The Talent Waste Show: Recent Episodes
Lee McQueen
CEO & Founder Lee McQueen hosts a fortnightly show with leaders from the talent space, uncovering a global problem; Talent Waste.
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. The Talent Waste Show is powered by Phoenix51 and is available on YouTube, Spotify and all the major podcast platforms. Join the conversation: www.phoenix51.io www.linkedin.com/company/phoenix51
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. The Talent Waste Show is powered by Phoenix51 and is available on YouTube, Spotify and all the major podcast platforms. Join the conversation: www.phoenix51.io www.linkedin.com/company/phoenix51
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.
Join the conversation:
www.phoenix51.io
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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.
The Talent Waste Show is powered by Phoenix51 and is available on YouTube, Spotify and all the major podcast platforms.
Join the conversation:
www.phoenix51.io
www.linkedin.com/company/phoenix51
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.
Join the conversation:
www.phoenix51.io
www.linkedin.com/company/phoenix51
This week's guest on The Talent Waste Show is Georgina Lansdale, Director of Talent Acquisition at Foxtons, London’s leading Estate Agency.
With over 13 years’ experience in the Talent Acquisition industry, Georgina is a specialist at introducing and transforming internal TA teams. She has experience recruiting at all levels, from early careers to the top of organisations and has recruited for multiple teams in Asia, Europe and the USA, including spending two years living and working in New York.
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.
Join the conversation:
www.phoenix51.io
www.linkedin.com/company/phoenix51
Diversity & Inclusion Special Episode
Chief Operating Officer Chris Wimshurst will be interviewing Tinu Cornish, Director of Sea Change Consultancy. Tinu is one of the UK’s leading diversity psychologists, Tinu supports organisations to deliver comprehensive organisational change frameworks and charters that successfully ensure the progression of women and BME’s.
Highly respected for her work on unconscious and race bias, Tinu consults and trains on bias for a range of high-profile clients in the private, governmental and higher education sectors. She is particularly known for her credibility with senior and board audiences.
Tinu has co-authored two scientific evidence reviews on the topic, most recently for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Tinu is founder and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion at Work Group, sponsored by the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society and is the co- editor of the group’s publication ‘The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organizations’.
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Phoenix51 coined the term ‘Talent Waste’ after realising a global problem in the industry. Talent Waste affects organisations across all industries. It occurs when employees leave an organisation prematurely due to the business not being able to retain them.
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This Weeks guest is Richard Matthews, Head of Talent & Resourcing at The Co Operative Bank. Richard is a Talent leader with an extensive knowledge across the UK financial services industry building his experience through Agency, RPO and In-house roles and currently leading the In-House Talent Acquisition function at the UK’s original Ethical bank.
He has had a strong focus on managing through change, and leading talent transformation projects globally.
This weeks guest is Manuel Heichlinger, Director of People & Recruiting EMEA at Samsara. Manuel has gained a wealth of experience in Talent Acquisition working for organisations such as LinkedIn, HSBC, Alexander Mann, and Deloitte.
Manuel has been working in Talent Acquisition for over 16 years in Germany and the UK. During this time, he has gained experience at numerous household names in the professional services, staffing and technology sectors, recruiting talent across EMEA from graduate up to executive level. In his current role at Samsara, he is responsible for all people and recruiting matters for all European Samsara employees. Manuel grew up as a gay boy in a small town in Southern Germany and is happily married for 10 years now. He is very passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as creating a beautiful experience for all Samsara candidates and employees.
Our fifth guest is Sarah Mason, Sarah is the Chief People Officer at Foxtons, London’s leading Estate Agency. Her background covers a wide range of HR roles focused on improving the performance of organisations through good people practices. This includes roles in L&D, recruitment, organisational design, change management and HR leadership to ensure businesses have the people, structure and results they need.
Sarah is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and is an active member of the HR community, including acting as a mentor in the CIPD’s programme for Aspiring HRDs. Alongside her HR background, Sarah has a focus on Business Psychology and takes an evidence-based approach in her work. She has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Organisational Psychology and has previously been a Board Member of the Association of Business Psychology.
Our fourth guest is Kevin Green. Kevin is the Founder and CEO of What’s Next People and Strategy Consultancy. He is utilising his 37 years of business and HR experience to act as a Non-Executive Director or Strategic Advisor to 7 fast growth businesses in the Technology and Professional service sectors. He is a sought-after keynote presenter and is the recent Author of the Bestselling businesses book Competitive People Strategy.
Kevin has been an entrepreneur, a CEO and HRD of a FTSE 100 company, he brings the skills capability and experience from each of these roles to assist the organisations he works with. He specialises in businesses that want to scale up and develop. Kevin has long been recognised as an excellent and award-winning leader. He has worked with many leaders and leadership teams to maximise their performance; by developing both unique customer offerings and differentiated people strategies that provide a sustainable competitive advantage. His passion is creating great cultures where people want to give their best every day.
This weeks guest is Jon Hull, Jon is the Head of Resourcing Delivery at Nationwide Building Society. Jon is a recognised TA Leader with a career spanning more than 20 years in the industry. His career spans industries including distribution, Construction, Facilities Management, Consulting and Financial Services.
His roles have had a strong focus on building teams, Brand penetration and improving diverse outcomes across all levels of talent management.
He has been recognised 3 times as an influential Resourcing leader by Recruiter Magazine.
Our second guest is Peter Lovell, with 15 years of experience working in the recruitment & talent industry, he is an expert in the field. Peter is a multi award winning talent acquisition leader, with an energetic and passionate approach for selecting top talent.
Peter has a genuine love for his work and it clearly shows, among colleagues he is known for his "positive energy", "incredible knowledge" and "enthusiasm and happiness".
Peter has worked for gaming companies such as NaturalMotion, Zynga and most notably, Jagex - the creators of Runescape. During his time at Oxford-based NaturalMotion, Lovell helped the studio acquire talent for its two big releases, Dawn of Titans and CSR2.
Our first guest is Rachel Barr. Rachel has over 20 years as a Talent Acquisition professional, with global experience across EMEA, Asia Pacific and Australia. Rachel has worked for global banking institutes such as Credit Suisse, Anz, Barclays and her current role at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.