DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley
DEVELOPING A NEW PLATFORM FOR CHANGE IN AN EXPONENTIAL WORLD.
Conversations with special guests on their stories of adaptability. From resilience, grit and motivation, to stress, mindset and support from those around us.
We explore the science and real-life experiences of adaption. Helping HR leaders, coaches and consultants learn the tools, mindsets, and actions to thrive in an ever-changing world.
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DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley
Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Jamie Durling - Business Transformation & Growth
Jamie Durling is a strategic operating and HR executive with a proven track record of driving business transformation and culture evolution. He’s led large-scale transformations across luxury retail, trade shows, and media, aligning business and people strategies to deliver sustainable growth.
Jamie’s expertise in talent strategy and operational effectiveness makes him a trusted leader in business development and performance management.
Previously, Jamie served as Vice President of People and Organization at Moncler, where he played a pivotal role in post-merger integration and business transformation for Moncler and Stone Island in the Americas. Before that, he held senior roles at Informa, where he led business transformation efforts across the Americas and Asia, and at Coach, where he was responsible for global human resources and people development.
Jamie’s expertise lies in aligning business and people strategies to fuel sustainable growth. He specializes in building high-performance cultures, integrating large-scale transformations, and driving measurable business impact through strategic foresight and operational rigor. His ability to merge business acumen with human capital strategy has made him a trusted advisor to C-suite leaders and business teams worldwide.
Jamie’s strategic leadership continues to shape the future of business transformation and talent strategy.
Ross and Jamie talk about audiences relating to lived experience, human resources, psychological safety, facing something we are unfamiliar with, doing more with less, burnout, traditional thoughts, creative opportunities and shifting mindset. The pair also discuss being authentic, transparency, seeing change as opportunity, optimists, providing bridges, Chief Financial Officer's, taking ownership, making HR influential, developing people, curiosity and new experiences.
Timecodes:
- 00:20 Intro to Jamie
- 01:00 Personal space and experiences of change
- 01:56 Being responsible for profit and loss
- 06:15 Situations having responsibilities without the resources and support
- 08:50 Finding new solutions within constraints
- 12:25 Creator or a victim
- 13:21 Lived experiences effecting Jamie's work
- 15:48 Dealing with change
- 18:17 Making people feel more comfortable
- 20:05 Upcoming exciting projects
- 22:30 Becoming best friends with CFO's
- 24:27 Enabling organisations
- 26:07 The last time Jamie did something for the first time
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