The Culture Whisperer - a podcast for HR, Communications and Business Leaders everywhere!

The Culture Whisperer podcast brings to you uplifting conversations with inspirational business leaders exploring their stories, learning and experiences that they see have the biggest impact on organisational culture. Often it can be the smallest 'whispers' that make the biggest difference and there are 'culture whisperers' in every organisation at all levels. We'll be leaning into this and much more!

The Culture Whisperer - a podcast for HR, Communications and Business Leaders everywhere! is a business podcast hosted by Dawn Smedley, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dawn Smedley hosts The Culture Whisperer - a podcast for HR, Communications and Business Leaders everywhere!, a business show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  "The Treat People as You Want to Be Treated One" | with Paul Jones-Nolan, Group People Director, San Carlo Restaurant Group

  May 8, 202654 minS2

  <p>"The smallest things make the biggest difference. Welcome to The Culture Whisperer."</p><p>Some culture whispers are simple. This one is the simplest and most powerful of all. In this episode, Dawn chats with Paul Jones-Nolan — Group People Director at the San Carlo Restaurant Group — a leader who started from the very bottom of hospitality and never forgot it.</p><p>Paul shares what it means to build culture in the world of restaurants and hospitality, why art became an unexpected cultural catalyst at San Carlo, and how showing up with fairness, authenticity and genuine care for people — even i...

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  Episode #2

  "The Hope Is a Strategy One" | with Ian Pettigrew, Author & Leadership Coach

  Feb 8, 202652 minS2

  <p>"The smallest things make the biggest difference. Welcome to The Culture Whisperer."</p><p>Hope isn't wishful thinking. It's a leadership strategy. In this episode, Dawn is reunited with her friend and long-time kindred spirit Ian Pettigrew — author of Hope Is a Strategy, positive psychology practitioner and leadership coach — for a conversation brimming with warmth, practical wisdom and, well, hope.</p><p>Ian shares why realistic optimism is essential for effective leadership, how hope is both learnable and teachable, and what it looks like in practice when leaders build hope intentionally into how they show up every day. There are...

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  Episode #1

  "The Leading Change One" | with Tom Kegode, Founder, SparkShift

  Jan 25, 202646 minS2

  <p>"The smallest things make the biggest difference. Welcome to The Culture Whisperer."</p><p>What if transformation didn't have to feel like a tsunami? In this high-energy, joy-filled episode, Dawn is joined by Tom Kegode — former People and Places Transformation Lead at Lloyds Banking Group and founder of SparkShift — a self-described friendly disruptor who helps organisations turn big transformation into small, practical cultural moves that leaders can actually do.</p><p>Tom talks about why the word 'transformation' might be doing more harm than good, how he built an army of 7,000 culture catalysts inside one of the UK's biggest bank...

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  Episode #12

  “The Stroke One” | with Ian Burdin

  Oct 29, 202529 minS1

  <p>“Sometimes culture whispering happens outside of work - in the hardest moments of someone’s life. This is one of those stories.” </p><p><br></p><p>💜 World Stroke Day is about awareness and hope 💜 </p><p>In this Culture Whisperer podcast, I sat down with my old friend of 30 years, Ian Burdin. </p><p>Last summer, Ian had a stroke that changed everything: from walking and cooking… to how he thinks about life, work and what truly matters. He truly has to re-build his life all over again and he is an absolute inspiration! 🦸‍♂️ </p><p>This episode feels deeply personal r...

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  The Culture Whisperer - a podcast for HR, Communications and Business Leaders everywhere!

  "The Follow Your Intuition One" | with Sonia Moore, co-founder of the Situational Coach

  Jun 30, 202556 minS0

  <p>"The smallest things make the biggest difference. Welcome to The Culture Whisperer."</p><p>What happens when you stop ignoring that quiet voice inside you and start listening to it? In this episode, Dawn sits down with Sonia Moore — a brilliant leader whose warmth, wisdom and willingness to share her lived experiences make for one of the most real conversations on the podcast so far. </p><p>Sonia has held so many amazing HR Director roles in her career across diverse industries: Tunstall Healthcare, Muller, Adient, Johnson Controls and Poundland to name just a few and is now co-founder of...

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