their success. Join us as we discuss the importance of leaders showing vulnerability. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds

Radio Show #506: Future-Proofing Engagement Strategies

September 04, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.2 MB

Special Guest: Drew Munn: Strategy Partner, Gallagher Drew is a Strategy Partner at Gallagher, one of the world’s leading employee experience consultancies. With over a decade working on internal technologies and a view of where the industry is headed, Drew specialises in future-proofing engagement strategies for a range of clients. As AI transforms not only how we communicate, but also the day-to-day world of our audiences, we need to evolve our definition of engagement. From saving time a...

Radio Show #505: A New Approach to Team Building Exercises

August 28, 2023 16:30 - 29 minutes - 26 MB

Special Guest: Aaron Betesta Aaron runs the team building brand ‘Laughtercise’. After two years of studying the team building market and delivering team building sessions, he believes that some approaches to team building are stuck in the 90s. At Laughtercise, they believe most team building and icebreaker resources on Google are poor, and are working hard to provide better. Their approach is to shake things up. They want to support people to take the forced out of forced fun and get rid of...

Radio Show #504: The Importance of Coaching in Employee Engagement & Performance

August 21, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 13.6 MB

Special Guest: Kevin Campbell: Founder of Lifted Leadership Kevin G. Campbell is an Employee Experience Scientist with Qualtrics and the founder of Lifted Leadership, a strengths-based executive coaching practice. In this show, he will talk about the power of answering the question: What can you contribute to the world that 10,000 others would struggle to bring? Kevin’s spent the last fifteen years helping thousands of people do what they do best every day, and he wants to share the discover...

Radio Show #503: Empowering Colleagues to Have a Voice and Play Their Part

August 14, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MB

Special Guest: Anne-Marie Griffiths: Head of Internal Comms and Engagement DHL Supply Chain Anne-Marie has worked for DHL Supply Chain for over 20 years gaining experience in operations, customer service, project and change management, and learning and development. In 2018 she joined the Internal Communication and Engagement Team and in just four short years has become a multi award-winning Internal Communication Leader, including being named as the IoIC Internal Communicator of the Year in ...

Radio Show #502: Becoming Better Communicators Through Regular Visibility

August 07, 2023 16:30 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

Special Guest: David Manning: Senior Internal Communications Manager, Currys David Manning has been leading internal comms and employee engagement in large complex organisations for more than 17 years. His creative and inclusive approach and strong commercial understanding have helped shape and transform employee communication, experience and advocacy in organisations including Currys, BBC, Travis Perkins and Associated British Foods. Often described by his peers as habitually optimistic and...

Radio Show #501: Our very first Engage for Success radio show repeat

July 31, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 27.5 MB

Following last week's milestone show, have a listen to Episode 1 - our very first Engage for Success podcast with Jon Ingham and Jo Dodds

Radio Show #500: 500 Shows - A Look Up and Down the Hill!

July 24, 2023 16:30 - 34 minutes - 15.4 MB

Special Guests: David MacLeod, Nita Clarke, co-Founders, and Cathy Brown, first secondee and former Exec Director, of Engage for Success We started this podcast in 2012 on a bit of whim and here we are, in 2023, 500 shows later! For this auspicious occasion, we have David, Nita and Cathy to recap the journey so far and share their thoughts for the future for the movement along with their views on employee engagement in workplaces into the future and how that's changed since 2012, or maybe n...

Radio Show #499: Are You a Reliant Leader?

July 17, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MB

Special Guest: Joanna Howes, Founder and CEO of The Change Creators Too many leaders do not know how to let go of the day-to-day and elevate themselves into leadership positions.  This is a high risk for the team they manage as it impacts engagement, well-being and performance. Join us as Joanna shares how to identify if you are a reliant leader and how you can begin let go and step into your new identity as a leader.  The results can be transformational for you and your team. Joanna Howes...

Radio Show #498: Building an “Irresistible” Employee-focused Organisation

July 10, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.1 MB

Special Guest: Josh Bersin: CEO of The Josh Bersin Company HR influencer Josh Bersin, CEO of workplace trends research firm The Josh Bersin Company, believes it is time capitalism got back to helping individuals build rewarding careers. Now, he wants to talk how. Josh has published widely on this topic, in particular in his just-published book, Irresistible, which surfaces the seven secrets of the most enduring employee-focused organisations. On this show, Josh will discuss the management va...

Radio Show #497: Employee Engagement in an Operational Setting

July 03, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MB

Special Guest: Emma James: Head of Colleague Experience & Comms at Moto Hospitality Emma is a passionate, experienced and proactive employee engagement and marketing professional. Having established herself as a globally recognised public speaker and communications expert, she is creative, diligent and a natural leader and has run teams, directed strategic employee engagement plans, and is also a keen and talented copy writer and Creative Director. With multiple channel skills, she brings a...

Radio Show #496: How to Create an Environment that Celebrates Diversity

June 26, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 13.8 MB

Special Guest: Advita Patel: Founder of CommsRebel Advita Patel, founder of CommsRebel, is a specialist in helping organisations build thriving cultures of inclusivity. She will be joining Engage For Success Radio show to share invaluable insights and practical advice on how to create an environment that celebrates diversity and drives exceptional employee engagement. Advita is a passionate advocate for inclusive communication and employee engagement strategies, has an impressive background...

Radio Show #495: Positive Psychology in Business

June 19, 2023 16:30 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

Special Guest: Professor Ilona Boniwell Ilona Boniwell is a professor of positive psychology at the University of East London and the original founder of the UEL’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology, the first ever degree of this type in Europe. She is one of the world leaders in positive psychology, working in the field for over 20 years, originally mentored by Martin Seligman. Professor Boniwell wrote or edited twelve books, delivered over 200 keynotes and a TEDx, founded the European Ne...

Radio Show 494: Your Peak Productivity Plan with Wellbeing at the Centre

June 12, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 27.2 MB

Special Guest: Bianca Best - Chief Digital Officer EMEA, Publicis Groupe, Author & Founder of Flourish Global Bianca Best straddles the realm of being a senior international executive at the heart of Publicis Groupe, a 110,000+ comms organisation, leading talent initiatives and digital agendas, while running an executive coaching business.  Bianca coaches clients and teams to unleash their Biggest Impact by removing barriers and encouraging expansion. Specialities include imposter syndrome,...

Radio Show #493: Storytelling for Leaders

June 05, 2023 16:30 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MB

Special Guest: Jerome Deroy: CEO at Narativ Jerome joined Narativ in 2007 after the founders, Murray Nossel and Paul Browde, handed him a shoebox full of notes and said, “we think there’s a company in here.” Jerome had recently left a position at BNP Paribas, Hong Kong, and came to New York to pursue a career in filmmaking. He jumped at the challenge—and so began Jerome’s story with Narativ. “Through my storytelling work, I’ve come to understand the power stories have to share culture viscer...

Radio Show #492: Women in Project Management.

May 22, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.1 MB

Special Guest: Adam Boddison: CEO of APM Adam joined APM as chief executive officer (CEO) in September 2021. He has a non-executive director portfolio that includes being Chair of the Corporation at Coventry College and Trustee at two multi academy trusts spanning 80 primary, secondary and specialist settings. These schools and colleges provide education for more than 45,000 children and young people. Adam is also a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. Prior to joining APM...

Radio Show #491: Bringing Clarity and Accountability To an Organization

May 15, 2023 16:30 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

Special Guest: Steven Rothberg: Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of College Recruiter Steven is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of College Recruiter, Host of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, and Cohost of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Steven lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota; has been married for almost 30 years; has three adult kids; and one hyper-bonded dog. College Recruiter believes that every student and recent graduate deserves a great career. Its...

Radio Show #490: Bupa’s Approach to Employee Engagement.

May 08, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 28 MB

Special Guest: Sarah Hood: Global Head of Engagement at Bupa Radio Show #490: Bupa’s Approach to Employee Engagement. Join Sarah who will share Bupa’s approach to employee engagement, and how in recent years, they’ve seen consistently improving levels of happiness across the workforce. Sarah has worked at Bupa for 20 years, with a background in customer service and operations management in both health clinics and contact centres, before making the switch to HR in 2015. Sarah now leads Bupa...

Radio Show #489: The Importance of Authentic Storytelling

May 01, 2023 16:30 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MB

Special Guest: Sam Bleazard: Communications leader and Podcaster Sam has had a 25-year career in Communications, including 10 as Head of Internal Communications at John Lewis & construction engineering giant Laing O’Rourke He is a  Communications leader and content creator – focused on authentic human storytelling and the employee experience.  Sam is also a Podcast creator and host of two shows: Comms from the Shed interview series (started during the pandemic, which explored interviewees ...

Radio Show #488: How meaningful connection boosts well-being.

April 24, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes - 13.8 MB

Special Guest: Alex Osborne: Founder and CEO of Shoogle Alex Osborne is the owner of shoogle. A consultancy and well-being and engagement software company. Before starting shoogle Alex was a founding member of a new FX business in Investec Bank. Alex was responsible for introducing, rolling out and embedding new ways of working, including user research, agile, product and delivery. Through showing the way, coaching and mentoring, he helped unshackle the team so they could achieve their goals...