The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 97 - People, Purpose and Progress: Transforming Culture and Talent

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Beth Lloyd who is the Director - Organisational Development, talent and learning of Aston University, UK. She is based out of Birmingham, United Kingdoma) Talks about the timeline of her journey in the Corporate industry and Higher Education Space.b) Mentions about the key initiatives taken by her in building performance and organization effectiveness through leadership, management and people development across the public and private sectors.c) Shares her experience of receiving a gold medal from the Staff Development Forum for the Women-Space Leadership Award and also a deep insight into the Women-Space Leadership Awardd) Talks about her roles and responsibilities of being the Director - Organizational Development, talent and learning at Aston University.e) Gives a spotlight into her passion about generating sustainable effective transformation through people with integrity, creativity and positivity.f) Gives an insight into her volunteering work pertaining to the likes of Fundraiser for Combat Stress: The Veterans'​ Mental Health Charity and Volunteer for National Trust.g) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has come across in her entire journey that she would like to share in this podcast session.h) Her take on the importance of Women Leadership in the Corporate Industry and Higher Education space.i) Her view on why the representation of women in executive leadership roles remain disproportionately low and also mentions about the strategic actions that the organizations should take to accelerate gender equity at the top.j) As herself not being from a technical background, talks about the ways she leverages technology to enhance your role and drive impact and, conveys a piece of message/advice to the peers in her sector about embracing digital tools for organizational development.