Pivots & Plot Twists - Episodes Tagged with “Hr”

Ep 61: Redesigning the Rules: Equity, Inclusion & the Future of Work with Olajide Alabi - UPDATED AUDIO

Tamsyn Allington — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0100

In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Olajide, Co-founder of SiSU—a people experience agency on a mission to create better, more inclusive workplace cultures.

From his beginnings as a part-time TGI Fridays employee to leading culture-shifting work across the hospitality sector and beyond, Olajide brings a deep understanding of what it really means to centre equity, inclusion, and wellbeing at work.

We talk about:
✨ Why equity isn’t the same as equality—and why that difference matters
✨ His journey from being gaslit and facing adversity to becoming a leader in culture change
✨ How data, care, and listening can radically improve the employee experience
✨ What it means to protect your light and stand in your truth
✨ Why the hospitality industry is built on diversity—and why it must do better by its people
✨ Advice to anyone starting out or feeling unseen at work

Olajide’s insights are honest, energising and full of practical ways we can all do better, wherever we work. If you care about people, purpose and progress—this one’s for you.

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Connect with Olajide

SiSu website: thisissisu.co.uk

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/olajide-alabi-67713421/?originalSubdomain=uk

Ep 30: How work can be more enjoyable, what indicates a successful business and how to make work more sustainable for everyone with Paula Brockwell

Tamsyn Allington — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Paula is on a mission to take the overwhelm, isolation and frustration out of culture change for Strategic HR leaders. Making it manageable, mainstream, and ultimately more effective in creating a business where your people thrive and deliver. With over 20 years’ experience in supporting clients with fostering great behaviours in their business and a grounding as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Paula has in-depth, practical and evidence-based understanding and experience of what drives healthy organisational systems. She is the founder of the Employee Experience Project.

Topics we discuss:

Sparking community
How work can be better for people
Making a difference to the world of work
Good lives through good work
Making work more sustainable
The key markers she sees in good businesses
Partnership

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Connect with Paula

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

The Employee Experience Project: https://theexproject.com/spark

Episode 17: Being a woman in HR, how leadership isn't able to cope with emotions and listening to your gut with Emma Djemil

Tamsyn Allington — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Founder of The HR Club - a membership of over 100 women strong - and creator of The HR Big Meet - an annual conference focusing on the wellbeing of women in HR - Emma Djemil is on a mission to change the world of work so that everyone can thrive.

Passionately believing that no one should go home from work worse than when they arrived, Emma uses her natural abilities to help people do the things they think are impossible, in an attempt to shift the leadership paradigm for the good of us all.

Slightly sweary and leaning towards the sarcastic, Emma combines her experiences across an 18 year career in HR with a Certificate in Applied Neuroscience, certification as a One of many ® women’s coach and accreditation as a Brain and Behaviour Change Practitioner to help women in leadership be sustainably unstoppable. In practice this means having their maximum impact without compromising themselves, their health or the things and people that matter the most to them.

Topics we discuss:

Being a woman in HR
Leaving her job without a plan
Creating safe spaces
Value of HR
Getting out of 'fight mode'
How to avoid burnout
Understanding personal values
Listening to your intuition

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Connect with Emma

Website: https://beunstoppable.uk/

HR Club: https://thehrclub.beunstoppable.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/be-unstoppable/

Episode 1 : Taking the leap to go self employed, creating a positive work environment and have companies learnt anything from the pandemic? with Kate Ashmore

Tamsyn Allington — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:15:00 +0100

Welcome to Pivots & Plot Twists.

On this episode, we are in conversation with the glorious Kate Ashmore, founder of Rebel HR.

Topics we discuss:

Going self employed
Best pieces of advice about going self employed
How to find clients
Advice to younger self
Was the pandemic good for companies' culture and have these companies learnt anything from the pandemic?
Creating a positive work environment

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Connect with Kate

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebelhr_/

Website: https://rebelhr.group/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateashmore-hr/