foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This is the second part of our recent conversation with Josh Bersin. In this episode, Naomi explores with Josh more of the secrets to enduring employee-focused organizations including growth not promotion.  They also explore the organizations that are doing this work well and discuss how the systemic HR mo...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode we bring things a bit closer to home as Mark shares some of the background to his “corporate comeback” having recently transitioned back in to a Chief People Officer role.  We explore some of the differences between consulting and the corporate world and some of the thought process n...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Today’s episode we get to chat with Liane Davey who is bold mission to radically change how people communicate, connect and contribute so they can achieve amazing things together ! They have an energizing conversation (filled with some fantastic metaphors) about hybrid work, the return to office and what h...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this last episode of season one of foHRsight, Mark and Naomi talk about the full stack HR professional – a concept credited to future foHRward friend Josh Bersin that represents the broad and deep set of capabilities the modern HR professional needs to add maximum value to their organization. We explore...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Our last guest of this season is Russell Raath who is the Founder of The Ambition Company. Russ has exceptional experience as a consultant and has developed an interest in ambition. He unpacks what we mean by ambition and why it is different to vision and the importance of virtues over values. A fascinatin...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode of foHRsight, Mark connected with Heather Colquhoun to talk about her career in HR. Having spent time working in consulting and within organizations across a range of the talent management disciplines in addition to working on boards and inspired by the best-selling book by Helen Tup...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode of foHRsight, Naomi had the opportunity to meet with Mita Mallick – Head of Inclusion, Equity & Impact at Carta. She is a corporate change maker with a track record of transforming business and the author of Reimagine Inclusion – Debunking 13 Myths to Transform Your Workplace (av...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This week, Mark gets a chance to connect with Actionable founder and President Chris Taylor. Actionable is a technology company that helps corporate trainers to improve their impact by creating sustainable behaviour change. Chris shares his story of creating Actionable in 2008 from a blog with a consistent...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This was our first ever crossover episode where Naomi had a chance to connect with Learning Motherhood founder and podcast host Kimberly Didrikson to talk about the importance of having a parent friendly culture and programs. As two working parents, they both shared their stories and shared tips on re-entr...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. It’s International HR Day on May 20 (who knew) so in this week’s pod Naomi and Mark chat about their first HR roles, what they love about HR and touch on their projections for the future of the function. You can learn more about International HR Day here - https://www.eapm.org/ihrd/ Quick reminder Don’t fo...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode, Naomi gets to chat with future foHRward friend Glain Roberts-McCabe – Founder & President of leadership development firm Roundtable Inc. They have a fascinating conversation covering the latest themes in learning and leadership development including the impact of AI and ChatGPT...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Having spent the majority of her career working in mental health, Christine now runs StarlingBrook Leadership and is a leadership consultant and executive coach. We start by talking about our own practices to support our wellbeing including Christine’s meditation practice and how we manage so many distract...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s podcast, we explore the topic of emotional intelligence as an important element of human-centred leadership and talk through the framework popularized by Salovey and Mayer. Knowing your own emotions Managing your emotions Motivating yourself Recognizing emotions in others Handling relationsh...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Today we had the opportunity to hear from Steve Hatfield who is Deloitte’s Global Future of Work leader – and a former boss of Naomi’s! They explore the Deloitte Human Capital Trends report (link below) and importance of shifting mindsets to leverage the opportunities that exist. Naomi and Steve dig deep o...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This is the second part of our recent conversation with Josh Bersin. In this episode, Naomi explores with Josh more of the secrets to enduring employee-focused organizations including growth not promotion.  They also explore the organizations that are doing this work well and discuss how the systemic HR mo...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This is the first of a two parter where Naomi had the opportunity to connect with Josh Bersin. Recent grandfather (title to be confirmed!) Josh shared insights from his recent book Irresistible – The Seven Secrets of the World’s Most Enduring Employee-Focused Organizations .  This included talking about cu...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Bossware, workplace spyware or tattleware is another one of those trends we’ve seen emerge in recent years. We share background to a Canadian case in January where an employee was ordered to pay a fine for time theft that was picked up through monitoring software. https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Today’s episode we get to chat with Liane Davey who is bold mission to radically change how people communicate, connect and contribute so they can achieve amazing things together ! They have an energizing conversation (filled with some fantastic metaphors) about hybrid work, the return to office and what h...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In today’s episode we unpack one of our favourite topics … human-centred leadership – a term that gets mixed feedback from people but an approach to leadership that is certainly building traction. We share our simple definition – taking care of the people so they people can take care of the business . We o...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode, Naomi has the opportunity to chat with former future foHRward conference keynote speaker, Gary A. Bolles. Gary is author of "The Next Rules of Work", Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University and Co-founder, eParachute.com. In this far-ranging conversation, Gary...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. This week we introduce another one of our foHRsight themes – well-being in the workplace. We provide a high level overview of why this is such an important topic for HR teams and outline the framework we use to categorise types of wellbeing: Physical Mental Financial In the podcast we refer to the whitepap...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode Naomi chats with community builder Tatiana Figueiredo about the power of community. In the conversation Tatiana shares the origins of her interest in community, why community is so important in today’s society and what we as HR leaders can do to build more human connection and belong...

Introduction to career cushioning and the benefits of having a plan B Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. Another buzz phrase makes its way in to the work vernacular – career cushioning! We saw this one popping up in a few articles so thought it would be a good one to delve in to. Essentially it means having a plan B to help keep yourself em...

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode we bring things a bit closer to home as Mark shares some of the background to his “corporate comeback” having recently transitioned back in to a Chief People Officer role.  We explore some of the differences between consulting and the corporate world and some of the thought process n...

Let’s Talk About – Work Without Jobs with guest Ravin Jesuthasan Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward. In this week’s episode we’re joined by Ravin Jesuthasan – futurist, thought leader, author and Global Transformation Leader at Mercer. In this rich conversation with Naomi, Ravin shares insights from his most recent book Work Without Jobs whe...