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The HR Grapevine Podcast — 319 episodes

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CHRO, The Weather Company: Why trust is a business accelerator

2

Ricoh EMEA: How purpose & employee voice are shaping our AI transformation

3

CHRO, Chronicle of Philanthropy: How to build organizational courage

4

CPO, Logitech: How we embed wellbeing & career mobility to fuel engagement

5

VP of Global Learning, Alorica: Inside our Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program

6

CPO, Gerald Edelman: Scaling HR from support function to core business driver

7

CHRO, Xactly: How to build a regenerative employee culture

8

Cross-functional complexity - how can employers operationalise better L&D?

9

CPO, Cohesity: How our leaders build trust & engagement during change

10

Sr Director for DE&I, King: How we built our award-winning culture of inclusion

11

What should learning 'feel like' for employees?

12

Chief Learning Officer, EY Americas: Why 'skills intelligence' is shaping the future of learning

13

CHRO, inDrive: How we scale culture globally across 48 markets & counting

14

The development dilemma - are learning platforms the problem?

15

CHRO, SugarAI: The toolkits & playbooks that help our managers thrive

16

CPO, ANS: Our culture is shaped by employees, not performative PowerPoints

17

CPO, UP Fitness: How we rebuilt our EVP to prepare for global growth

18

CPO, Springline: Our 'Scale With Soul' culture is a talent & performance differentiator

19

CPO, POWWR: How HR can embed sustainability into business operations

20

CHRO, ACE: How we took our HR function from reactive to proactive

21

People Director, Stiltz: How we help our managers drive better team performance

22

VP of HR, Frontier Co-Op: Breaking down employment barriers with second-chance hiring

23

CPO, emagine: Diversity beyond targets & building C-suite calibration

24

CHRO, Cotality: Our human-centric approach to leadership, culture & transformation

25

CPO, PPL: Our agile careers model drives employee fulfilment & business value

26

Snr Global Benefits Director, Google: Why we're giving employees 24/7 menopause support

27

HRD, Goughs: The legal profession has changed - our talent strategy is no longer transactional

28

CHRO, Entrust: How we fused culture & built one strategic vision post M&A

29

Director of Recruitment, Sainsbury's: Our new grad scheme will build essential future skills

30

HR Partner, Greybull: How we infuse a culture of 'operational excellence'

31

CPO, IRIS: Why smart employers still embrace 'day one rights' thinking

32

Global Director of Inclusiveness, EY: Strengthening social mobility through storytelling

33

CPO, Sticks'n'Sushi: How we win with a culture of 'big smiles & small egos'

34

CPO, Partners FCU: How to succeed in your first six months as CHRO

35

CPO, SUSE: How we're helping our over-50s discover new career paths

36

Head of Global Talent, Vanguard: How we became industry leaders in attraction & retention

37

CPO, OCS UK&I: How we 'design difference' into HR systems

38

CPO, Ferring: How to support employees on their fertility journey

39

SVP of PX, Sony: 2025 was a year of ‘difficult moments’ and ‘incredible highs’

40

Head of TA, BPP: Three ways AI adds value - and how we approach it with caution

41

EMD, HSA Bank: The life-changing power of adoption assistance benefits

42

CIO, Balfour Beatty: Working alongside HR to drive AI productivity gains

43

CHRO, CSAA: Holistic benefits that support mental, physical, financial, & social wellbeing

44

Head of People, Creditspring: How to avoid 'cultural catfishing'

45

CHRO, PHINIA: Why we're helping leaders develop emotional intelligence in an AI-first workplace

46

CEO, Onvero: DEI drives productivity & retention - so what does true inclusion look like?

47

CHRO, apexanalytix: How we took employee recognition to the next level with 'culture awards'

48

People Director, MND Association - after our funding doubled, we had to rebuild HR

49

CPO, Thomas Cuisine - manager orientations & our recipe for successful leadership

50

Head of Operations, Grant Thornton - why we introduced an Employee Benefit Trust

51

CHRO, Emburse: My HR framework for driving meaningful workplace change

52

HRD, Avantia - building an award-winning culture of flexibility, mobility, & inclusion

53

Chief Culture Officer, Houston Methodist: Driving employee engagement through community & culture

54

CPO, Business of Fashion - how we embedded organisational resilience into our leadership DNA

55

CPO, Autodesk: Why we're inspiring, not controlling, employee productivity

56

People Director, Amey - how we're giving prison leavers a new career

57

CPO, ISS: Tackling attrition cliffs through inclusive, data-driven HR leadership

58

SVP of HR, Animal Nutrition & Health - reducing turnover with a 'Change Ambassador Network'

59

SVP of HR, Equifax: Feedback is a 'gift' - & the engine of continuous performance management

60

Ex-Global Head of DEI, Diageo - 'unwritten rules' & untangling socio-economic barriers at work

61

CHRO, Prosek: How we became 'professional wish granters' with a Custom Careers program

62

Global Head of SWP, Ericsson - why strategic workforce planning is key to HR's future impact

63

VP of HR, Addition Financial: Effective & equitable hiring in the era of AI

64

HR Manager, Racecourse Media Group - from manual spreadsheets to optimised HR tech ecosystem

65

The flexibility illusion - how can HR tackle staff burnout, isolation, & 'always on' workplaces?

66

COO, All Points PR: How we're freeing up time for human-centric work with AI

67

CPO, KPMG UK - How we're giving our employees the 'Space to Learn'

68

CHRO, Fortune Brands: Consolidating offices into one HQ - while maintaining engagement, energy, & equity

69

Global Head of HR, DHL - centralised learning & careers platforms are our route to retention

70

Chief Administrative Officer, DeVry University: How we make upskilling timely, relevant, & social

71

Senior Director of Training, DNEG - the hidden link between presentation skills, equity, & performance

72

CHRO, Remington: We're 'laser-focused' on making complex career mobility simple

73

Head of HR, Bosch - 3,500 'Pulse Check' comments into a year of HR action

74

CHRO, Spectrum: How our tuition-free education program boosted retention rates

75

Group HRD, Hotelplan - how we reduced emissions by aligning people, planet, & profit

76

Becoming an employer of choice: How to build a scalable, people-first workplace

77

CPO, Agilitas - how our 'culture canvas' improved team dynamics & stabilised turnover

78

CPO, The Amenity Collective: From 'stepping stone' employer to long-term career provider

79

HRD, Muse Group - acing asynchronous to achieve global workforce symphony

80

CPO, MOO: Our journey to record-high engagement & record-low attrition

81

CPO, Dext - we'll remain remote-first so people can meet childcare & family responsibilities

82

CPO, BVI Medical: Enabling hybrid work with a footprint in over 90 countries

83

People Director, Everflow - blind hiring at one of Europe's fastest-growing firms

84

CHRO, Allianz Trade: Embracing non-linear careers & forward-thinking talent strategy

85

CPO, The Legal Director - HR transformation & operational efficiency in a unique business structure

86

CPO, IGS Energy: Hitting 95% employee satisfaction through wellbeing & culture

87

Financial Wellbeing Manager, Virgin Money - the win-win-win of financial health training

88

CEO, Barge: My 30-year journey from intern to CEO & the culture that took me there

89

HR Director, Selco - our industry-leading expansions to family & fertility cover

90

CHRO, Auvik: Self-awareness, curiosity, & key leadership traits for 2030

91

Global Head of L'Oréal University - how we 'grow leaders without cloning them'

92

EVP of People & Culture, Libra: Our continuous learning culture for all generations

93

President, Xerox: Why we love ERGs and why they could be having their 'moment'

94

CHRO, Center for Internet Security: How we built an award-winning culture of wellbeing

95

Ex-CHRO, Danone - why HR must help businesses align profits with purpose

96

CHRO, KCSA: Meaningful mat leave, a 'concierge service,' & our retention-building benefits package

97

CPO, Blacklane - AI, skills shifts, and bringing HR 'into the future'

98

HR Director, Sentry: How our 100-year-old business became a 21st-century employer of choice

99

Head of Wellbeing, Hays - tackling the biggest threats to effective wellbeing programmes

100

CHRO, Citizens Bank: Our shift to skills-based & what it meant for AI, leadership, & wellbeing

101

CPO, Logicalis - how we're tackling the tech gender gap through culture & career development

102

Director of People Ops, MWB Restaurants: How we improved hiring velocity while reducing job ad spend

103

CHRO, Vizrt - how we identify, engage, and nurture high-potential leaders

104

CPO, iManage: How we're building 'change resilience as a culture'

105

Director of Talent, Philips - taking the people experience from 'gut feel' to data-driven

106

Global Head of Talent Attraction, Amdocs: AI, skills-based, & doubling application completion rates

107

Head of HR, Keepmoat - our 'people-centric' approach helps us defy the construction sector's sky-high turnover rates

108

Chief People Officer, Limbach: How customized L&D helped us deliver a 'perfect' leadership accelerator program

109

Senior MD for People Experience, Markel - How we protected our employee-led culture while growing

110

Exec Director of HR, PSEG: How our 'Neurodiversity Works' program drove a 200% increase in disability self-disclosure

111

Head of Wellbeing, Ministry of Justice - how to shift from reactive to proactive wellbeing strategies

112

SVP of People Experience, Sony: How we reimagined HR in 2024 with a 'global people promise'

113

CPO, Aviva - We're not 'skills-based', but L&D is essential to our culture

114

EY's Global L&D Leader: How we trained over 325,000 employees on AI using 'triple loop learning'

115

Key financial wellbeing pressures in 2025 - and what HR can do about them

116

Chad, Cheese, & Bradley Batchelder, CPO at Applause: Employee experience predictions for 2025

117

Chad, Cheese, & Sarah Reynolds, CMO at HiBob: How to make employee engagement surveys fit-for-purpose

118

HR Director, Roadchef - how investment in ESG helps us drive an award-winning employee experience

119

HR partner, McGill & Partners: Why we ask our employees to agree to a 'Contract of Trust'

120

People Director, Immediate - how the home of Good Food & Radio Times implements a purpose-focused culture

121

Chief People Officer, Wiley: How we're building trust & productivity through pay transparency

122

CHRO, Zurich UK - 51% of neurodiverse adults fear disclosure. Here's how we're breaking the stigma

123

'Happy Teams. Happy Customers. Happy Days' - How Savers became a Great Place to Work

124

Director of EX & Communications, Mimecast: Building a paid volunteer leave program & aligning HR with ESG

125

Kim Crowder: Effective executive development in the era of good, bad, & ugly leadership

126

CPO, Ordnance Survey - How mapping out three major EX principles improved our attrition rates

127

CHRO, Webster Bank: Quantifying culture, employee co-creation, & listening to Dua Lipa

128

Rebecca Carr, CEO at SmartRecruiters - can AI help humans personalise the candidate experience?

129

VP of People & Culture, Openly: The policies that helped us become an award-winning 'Best HR Team'

130

How HR can drive change on World Menopause Day & beyond

131

CPO, Salesloft: Building retention by making leadership accessibility a cultural priority

132

JC Townend, CEO at LHH - career activism and dismantling barriers for female leaders

133

Former CLO, ChenMed: Everything I've learned since being laid off as a people leader

134

Kate Bishop, Chief Human Resources Officer at IFS - integrating AI into the people function

135

Julie Griggs, The Open University - The power of 'working in the horizontal'

136

'Reskilling is the new recruiting' - Assessing AI's nuclear impact with Chad & Cheese

137

CPO, Plume: My business changes constantly - here's how I protect and shape our culture

138

Matt Hudson, People Director at Popeyes UK - keeping your culture tight in a high-growth firm

139

Axis Communications' Head of HR: How we got people queuing up for our L&D programs

140

Kevin Fitzgerald, MD UK at Employment Hero - staying ahead of HR tech innovation

141

CPO, Global Logic: How we built an internal mobility culture for 32,000 staff in 23 countries

142

Robert Hicks, CPO at Atheneum - why wellbeing is instrumental to a business' bottom line

143

VP of OD, Partners Federal Credit Union: The executive of the future

144

Buzzword or business-critical? Debunking 'skills-based' with Chad & Cheese

145

Alys Martin, People Director at What3words - the power of pay & treating your staff like adults

146

SVP of HR, Prologis: How we recruit & retain 'hidden gems' with data-driven human capital management

147

Sarah Salzer, People Director at Five Guys Europe - nailing retention in a challenging industry

148

The role people leaders play in fostering great workplace wellbeing

149

AI optimization for 5 million HR users: Inside the Innovation Cell at the US Army's HR Command

150

Ensuring vitality and wellbeing in a diverse and global workforce

151

CPO, Workleap: Revamping talent management? Here's what you need to know

152

Fran Newman, Chief People Officer at Deliciously Ella - building success in a values-driven firm

153

Valerie Mann, Chief People Officer at Elder HQ - crafting a people strategy for growth

154

Global Head of DEI, Morningstar: How HR & diversity leaders can master C-suite communication

155

Sophie Gilliam, EMEA Benefits Lead at Ciena - bridging the 'benefits perception gap'

156

Block out the noise: Why DeVry College's CDEIO is doubling down on DEI post affirmative action ban

157

Clodagh Beatty, Head of TM, Learning and DEI at loveholidays - EVP for a diverse workforce

158

Hannah Shelton, Global Engagement and Knowledge Lead at Dentsu - L&D for an engaged workforce

159

Top D&I considerations for the next 12 months

160

How Manulife designed a benefits & wellbeing strategy that outperforms global benchmarks

161

Peter Morris, IBM - Staying ahead of the curve in payroll tech

162

From AI to EX - the business trends impacting people management

163

James Gordanifar, Director of Talent Acquisition at WTW - cracking the Gen Z talent attraction code

164

Dan Black, Global Talent Leader at EY - how can we get the best from Gen Z at work?

165

What does the future of flexible working look like?

166

What makes a company a great place to work?

167

3 key wellbeing elements affecting the workplace right now

168

Why top tech is the key to keeping pace with hiring needs

169

The state of play for remote work in 2024

170

Understanding the relationship between employee experience and learning

171

Traditional performance management is broken

172

How did LSEG create its ground-breaking global parental leave policy?

173

Are you protecting employee equity amid artificial intelligence adoption?

174

What does financial wellbeing actually mean?

175

AI and the future of the talent market

176

The HR and talent tech trends leading the way in 2024

177

Kickstarting your internal mobility processes

178

Mulling the state of the talent market with Nauman Janjua of Booking.com

179

You may be sabotaging your workers' wellbeing with food

180

Talking future of work with Joe Ryle, Head of the 4-Day Week campaign

181

Creating the right match between candidates and jobs

182

Tech visionary Bernard Marr on the future of HR and AI

183

Are toxic cultures becoming more prevalent?

184

How Indeed is leading the talent charge in 2023

185

Talking conflict resolution with David Liddle

186

Joining up your talent strategy

187

The future of flexible working beyond the 4-day week

188

How to ace financial wellbeing with the tools you have

189

Readdressing the D&I agenda for 2023

190

Twitter, Revolut and the pitfalls of poor employer brand

191

Acing a 'progressive talent culture' with Thomas International

192

Mars Wrigley VP on why being happy at work is key

193

How HR can approach strikes and temporary staff

194

How sleep impacts wellbeing at work

195

Simon Blake OBE on how HR teams can support employee mental health

196

Simon Blake OBE on how HR teams can support employee mental health

197

How HR can get wellbeing into the Boardroom

198

Zurich UK’s new approach to graduate scheme hiring

199

How HR can support grieving colleagues

200

Workplace of now: Diversity from the top down

201

How personality data can drive leadership change in a virtual world

202

How HR can help in breaking the stigma around HIV

203

HR Vacancies, new skills-assessments and Gen Z, the state of HR

204

The impact of IR35 reform one year on

205

Bruce Daisley on rethinking resilience

206

Zana Goic Petricevic on what bold leadership means

207

Pendragon’s CPO on flexible working for large organisations

208

Joanne Lockwood on what HR can do to support trans colleagues

209

Workplace of Now: Are we failing younger generations of workers?

210

Ricoh UK's Director of People & ESG on LGBT+ inclusion

211

Euan Blair on the benefit of apprenticeships

212

How do we define a healthy workplace?

213

Tackling the stigma of men's mental health in the workplace

214

Workplace of Now | Empathy in HR Leadership

215

What makes a leader 'good'?

216

Is hybrid working the biggest driver of business change today?

217

Unpacking the UK Candidate Attraction report with Eploy

218

What does a 'professional' look like in 2022?

219

How AstraZeneca supports neurodiverse employees

220

Recruitment expert Paul Farrer on the 'push and pulls' of modern hiring

221

How HR can truly support LGBT+ employees

222

PinkNews' COO on transgender and non-binary visibility at work

223

How Britvic supports LGBTQ+ colleages through their B Proud network

224

Should HR introduce a 'right to switch off'?

225

Overcoming the 'January Blues' within your workforce

226

How to build the case for investment in the hybrid employee experience

227

The debate over vaccine mandates in the workplace

228

5 trends from 2021 that will define 2022

229

How to use benefits and rewards to stop the Great Resignation

230

How HR & IT can collaborate to build a better employee experience

231

Could HR help employees with rising winter energy prices?

232

How should you reward employees this Christmas?

233

Should you have a 2021 Christmas party?

234

How has hybrid changed the employer-employee power balance?

235

What our HR community is prioritising in Q4

236

How to boost engagement for remote, hybrid & in-office teams

237

Future of work: are you worrying about the wrong things?

238

Does remote working still have a negative stigma?

239

What should HR consider with a four-day work week?

240

Could employers help solve the 'housing crisis'?

241

How HR can support working parents as school returns

242

Does HR need to rollout pandemic rewards to staff?

243

What can HR do about climate change?

244

Could unlimited time off benefit the HR agenda?

245

Could HR be impacted by increasing workloads?

246

Should HR tell employees to ignore the NHS covid app?

247

How should employers respond to online racism?

248

What HR can learn from Iceland's four-day week success

249

HR lessons from Brewdog's 'toxic' culture row

250

What HR needs to know about Pride Month 2021

251

How can staff volunteering boost your business?

252

Did George Floyd's death change racial equality at work?

253

Could 'Summer Hours Schemes' help boost staff wellbeing?

254

How can HR support employee mental health?

255

What should HR know about managing staff annual leave?

256

How HR can manage back-to-work emotions

257

HR tips for re-engaging furloughed employees

258

How can HR combat video call fatigue?

259

HR's biggest challenges in the pandemic year

260

What HR needs to know about IR35

261

What does HR need to know about International Women's Day

262

PinkNews COO on how to support trans staff

263

HR tips for long-term homeworking

264

What is HR doing for LGBT+ History Month

265

How has the pandemic impacted apprenticeships?

266

What does HR need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine?

267

HR tips for supporting wellbeing in 'lockdown 3.0'

268

How to leverage employee voice

269

Smashing your personal & HR goals in 2021

270

How can HR improve employee recognition?

271

What is HR doing to reward staff this Christmas?

272

MBA founder on HR mindset & crisis management

273

How HR can virtually include trans staff

274

How can HR best support managers?

275

What does a second lockdown mean for HR?

276

Why sleep is an important part of business success

277

How HR can support staff mental health during COVID-19

278

Should HR consider culture alignment?

279

How HR can achieve virtual inclusion

280

Remote work director: Do you need one?

281

Working from home long term: good or bad?

282

How HR can prevent burnout in the function

283

How will work perks change post-COVID?

284

How HR can boost virtual colleague relations

285

How HR can prepare for a potential second lockdown

286

What does HR need to know about the Spain quarantine rules?

287

How HR can make staff less anxious about going back to work

288

How HR can prevent gender disccrimination

289

Are you too casual for Zoom interviews?

290

What does WFH mean in a heatwave?

291

What HR needs to know about racial inequality at work

292

How HR can encourage staff to switch off

293

How can HR do virtual Pride celebrations?

294

How HR can support lockdown mental health

295

What HR should know about returning staff to work

296

How HR can support lockdown wellbeing

297

How HR can support furloughed staff

298

How HR can sensitively tackle layoffs

299

How HR can create a positive remote culture

300

Tips & tricks for launching virtual L&D

301

How HR can master comms in a crisis

302

Remote working tips & tricks

303

Coronavirus: What does HR need to know?

304

S2 Ep8: Is trust in HR broken?

305

S2 Ep7: Expenses policies & ethical business

306

S2 Ep6: Can staff skive due to stormy weather?

307

S2 Ep5: Can employees be forced to work overtime?

308

S2 Ep4: Should casual office chat be banned?

309

S2 Ep3: D&I in the hiring process

310

S2 Ep2: Should staff get extra annual leave for not smoking?

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S2 Ep1: Pay ratio reporting & executive pay

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S1 Ep8: How to give your employees a good experience over Christmas

313

S1 Ep7: Workplace safety & employee training

314

S1 Ep6: HR's guide to surviving Christmas

315

S1 Ep5: Office design & the employee experience

316

S1 Ep4: Is hiring getting less human?

317

S1 Ep3: Can you refuse to answer work emails?

318

S1 Ep2: Romance at work

319

S1 Ep1: Flexible working & burnout