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Perry Timms
Perry Timms
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Perry Timms is an international and 2x TEDx speaker, advisor and award-winning writer on the future of work, HR & learning.  

Perry’s first book "Transformational HR” was an Amazon.com Top 30 HR seller shortly after its release, and his second book - "The Energised Workplace" - exploring Human Energy & Organisation Design is due in April 2020.

Perry’s work in progressive thinking in HR and the workplace of the future was recognised by his inclusion on HR Magazine’s HR’s Most Influential Thinkers List for 2017 and up to 5th most influential in 2018.

Perry is Adjunct Faculty at Ashridge Executive Education and Hult International Business School; he is a visiting fellow at Sheffield Hallam University and a Fellow of the RSA.  In 2018 Perry was invited to be Guest Professor at GEA College in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Perry is also the world’s only WorldBlu-certified Freedom at Work Consultant + Coach, and currently leads the London Chapter of ResponsiveOrg.


You can find Perry online at www.pthr.co.uk or on Twitter (@PerryTimms) and his blog Medium.com/@PerryTimms.  Perry is an avid fan of Soul music and supports Northampton Town FC and the NFL’s Detroit Lions.

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Four ways HR can reinvent work in 2023

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The Human Economic Manifesto: Seeking prosperity, not profit

What does the study of ants show us about the woeful state of macroeconomics on planet Earth in 2022? Edward O Wilson spent his life...
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The Four Turnings: Why HR’s time to lead is written in the cycles of change

On 6 April, I found myself back in a familiar pre-2020 situation. In a car to an airport at 2am. It felt a lot harder this time around than...
Change
13th Jan 2022

HR reinvention in 2022: How to evolve in an era of ongoing complexity

As if a continuing, mutating pandemic wasn’t already enough, we are still facing huge challenges in the HR and people profession. These...
Change
4th Jan 2021

Three predictions for HR in 2021: Embracing an agile, intelligence-led mission control

I bet none of us predicted what 2020 really would involve! In looking back at my 2020 predictions I said it would be about graft, autonomy...
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2nd Dec 2019

Three predictions for HR in 2020

It is always at this time of year that we direct our attention towards ‘what may be’ or even what we wish it to be. I have seen predictions...
Culture
20th Feb 2019

Transformational HR: why we need a people-centred approach

We hear about transformation all the time, and mainly it’s about digital transformation. The next wave of automation, technology that’s...
Change
1st Feb 2019

Transformation: HR’s great hope or more hype?

Purpose-washing is the latest jargon-busting, trend-tackling, eye-rolling thing I’ve seen lately. And I know why. Before I share that, I’d...
Change
18th Jan 2016

EU 'snooping' ruling: it's time to recognise the social world we now live in

I’m no lawyer so this isn’t an expert legal take on the recent Barbulescu ECHR ruling in favour of his former employer around employers...
Culture
2nd Dec 2015

Time to zoom in to the future of learning?

I’m known to the readers of HRZone through my column on all things social (media) and so I’m using space to both update my status and also...
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