Meeting with HR

Perry Timms has spent over thirty years at the forefront of HR thinking, not as a commentator, but as a practitioner, builder, and relentless advocate for what the people profession could become if it was brave enough to evolve. In this episode Elly sits down with the founder of PTHR, TEDx speaker, and the UK's most consistently influential HR thinker to talk about the HR operating model he has bu...

I'm joined by Tyler Rose, Chief Gupshup Officer at Dishoom, and yes, we absolutely make him explain what that means 😉. Dishoom has 2,099 people across some of the busiest restaurants in the UK, three new sites opening this year, and the lowest employee turnover in their 15-year history. In hospitality. Where the industry average sits north of 70%. We get into the romance and meaning behind everyt...

I'm joined by Sam Valentine, Head of Employee Performance & Experience at Miro, whose career has been shaped by some of the most fascinating challenges in modern people leadership:🚀 Miro - scaling culture, performance and experience across 1,700+ employees🤖 Deep in AI transformation - building real in-house AI capability for the people team🏆 Navigating huge growth, restructuring, and organi...

How do you assess, monitor and build a culture that actually lasts? And more importantly, how do you prove investment in people to a CFO? I’m joined by Nebel Crowhurst, whose career spans Virgin Atlantic Holidays, River Island, Roche (100k employees, during Covid), and leading the People function at Reward Gateway through its $1.3bn acquisition. She’s seen culture at scale. Under pressure. Through...

What does a five-star culture actually feel like? And how do you build one when work is hard, budgets are tight, and everyone’s navigating a very real economic squeeze? In the first ever episode of Meeting with HR, Elly sits down with Kirsten Lord to unpack what global organisations can learn from luxury hospitality, high-performance teams, and people-first leadership. Kirsten shares practical ins...