This episode features an interview with Dr. Mary Meaney, Former Senior Partner at McKinsey and Beamery Board Member. Having worked across different companies and sectors throughout her career, Dr. Mary helps advise a broad range of clients on transformational change, top team alignment, capability-building, leadership development, human resource strategy and performance improvement.
On today’s episode, Dr. Meaney shares a number of insights from her days at McKinsey, the importance of nurturing and cultivating talent, and how she and Beamery have partnered up to assist Ukrainian refugees in France.
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About Mary
Mary is an angel investor and Board member of a range of Tech companies in the UK (e.g., Beamery, V-Nova, Unmind etc). Mary serves on the Board of Imperial College London and the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School. She currently leads Solidarite Ukraine, an initiative of the St Omer Foundation which supports hundreds of Ukrainian women and children in France. Previously, she was a Senior Partner at McKinsey where she served on McKinsey’s Shareholder’s Council (global Board of Directors) and led McKinsey’s global Organization practice. She co-authored a book, Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths, as well as the McKinsey Global Institute report on The Future of Work after Covid-19. She was a Trustee of TeachFirst for almost a decade and has lectured extensively at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, and Tsinghua.
About McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. They work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders. They combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
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“I believe that the real sources of competitive advantage - what will really help companies succeed and thrive and win - is actually all about talent and culture.” -Dr. Mary Meaney
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Show Notes
- The Blueprint
- (1:21) Dr. Mary’s background and helping organizations thrive
- The Journey
- (3:24) Measuring success through performance and organizational health
- (7:08) A common sense approach to navigating change and avoiding managerial permafrost
- (9:29) The myriad of challenges for companies and talent
- (13:53) Succeeding through talent and culture
- (14:55) Partnering with Beamery to help Ukrainian refugees in France
- The Future of Talent
- (17:24) Dr. Mary’s recipe for success: belief from the top, a truly strategic HR function, and thinking of the value proposition
- (20:26) Prioritizing attraction & retention, learning, and D&I
- (23:00) Linking the learning agenda to the business strategy
- (25:48) Dr. Mary’s advice to her younger self
- (27:42) A hope for the future
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Sponsor
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Links
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