Episode 151

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8th Apr 2025

What Will Be The Role of HR In 2025? | Enter The Vault #1

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In this special compilation episode of the HR L&D Podcast, we “Enter The Vault” with host Nick Day — a signature segment where top HR and L&D leaders share their most powerful insights on leadership, growth, and the future of work.


From emotional intelligence and trust-building to vulnerability and human-centered leadership, these timeless lessons reveal what truly matters in today’s ever-evolving workplace. 


Whether you're an HR professional, a people leader, or simply someone passionate about creating better work environments, this episode offers a masterclass in wisdom from those shaping the future of how we work.


🔑 Discover:

– What defines great leadership today

– How to lead with empathy and authenticity

– Why self-awareness is a game-changer

– The future mindset of successful workplaces

– And so much more


🎧 Step into The Vault — and walk away inspired to lead with intention.


Featured Guests:

  • Curtis Bateman, Senior Vice President, FranklinCovey
  • Bryan Adams, CEO & Co-founder, HappyDance
  • Kahina Ouerdane, Chief People Office, WorkLeap
  • Vivian Acquah, DEI Consultant, Amplify DEI.
  • Jeff Dewing, CEO, Cloudfm Group


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Of course, if you are an HR or L&D professional listening to this podcast and you have an HR, HRIS or L&D related vacancy that you would love some specialist HR recruitment support with – please also get in touch with me! I would love to help show you what a great HR recruitment experience feels like! You can reach out to me directly at nick@jgarecruitment.com or give me a call – 01727800377.


Thanks for listening folks – I look forward to bringing you the next episode of the HR L&D Podcast real soon!



(00:00) Intro

(02:01) Managing Change, Culture and Communications 

(05:20) How To Elevate Employer Brand

(07:02) Balancing Technology w/ Humanity in Talent Management 

(10:20) Integrating Empathy and Tech in DEI 

(19:15) Universal Advice to HR Leaders


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About the Podcast

The HR L&D Podcast
Leadership, recruitment, culture. Conversations with HR's best
HR gets handed the problems nobody else wants to own. The restructure, the grievance, the engagement survey that came back badly. And then gets asked why people are leaving.

I'm Nick Day. I run an HR recruitment agency, which means I spend most of my week on the phone to HR directors and people leaders talking about what the job is actually like rather than what's written on the job spec. This show came out of those calls. I kept hearing things worth repeating, and nobody was repeating them.

Every week I sit down with HR leaders, chief people officers, L&D specialists and the occasional academic who has changed how I think about work. We get into leadership, and what happens when someone brilliant at the technical side gets promoted into managing humans.

Employee engagement past the survey score. Diversity, equity and inclusion in a climate where saying those words out loud has become a decision in itself. Pay transparency, talent management, reducing bias in hiring, HR digital transformation and the HCM systems everyone is being sold. And of course we cannot forget HR AI tools and platforms that are flooding the landscape as AI in HR becomes a hot topic every people leader is keen to understand and leverage.

Wellbeing comes up constantly, and it usually turns into the same question. Who looks after the HR team.

I'm not an HR practitioner and I don't pretend to be. I'm the person who hires them, which puts me in a useful position. I get to ask the obvious question that everyone in the room already knows the answer to and nobody says.

No script and no polite version. Mostly it's the conversation you'd have with someone doing your job at a different company, if you ever got the chance to sit down with them.

If you work in HR, people management or L&D, or you're building a career in it, start by subscribing to The HR L&D Podcast. We have had guests including Stephen Covey, Alan Stein Jnr, Andrea Wareham and Dr. Thom Mayer among other HR Leaders who are shaping the future of work and leadership.

Need HR staff? I run JGA Recruitment, an HR and payroll recruitment agency. www.jgarecruitment.com or info@jgarecruitment.com

Want to be on the show? Nick@jgadigital.com

If payroll is closer to your world, I also host The Payroll Podcast, the most listened to payroll show in the world.

Topics include HR leadership, people management, employee engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI strategy, AI, talent management, HR digital transformation, HCM, staff wellbeing, pay transparency, reducing bias, L&D and HR recruitment.

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