The HR Sessions
An Executive Nomad Podcast
Five HR voices.
One table. Every two months.
"I've spent thirty years watching HR carry the reinvention conversation for everyone else in the business. Nobody has one for them. So we built a room for it."
Six times a year, four to six HR professionals sit down together and talk about the parts of the job nobody puts in a LinkedIn post. Not a solo interview. Not a webinar. A room.
Apply for a panel seat ›Bi-monthly. Group format. Four to six HR professionals per show. Remote recording, worldwide.
You're a senior HR professional, in-house or freelance. You've sat in the room when the redundancies were decided, run the exit interviews nobody wanted to run, and watched the org chart get redrawn twice in one year while everyone asked you to make it feel dignified.
You have a point of view. You've mostly kept it to yourself, because HR isn't supposed to have opinions out loud.
This is where it goes on record.
Six angles. One conversation you don't usually get to have.
You're not booked for one lane. Bring the angle that fits where you sit, or range across all six.
The exit isn't the failure
What HR actually sees when someone leaves, and why the profession still treats departure as a defeat instead of a design choice.
Redundancy, done properly
The gap between the process HR is handed and the process HR wishes it could run. What dignified actually looks like when nobody's budget agrees with it.
HR as the last honest function
Why HR ends up holding the truth about a business that leadership doesn't want to say out loud, and what that costs the people who carry it.
Freelance HR and the trust problem
Building an independent HR practice when the market still assumes "freelance" means "couldn't get hired."
AI, and what HR is actually worried about
Not the panic headlines. The real operational question: what does HR's job look like in three years, and who's deciding that.
What happens to the people who leave well
The senior leaders HR has helped exit gracefully. Where they end up. What HR never finds out, and maybe should.
Five voices. One table. Every two months.
4–6 HR professionals per episode, freelance and in-house
Recorded remotely, released as video and audio
45–60 minutes, structured around one theme, not a free-for-all
Bi-monthly, six shows a year
One episode or a recurring seat, your call
Being recorded is the smallest part of this.
Here's the rest.
Content, cut and ready
Vertical clips from your best moments, captioned and edited for LinkedIn. Not raw footage you have to fix yourself.
A post already written
A LinkedIn post drafted around your strongest point in the episode. Posting takes you two minutes, not two hours.
A page that outlives the episode
A guest profile on executivenomad.com with your bio, headshot, and a link back to your own site or profile.
An audience that isn't already yours
We promote the episode to our list and network. You're in front of people who've never heard of you.
The transcript
Everything you said, in writing. Pull quotes for your own newsletter, articles, or pitch decks.
The room itself
Four to six senior HR peers, in one conversation, more than once if you come back. This is the actual reason to apply.
How it works
Apply
Tell us where you sit in HR, freelance or in-house, and which of the six angles you'd take.
A short fit call
Fifteen minutes. We check the panel balances, not just fills seats.
You're booked
Date, theme, and fellow panelists confirmed ahead of recording.
Record
45–60 minutes, remote, video and audio.
Assets land in your inbox
Clips, post draft, transcript, and your guest page live, usually within two weeks.
Hosted by Jamie Sylvian, founder of Executive Nomad. Thirty years running businesses across borders. Co-founder of a London company that sold to E.W. Scripps for £210m in 2006. Advisory work spanning the British Royal Family, the House of Lords, and the Chairman of British Gas.
The HR Sessions exists for one reason: HR professionals see career reinvention up close, more often than anyone else in a business, and get asked about it the least.
Apply for a panel seat.
Bi-monthly. Four to six voices. One table.
Apply for a panel seat ›Available worldwide, remote recording.
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