Lucy Buchholz

2 weeks ago | unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz

As the Senior Vice President of People and Culture at travel technology company, Amadeus, Robert Ortiz is a veteran leader in the HR space, overseeing more than 3,300 employees working across 19 sites and 17 cities, from Canada to Argentina.  In leading the People and Culture area, Ortiz is responsible for employee wellbeing, talent retention, and recruitment, to name just a few areas. But he believes that he has found the secret to success: People-centric cultures.

3 weeks ago | unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz

More businesses are striving to become skills-based organizations, in a bid to diversify talent and to prepare the workforce for the future. But with such a variety of skills available, how do leaders know which ones to prioritize developing and which to seek out in new hires? LinkedIn’s 2025 Skills on the Rise report named the top 15 skills growing in demand in the UK and US, to help leaders identify areas of focus.

3 weeks ago | unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz

Taking the helm of beqom was not necessarily an untested waters for Lars Pedersen – in fact, this is his sixth time as CEO of a private equity-owned company. During his 30-year career, Pedersen has worked with both hardware and software companies, but beqom poses a slightly different path. “This is a new industry for me – that’s been exciting,” he shares exclusively with UNLEASH. “It was exactly the same situation in my previous five roles, where I also came from outside of the respective industry.

3 weeks ago | unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz

Amy Edmondson, Professor at Harvard Business School kicked off Workhuman Live Forum London 2025, to discuss a topic crucial to every employee and employer alike: Psychological safety. In fact, a whopping 89% of employees view psychological safety as essential to the workplace, according to McKinsey. But what is it, why is it important, and how can it be achieved? Edmondson begins: “Psychological safety is not being nice.

4 weeks ago | unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz

Leading HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions provider, UKG, has appointed Beth Conway as the company’s Chief People Officer (CPO). Conway, who will report to the company’s CEO, Jennifer Morgan, will play a crucial role in facilitating UKG’s growth and global expansion of the company. In doing so, she will focus on driving operational excellence across HR, spanning talent acquisition, total rewards, people operations, employee relations, and HCM technology.