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Lesley Swarbrick, HR Director, Time Inc. - Video Interview

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Lesley Swarbrick, HR Director at Time Inc. talks to HRD Connect about the importance of organisational development (OD) and tells us why it’s a subject that she is so passionate about and how leaders should be embracing new knowledge to lead in new and unpredictable climates.

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Time Inc. UK is in the process of transforming from a low investment and declining legacy print media business into a modern consumer media company, driving digital and diversified revenue growth across multiple platforms, while protecting legacy revenues.

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Achieving such a large-scale change initiative is no mean feat, requiring careful management and an overarching focus on organisational design (OD). The choice of approach to unlocking the change in culture has been key to its successes to date. Enabling each leader, in particular the transformation team, to become change agents for the cultural shift the organisation wanted to see was pivotal.

Lesley Swarbrick talks to HRD Connect about the importance of organisational development (OD) and tells us why it’s a subject that she is so passionate about and how leaders should be embracing new knowledge to lead in new and unpredictable climates.

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