The Talent Waste Show Lee McQueen

This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Tony Medhurst is the Principal & Chief Executive of Hertford Regional College, a general Further Education College with campuses in Broxbourne and Ware. He has been in post since August 2015, having previously held the same position at Harrow College for over 7 years. He chairs the Association of Colleges’ National Curriculum Reform Policy Group and is a member of the British Council’s Education Advisory Group.  Tony joined the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership Board in April 2021 and, in addition, sits on Hertfordshire’s Skills and Employment Programme Board. 

Since taking up the role at HRC, he has implemented a curriculum delivery model, the “Destination Curriculum”, which is strategically focussed on delivering more than just a qualification in order to prepare young people and adults for the needs of the modern workforce. This has resulted in significantly improved outcomes for learners and has addressed skills needs in the local economy. He has also introduced new higher education programmes and apprenticeships to address skills gaps in the communities the College serves.  

He has chaired and spoken at many national conferences over the last decade. He has also been involved in multiple successful international partnerships in countries such as China, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, the US and Vietnam and he has spoken at conferences in several of the countries mentioned. He was a recipient of the London Development Agency’s Education Partnership Award for his work in China. Married with three children, Tony is an award-winning youth football coach in London and Essex. 

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their
take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment. Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave.


Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality.

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This week's guests on The Talent Waste Show are Simon Bradberry Vice President, EMEA and Bruce Morton, Head of Strategy at Allegis Global Solutions.

Simon is a workforce transformation professional with more than 25 years of experience in workforce strategy and execution. His experience across business management, HR consulting, and the design and delivery of workforce solutions has given him a first-hand perspective in harmonizing the theory, strategy and operationalization of workforce strategies.

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Bradberry has worked in human capital consulting and recruitment outsourcing in a variety of global leadership roles across EMEA and APAC.

Bruce is in his 42nd year in the human capital industry and is well known as a global workforce design and talent acquisition expert. He has designed, implemented and managed some of the largest resourcing solutions across many different parts of the globe and has been recognized as HR Thought Leader of the Year by HRO both in EMEA and in the US.

Bruce and Simon have recently co-authored a new book for business leaders titled The Universal Workforce Model™: An Outcome-First Guide to Getting Work Done” that lays out a path for the impending workforce transformation that many enterprises are about to embark upon.

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment.

Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave. Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality.

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This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Kalpesh Baxi, founder of Baxfield, offering business advisory and leadership consulting across the recruitment and wider recruitment industry ecosystem.

Kalpesh has over 26 years recruitment experience, starting his career with SThree, and more recently working with a mid-market recruiter. He has worked with a cross-section of clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 across STEM.

Over the past few years he has been active as a COO at Selligence, investor, NED and advisor to HRTech and RecTech companies, with a strong focus on DEI and impacting social mobility.

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment.

Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave. Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality.

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This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Sonal Shah, Vice President, and Founder of She Chose Tech.   

Sonal is a Vice President in Banking with over 20 year's corporate experience and has a coaching business to help women fulfil their potential and progress in their careers.  She is passionate about increasing the number of women in the tech industry by inspiring and helping them to join the industry through her coaching.     

Sonal is a multiple award winner of Rising Stars in Tech100 and also a  winner in Diversity through to finalist in ‘Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in 2022’ as well as the ‘Global Women of Inspiration’  award’ in 2022.     

She is a Speaker who frequently speaks at industry events,  including a  roundtable for ‘Women in Blockchain Talks’ on International Women’s Day,  panel participant at the Women in Business Conference discussing “the  Glass Ceiling”, Life Skills ‘Global’ Summit for careers, and panel moderator at We Are The City Women in Tech conference on ‘Block Chain and The Supply Chain’ through to teaching ‘How to Build your Brand through LinkedIn’ to business owners.      

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and  CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment.   

Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave. Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality.   The Talent Waste Show is powered by Phoenix51 and is available on  YouTube, Spotify and all the major podcast platforms.  

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This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Danny Caines, Global Head of Talent Acquisition for the Estonian-founded professional services firm, Nortal. He leads the TA function which is spread across 7 countries and delivers recruitment globally.

Danny has been in talent acquisition/in-house recruitment since 2001, which he describes as a time when "everything was done on spreadsheets and each recruiter managed ~120 roles, although he started in a great company, Sky".  Since then, he has worked in multiple sectors, including IT, Professional Services, MedTech/Diagnostics and TA Consulting.

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment. 

Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave. Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality. 

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This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Sharon Kelly, Chief People Officer at Monstarlab.   

Sharon is a legally trained (US/UK) multi-national People & Culture Executive with over 20 years of experience working closely with key stakeholders across all functions and at organization levels, including C-Suite experience providing vision, direction, and support on all strategic People & Culture and business initiatives promoting highly innovative, purposeful, and collaborative cultures and teams.    

The Talent Waste Show is a podcast hosted by The Apprentice winner and CEO of Phoenix51, Lee McQueen. Lee chats to industry leaders to get their take on the challenges in HR, talent and recruitment.   

Talent Waste is what happens when you can’t retain employees and they leave. Talent Waste exists for many reasons – poor hiring decisions, bad cultural fit, unconscious bias, insufficient onboarding processes and lack of learning and development pathways. Reducing Talent Waste lowers costs, saves time and assures quality.   

The Talent Waste Show is powered by Phoenix51 and is available on YouTube, Spotify and all the major podcast platforms.  

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