How HR Leaders Change the World

Cecilia Crossley
How HR Leaders Change the World

Explore how the work of HR Leaders is creating positive social change, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals - goals which the world’s companies are increasingly understanding the urgency of achieving, and investing in the action required. If you’d like clear, actionable ideas for how you can use the power of your role to effect change in your company, you’re in the right place. I’m the founder of social enterprise From Babies with Love, we provide services to HR Leaders, and through this work I realised that HR professionals and social entrepreneurs are working in the same areas, albeit in different ways. So we created this podcast to share knowledge, on steps we can take through the work of HR. In my opinion, if you’re an HR professional, you are also a change maker. And this podcast will provide you with examples of how. By sharing the successes of some of the world’s most inspiring HR Leaders, you can frame your work in the context of positive change, implement brilliant ideas, and feel absolutely wonderful about doing so!

  1. 12/24/2024

    The Power of People Experience: Andrew Davis, EVP & Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment

    Andrew shares his vision of HR as a transformative force, leaving outdated practices behind to embrace People Experience. By rebranding HR and launching Sony Music’s Global People Promise, Andrew highlights how this innovative approach fosters an engaging workplace culture, rooted in clear values and behaviours that attract and retain diverse talent. Andrew’s personal journey adds depth to his professional insights, as he candidly explores how his background influenced his passion for addressing exclusion and inequality. From spearheading the Sony Music Group Global Scholars Programme to reframing inclusion efforts with bold language and meaningful action, Andrew demonstrates how linking personal values to professional work can amplify impact. With heartfelt advice on self-care and purpose, Andrew inspires HR leaders to sustain their energy for driving real change, ensuring their efforts build a better and more equitable future.   Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com 👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

    35 min
  2. 12/17/2024

    HR & Redefining Leadership: Andrea Gageik, Chief People Officer, Fagerhult Group

    In transforming from a traditional manufacturer to a provider of smart solutions for cities and buildings, Andrea explains how HR has guided transformation by redefining leadership. Describing the creation of six Leadership Guidelines that were developed through collaboration across the company, Andrea discusses how the Guidelines are enabling Fagerhult Group to balance its heritage with a culture of innovation and adaptability, while ensuring diverse perspectives drive meaningful progress. Andrea highlights the importance of building a learning organisation that celebrates diversity of thought and reframes failure as growth, and shares some of the practical steps HR is taking, such as leadership workshops and inclusion initiatives to foster innovation and deliver a gradual cultural shift.   Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com 👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

    27 min
  3. 12/10/2024

    172. The Changemakers We Need: Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's First Chief HR Officer

    Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's first CHRO and a renowned talent strategy expert, highlights the need to rethink outdated workplace systems that assume long-term employee tenure. Steve emphasises the importance of questioning old assumptions, experimenting with new ideas, and embracing HR’s role as a catalyst for change. Steve explores how HR can lead with innovative solutions that benefit both businesses and communities, with inspiring examples - such as how one organisation solved talent shortages by tapping into new talent pools such as candidates without traditional qualifications - showing how HR can tackle business challenges while driving social change. Steve reflects on how his early life shaped his commitment to inclusion and empathy in leadership. He underscores the value of engaging in tough conversations to create space for meaningful dialogue around divisive topics. Closing the episode, Steve shares his heartfelt wish for HR leaders: to ask thoughtful questions that empower others to uncover their own solutions, paving the way for a more innovative, inclusive, and impactful future.   Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com 👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

    32 min
  4. 11/26/2024

    Embedding Purpose in Every Role: Dannii Portsmouth, Chief People Officer, PepsiCo Europe

    In this inspiring episode Dannii shares her approach to embedding sustainability and purpose into PepsiCo’s culture and discusses how PepsiCo is aligning people and planet goals with business operations. With examples such as social mobility programmes, Dannii demonstrates how PepsiCo empowers employees while driving positive societal change. Sharing thoughts on resilience and the pressures facing HR, Dannii introduces ‘home club’, a network that promotes collaboration, emotional well-being, and professional growth. Dannii calls on you and everyone in HR to be bold in telling the truth with empathy and courage, prioritising collective progress for the benefit of all. Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com   👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn   References: Tent Partnership for Refugees

    35 min
  5. 11/12/2024

    How HR Drives Impact, Innovation & Inclusive Culture: Annemie Ress, Group CHRO, Sirius Facilities

    Annemie shares her insights into HR’s power to drive social change, elevate innovation, and build cultures of belonging. By challenging assumptions in the workplace, Annemie explains how HR can enable data-informed leadership that fosters employee engagement and inclusivity. Exploring AI’s potential, Annemie envisions a future where AI frees HR to focus on more impactful, strategic work. With a passion for lifelong learning, Annemie shares practical steps such as book clubs, informal storytelling, and encouraging small, relatable actions to spark curiosity. Annemie emphasises the ripple effect of small, consistent actions, and advocates that with simple acts of kindness and fostering human connections we can create lasting, positive change, building organisational culture centred on empathy and equity. Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com   👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

    30 min
  6. 11/05/2024

    The Power of Empathy & Customer-Centricity: Helen Russell, Chief People Officer, Hubspot

    Sharing her journey from Yorkshire to California, Helen discusses the importance of customer empathy in driving meaningful business change and emphasises the value of opportunities for employees to interact with customers, fostering a culture of understanding and relatability. Helen also explores the evolving landscape of HR, discussing the interaction between AI in enhancing workforce productivity and the potential for remote work to revitalise communities. Helen advocates for empathy and connection and leaves us with a reminder that by embracing curiosity, respect, and empathy, HR leaders can build trust and integrity, driving positive change.   Thank you to HEX Talent & Development for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Is your organisation doing everything it can to ensure its people and teams are reaching their full potential? This episode is sponsored by Hex Talent and Development. HEX is a people performance consultancy that's laser focused on making individuals, teams and organisations the best they can be. Hex isn't just another learning provider, they are the full package. They offer individual and team coaching, facilitation of team events and gatherings, leadership development and broader HR consultancy. They are thought leaders and have their own model for leadership, the intentional leader and the CHRO impact framework for developing high performing senior HR leaders. Above all, HEX brings passion, challenge and joy to all their clients. Want to learn more? Head on over to HEX Talent & Development to see how they can help your organisation thrive.     👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

    30 min
  7. 10/29/2024

    HR as a Driver for Social Change: Martyn Worsley, Chief People Officer, Lockton

    Martyn discusses his insights on how HR leaders can drive both business success and positive social change. Through his experience leading at the insurance company Lockton, Martyn shares actionable ways to foster an employee-centric culture, such as mental health support and enhanced parental leave. Martyn shares his belief in the importance of purpose-driven HR leadership, highlighting how HR can navigate global challenges, promote equity and lead meaningful change. Be inspired by Martyn’s leadership and discover how you too can harness the power of your role to create positive social change.   Thank you to HEX Talent & Development for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Is your organisation doing everything it can to ensure its people and teams are reaching their full potential? This episode is sponsored by Hex Talent and Development. HEX is a people performance consultancy that's laser focused on making individuals, teams and organisations the best they can be. Hex isn't just another learning provider, they are the full package. They offer individual and team coaching, facilitation of team events and gatherings, leadership development and broader HR consultancy. They are thought leaders and have their own model for leadership, the intentional leader and the CHRO impact framework for developing high performing senior HR leaders. Above all, HEX brings passion, challenge and joy to all their clients. Want to learn more? Head on over to HEX Talent & Development to see how they can help your organisation thrive.     👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn   Referenced Resources ·        Ripple Suicide Prevention ·        Free tool: Map your HR work to the UN SDGs

    30 min

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Explore how the work of HR Leaders is creating positive social change, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals - goals which the world’s companies are increasingly understanding the urgency of achieving, and investing in the action required. If you’d like clear, actionable ideas for how you can use the power of your role to effect change in your company, you’re in the right place. I’m the founder of social enterprise From Babies with Love, we provide services to HR Leaders, and through this work I realised that HR professionals and social entrepreneurs are working in the same areas, albeit in different ways. So we created this podcast to share knowledge, on steps we can take through the work of HR. In my opinion, if you’re an HR professional, you are also a change maker. And this podcast will provide you with examples of how. By sharing the successes of some of the world’s most inspiring HR Leaders, you can frame your work in the context of positive change, implement brilliant ideas, and feel absolutely wonderful about doing so!

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