Leading with Impact A Thrive Podcast

Episode 9: Neil Edwards – Korn Ferry Digital

Neil is currently EMEA Head of Talent Services for Korn Ferry Digital. He is a self-confessed fanatic of all things people, culture and change and has been fortunate enough to play senior HR, Talent & LD roles on both client-side (Jaguar Land Rover, Network Rail and the OU) and in consulting with Accenture and Capita, where he headed up their Learning Consultancy.

Episode 8: Dani Saadu – Hunter Healthcare & Hunter Life Sciences

Tune in to Pam and Dani. A senior, global people & organisational development professional with a proven track record in developing global people strategies, and designing and implementing global people programmes and interventions.

Episode 7: Why Learning And Development Is The Bedrock To A Successful Company And How To Get There.

Join award-winning HR Director Catrin as she shares her successes, point of view for acquisition, and why L&D is the bedrock of her people strategy. 

“Develop your people regardless of whether they stay with you, so as they leave, they will go on to develop the industry as a whole.

Episode 6: The Effects Of Hybrid Working On Learning At Work.

Steve Fensome is Head of Learning for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in the UK. His career spans 28 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with the majority of his career in commercial functions of sales, marketing, market access and commercial effectiveness. 

In this episode, Stephen and Pam discuss how to build a compelling learning journey for people and how learning functions have got to wrestle with the way of working which is now hybrid.

Episode 5: An Insight Led Approach To People Strategies

Sandra gives a fresh perspective on people leadership and how you remember how good leaders make you feel, not what they said.

Talking to her unique experience from the world of marketing into people leadership, spanning multiple industries – most recently as Global Director of People, Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness at Howden, a Global engineering and technology business based in Scotland.

We discussed the many parallels from analysing the insights and behaviours of customers to your people and delved into Sandra’s passion for helping people create positive change and how this impacts organisational energy.

Episode 4: The Importance of Wellbeing and Success

Clare believes, even with well thought out plans and strategies, organisations can’t succeed without a positive and healthy culture and happy, motivated people.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of wellbeing, happiness and sensitivity towards people’s needs as Clare explains her motivation to deliver senior leadership roles is the connection between people, performance and organisational success.