Welcome to the Distinctive Leaders podcast. Today, we’re joined by Paul Barry, Group HR Director at Rothschild & Co.

Paul’s journey from local comprehensive to Oxford University, and into a career with some of the City’s highest profile financial institutions has given him a unique perspective of the changing world of work and the impact that your background can have on your future prospects.

Over the course of this conversation, we explore Paul’s unique career journey and delve deep into what it takes to become a truly distinctive leader. Discussed many of the topics that executives across the corporate spectrum are wrestling with, including:

• Why sustainable culture change takes patience and the unorthodox starting point that many organisations forget.

• The secrets to successful leadership and why it’s as much about your team as it is about you.

• And the scale of the social mobility challenge today, what’s at the root of the problem and what executives like you can do to help change it.

Having spent more than 30 years in HR leadership roles, Paul has a fantastic perspective and some truly unique insights on what it takes to become a distinctive leader and how you can support your team to become the distinctive leaders of tomorrow.

Whether you’re looking to establish sustainable cultural change, learn the secrets to becoming a successful leader, or find out what executives like you can be doing to help overcome the social mobility challenges of today, this episode will give you the insights you’re after.

We’d love to hear your thoughts about the episode, so please do let us know. And if you want to get to know Paul a little better, visit his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-barry-73bb354/