In our latest blog we speak with Dr Tracy Brower. Sociologist, author and VP of Workplace Insights at Steelcase. Dr Brower talks with Lace Partners’ Chris Howard and Chris Horton about the complexities surrounding the concepts of productivity and happiness at work....
Our latest Talent Dinner gathered key players to discuss the challenges faced by HR and Talent leaders and, of course, to come up with some solutions. Here’s what we discussed, learned and absorbed. We regularly run networking dinners and have a number of different...
In this week’s podcast we a joined by three brilliant guests; Yvonne Wilcock CPO of Empowering People Group (EPG), Caroline Moore Managing Director at Working Transitions and Rena Christou Director and Employment Lawyer at Halborns. With our guests we explore the...
During 2022 we launched a campaign looking at HR’s ‘one big thing’ and one of the biggest challenges Chief People Officers (CPOs) said they were facing was the talent attraction and retention issue. This issue has been a longstanding one for organisations. ...
In this week’s blog we ask our founders Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo what the key objectives and responsibilities of a Chief People Officer (CPO) or Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) are. With combined decades of experience working closely to these roles...
The show's host Chris is joined by Chris Horton as this week's guest is Cat Paterson, Director, HR Business Partner at Elastic. Elastic is a cloud platform that helps organisations find what they need faster, while keeping applications running smoothly, and protecting...
In this latest 60 second video Debbie Mitchell talks about LACE's CPO healthcheck, which is designed to support Chief People Officers (CPO) as they join a new business. The healthcheck can help with those first 100 days and Debbie gives an overview of it in our latest...
A key challenge for HR teams and Chief People Officers (CPOs) is the digital employee experience (EX). But does HR even own it? And how best can the digital EX be monitored and managed? Along with new partners Actual Experience, Dave Page and Cathy Acratopulo,...
Talent featured heavily in our ‘One Big Thing’ whitepaper and campaign we ran in late 2022 and in to Q1 2023 this year. We are speaking to organisations regularly about how to solve their talent problems, and one often overlooked solution sits within alumni relations...
We’ve just held the latest of our regular HR Shared Services community forums and, as usual, it was an invaluable opportunity to find out the HRSS zeitgeist in the new-look post-pandemic hybrid workspace. A host of HRSS professionals joined us at the forum and...
In this episode our podcast host Chris and LACE Partners co-founder and COO Cathy Acratopulo speak with Dave Page, co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Actual Experience. Built on 10 years of academic research, this technology analyses the way humans experience...
Late in 2022 our team interviewed 30 CPOs from a variety of industries to determine what the “One Big Thing” keeping them up at night was. A lot has happened in the last three months and at the close of our campaign we were interested in getting a tech vendor’s...
What are the key trends in the people analytics space? Which challenges will be most significant moving forward? We recently tasked ourselves to find out. At the end of 2022 we interviewed People and Workforce Analytics leaders representing a range of...
Over the last three months our team have been drilling down into some of the most pressing concerns of Chief People Officers / Chief Human Resources Officers to find out what HR's 'One Big Thing’ is. We’ve run a host of events, podcasts, as well as blogs and short...
What better way to discuss the challenges in the talent space with thought leaders and senior HR professionals than at an exclusive dinner? In February 2023, we did just that by hosting an invite-only dinner to talk all things talent with a laser sharp focus on...