HR Insights

First and foremost, happy new year!We’re excited for you to see what we have in store for 2026. To start the year, we wanted to wrap up 2025 by showcasing the amazing guests and topics we had throughout the year with a special episode, and this time, our guest is a familiar voice and our usual host, Stuart Elliott.After a season packed with conversations on AI, resilience, global hiring, and...

As the pace of work accelerates, wellbeing continues to decline across industries, making conversations about sustainable performance more important than ever.In this episode, our CEO and Host, Stuart Elliott, is joined by Bianca Errigo, global speaker, wellbeing expert, and founder of HumanOS, a platform redefining how organisations approach resilience and high performance.Off of the back of our...

In this episode of HR Insights: The Podcast, our CEO Stuart Elliott sits down with Thierry Moschetti, Managing Partner at the Resilience Institute, to unpack the findings of the Global HR Resilience Report 2025, the first global diagnostic snapshot of how HR professionals are really doing.Together, they explore what resilience truly means in the HR context and how the profession is holding up...

Welcome back to another episode of HR Insights: The Podcast. Today, our CEO and Host, Stuart Elliott, is joined by Tony Davies, Director of Global Partners at Acumen International, to explore the rapidly growing world of global employment and the role of Employer of Record (EOR) in enabling organisations to scale across borders with confidence.Together, they discuss the evolution of Tony’s...

Welcome back to another episode of HR Insights: The Podcast. Today, our CEO and Host, Stuart Elliott, is joined by Claire Butler, a strategic HR leader with extensive experience across global markets, to explore one of the most talked-about roles making a comeback in today’s market, the Chief of Staff.Together, they unpack what the Chief of Staff role really entails, why it’s re-emerging as a...

77% of companies are facing a skills crisis, a striking figure that highlights just how urgent the challenge has become.In this episode, Stuart is joined by Nick Shaw, Co-Founder of Spotted Zebra, to explore how HR leaders can leverage technology to bridge the widening skills gap.AI is on everyone’s agenda, but how can it really help HR teams reshape recruitment and performance? Stuart and Nick...

AI is on everyone’s agenda, but what does it really mean for businesses, productivity, and the future of work?In this episode, Stuart sits down with Daniel Snell, Co-Founder of Arrival, a management consultancy that has worked with leaders across the globe to deliver systemic change and sustainable performance. With a keen focus on AI, Daniel has seen first-hand how organisations are grappling...

On HR Insights, we strive to bring our listeners conversations they are asking for. Avid listeners of the show may remember that this summer, we have been running our HR Resilience Report in collaboration with The Resilience Institute. Initial results highlighted a recurring theme of mindful leadership. As HR continues to take on more responsibility in an ever-changing world of work, engaging...

73% of women leaders say they would change companies for menopause-related benefits.Earlier this year, in our episode with Maggie Lester, we explored how menopause is beginning to take its place on the benefits agenda, but with a lot of work still to do. To continue this conversation, Stuart welcomes back Fiona McKay, CEO of Lightbulb and Founder of The Menopause Maze, to unpack how menopause...

In this special episode of HR insights, Stuart Elliott is joined by Ilona Jurkiewicz and Roshan Jayawardena to draw on insights from their recently published white paper, ‘Evolving skillsets of HR leaders’, which combines qualitative interviews with 80+ HR leaders and quantitative data. They explore how the HR function is rapidly evolving in response to significant external forces and how the...