Dec 26, 2022
I am taking a quick break for a couple of weeks and I wanted to share with you some of the listener favourites from the back catalogue.
If you haven't had a chance to listen to this one previously, or you're new here, I hope you enjoy this one!
I will be back with fresh new episodes in a couple of weeks!
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There has been a lot of conversation in the media of late about organisations handing out wellbeing days and rolling out new initiatives to combat The Great Resignation. However as you’ll hear in today’s chat, it’s not as simple as adding a few extra days of leave to the calendar; it takes careful, long-term planning and material change at an organisational level.
Jessica Sharpe is the Chief People Office for Entain
Australia, a FTSE 100 company that is one of the world’s largest
sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail
sector. You may be familiar with them as the local home of
Ladbrokes and Neds.
Jess has spent her career establishing and enhancing the HR
functions into numerous businesses across multiple industries and
as she reflects in this episode, whilst it has at times been a
challenging path, it is one that has equipped her well in running
lean and effective teams and learning how to influence and educate
stakeholders on the value of investing in their people.
When Jess isn’t at work, influencing and optimising human
behaviour, she’s at home attempting to do the same with her three
boys!
Myself and the team here at COMUNiTI have had the great
pleasure of working alongside Jess and her leadership team over the
past 12mths, supporting their workplace transformation as they
navigated the challenges of operating in a COVID world. We have
been very privileged to have been able to witness first-hand the
practices that have been implemented to see Entain leading the way
in workplace flexibility, health & wellbeing and leadership that
has enabled them to roll out Entain Day.
In this chat, we also cover;
Jess’s career journey to date and how she came to be the
Chief People Officer at Entain How the organisation has evolved in
response to the global pandemic Entains mission to drive diversity
& inclusion, not just in the technology sector but globally And
Jess’s own personal practices to support her living her own work
life by design Jess is a warm, engaging and thoughtful leader
and the opportunity to glean her insights in how she has supported
Entain to move forward with such a bold workplace initiative is
truly inspiring.
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