Agility Unleashed, bought to you by Sage - The Chief HR Officer

This is “Agility Unleashed”, brought to you by Sage – a series of podcasts to help Britain’s businesses pick their way out of the pandemic. Each week we take a look forward through the eyes of a single business function; and in this show, it’s the Chief Human Resources Officer or CHRO.

Furloughing staff, working from home, employee engagement in uncertain times and handling the HR implications of pivoting the business model – all these are challenges which fall squarely on the CHRO’s shoulders.

We’ll take a look at them in the company of a team of business and technology experts. I’m joined by Karen Morris-Lanz, HR Director of Digital and Systems Transformation at University of Warwick; David Kelly, EMEA General Manager at Workforce Management solution, Deputy, and Mark Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Kimble, the professional services software suite.

And because we like to be cutting edge, even in lockdown, we recorded this entire podcast in Virtual Reality – with all my guests mingling on a virtual sofa, even though they were stuck in their living rooms. You can see some clips of the VR experience in the accompanying video. One caveat: it does mean the sound quality is occasionally glitchy, but it’s no worse than a Zoom call – and let’s face it, every HR professional has done plenty of those recently!