Finding Your Why: Jane Hanson, former Chief People Officer, Nationwide Building Society

Sharing her perspective on finding your why and organisational purpose, Jane discusses key changes taking place in HR and business leadership. On hybrid and flexible working, Jane provides the idea of 'putting up scaffolding' – how to create principles and a framework – for bringing together different expectations on this aspect of the Future of Work. Reflecting on AI, Jane offers thoughts on how to take all colleagues in to the future with optimism.  Advocating for HR's role in bringing energy to DE&I leadership across the business, Jane picks out reverse mentoring as an example of impactful work. Topics in Jane's episode:           Inspiring better workplaces         Successful and productive flexible working        AI and skills, life-long learning and opportunity         Jane's experience of feeling excluded        HR's critical role in enabling DE&I        The mutual benefit of reverse mentoring         Finding your why Referenced resources: Simon Sinek Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community and get our weekly newsletter – be the first to learn about new episodes and receive free bonus materials that help you showcase how your HR work is also driving positive change: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/how-hr-leaders-change-the-world We have a favour to ask! Would you tell an HR friend about the podcast? Or share the link with an HR team you think would find it helpful for their work? We're excited to bring more of your peers into the community, and hugely appreciate your help to make it happen!  Linkedin: @FromBabieswithLove Email: [email protected] Website: https://frombabieswithlove.org/ How HR Leaders Change the World is brought to you by social enterprise, From Babies with Love.  Across Moments that Matter, we provide employee engagement gift services to global HR functions and donate 100% of our profit to orphaned and abandoned children around the world. We transform commonly existing gift spend in to strategic, efficient and inclusive tools in your People Strategy, delivering Exceptional Employee Experience, and at the same time, ESG results.