The Chrysalis Crew

Tom Money has worked in the corporate world in Recruitment and HR since 2004; notably managing one of the largest and most efficient recruitment drives in APAC at Nbn. Taking this experience and Lean training he decided to make some changes to the HR industry and moved into Lean Six Sigma and process improvement.

Tom is an accredited Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma methodology and recruitment best practice he has helped businesses grow and transform. At the National Broadband Network of Australia, the largest infrastructure project in the world, involving connecting 8m homes to fast broadband and heavy media scrutiny, he helped them expand from 1800 to 6000 FTE in 18 months. Managing to increase the output of the team, increase customer satisfaction and reduce the working hours of team members. Working with the likes of Lumesse, Cielo, Talentia and the Association of Labour Providers, Improve and Consult has scores of operational and process improvement projects under their black belts.

Danny Seals tries not to limit himself to job titles and areas, but if asked, his niche tends to be in and around OD ranging from onboarding, right the way through to culture design. Danny constantly challenges the norm by creating unique bespoke learning experiences.

His approach can be from very simple to very 'outside the box', blending various technologies ranging from Chatbots to commercial/social media tools, along with design thinking, sprints and Learnathon to really understand the business and users.

Danny firmly believes in working agile with a fail-fast mindset, it allows him to not only define and solve the business problem while also allowing him to do this in a way with the users and their expectations and experiences in mind.

Danny has worked on various community programs which aid in giving young adults the skills, behaviours, and social awareness to thrive in the modern day working environment. This can also be seen in the various work experience, apprenticeship, and graduate programs he has developed throughout his working career.

Danny will always approach a problem with the user experience in the forefront of his mind.

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Join Kelly as she talks to Patrick Mullarkey about:

why learning needs to be more Netflix good

why a personalised approach to learning is the way forward

his perception of Blended Learning

and why if L&D want to be sustainable for the future they need to get involved in leading the changes

Patrick Mullarkey is a Learning Development professional who has worked across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, including organisations within the FTSE 100/FTSE 250 listing, management consulting, higher education, scientific research, Premier League football and many more.

A facilitator, coach and learning designer with other a decade of experience and expertise, he loves the opportunity to work with groups and individual’s alike to realise their potential and higher levels of professional performance. An avid comic book geek and tech fan, he is a regular speaker within the L&D/HR conference and learning technologies circuit.

Pat is a bit of a people geek!

After spending a number of years in the Australian mining industry, Pat moved to cloudier pastures in London and is now building People Ops & Talent at FundApps.

Pat has a passion for diversity & inclusion, workplace culture and generally rebellious people practices that challenge HR norms and traditions.

Join Pat and Kelly as they talk about Inclusion and why inclusive language is one of the first step to creating inclusive workplaces.

Connor Gillivan is the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. He started his first business, Portlight, when he was 20 out of his college dorm room drop shipping products on Amazon and scaled it to sell over $20 million of product in its first 4 years.

Connor started FreeeUp.com in late 2015 to connect the top 1% of freelancers online with business owners. It now serves over 2,500 businesses worldwide. Today, he is the CMO of FreeeUp driving growth for the company through digital marketing strategies and continues to run Portlight as its CEO.

In this episode of Futureproof, Connor and Kelly discuss the importance of getting the right people in your business. Hear how you identify and secure the top 1% and why recruitment processes matter if you want the best people.

Find out more and connect with Connor on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connorgillivan/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/connorgillivan/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorgillivan/

Personal blog: http://connorgillivan.com/

FreeeUp: https://freeeup.com/

My calendar: calendly.com/connor-gillivan

My email: [email protected]

Emma Hanmore recently spoke at DisruptHR delivering her talk on Steve the Seed and Paul the Pip - both apprentices, one who flourishes in the garden whilst one doesn't. This talk inspired this podcast interview.

Kelly and Emma talk about growth, apprentices, supporting our colleagues, and being accountable for our personal development. Do not miss this episode, we could all do with a bit of Emma in our HR teams.

About Emma

Hi! I'm Emma, I'm 22 (the question everyone always wants the answer to, but never wants to ask!) and I am currently an HR Apprentice at the London Borough of Hillingdon, studying towards a Level 5 HR Business Partner/Consultant qualification with Crosby Management Training.

I am almost a year through my apprenticeship and have enjoyed working in both the Resourcing and Operations teams within HR.

I am hugely passionate about growth and development and believe massively in the importance of self-improvement.

In my spare time, I enjoy knitting, cuddling animals and watching Disney movies (when I grow up, I hope to be a Disney princess), as well as trying lots of new things - I am trying to learn the ukulele, and have recently taught myself needle felting.

In the future, I would love to improve my public speaking skills, complete my Masters degree and go skydiving (perhaps way, way in the future for this one!). I am on a journey to become the me-est me that I can be, by pushing my boundaries and being a 'yes' person!

Kelly has been researching and learning about neuroscience for the past five years and having read Brain Savvy HR spoke to Jan Hills about neuroscience and how this can help us all more at work and in all areas of our lives.

Join Kelly and Jan as they talk about a brain savvy approach to work.

About Jan

Throughout my career I have helped leaders run better business. In 2009 I started to use the findings from neuroscience and other behavioural sciences to back up the advice and learning materials I use.

I have written books to help leaders to apply these finding to their leadership and their business. I pride myself on being practical, commercial and finding what works for each leader and business I work with. My consultancy Head Heart + Brain is dedicated to improving business practice through applying the findings from neuroscience.

We work with the rational business strategy and goals - the head; with the emotions focusing on how people connect to each other and to ideas - the heart, and with the brain using the findings from neuroscience and other behavioural sciences to inform our work.

Find out more about Jan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-hills-3043a73/

On the Head, Heart + Brain website https://www.headheartbrain.com/

And find out about the books Brain Savvy Woman, BrainSavvy HR and Brain Savvy Leading on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=jan+hills

Join Kelly and Herdis on this episode as they talk equal Pay and why Iceland has taken the lead on this, why it's important to focus on life success and not just work success and why we all need a little more heart-based leadership.

Herdis Pala is an experienced HR Leader, has been in the field since early 2000. She currently holds a position as a VP of HR & Marketing in an IT company in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Being a firm believer in the concepts of Self-Leadership and 360° Success she runs two businesses along with her job. One where she does corporate training, gives presentations and lectures, business consulting, executive coaching and writes books, articles and blogs.

In the other she organizes conferences. You can find her books on Amazon and her articles in Icelandic business magazines and newspapers.

Herdis Pala´s webpage: www.herdispala.com

Herdis Pala on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/herdispala

Herdis Pala on Twitter: www.twitter.com/herdispala

Herdis Pala on Facebook: www.facebook.com/herdispala

In this episode, Kelly and Tim talk about Learning and Development and what needs to change to enhance the experience for our learners.

They also talk capes, football and why sometimes starting from scratch can be the best approach.

Tim is Learning & Development Partner at Missguided where he is responsible for the end-to-end L&D strategy with a big focus on designing and delivering learning and coaching initiatives.

Tim’s previous roles have seen him work for some large organisations where he undertook various operational leadership roles before moving into the ‘best job in the world’ in Learning and Development. Tim’s passion for learning is for coaching and mindset with a purpose for developing emotional intelligence.

Tim’s role at Missguided is very much the unicorn of L&D jobs as it gives a blank page for L&D and Tim is taking a more rebellious approach and aims to change the opinion of L&D by placing it at the heart of the business and gaining a positive influence with learners.

Contact Tim via LinkedIn to find out more about him, his role and how his work is adding to the learning experience of his learners https://www.linkedin.com/in/timroberts78/

In this episode of HR Coffee Break for Mental Health Awareness week, Kelly talks about how to empty your stress bucket, why sleep is vital for our mental wellbeing and why daily actions to help our mental wellbeing are important.