Our 12 in 12 Podcast series showcases 12 People Professionals from a wide range of backgrounds as they share their HR story with our podcast host Lucinda in just 12 minutes (or as close to)! Each week in December the podcast will cover 3 of these conversations. Therefore, read on to find out who Lucinda will be speaking with in this week’s episode…

Introducing our first guest, Michelle Parry-Slater

People Professional: Michelle Parry-Slater, Learning and Development Director at Kairos Modern Learning

Michelle is a Senior Learning and Development business strategist & people manager. She is a modern learning specialist who has certainly been recognised on the eLearning industry’s Movers & Shakers list.

Working with a wide range of clients in both corporate and voluntary sectors, Michelle’s areas of interest include blended learning, social learning, digital learning, company culture, organisational development, and leadership.

In addition, Michelle heads up Kairos Modern Learning, working with a range of clients on supporting them to add to their classroom provision with a variety of social and digital learning. Some of her clients include Virtual College, Lindt & Sprungli, and The OCM. She also writes and delivers learning and leadership programmes, including the CIPD's award-winning Level 5 L&D qualification, Data & Metrics for L&D.

Moreover, she covers how to design and deliver successful webinars. By using her years of management experience alongside years of learning delivery, Michelle brings a practical approach to writing and delivering programmes with a focus on strategy, culture, productivity, and leadership. Subsequently, from mid-December 2019, Michelle will be joining the CIPD's learning team as Commercial Learning Manager.

Outside of work, Michelle is a local Guide Leader as well as Lead Volunteer for learning and development at Girlguiding, supporting the Movement's 109,000 adult volunteers.

Key Information:
Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn
Michelle on Twitter: @MiPS1608
Kairos Modern Learning Website

Welcoming our second guest, Tom Robinson

People Professional: Tom Robinson, Managing Director at Talent Tomorrow

Tom is the multi-award-winning Managing Director of Talent Tomorrow, a small Organisational Development consultancy.

Overall, Tom has spent 20 years in senior roles in the behavioural side of Learning and Talent Development. He currently specialises in organisational behaviour, people development and culture change.

In addition, Tom lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children and is a keen triathlete.

Key Information:
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn
Tom on Twitter: @Talent_Tom
Talent Tomorrow Website

Rounding off this episode, our guest Andy Storch

People Professional: Andy Storch, Partner at Advantage Performance Group

Andy Storch is a consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator specializing in helping clients turn strategy into action as well as helping people to do the best work of their lives.

In addition, Andy works with companies to accelerate leadership development, strategy alignment, business acumen, and sales training. He also coaches individuals to help them improve their performance and achieve their goals.

Andy is also the host of two podcasts, including The Talent Development Hot Seat and Andy Storch Show, as well as the Talent Development Think Tank Conference and Community.

Furthermore, Andy has taught strategy, sales, leadership, finance, and business acumen to business leaders all over the world and has started or worked for multiple start-up companies. Some of Andy’s past clients have included Salesforce.com, NOV, Oracle, Google, Box, Toyota, Genentech, State Farm, Red Bull, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, HP, Sony, Bechtel, Cisco as well as small businesses and startup CEOs looking to grow their businesses.

Andy has worked with leaders across almost every industry—from software to insurance—and has seen the difference that experiential learning, practice, coaching, and accountability can make in improving overall performance.

Andy is also a partner with Advantage Performance Group. Moreover, he holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business where he served as President of the MBA program in 2008 and a BS in Information Sciences from the University of Florida.

Key Information:
Connect with Andy on LinkedIn
Andy on Twitter: @AndyStorch
Phone: 407-476-4853
Email: storch@advantageperformance.com 
Advantage Performance Group Website

Valuable Resources
Host of The HR Uprising Podcast, Lucinda Carney, is also the founder and CEO of Actus Software, where you can find additional free HR Resources: https://actus.co.uk/free-performance-management-resources/

About The Host

Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. Therefore, it was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up’ together.

"When we look up we rise up”

Contact Method
Join the HR Uprising LinkedIn community - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/
Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/
Twitter: @lucindacarney
Instagram: @hruprising
Facebook: @hruprising
YouTube: Channel 

Our 12 in 12 Podcast series showcases 12 People Professionals from a wide range of backgrounds as they share their HR story with our podcast host Lucinda in just 12 minutes (or as close to)! Each week in December the podcast will cover 3 of these conversations. Therefore, read on to find out who Lucinda will be speaking with in this week&rsquo;s episode&hellip;
Introducing our first guest, Michelle Parry-Slater
People Professional: Michelle Parry-Slater, Learning and Development Director at <a href="https://www.kairosml.co.uk/">Kairos Modern Learning</a>
Michelle is a Senior Learning and Development business strategist &amp; people manager. She is a modern learning specialist who has certainly been recognised on the eLearning industry&rsquo;s Movers &amp; Shakers list.
Working with a wide range of clients in both corporate and voluntary sectors, Michelle&rsquo;s areas of interest include blended learning, social learning, digital learning, company culture, organisational development, and leadership.
In addition, Michelle heads up Kairos Modern Learning, working with a range of clients on supporting them to add to their classroom provision with a variety of social and digital learning. Some of her clients include Virtual College, Lindt &amp; Sprungli, and The OCM. She also writes and delivers learning and leadership programmes, including the CIPD's award-winning Level 5 L&amp;D qualification, Data &amp; Metrics for L&amp;D.
Moreover, she covers how to design and deliver successful webinars. By using her years of management experience alongside years of learning delivery, Michelle brings a practical approach to writing and delivering programmes with a focus on strategy, culture, productivity, and leadership. Subsequently, from mid-December 2019, Michelle will be joining the CIPD's learning team as Commercial Learning Manager.
Outside of work, Michelle is a local Guide Leader as well as Lead Volunteer for learning and development at Girlguiding, supporting the Movement's 109,000 adult volunteers.
Key Information:
<ul>
<li>Connect with Michelle on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleparryslater/">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li>Michelle on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/mips1608?lang=en">@MiPS1608</a></li>
<li>Kairos Modern Learning <a href="https://www.kairosml.co.uk/">Website</a></li>
</ul>
Welcoming our second guest, Tom Robinson
People Professional: Tom Robinson, Managing Director at <a href="https://www.talenttomorrow.co.uk/">Talent Tomorrow</a>
Tom is the multi-award-winning Managing Director of Talent Tomorrow, a small Organisational Development consultancy.
Overall, Tom has spent 20 years in senior roles in the behavioural side of Learning and Talent Development. He currently specialises in organisational behaviour, people development and culture change.
In addition, Tom lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children and is a keen triathlete.
Key Information:
<ul>
<li>Connect with Tom on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/talenttom/">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li>Tom on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/talent_tom">@Talent_Tom</a></li>
<li>Talent Tomorrow <a href="https://www.talenttomorrow.co.uk/">Website</a></li>
</ul>
Rounding off this episode, our guest Andy Storch
People Professional: Andy Storch, Partner at <a href="https://www.advantageperformance.com/">Advantage Performance Group</a>
Andy Storch is a consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator specializing in helping clients turn strategy into action as well as helping people to do the best work of their lives.
In addition, Andy works with companies to accelerate leadership development, strategy alignment, business acumen, and sales training. He also coaches individuals to help them improve their performance and achieve their goals.
Andy is also the host of two podcasts, including The Talent Development Hot Seat and Andy Storch Show, as well as the Talent Development Think Tank Conference and Community.
Furthermore, Andy has taught strategy, sales, leadership, finance, and business acumen to business leaders all over the world and has started or worked for multiple start-up companies. Some of Andy&rsquo;s past clients have included Salesforce.com, NOV, Oracle, Google, Box, Toyota, Genentech, State Farm, Red Bull, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, HP, Sony, Bechtel, Cisco as well as small businesses and startup CEOs looking to grow their businesses.
Andy has worked with leaders across almost every industry&mdash;from software to insurance&mdash;and has seen the difference that experiential learning, practice, coaching, and accountability can make in improving overall performance.
Andy is also a partner with Advantage Performance Group. Moreover, he holds an MBA from the University of Southern California&rsquo;s Marshall School of Business where he served as President of the MBA program in 2008 and a BS in Information Sciences from the University of Florida.
Key Information:
<ul>
<li>Connect with Andy on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li>Andy on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/andystorch?lang=en">@AndyStorch</a></li>
<li>Phone: 407-476-4853</li>
<li>Email: <a href="mailto:storch@advantageperformance.com">storch@advantageperformance.com </a></li>
<li>Advantage Performance Group <a href="https://www.advantageperformance.com/">Website</a></li>
</ul>
Valuable Resources
<ul>
<li>Host of The HR Uprising Podcast, Lucinda Carney, is also the founder and CEO of Actus Software, where you can find additional free HR Resources: <a href="https://actus.co.uk/free-performance-management-resources/">https://actus.co.uk/free-performance-management-resources/</a></li>
</ul>
About The Host
<a href="https://hruprising.com/about-lucinda-carney/">Lucinda Carney</a> is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&amp;D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. Therefore, it was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to &lsquo;rise up&rsquo; together.
"When we look up we rise up&rdquo;
Contact Method
<ul>
<li>Join the HR Uprising LinkedIn community - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/</a></li>
<li>Email: <a href="mailto:Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk">Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk</a></li>
<li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/</a></li>
<li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LucindaCarney">@lucindacarney</a></li>
<li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lucinda_hruprising/">@hruprising</a></li>
<li>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HRUprising/?modal=admin_todo_tour">@hruprising</a></li>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElHrzfM0DVcvS7FuoQtOhw">Channel </a></li>
</ul>

Welcome to the HR Uprising Podcast.

This engaging podcast explores HR ‘hot’ topics and challenges through conversations with relevant experts and real-life HR; O.D. or L&D professionals. HR Uprising is about creating an inclusive forum that enables us to share and learn from experts and everyday professionals. Hosted by Actus CEO Lucinda Carney a Business Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist; Experienced HR Change Agent; Entrepreneur; Speaker and Coach. There are two types of show format the ‘In focus’ episodes where Lucinda delves into a specialist topic in some depth and the ‘Conversations with’ series where we interview experts and people like you. Our hope is that our shows are both informative and fun.
The HR Uprising Podcast is all about learning through collaboration; taking evidence-based action and helping colleagues to have the confidence and skills to rise-up through their organisations by delivering real, lasting business value. You can access more information on each Podcast including resources or links mentioned in the show at our website www.hruprising.com. If you are a forward-thinking HR; L&D or O.D. professional who has a success story or challenge that others can learn from and you would like to be featured in future podcasts you can get in touch through one of the routes below.

Connect with us here:                                                                                                                                      Join the LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/
Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising  X (Twitter): @hruprising YouTube: @ActusSoftware   

Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Software, which offers a fully integrated HR solution designed to simplify performance management. Our comprehensive Performance, Learning, and Talent Suite enhances employee development and engagement. For more information, please visit our website at www.actus.co.uk and request a free demo from one of our HR experts. Our products include: Performance Management, Learning Management (LMS), Talent Management, 360 Feedback and Survey, Onboarding, HRIS and HR Compliance. 

Connect with Actus here:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/2400060/admin/dashboard/
Instagram: @actussoftware Facebook: @actussoftware YouTube: @ActusSoftware X (Twitter): @ActusSoftware
Lucinda also offers bespoke, high quality HR training through Actus’ learning solutions. Topics include: Dealing with Underperformance, Managing for High Performance, Change Superhero Training and Bite Size Training. For more information see the Training section on the Actus website.

Welcome to the HR Uprising Podcast.
This engaging podcast explores HR ‘hot’ topics and challenges through conversations with relevant experts and real-life HR; O.D. or L&amp;D professionals. HR Uprising is about creating an inclusive forum that enables us to share and learn from experts and everyday professionals. Hosted by Actus CEO Lucinda Carney a Business Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist; Experienced HR Change Agent; Entrepreneur; Speaker and Coach. There are two types of show format the ‘In focus’ episodes where Lucinda delves into a specialist topic in some depth and the ‘Conversations with’ series where we interview experts and people like you. Our hope is that our shows are both informative and fun. The HR Uprising Podcast is all about learning through collaboration; taking evidence-based action and helping colleagues to have the confidence and skills to rise-up through their organisations by delivering real, lasting business value. You can access more information on each Podcast including resources or links mentioned in the show at our website <a href="http://www.hruprising.com">www.hruprising.com</a>. If you are a forward-thinking HR; L&amp;D or O.D. professional who has a success story or challenge that others can learn from and you would like to be featured in future podcasts you can get in touch through one of the routes below.
Connect with us here:                                                                                                                                      Join the LinkedIn community: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/</a> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/ Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising  X (Twitter): @hruprising YouTube: @ActusSoftware   
Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Software, which offers a fully integrated HR solution designed to simplify performance management. Our comprehensive Performance, Learning, and Talent Suite enhances employee development and engagement. For more information, please visit our website at www.actus.co.uk and request a free demo from one of our HR experts. Our products include: Performance Management, Learning Management (LMS), Talent Management, 360 Feedback and Survey, Onboarding, HRIS and HR Compliance. 
Connect with Actus here:                                                                                                                                  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/2400060/admin/dashboard/ Instagram: @actussoftware Facebook: @actussoftware YouTube: @ActusSoftware X (Twitter): @ActusSoftware Lucinda also offers bespoke, high quality HR training through Actus’ learning solutions. Topics include: Dealing with Underperformance, Managing for High Performance, Change Superhero Training and Bite Size Training. For more information see the Training section on the Actus website.

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