HR Most Influential Podcast

Employee experience has become a defining feature of modern HR practice.
Weaving together the threads of wellbeing, reward, development, organisational design... and, well, just about all of HR, it has become a crucial lens through which HR leaders take strategic decisions.
In our latest episode, HR director of BBC Studios, Jabbar Sardar, invites HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher in to learn just how it earned its 91% Glassdoor rating.

Change – the only constant of the past few years – is notoriously difficult to navigate.
And for every successful change initiative dreamed up by HR strategists, there are several more that never survived contact with reality.
In episode two of series three, Pam Parkes, executive director at Essex County Council for people, service transformation and technology services, shares from her long experience of leading change to show how even the best change strategies can fall apart.
Exploring the idea of organisational resistance, she sat down with HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher to discuss how HR can best see change through.

The UK is in the grip of a mental health crisis.
Some 20-30% of UK working adults showing signs of emotional exhaustion, and burnout has been stuck firmly on HR's agenda for the past four years.
And while HR is well adapted to support employees' mental wellbeing – does the responsibility really lie fully on HR?
In the latest episode of the HR Most Influential Podcast, Rachel Lewis, multi-award winning occupational psychologist and programme director at Birckbeck, University of London, sits down with former HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher to explore the suffocating world of stress.

No matter where you are in your career, it's important to get on with your boss.
But for an HR leader, it's vital – and not just for selfish reasons.
In episode 5 of series 3, we dive into why CPOs and HRDs are uniquely positioned to support their chief executive, and how a healthy partnership between the two delivers long-term success for both parties' objectives.
To explore how these two strategic leaders can work together to transform their organisations' fortunes, Kerry Smith, chief people officer of the British Heart Foundation – and five time HR Most Influential practitioner – joined HR magazine editor Charissa King in the studio.

Does your phone ever show you adverts for things you hadn't even realised you wanted?
Hyper-personalisation may not be new to customer experience teams, but has only recently broken onto the people profession scene.
To explore the phenomenon, we kick off season three with Bertie Tonks, chief people officer of Collinson Group, and 2023's #1 HR Most Influential practitioner.
Tonks delves into his own efforts at introducing a hyper-personalised approach to the people profession, covering its application to wellbeing, benefits, engagement and much more...