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Pioneer stories

Bee Heller

Pioneer stories is a podcast series in which we interview business founders and leaders who are pioneering new management practices and ways of working to create inspiring organisational cul...

Episodes

20 episodes

People Pioneers in Action with Laura Smith, Chief People Officer at Trade Ledger – Why growing your business means changing your culture

Laura generously shares her story, including: her lessons learned through scaling and downsizing, the challenges of startup V corporate life...

43:26Feb 13, 2026

People Pioneers in Action with Daniel Illes, VP of People at Vinted – How to not mess up the culture of a rapidly growing business

Daniel shares his experience of what it’s like to join a company with a truly exceptional culture and then be responsible for not messing it...

41:26Feb 13, 2026

People Pioneers in Action with Nic Cuthbert, VP of People & Talent at Jimminy – Developing an internal recognition system centred around company values

Nic has created a company culture where people truly live the values. In this episode, he shares his secrets on how to: develop an internal...

29:30Feb 13, 2026

People Pioneers in Action with JooBee Yeow, Advisor to Start-ups & Learngility Entrepreneur – Decoding relationships between people, processes, structures, systems and ways of working

JooBee is a trained Systems Engineer with a PhD in Organisational Psychology. Her expertise is in decoding relationships between people, pro...

37:26Feb 13, 2026

People Pioneers in Action with Sophie Theen, Start-up Advisor & Coach – Influencing how Human Resources works in technology companies and startups

Sophie is widely recognised in Europe for her innovative influence on how Human Resources works in technology companies and startups, earnin...

41:28Feb 13, 2026

People Pioneers in Action with Sophie Amato, Head of People & Culture at Social Value Portal – Treading the tightrope between day to day firefighting and building for the future

Sophie has perfected the art of treading the tightrope between day to day firefighting and building for the future. Find out how she does it...

50:40Feb 13, 2026

Wazoku: enabling people to share and act on their ideas

In this episode Bee interviews Simon Hill, Founder and CEO of Wazoku. Wazoku builds idea management software and as you might expect – ideas...

25:49Jul 24, 2020

National Emergencies Trust: creating culture through a crisis

In this episode Bee interviews Helen Killingley, Head of People and Values at the National Emergencies Trust. Helen shares how NET essential...

32:11Jul 17, 2020

The Social Element: giving people choice in how they work

In this episode Bee interviews Tamara Littleton, founder and CEO of The Social Element. Tamara saw an opportunity to help brands create onli...

35:09Jul 10, 2020

The River Group: nurturing a company culture through growth, sale and buyback

An interview with Nicola Murphy, founder and CEO of The River Group – a content marketing agency. Nicola knows what it’s like to create a bu...

27:15Jul 3, 2020

SmartRecruiters: putting purpose at the centre of decision making and action

An interview with Jerome Ternynck, founder and CEO of Smart Recruiters. Jerome is on a mission to eradicate unemployment and it’s this sense...

30:52Jun 26, 2020

Honest Burgers: putting your people first during a global pandemic

An interview with Dub Lee, Learning Architect at Honest Burgers. From the day they opened their first doors in Brixton Market, Honest Burger...

24:27Apr 9, 2020

Culture Amp: taking your business to a new geography

An interview with Nick Matthews, VP and General Manager of Culture Amp EMEA. Culture Amp was founded, and remains headquartered, in Melbourn...

33:21Jun 21, 2019

Costello Medical: growing your people and your company at the same time

An interview with Sophie Costello, founder and CEO of Costello Medical. Before they’d even hired their first employee, Sophie was determined...

36:38Mar 15, 2019

MAMA.codes: making flexible working work for everyone

An interview with Liane Katz, Founder of MAMA.codes, a company that’s transforming the way children (and their parents and teachers) learn t...

27:24Mar 1, 2019

Northcott Global Solutions: putting military principles into practice in civvy street

In this episode Bee interviews Ted Jones, Founder and CEO of Northcott Global Solutions. NGS applies military principles not only to the ser...

27:08Feb 22, 2019

Atom Bank: being a values led digital bank

An interview with Stewart Bromley, Chief Operating Office of Atom Bank, a company that prides itself on being entirely values led in everyth...

37:34Jan 25, 2019

100%Open: leading by practicing what you preach

An interview with Roland Harwood, founder of 100%Open and We Are Liminal, on aspiring to practice what you preach when it comes to leadershi...

34:40Jan 18, 2019

AND.Digital: structuring a people system for rapid company growth

An interview with Debbie Martin, Chief of Talent Experience at AND.Digital, on how they set out to build a people first company from day one...

27:32Jan 11, 2019

Novoda: building company culture across multiple geographies

An interview with Kevin McDonagh, founder and CEO of Novoda, on his instinctive and unconventional approach to developing company culture at...

27:12Jan 4, 2019