High Beams
High Beams
Podcast Description
Leaders must adapt their approach to attract, engage, and retain talent, in order to tackle each bend in the winding road that is the modern workplace. Failure to do so is like driving at night without your headlights on. Future-proofing your business means you need your high beams on.
Brought to you by Green Park, Jo Sweetland talks to People and Talent leaders to guide you through the employee lifecycle and explore what the future of work means for hiring trends, workplace culture & engagement, and employee expectations.
Find out more at green-park.co.uk
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on critical topics related to the employee lifecycle, exploring themes like succession planning, workplace culture, and engagement strategies. Examples of episodes include discussions on building sustainable organizations with Helen Webb, improving employee engagement with Jordan Barry-Bayliss, and fostering inclusivity within leadership practices with guests like Harvey Francis and Mark Lomas.
Leaders must adapt their approach to attract, engage, and retain talent, in order to tackle each bend in the winding road that is the modern workplace. Failure to do so is like driving at night without your headlights on. Future-proofing your business means you need your high beams on.
Brought to you by Green Park, Jo Sweetland talks to People and Talent leaders to guide you through the employee lifecycle and explore what the future of work means for hiring trends, workplace culture & engagement, and employee expectations.
Find out more at green-park.co.uk
What makes a good leader in 2026? According to Prof. Chris Bones, it’s not brilliance
— it’s choices.
In this conversation with Sir Trevor Phillips, Chris (Chair of the CIPD and former Head
of Henley Business School) argues that organisations are sleepwalking into a new
kind of risk: AI is already being used inside your business — even if leadership
hasn’t approved it. That makes “use and abuse of AI” a governance issue, not an IT
project. His suggestion is simple but powerful: make AI use visible — disclose
prompts, show validation, and treat it like any other evidence.
If AI isn’t on your corporate risk register yet, Chris has a blunt view on what that says
about your risk appetite.
They also dig into what diversity really means at the top. Chris makes the case that
social mobility is often the missing ingredient in boardroom perspective — and that
focusing on outcomes achieved (not “activity”) is one of the best ways to spot talent.
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