In this episode, we will explore what it feels like to be a female people leader and how hard it can sometimes be to navigate our career development and growth in a male-dominated senior leadership world. We are here on this journey, we have the space to be here - we already made it so! and we have the right to be ourselves and bring the value we h…

With Adam Horne from Open Org and with Thomas Forstner from Juro, Olya Yakzhina is discussing the ins and outs of transparent culture as a concept and as a potential project for a progressive People leader to embark on. Tune into this episode to learn more about: - The Business Case for Transparency and how to built one - Using Open Org as your ind…

Culture as a Product In this episode, we are chatting with the Founder of Sapien, Luke O'Mahoney. Who is this for: People-people who wish to approach employee experience as a product and learn product engineering ways so they can adopt it. How do you even talk about agile ways of working without sounding like you are out of your depths?…

Cancer at Work... A difficult topic. How do People teams support employees when they approach them after a diagnosis? Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD has been brave and compassionate to share her personal story with cancer. This episode comes almost 8 months after our last and I am sure you can deduce the reason for that from the title of this episode. Th…

One of our favourite topics discussed with an awesome and knowledgeable guest Jack Villiers, the Founder & CEO of KULA! This episode will bring the most value to People-people and organisations who are going through a period of growth in their companies or planning for scale and scope. We will discuss how to stay driven as an organisation in a worl…

The Modern Employer is back from a much-needed rest! We missed you so much and decided that the first podcast should focus on something incredibly current, practical and necessary - Salary Benchmarking! In our newest episode "Salary Benchmarking Made Easy" we will talk about: - Why salary benchmarking is important and at what stage it becomes more …

MOBILISING TEAMS & EFFECTIVE PROCESSES? Gee, those are some big words right there. Let's unpack them with our wonderful guest Ghilaine Chan as we jump into the world of young startups that scale! If you are a leader who is trying to make processes that people will actually follow while maintaining your values and beliefs - jump on this podcast and …

CULTURE when SCALING? Podcast alert: How to Scale with People at Heart? https://lnkd.in/dHnv6Nk One of our favourite topics discussed with an awesome and knowledgeable guest Jack Villiers, the Founder & CEO of KULA! This episode will bring the most value to People-people and organisations who are going through a period of growth in their companies …

PODCAST ALERT: Wanna get some tips from an ex-Googler? In this episode, we are inviting Stephan Thoma to talk us through ways of setting up a Long Term People strategy and making work for your business. https://lnkd.in/dATwSye The value of this week's episode is predominantly aimed at People leaders who own their people strategy and function. It wo…

We are back with Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD & Olya Yakzhina discussing the Effective Metrics to take in 2021! https://lnkd.in/dSBs5Wa To help us have a fruitful discussion we have invited a metric guru Pavel Golenistsev, who helped us unpack the following questions: 1. What metrics do we want to be taking? 2. How do we develop questions that will mea…

PODCAST ALERT: Are you an HR leader in need of inspiration with your strategy next year? Look no further... https://lnkd.in/di7Jm-D Olya Yakzhina and Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD discuss the 2021 People strategy. On this episode, we look at the HR fundamentals and where to start with your People and Talent roadmaps. Areas to start with: 1) Org design a…

Boom! Shake the room with a topic no one wants to talk about - Creating Better Experience with Remote Redundancies. - What? How? When? And then? https://lnkd.in/dZm5dQZ In summary, that's the drift of this podcast. With some great wisdom from Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, Olya Yakzhina and a surprise guest April Georgia Williams (MCIPD) we are unpackin…

It's happened! Your voices have been heard and we recorded a podcast on the subject you've requested - Remote Onboarding Experience with Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD & Olya Yakzhina! https://lnkd.in/dWHNYhr This podcast covers our experience of setting up some incredible, creative, practical and scalable remote onboarding solutions for our companies. I…

- How do we make it Human? - How do we support our Culture? - How do we generate Excitement? - How do we consider Psychological Safety? This podcast is a collection of tips and tricks for returning back to the office in the most human way possible, created by People people (aka Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD) & our GUEST speaker Georgia B…

By Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD This is the second podcast in our series of podcasts from the Modern Employer - #wildcards : 1) Learn how to set up a talent function and the remit of Talent acquisition. 2) Innovative ways of looking through CV's and making sure candidate experience is met. 3) What does the future of our TA look like? Wh…

How to tackle the visibility of leadership? How to approach L&D? How to support commercial teams who are used to selling F2F? Podcast by Olya Yakzhina and Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD answering the burning questions you guys have asked us! :)By Olya Yakzhina