HR Champions Podcast

In this episode, we talk to Karen Seth, People Director at Co-op, about her illustrious career, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way.

This week, we spoke to Karen Sanders, Director of People & Development Services at Nottingham College. Karen has had an illustrious career, so we spoke to her about her career to date, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way.

In this episode, we spoke to Claire Walton, Former HR Director, High Performance Coach, and Author of 'Super Neuro You'. Claire has had a very interesting career and we spoke to her about it as well as her passion for HR and the challenges she has faced along the way.

We spoke to Gemma Melhuish, Director of Human Resources at Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. Rainbow has been ranked in the "Top 100 Sunday Times Best Companies To Work For" for the last 9 years running, an extremely impressive feat. In addition to how Rainbow achieved its success, we spoke to Gemma about her career, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way.

This week, we spoke to Natasha Hanson, Former Business Services Director at Direct Rail Services. We spoke to Natasha about her career, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way. Visit https://hrrecruitment.co.uk for more useful HR content.

We spoke to Christine Bamford, Programme Director of 'The Stepping Up Programme'. Christine has received an award for the Stepping Up Programme in recognition of diversity, has had a lengthy HR Career and is passionate about organisation and leadership development. We spoke to her about her career, her passion for HR and the challenges she has faced along the way. Visit https://hrrecruitment.co.uk for more useful HR content.

We spoke to Julie Bramsdon, HR Manager at Assael Architecture. Assael has won 26 employer awards. We spoke to Julie about her career, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way. Visit https://hrrecruitment.co.uk for more useful HR content.

We spoke to Sarah Wright, People Director at REPL, a rapidly growing technology company. REPL has been awarded a 'Great Place to Work' accreditation and has recently grown its headcount exponentially. We spoke to Sarah about her career, her passion for HR, and the challenges she has faced along the way.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Ian Warren, Director of People Services at Regenda. We spoke to him about his career to date, his passion for HR, and the challenges he has faced along the way. Visit https://hrrecruitment.co.uk for more HR career content.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Michael Rabone, Head of HR at The Rick Stein Group. We spoke to him about his career to date, his passion for HR, and the challenges he has faced along the way.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Tracey Webb, Director of People and Culture at Network Homes. We talked about her career to date, her passion for HR and the challenges she has faced along the way.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Grace Coleman, Human Resources Consultant at HSBC and winner of a prestigious HR award. We talked about her passion for HR and the challenges she has faced along the way.

Listen to HR Recruit’s MD, Phil Scott interviewing Deirdre Ward, Head of People for the last 7+ years at Watford Community Housing Trust.

Deirdre is the proud award winner of Engagement Leader of the year along with her HR team that has won many awards.

In this episode, we hear from Deirdre Ward on her career to date. Deirdre talks about the importance of HR within an organisation, how to adapt to flexible working, her career highlights, and the myths around HR.

In this episode, we spoke to John Stuart-King, Global HR Partner at Kindred Group about his career in HR and the challenges he faced along the way. Visit: https://hrrecruitment.co.uk for more useful HR content.

In this episode, we spoke to Lucy Graley, Executive Director of People and Business Services at RHP Group. Lucy discussed her career to date and the challenges she faced along the way. For more useful HR recruitment content visit https://hrrecruitment.co.uk

In this episode, we talk to Louise Brown, Vice Principal - Corporate Services at Wigan and Leigh College, about her career in HR and the challenges she faced along the way.

In this episode, we spoke to Robert Hicks, Group HR Director at Reward Gateway and winner of HR Director Of The Year at the HR Distinction Awards. Robert talked to us about his career to date and the challenges he faced along the way.

2019

HRD of the Year - Robert Hicks- HR Distinction Awards 2019

Boston’s Best and Brightest Winner 2019 - Boston’s Best and Brightest Winner

2020

Boston’s Best and Brightest Winner 2020- Boston’s Best and Brightest Winner

Mass TLC Tech Top 50 2020 - Mass TLC

Diversity Champion - Robert Hicks - Global diversity list 2020

In this episode of the HR Champions podcast, we hear from Dr Tracey Leghorn on her career to date and what she has learned along the way.

Tracey discusses how she defied the doubters who said she would find it almost impossible to secure an opportunity back in the Private Sector after over a decade in the Public Sector.

Little did Tracey know that the experience she gained in the public sector would subsequently help secure her a future role as a senior consultant with one of the ‘Big Four’, PwC, or that contributing to pandemic planning whilst with the NHS Ambulance Service and her commitment to health and wellbeing, born from her health and social care HR career, would be of such value 6 years later in 2020 with the Covid-19 outbreak. 

Tracey has a passion for gender equality and gained a doctorate degree from the University of Leicester where she undertook extensive research in the area of ‘women and work’. Tracey shares her thoughts on the greater agile working which will arise from the new norm and her fear that extensive home working could serve to marginalise or disadvantage women in the longer term if only women predominantly choose that way of working. 

In this episode, we hear from Glenn Jones, People Consultant & Author of ‘Human Resources Changes the World’. Glenn will be discussing his career to date - how he left school with one O level, how he has worked his way up within HR, and about the Doctorate that he is now undertaking.

Glenn has held senior positions within HR transformation projects at some well-known blue chip organisations such as Ecolab, Tesco, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC and Imperial brands. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and CIPP.

Glenn will be sharing his key learnings along the way and will in particular be discussing why some HR transformation projects fail.