Transformation Talks

In the latest episode, Becky chats with Collette Swindells, VP of Marketing at Ocean.io which is a B2B data platform with AI built within its core. This conversation is all around how being a mum, combined with a career at leadership level, has impacts on work, social life and family time. This topic is still very rarely spoken about yet is couldn't be more relevant to any future and current parents, but also to companies supporting new parents returning to work. Listen to the full episode on your favourite streaming platform and more from the Ellevate series, which is always focused around empowering women in the workplace.

On this week's episode, we meet with Jeanine Brockhoff, the VP, People at Corti, a Copenhagen-based AI tech company. Jeanine is originally from the Netherlands but has a wealth of international experience, studying and working in countries across the globe, which have helped shape her career and experience. On this episode we discuss the "career lens", why it's important, and how you can use it to view your career from different perspectives. We also touch on staying true to yourself in the workplace, owning your strengths and how being the only woman in the room can impact your thought identity and ways to tackle this! This is a really interesting topic and sheds light on a new perspective that is certainly worthwhile thinking about!

This week, we sit down with Lima Curtis, the Head of Marketing for a Danish fintech company. We discuss the challenges women face in the finTech world, how things are changing and some of the biases that still exist in industry. Originally from the UK, we also discuss the big move to Copenhagen and how it was settling into a new culture, learning a new language, new working habits as well as the importance of building a network both professionally and socially. Tune in to hear more on Lima's journey and the tips she has for women considering a career in FinTech!

On this week's episode, we are sitting down with Michal Lasman, a Marketing Professional based in Berlin. Michal has experience in Early-stage start-ups, mainly SaaS and B2B and is currently working in the FinTech sphere. The discussion this week is around the importance of resiliency in leadership and the agility needed during times of change. Michal talks us through some of her experiences in the last few years where she established marketing functions and teams during market changes, personal challenges, as well as the impact of tech layoffs. We also chat about her move from Tel-Aviv to Berlin and the tips she has for remaining resilient in a new city, new industry and top tips to manage stress. *** It is important to mention here that this episode was recorded prior to the Israel-Gaza War starting and due to the nature of the topic of resiliency, I wanted to point out we have not touched at all on this topic in our conversation. We are absolutely not overlooking the resiliency shown by so many at this time.***

This week, Becky Finnegan doesn't only talk to one guest, but two! Sofie Hermansen and Sascha Skydsgaard, both working at Timelog, a Danish Business Management Software, discuss 'Vulnerability in the workplace'. Sofie and Sascha have experienced similar overwhelming situations at work. However, they show us how being a woman at the top management makes them think about a difference between being emotional and being vulnerable. Listen to their best stories on how they lead by example, even if vulnerability is around!

This week, Becky Finnegan sits down with Bernadette Ritscherle. Based in Berlin, Bernadette is currently working for a SaaS startup, but prior to this has worked in Management Consulting and Global FMCG companies, gaining strong experience from varied roles and challenges. This week's discussion is on the role of Chief of Staff and how it has evolved within business, the history and why and where it's appropriate. Listen to find out how Bernadette got into this position, her career path and the skills that are helpful in this role!

This episode is all about women empowerment, challenges in the recruitment industry, career progression and anything else that is empowering women in business Ingrid is a VP of Marketing and an expert in scaling teams. She'll open up about why she believes mentoring is so essential and feedback's role in this journey.

On this week's episode, Becky Finnegan is joined by Amalie Kaysen, who is a leader in the Product and Strategy space working in international environments with a base in Copenhagen. She started her career in the Management Consulting world where she picked up a strong toolbox before moving into the Startup World.  In this episode, we go through what imposter syndrome means for Amalie, how she has battled through it and how she has flipped it into a positive as much as possible. Amalie also gives some tangible tips on how she has come up with her values and how they ultimately have helped her navigate in challenging times through her career. Listen to find out more!

In today's episode, we spoke to Marianne Ricketts who founded Vibbio, a fully automated video platform. Marianne talks about her journey from the creation of Vibbio, all the way through to selling the company and becoming the director of product management. We also delve into topics such as owning failure as a team and funding as a female founder.

On this week's episode, we sit down with Nikita Rathi who is an experienced Technology Leader who started her career in the US working in well-established successful businesses, moved to work in Dublin and is now in the heart of the German tech scene, working with scale-ups in Berlin.  Nikita has some powerful insight on giving and receiving gendered feedback and how leaders can give more effective feedback to women in their teams to ensure empowerment and growth. Listen to find out about the specific tips and situations where feedback can have a pivotal impact on someone's career. https://medium.com/swlh/the-real-reason-women-arent-getting-ahead-in-tech-she-s-not-strategic-5ba98ad91f77 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitarathi23/

In today's episode, our host Becky Finnegan spoke with Cassie Yusofi, an international Commercial Leader who specialises in developing solutions to complex commercial challenges for SaaS B2B products and scaling hyper growth sales divisions.  Cassie has lived, studied and worked in 3 continents, conversed in multiple languages, had teams in Netherlands, Germany, Spain and the Philippines, so is rich in experience of managing stakeholders from varied cultures. She discusses how she has seen many different types of female leaders who have inspired her and how she personally overcomes imposter syndrome as well as why its important to give back to aspiring future female leaders. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassieyusofi/ www.linkedin.com/in/becky-finnegan-1a646939/

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Patrick Dümpelfeld and Dr. Deniz Albayrak who are CEOs founders of Dümpelfeld & Partners GmbH. We delved into why relationships with clients, employees and partners are so important and discussed startup culture.

In this episode, we spoke to Pratik Goshal, an individual tech entrepreneur of a clean tech startup. We spoke about rapid growth and how to tackle working remotely as a manager. *Pratik is an individual tech entrepreneur and all opinions are his own, not Skyfri's.

In today's episode, our host Becky Finnegan spoke with Angeley Mullins, a C-suite leader in the commercial space for various multinational and startup businesses. Angeley discusses her role, how women can get into senior leadership positions and the challenges that women may face in around the world. Links mentioned: The Female Factor: www.femalefactor.global/ & Femme Palette: www.femmepalette.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/commercialofficer/ www.linkedin.com/in/becky-finnegan-1a646939/

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. Our last panel concluded on topics surrounding burnout. Our amazing panel included  Nerissa Caesar, Reward and Wellbeing Specialist @ Westminster City Council and Steph Newton, Co Founder & CCO @ Ambr. The panel were asked what burnout feels like to them and whether it is a personal experience. Our panel also talk about organisations having a duty of care to support their employees and structurally creating work environments that reduce amounts of stress. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This episode focussed on the topic of retention - Is Retention Just a Jail Sentence? Our panel included Paul Estes Founder @ XpertLinkAI and Shwetal Randive, Global Senior Director, Learning, Talent Development and Employer Branding @ Radisson Hotel Group. They spoke about the goal, to retain people and whether we still trying to achieve retention at all. Companies are still building a system where people want to stay, but the question now is not whether we doing enough, but whether there is something that we can we do differently Have a listen to what our panellists think.. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This conversation was about Providing the Netflix of Learning Experience with Jon Moon who is Learning Experience & Technology Lead @ Sodexo. Jon spoke about personalising technology to work in a certain way. He discussed how learning management systems should be based on what others require and questioned what is a perfectly personalised learning plan and how are we tagging our learning? I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. Within this episode, Ben Kaminsky who is Founder & CEO @ EVA.ai discusses building your talent for the future and workforce planning. This conversation focused on how we use data beyond analysis and how to enable workforce intelligence. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

9. his episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This particular conversation was around DEI: A Journey from Ticking Boxes to Accessibility Hear from our panellists Annika Allen who is Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at All3Media, Manjuri Sinha, Global Director of Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding & Onboarding @ OLX Group and Sola Osinoiki Global VP, Office of CIO at Prosus Group who discuss building an accessible psychologically safe and inclusive environment. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. Sam Isaacson who is Global Director of Consulting at CoachHub hosted a fascinating session about how important curiosity is in business, how the role of the growth mindset can play directly into this and how the role of coaching can act as an enabler for employees to become more naturally curious. Sam also looked at how to scale that globally across multidisciplinary teams, whilst making it sustainable. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This conversation was around Creating a Transparent Future Career with Patrick Treml HR Director at ATOS Digital and Sharron Pamplin Chief People Officer at Lloyd's Register. Our panellists spoke about what really matters to our employees, whether flexibility or pay. They also discuss defining careers and the journey through to professional life. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This panel session was around Winning Women: Is the Future Optimistic? Our panel included Nadia Hutchinson who is Global Director, HR Services and Operation @ Cabot Corporation, Farhana Kuddus who is Global Head of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at 10x Banking and Bine Aagaard Johanson who is the Managing Director of Jellyfish. Our panellists discuss how they have got into the position they are in today and whether female allyship promotes leadership roles for women. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand.

Annapurna Recruitment and Taxfix proudly co-hosted ‘Womxn Techfixers' – an event to promote conversations around women in leadership positions, especially within the technology industry. For this episode, we partnered with Taxfix who have an intuitive app which enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence- one small step towards financial wellbeing for everyone. The panel of experts for this podcast are: Usha Devasi – Tech Lead at JOKR, an online grocery app Rachel Magasweran – Director of Technical Programme Management at Taxfix Rhiannon White – Chief Product Officer at Clue, a period tracking app Barbara Surmanowicz – Associate Group Product Manager at Taxfix

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. Within this session Jon Ingham who is the Director @ Strategic HR Academy spoke about talent management continuing to become ever more critical to business performance. However, workforce needs and expectations are changing fast and are increasingly challenging to meet. Employee experience is turning into a commodity. In today's world of work, talented individuals need to know that their employers will help them transform. Enabling this requires organisations to move beyond customised and personalised to truly hyper-personalised approaches. HR processes must integrate new leadership behaviours with digital technologies, including frictionless and people-centric service delivery systems. Attend this presentation and discussion to learn why hyper-personalisation is so essential, and what it is you now need to do. More information is available in UKG's report, ‘How hyper-personalisation can transform your employee experience', available via HRZone: https://www.hrzone.com/resources/how-hyper-personalisation-can-transform-your-employee-experience. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out www.goerupt.com for further content and for all videos on demand.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. This. Particular session was around Multi-modal Leadership: Developing Emotional Intelligence Our panel included Andrew Fox, Head of HR UK & International @ VTB Capital and Debaraj Dutta who is the Director of Leadership Development @ Novanta Inc. The panel discussed their idea of what a leader is and how leadership is a skill that can exist within everyone. Our panellists believe that people are expecting more from a leader than ever before and that situational leadership has become very important. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out www.goerupt.com for further content and for all videos on demand.

Welcome to ERUPT, the home for how businesses can scale and transform. Throughout this podcast, we aim to inspire and educate to help you and your business to thrive. Within this series in partnership with A1QA, Randyl discusses what role Quality Assurance (QA) plays as a means for successful digital transformation and how you embed QA throughout a digital transformation project.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. Within this session our panel included: Stan Horwitz, Head of Transformation @ LRQA, Amber Harris, Assessment and Talent Strategy Specialist @ AON and Sydney Samuels, CEO & Founder @ Loop Not Luck. Our panel spoke about how 25-30% of workforce will be Gen Z by 2025. So how is this Gen Z shift controlling our future workforce and emerging talent? I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website: www.goerupt.com for further content and for all videos on demand.

Welcome to ERUPT, the home for how businesses can scale and transform. Throughout this podcast, we aim to inspire and educate to help you and your business to thrive. Within this series in partnership with A1QA, Preeti discusses what quality means to her and how organisations can embed QA through a Digital transformation project.

This episode is from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. In this episode, Chris Pether, Founder and Managing Director @PeopleSmart SAS, talks about different generations and cultural and competency frameworks. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out www.goerupt.com for further content and for all videos on demand.

Welcome to ERUPT, the home for how businesses can scale and transform. Throughout this podcast, we aim to inspire and educate to help you and your business to thrive. Within this series in partnership with A1QA, Deepak discusses software quality and what it is for different companies as well as how narrow-focused Quality Assurance (QA) specialists make the project more effective than cross-functional QA engineers.

Welcome to the first episode from our ERUPT Learning and Talent Conference which was hosted in September 2022. The conference focused on topics from developing emotional intelligence to creating a transparent future career. Within this episode, Michael Banks (Principal Consultant at PeopleSmart SAS), Borbála Molnár Molnar (Head of Coaching and Mentoring at Nokia) Anique van Lent (Associate Director of Talent Development at Media.Monks) and Emiel Brok (Head of Training Services EMEA & APJ at SUSE). Our panel discussed the evolving role of the leader and what they are seeing within their organisations with respect to getting the most engaged and productive employees. I hope you enjoy and make sure you check out the GO ERUPT website for further content and for all videos on demand: https://www.goerupt.com

Welcome to ERUPT, the home for how businesses can scale and transform. Throughout this podcast, we aim to inspire and educate to help you and your business to thrive. Within this series in partnership with A1QA, James discusses how organisations can embed QA throughout a digital transformation project and whether agile needs QA or whether QA needs agile to be successful.

This is a point of inflection for women in technology. Never before has the technology ecosystem invested so heavily in attracting, retaining and engaging a more diverse workforce. Representation is beginning to take a positive angle, but there is still a wide gap when it comes to women in senior technology positions. We can no longer just inspire women to want to work in tech, we must provide them with the environment and, ultimately, the opportunities to act on their skills. The panel was hosted by Oana Iordachescu (Head of TA - Technology & Analytics at Wayfair) and will include: Birgit Pohl (Engineering Manager at Taxfix) Natali Vlatko (Global Lead, Open Source Program Office at Wayfair) Viktoriia Prokopchuk (Engineering Manager at Adjust) Anna Smolina (Director, Data & Analytics at Homeday) Join this fascinating panel of women technology leaders for what will be an insightful and interactive discussion, looking at how to accelerate women into senior leadership positions, the role of men and organisations in fostering the next generation of talent from diverse backgrounds, how to overcome imposter syndrome, the role of mentoring, sponsorship and much more. Thank you so much to Wayfair Berlin for hosting the event.

On Thursday 21st July, Annapurna held their second ForTheFounders live event. This time, the discussion was regarding Women Founders with the topic of “The Future is Female”. The discussion was set up as a chance to learn more from empowering women to find out their backstory of becoming a founder and how they managed to set up their business to become a success within their industry. Our host, Chief Evangelist, Mark Frost talks to: Carola Jonas - Carola is the CEO and Co-Founder of EVERTY, an electric vehicle charging network and charging station management software solution. EVERTY works with EV owners, businesses, utilities and other organisations to increase the uptake of EVs and making EV ownership and use easier. Jerrica Kirkley - Queer trans woman, doctor and startup founder based in Denver, Colorado. Founded Plume, an app-based gender-affirming care service for trans folks, to increase access to gender-affirming medical care across the country. Her goal is to not only provide much needed and lifesaving medical services, but to transform the way the world thinks about healthcare and gender. Sarah Hawley - Sarah Hawley is the CEO and Founder of Growmotely, the world's first end-to-end platform that facilitates conscious companies in hiring equally-conscious remote professionals - of all nationalities - into long-term remote jobs. Driven by her passion for the freedom that remote work provides professionals and companies alike, she is trailblazing the space - as a thought leader and creator - where remote work, conscious leadership, and personal and professional growth intersect. Shoestring recognised her as one of the Top Female Entrepreneurs under 40

In today's episode, we had a conversation about Robotic Process & Intelligent Automation. Cem Dilmegani founder of AI Multiple, Justina Kasiuleviciute who was head of robotic process automation at ESO and Tom Leggett , associate partner at Wipro talk about creating efficient processes with technology.

In todays episode, we had a conversation about the opportunities and threats of digitalisation with Syreeta Brown who is CPO at Virgin Money and Marcelo Borges who is an organisational effectiveness director at Alter Domus.

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of embracing change, and learning after lockdown from a HR leadership perspective with Paulo Pisano from booking.com.

This episode of The BTN podcast is a conversation with Jeremy Blain who is the Founder and CEO of Performance Works International. This conversation looks at how the journey of business transformation starts with leadership inspiration. Visit Us: www.thebtn.tv/join Follow Us: twitter.com/TheBusinessTN

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of introducing a universal workforce model and whether this is a necessity or just a pipedream. This panel included Dave Ulrich, Co-Founder and principal at the RBL Group, Bruce Morton who is Head of Strategy at Allegis Global Solutions, John Boudreau who is a professor at the University of Southern California and Simon Bradberry who is Vice President at Allegis.

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of Navigating making a difference as HR. This episode explains how the pandemic affected EasyJet and its operations and how they adjusted to survive. This panel included Ella Bennett, Group People Director at EasyJet and Simon Cunniffe, HR shared services Director at EasyJet.

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of The Language of Change for Continuous Improvement vs the need for transformation with James Coughlan, Digital Transformation Advisor and Programme Lead at Born Group, Stan Horwitz, Change and OD Manager at Lloyd's Register and Simon Williams, Programme Change Director at Cambridge University.

This episode of The BTN podcast is a conversation with Louise Ellekilde Fogstrup who is the founder and partner of enabling change, a purpose-driven leadership and change consultancy. This conversation looks at setting yourself up to make an impact and enabling change. Visit Us: www.thebtn.tv/join Follow Us: twitter.com/TheBusinessTN

On Thursday 24th March, Annapurna ERUPT hosted its first Linkedin Live event. This event was part of the For The Founders series, held by Chief Evangelist, Mark Frost. With over 160 attendees, this event raised the topic of Tech For Good with 3 founders of 3 different Technology organisations. Our speakers for this panel included: Ruth von Heusinger – Founder & Managing Director ForTomorrow Leitha Matz – Chief People Officer /Co-Founder of FinMarie Philipp Skribanowitz – CEO | Founder at Mimi Hearing Technologies GmbH We wanted to discover: How are they doing it? Why are they doing it? What is the impact it will have on our planet?

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of The Great Resignation and how technology is helping to transform Learning and Career Development with Donald Ross (Head of Learning & Engagement Solutions for EMEA North at SAP).

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of being a leader and changing leadership styles throughout the pandemic with Andrew Fox (Head of HR UK & International at VTB Capital).

In today's episode, we discuss the impact of mass-scale remote working on innovation and being able to retain the element of human creativity in the age of technology. For this session, our panel included Soeren Winter, Director of TA at Wayfair, Mischa Walmsley, Senior Talent Partner at Element & Naomi Timperley, Co-Founder of Tech North Advocates and GSI.

In today's episode, we discuss the topic of showcasing value in the modern environment as a hybrid leader. For this session, our panel included Michael Banks, Principal Consultant at PeopleSmart SAS, Sabine Weishaupt, Chapter Lead, Future Leadership Design at Deutsche Telekom, Monique Choudhuri, Non Executive Director at Brentford FC & Sofia Liasi, Senior L&D Partner, Global Leadership Development at Novartis.

In today's episode, we discuss Neurodiversity, which was one of the key highlights of the ERUPT2021 conference. For this session our panel included  Simon Prior who is Senior Test Manager at easyJet, Martin Carpenter , the CIO at Synomics Limited) and Rebecca Green who is the Global Employer Brand and Talent Attraction Lead at Rolls Royce. They discussed whether Neurodiversity is the Secret to Bridging the Technology Talent Gap.

How are digital technologies vastly improving businesses with start-up and scale-up leaders? For The Founders series (hosted by Mark Frost - ERUPT Growth Partnership Manager at Annapurna ERUPT) is a discussion based series of interviews with industry leaders from start-up and scale-up companies. With digital technology vastly improving and changing the landscape, For The Founders aims to uncover the secrets and insights into how technology is impacting the growth of businesses. This particular discussion was held with Leitha Matz, Chief People Officer and Co-Founder of FinMarie and Digital leader and mentor with 20 years of experience in product and program management. FinMarie, founded in 2018, is the first online investment solution made by women, for women in Europe. The business was created to provide women, at any stage of their financial journey, the opportunity to have control and confidence over their finances. They combine personal financial advice with an online investment solution. They have built a platform with a mission to develop the technology and services that address women's professional potential and aim to close the investment and pension gaps. This discussion demonstrated how FinMarie has been able to transform the traditional in what is seen as a typically monolithic industry which is generally slow-moving to change.

The DEI Bucket List Podcast with Kobi Ampoma by The Business Transformation Network

The DEI Bucket List Podcast with Megan Giannini by The Business Transformation Network