Claire Markwardt, Managing Partner for Q5 North America, was delighted to join Christine Zmuda and Muge Wood on their ‘Refirement Life’ podcast, on the topic of making your third career chapter your best chapter. In this podcast, Claire shares her personal career journey, from her first chapter as a successful Partner at Accenture for 20 years, through her second running her own firm for 12 years, to her third as the Q5’s Managing Partner, Q5 North America. Claire discusses: How her personal goals of serving and bettering others, intersects with Q5’s mission and values of building healthy organisations.Trends and shifts she has seen in recent years around culture, with individuals questioning ‘how do we want to operate, behave and govern ourselves both at an individual level and as an organisation?’How Q5 focuses on employee wellbeing and psychological safety, recognising that healthier people are better professionals, world leaders and contributors.

While geopolitical and economic tremors continue to drive uncertainty in the business environment, they have also sparked greater opportunity for organisations to innovate than ever before. This podcasts explores how necessity and scarcity will drive our next era of innovation and how businesses can adapt to these two key drivers to thrive. Q5’s Principal Consultant Alex Dodds,​​ is joined by expert speakers: Cady Liang, the Ex-APAC Regional Director of Sustainability at Compass Group.Dani Matthews, the Chief Impact Officer at Abundium.Justin Frank, the Head of Strategy and Communications at Goterra.

Employees are no longer retiring at 65 or staying with the same company for 40 years. The average tenure of a Gen Z worker is 2.75 years. Gen Xers, Millennials, Gen Z and Boomers are rubbing alongside each other, with differing motivational needs, in an ever-confusing working world. Our esteemed co-host and panellists cover a broad range of senior business and media sector experiences and opinions, that will ensure a lively and well-informed debate.

Join Q5 and Ceridian for a jointly hosted webinar that explores the biggest opportunities for employers in 2023 to develop and retain their best talent. In this session, we’ll delve into the latest findings from Ceridian’s 2023 Pulse of Talent report to find out what your top talent really wants. We’ll also look at how organizations can use this data to improve work-life balance, increase employee engagement and build organisational resilience.

This jointly hosted webinar, by Q5 and Clarion, will focus on how employees, managers and leaders can actively foster a culture of equity that empowers women and minority groups in the workplace. We’ll ask, ‘How can we truly dismantle the stereotypes and unconscious biases that hold us back from providing equal opportunity across different genders, ethnicities and cultures in our workforce, beyond checklist initiatives and HR programs?’. Our panel consists of four excellent speakers who are paving the way for women leadership in different sectors, including Sharon Rice-Oxley, founder at Q5, Meeta Zakharia, Director of DE&I at McDonald’s, Sarah Tahamtani, Partner and Head of Employment & Business Immigration at Clarion and Marwa Farouq, Leadership Coach & ex-Head of Operations at Teach for all.

Gen Z & Gen X - same same, but different when it comes to employment?   A myth-busting, insight-giving and sweeping-generalisation-challenging conversation hosted by We are The Loves, discussed between Claire Lowson, Janis Mikaela Esteban and Emma Wharton Love about the generations of women in the workplace, and how to address these challenges through creative employer branding.

For our third, ‘What’s Next?’ event in partnership with Prospect magazine, our esteemed co-host and panellists discussed the topic of 'Vision 2030 - what can business leaders do to help drive UK growth?'. Alan Rusbridger, Panel host, Editor-in-Chief of Prospect and formerly Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian was joined by: Matthew Crummack, CEO of Domestic and General.Seema Malhotra, The Labour Party's Shadow Business Minister.Tony Danker, Director-General at CBI (Confederation of British Industry). Given the challenges facing the UK and current economic performance predictions, this is a timely and highly important topic.

Our second ‘What’s Next’ event in partnership with Prospect magazine – The Changing Role of Business in Society. Ellen Halliday, Deputy Editor at Prospect was joined by: Rt Hon. Justine Greening, Chair of the Purpose Coalition.Sarah Gillard, CEO of A Blueprint for Better Business, a leading UK think tank on Purpose Driven Organisations. Sarah previously led the work on Purpose at John Lewis Partnership.Ed Boyd, co-founder of ReGenerate and previously MD of the Centre for Social Justice and advisor to the Cameron government.Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic. Stu’s book highlights social inequality and the devastation that has occurred in our poorest communities over the last decade. This is a fascinating conversation on why and how the role of business is changing, the impact this is having right now and how this is likely to evolve over the next few years. This is a topic every business leader needs to engage with, discussing questions such as: Are we witnessing a paradigm shift, is what makes a business successful being redefined? Will the relationship between business and society be the critical factor in business success going forward? As a leader, what do you need to know and understand about social licence to operate

In Conversation with Q5 presents 'How to tread the fine line between cost reduction and sustainable growth' Q5's Tom Leary is joined by expert speakers, Emma Humphreys, Chief Financial Officer at News UK, Nicola Downing, CEO at Ricoh Europe and Graham Page, Organisational Design Director at Q5. 📈 Answering some of the most important questions facing organisations in 2023: How do you protect your customer/client outcomes whilst reducing cost?How do you protect the culture during a re-alignment phase?How do you ensure costs don't creep back in?How do you determine whether the changes call for a material shift in the way you operate vs doing the 'same with less'?How do you protect your culture and avoid employee fatigue during the re-alignment phase? This podcast discusses questions on all business leaders’ minds around how to reduce business costs while continuing to make sustainable growth in the current climate. Catered to CEO’s, CFO’s and senior executives, our experts share actionable tips on how to enter this process, who to involve and which approach works.

The People Leaders Podcast: Purpose-driven organisations are more than just ‘nice places to work.’ They also tend to have higher market share and grow three times faster than organisations that are not purpose-driven. In this podcast Jan had a lively discussion with Lyndal Hughes, Managing Director of Q5 Australia, a consultancy that helps organisations ‘make change stick.’ Lyndal explained that their work centres around helping organisations and teams find their ‘Why’, collectively and personally, and then work out how their work can be meaningful for all involved. And Lyndal was kind enough to share a free giveaway, a pdf explaining some of the finer points that were covered on the interview (see the link below).

In Conversation with Q5 & Ceridian presents 'What do top employees really want right now, other than great pay?' Q5's Oliver Purnell will be joined by expert speakers Sara Birmingham, Chief People Officer at Shutterstock, Julie Derene, SVP, Global Talent Management at Ceridian and Helena Rodrigue, Chief Happiness Officer at Happy Lab Consulting.

Claire Hamlin and Sheila Fitzsimons are consultants with Q5, a consultancy that specialises in Organisational Health. Kicking off the season on psychological safety at work Claire and Sheila share their thoughts on what psychological safety is (and isn’t) and how leaders and individuals can go about improving it. Their optimistic stance is that it’s not that hard or costly to do, and that real change can and will happen if everyone, not just leaders act. Their challenge – what are you going to do?   Produced by Talking Leaders

We're delighted to invite you to listen our first 'What's Next?' Podcast proudly brought to you by Q5 and Prospect Magazine. Editor-in-chief of Prospect Magazine Alan Rusbridger was joined by expert speakers Mary Homer, CEO of the White Company, Steve Rowe, former CEO of M&S, 2016 - 2022 and Paul Farmer, co-author of Government review ‘Thriving at work' and the CEO at Mind to dive into this fascinating topic. 📈 In the Podcast our experts explore some of the most important questions facing business leaders, including: How is anxiety manifesting itself in both society and inside your organisation? What initiatives are you (or other leaders you know) implementing to address this issue, and have you got any specific examples of where you’ve seen an organisation deal with anxiety in an innovative and effective way?Is it really the role of the business to provide support for external variables contributing to employees' high levels of anxiety?Should business leaders take more responsibility for how they can impact employee anxiety outside of the workplace?  And if so, how?

During this Podcast, we explore how consumer facing companies are navigating an increasingly uncertain and volatile environment that we are all living in. Impacts we touch on include, rising global energy prices, raw material costs, inflation, and the impacts of these on the increased cost of living. Q5's Andy Morris was joined by expert speakers Caroline Thomas, Director of HR at B&Q, James Dorling, Group Development Director at Wilko, Paul Solly, Chief Commercial Officer at Dreams and Debra Goodwin, Chief Customer Officer at Yell. 📈 Listen in to hear answers to some of the most important questions facing retail professionals, including:  What challenges are you expecting to see in the retail industry in the next 18 months?Due to the volatility of the environment, are you finding your organisation is having to do more with less? How are you turning that to your advantage?With less resource and tighter budgets, how are you prioritising as a business? What tough decisions are you having to make?How are you building resilience into your business model to drive growth and mitigate any future challenges?

A healthy organisation culture drives performance, alignment and engagement and is a key differentiator for success. It enables businesses to accelerate the execution of their strategy and galvanise their people for the future.   In this Podcast we discuss: 1. Tested toolkits and approaches for building a healthy culture 2. Examples of organisations who have created healthy cultures 3. Top tips what ever the stage of your organisation's culture journey   Ann Paul & Pavlina Kouvela are joined by expert speakers Rachel Gidman, Executive Director of People and Culture at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Sam Dunn, Business Psychologist, Organisation Development Consultant & Founder of Ealing Partners who will share their top tips and key watch-outs to drive and embed successful culture change.

Continuing Q5’s theme of the quarter on the Purpose-Driven Business, in this Podcast we explore the evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility. The evolution of CSR within organisations is not only a nice to have but also a necessity for organisations seeking to have purpose at their centre. Olivia Taylor is joined by expert speakers Tamsyn Hanrahan, Head of Partnership Development at Save the Children UK, Ian Taylor, Researcher and Policy Associate at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Andy Brown, Head of Sustainability at Anglian Water Services . Please join us for this Podcast where we explore the CSR trends our experts are seeing in both the charity and private sector and reflect on how strategic partnerships can collaboratively tackle some of the world’s big issues.

During this Podcast we explore what it really means to be a purpose driven business... The value of corporate purpose is not a new phenomenon; however, the significance of purpose in today’s climate makes it an instrumental component, taking corporate responsibility way beyond traditional financial targets, ensuring organisations act as a force for customer, community, colleague and environmental good. Counter to some traditional ways of operating, it may dictate decisions that, in the short term, may negatively impact the bottom line, seeing corporates act, not only as vehicles of wealth creation, but as instruments of global and national systems change. Claire Hamlin is joined by expert speakers Kate Adams, Advisor on Organisation Purpose, Performance & People to Execs & Boards and NED at the British Paralympic Association, Mary Pizzey , Research & Programmes Director at ReGenerate and Marcus Southon, Senior Sustainability Manager at Cazoo. Please register to attend. Use this link to sign up to teams

During this Podcast we explore how the Banks and Financial Institutions of the future will be different and how their organisations will need to change their set up, their talent, the ways they behave and operate. Chris Parsons was joined by expert speakers Clare Courtney, SVP Organisational Effectiveness at Finastra, with expertise in building new centres of expertise in organisation design and organisational effectiveness, Jenny Jackson, Director of Metro Bank University and People Risk. Jenny is an experienced HR Director that has worked across multiple industries with a heavy focus on the Financial services industry and James Perry, Head Of Client Delivery at Bud.

During this webinar we will explore the impact of hybrid working, purposeful work and how shifting our own mindsets can make the current locational workplace trends appealing and effective for employees. Between our expert speakers we will share practical advice and data points for attendees to ponder for their own organisations. Rick Dzavik is joined by expert speakers Andras Vicsek, Co-founder of Maven7 and Org Mapper, with expertise in mobilizing organizations, accelerating change and breaking down silos via organisational network analytics (ONA) and Dr. Kim Richards, Organisation Psychologist and Q5 Principal with expertise in developing Leadership Capability and Talent Ecosystems that result in agile and innovative organizations.

Bozena is joined by expert speakers who bring insights from current and past roles across a host of well-known brands:  Paul Skipworth, Managing Partner at Inverleith LLP (previously at LVMH Wines & Spirits and Glenmorangie) and Kate Voss, Operations Director at BOL Foods (previously at Innocent).