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HR Leaders

Chris Rainey

HR Leaders is a weekly Podcast where Chris Rainey chats with today's most successful HR Practitioners. IBM, Twitter, Google, Mars, Facebook, BMW and Shell are just a few interviews to date....

Episodes

20 of 882 episodes

How Primark Grows Its Own Leaders: 5 Practical Takeaways for HR

How does Primark develop frontline leaders and help colleagues build careers within the business? John D. Hadeed, Senior Vice President, Peo...

00:31:10Oct 21, 2026

What Nobody Tells Your CEO: 7 Leadership Lessons for HR

The meeting ends. Everyone nods. Then the real conversation starts without the CEO. For HR leaders, that puts you in a difficult spot. You h...

00:59:01Oct 14, 2026

5 Mistakes Every Company Needs to Fix Before Adding Another AI Tool

What if the biggest barrier to better work is not a lack of technology, but unclear priorities, inconsistent ways of working and disconnecte...

00:56:19Oct 12, 2026

5 Ways to Build a Workplace People Don’t Want to Leave

What if the strongest workplace culture is not built through expensive perks, but through the everyday systems that make people feel seen, s...

00:38:01Oct 7, 2026

How to Move From AI Pilots to Real Business Impact

What if the biggest mistake companies are making with AI is trying to improve individual tasks instead of redesigning the entire process? In...

00:37:21Oct 5, 2026

How to Shape Workplace Culture in 2027

How Endeavor Health Is Building One Culture Across Four Health Systems In this episode of the HR Leaders Podcast, I sit down with Dianna Spa...

00:38:45Sep 28, 2026

How to Build an Employee Listening Strategy

Employee listening only matters if people can see what changed because they spoke up. In this episode of the HR Leaders Podcast, I sit down...

00:32:17Sep 23, 2026

5 Hidden Burnout Risks for High Achievers

What if burnout is not only about how much you work, but what you believe success requires from you? In this episode of the HR Leaders Podca...

00:40:01Sep 21, 2026

How EY Is Upskilling 400,000 People for the Age of AI

The fastest way to learn AI may be to stop learning about it and start building with it. In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I ha...

00:32:27Sep 16, 2026

Why the Best Executives Won’t Stay in One Function

What if the future of executive leadership is less about specialisation and more about range? For years, senior leaders have been encouraged...

00:36:06Sep 14, 2026

How to Become the HR Leader CEOs Actually Listen To

The CHRO’s real test isn’t getting a seat at the table, it’s whether the CEO would make the decision without them. In this special episode,...

01:01:36Sep 9, 2026

What Happens When Leaders Tolerate Poor Performance

AI is moving faster than most organisations can redesign themselves, so how do you stop transformation becoming a series of disconnected tec...

00:42:36Sep 7, 2026

How Siemens Is Using AI to Transform Skills, Learning and the Future of Work

AI is moving faster than most organisations can redesign themselves, so how do you stop transformation becoming a series of disconnected tec...

00:41:03Sep 2, 2026

How AI Is Quietly Rewriting Every Job

What if AI isn't replacing jobs, but quietly redesigning the tasks inside them? In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I had an impo...

00:32:37Aug 26, 2026

How to Build Trust with Employees in Times of Chaos

Constant tech shifts and viral noise are quietly exhausting your workforce and killing critical thinking. In the latest HR Leaders Podcast e...

00:48:49Aug 25, 2026

How High Performers Beat Imposter Syndrome at Work

What if the self-doubt holding you back isn't proof of failure, but evidence of growth? In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I had...

00:33:00Aug 19, 2026

How to Build an AI Strategy That Scales Beyond the Pilot

AI could influence 90% of jobs. David Lloyd says AI literacy is still only around 38%. That gap is where many enterprise AI strategies begin...

00:45:37Aug 17, 2026

How to Get Your Team to Actually Use AI at Work

Why do enterprise skills programs always look great on paper, but break down the moment real work happens? In the most recent HR Leaders Pod...

00:56:30Aug 12, 2026

How to Prepare Your Workforce for Jobs That Do Not Exist Yet

Every company wants to become AI-native. But who is preparing the workforce for what comes next? In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episo...

00:53:56Aug 10, 2026

Why 80% of HR Teams Are Doing Strategic Work Wrong

We spend all our time fixing business workflows, so why is HRs own workflow still broken? In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I h...

00:45:27Aug 5, 2026