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The Brightmine Podcast (UK)

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Employment Rights Bill
Gender Pay Gap
Employment Rights Act 2025
Trade Unions
Menopause
Well-Being Strategies
Probationary Periods
EU Pay Transparency Directive
UK Immigration
Flexible Working
Industrial Action
Parental Leave
Men's Health
Neurodiversity
Employee Support
Career Development
Unfair Dismissal
Brightmine
Employment Law
Protection From Redundancy, Pregnancy and Family Leave Act, 2023

XpertHR is now Brightmine. This podcast brings you must-have employment law guidance, HR best practice and insights, from the team behind the UK's leading online HR resource.

PublishesTwice monthlyEpisodes259Founded7 years ago
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Latest Episodes

Organisation design expert and From-To founder Lilian Duckart joins Brightmine HR strategy and practice editor Laura Kimpton to discuss how HR departments can use organisation design to meet the changing needs of their business - and how AI can help.... more

Research suggests that AI is making a nonsense of the traditional equivalence between output and productivity and creating a new category of worker: the person who is thriving themselves into exhaustion.

Jeremy Hollander joins the podcast to discus... more

Pay gap reporting is about to get an important upgrade.

Michelle Gyimah, pay gap strategist and founder of Equality Pays, joins the podcast to break down what the Employment Rights Act 2025 changes really mean - and how HR can get ahead of the lik... more

With early pay awards showing signs of growth, Sheila Attwood joins the podcast to dig into what the data tells us about pay award plans for the year ahead, and how employers can navigate the growing tension between affordability and employee expecta... more

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Recent Guests

Lilian Duckart
Founder of FromTo; organization design practitioner
FromTo; European Organization Design Forum
Episode: Employment Rights Act special – how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change
Laura Kimpton
HR strategy and practice editor at Brightmine
Brightmine
Episode: Employment Rights Act special – how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change
Jeremy Hollander
Expert in enterprise technology and HR/AI, guest on the episode
Confidential based on introduction
Episode: The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Michelle Gyimah
Pay gap strategist and founder of Equality Pays
Equality Pays
Episode: Gender pay gap reporting – lessons learned and what comes next
Sheila Attwood
Senior Content Manager at Brightmine and reward specialist
Brightmine
Episode: Pay reviews in 2026 – balancing budgetary pressures and employee expectations
Caroline Green
CEO and founder of The Talent Cycle, focuses on supporting women in the workplace
The Talent Cycle
Episode: Employment Rights Act 2025 – will women in the workplace benefit?
Becs Peedell
In-house employment lawyer at law firm Lewis Silkin
Lewis Silkin
Episode: Rethinking how your organisation supports new parents
Shantha David
Head of Legal Services at Unison
Unison
Episode: Employment Rights Bill – trade unions and workers' rights
Cathryn Edmondson
Reward consultant from Innecto Reward Consulting
Innecto Reward Consulting
Episode: Gender pay gap reporting - challenges and upcoming changes

Host

Robert Shaw
Host of Brightmine podcast (UK), associated with Brightmine (formerly XpertHR)

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 38 ratings
  • Professional, succinct and relevant

    I have recently discovered this podcast having signed up to xpertHR subscription at work. I like podcasts and have found the quality of xpertHR to be excellent. On trend, great speakers and succinct. Highly recommend.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    sebollie
    United Kingdom4 years ago

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High-quality speakers and data-driven insights consistently come through.
Content is on-trend, succinct, and practical for HR teams.
The show integrates policy updates with actionable workplace guidance.

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The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Q: Are employers truly integrating AI or waiting to see how others implement it first?
There has been a shift in the last six to nine months toward integrating AI tools; if we don't, we risk falling behind competitors, and many enterprises are now expecting use of AI as a baseline.
The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!
Q: Did this Harvard Business Review finding surprise you, or confirm what you were already seeing?
It was surprising because AI seems to promise reduced work, but it tends to intensify effort as people take on more and faster tasks, expanding their workload rather than shrinking it.
Essential talent-retention strategies - from secondments to talent pathways
Q: What did you learn as a result of doing the secondment?
The major learning was recognizing the transferability of skills between roles and how they can be applied in various contexts.

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Frequently Asked Questions About The Brightmine Podcast

What is The Brightmine Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on employment law, HR best practices, and organizational policy, with a strong emphasis on UK-wide reforms, reporting requirements, parental leave, wellbeing, and compensation. Episodes frequently blend data-driven insights with practical guidance for people teams, highlighting how legislation, workplace culture, and leadership accountability interact to shape real-world outcomes. Noteworthy is its use of shareable data (e.g., pay gap reporting and pay awards) to inform strategy, plus a consistent focus on turning compliance into sustainable, systems-level improvements rather than box-ticking. The format tends to feature seasoned HR and employment-law experts, often pairing practitioners with academics or practitioners fro... more

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1. Lilian Duckart
2. Laura Kimpton
3. Jeremy Hollander
4. Michelle Gyimah
5. Sheila Attwood
6. Caroline Green
7. Becs Peedell
8. Shantha David

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