Powering Potential with Robert Walters

Welcome to the first episode in the Robert Walters mini-series on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion hosted by Beth Tappenden, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Associate at Robert Walters. Beth leads on a number of ED&I initiatives from the Manchester office, aiding our candidates and clients on best practice around hiring and recruitment with a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

In this first episode, we are joined by Choon Tan. Choon is the content marketer at Culture shift, which has the mission to make places of work and study free of bullying, discrimination and harassment. Choon has a very keen interest in ED&I, with a particular focus on ESEA discrimination & representation. 

Workers are calling on their bosses to take inflation into account when considering raises. 

NewsTalk ZB speak to Shay Peters, ANZ Managing Director of Robert Walters about the latest Salary Survey data and how inflation may cut into employees wage rises. 

NBR speak to Today FM on New Zealand's latest Salary Survey data. 

In this episode Raul Vivar shares how he built his career from a marketing role to become General Manager.

Being part of top global universities, he had the opportunity to learn from different cultures and find that there could be many ways to do business and be successful. “Leaders need to be able to build strong teams, develop their creativity, have a general vision and be open to innovation”.

In this episode Oswaldo Bernal, GM at Bristol Myers Squibb Mexico, shares his experience in the pharma industry and how his career unfolded to where he is today. He mentions his perspective about leadership, diversity, and risk taking.

On the personal side he talks about the value of family. "Beyond General Manager, I’m a human being". 

In this episode Jose Roman, CEO at Nissan shares his trajectory in the automotive industry, how his career unfolded to where he is today. He also tell us about how he organizes his busy routine to keep up to date with the latest trends and also what his main learnings.

Throughout the Talking Technology series we will be sitting down with CTO’s & CIO’s, Architects and Engineers from some of the UK’s most well-known brands, discussing technology and how to best implement it. We will also be examining what makes these people tick, why they do what they do? what drives them forward and why they are so passionate about the sector they work in. 

The series is hosted by Richard Jenkins, Senior Manager at Robert Walters leading the Cloud & Infrastructure practice in Manchester, UK. 

In this fourth episode Richard is joined by Sebastian Green, Head of Technology at Fox Group. Sebastian has over 16 years of Development & IT experience, working from agency through to in-house at some of the countries most well-known brands. This episode is all about the build versus buy dilemma. 

En este episodio, Simón Valín, CEO durante 6 años en Norauto Iberia y actual COO en Norauto Alemania, comparte sobre su trayectoria profesional, su visión sobre el CEO del futuro, cómo organiza su día, sus retos y podremos conocer un poco más a la persona detrás del rol.

In this episode, Tom van de Cruys, CEO at TotalEnergies Power & Gas, shares about his professional career, how he organizes his day, his vision about the CEO of the future and we will be able to know more about the person beyond the role.