Pioneer stories

About Pioneer stories

Pioneer stories is a podcast series in which we interview business founders and leaders who are pioneering new management practices and ways of working to create inspiring organisational cultures. It’s a podcast for business founders and people leaders who are striving to make their own workplaces deliver for their people and who want their culture to be a source of strength that drives the future growth of their company. We interview business founders and leaders who we think we can all learn something from. We get past the conceptual ideas to bring you the day to day habits and practices these businesses use to create and sustain their cultures. We’ll bring you one pioneer each episode so tune in for 30 minutes of wisdom and practical ideas for you to test in your own organisation each week.

Publisher

Bee Heller

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jan 2019

Latest episode

13 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Feb 2026

   People Pioneers in Action with Laura Smith, Chief People Officer at Trade Ledger – Why growing your business means changing your culture

   Laura generously shares her story, including: her lessons learned through scaling and downsizing, the challenges of startup V corporate life, the importance of internal comms and of being commercially minded, why growing your business means changing your culture, her top tip if you’re thinking of refreshing your company values and how to get everyone’s voice heard when you’re spread across locations and time zones.

2. 

   13 Feb 2026

   People Pioneers in Action with Daniel Illes, VP of People at Vinted – How to not mess up the culture of a rapidly growing business

   Daniel shares his experience of what it’s like to join a company with a truly exceptional culture and then be responsible for not messing it up as they grow! His story is one of trying to balance the need for consistency, efficiency and fairness in people processes, with a desire for personalisation, flexibility and consensus-driven decisions that’s kept the company culture so strong.

3. 

   13 Feb 2026

   People Pioneers in Action with JooBee Yeow, Advisor to Start-ups & Learngility Entrepreneur – Decoding relationships between people, processes, structures, systems and ways of working

   JooBee is a trained Systems Engineer with a PhD in Organisational Psychology. Her expertise is in decoding relationships between people, processes, structures, systems and ways of working to implement strategies and tangible actions that help start-ups grow.

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