DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley
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DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley
Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Louise Shipway - Founder & CEO, of CareerMovers
Louise has two and a half decades of experience across the HR, coaching, consulting and training space. A deeply passionate person, Louise loves helping global leaders navigate career transitions, role reinvention, and agile workforce mobility. In her happy place when empowering professionals to imagine, align, believe and create next-chapter careers.
Her skills involve Confidence | Empathy | Adaptability | Active Listening | Authenticity | Audience Research | Storytelling
Ross and Louise talk about HR, training, career transitions, playing in a orchestra, great experiences, music, choirs, change, executive change, strong foundations, hiring, brand new roles, creating new teams, positive change, good people practices, new programmes, growth, economy, helping people individually, AI layoffs, jobs no longer existing, big shifts, letting go and acceptance. The pair also discuss helping people career change, severance pay, offboarding, upskilling, reskilling, taking our own responsibility, contracts, values, standards, complete change in career, transformations, human elements, putting people first, making people feel better, imagination economy, identity change, collaborations, identity crisis, having value, youth unemployment, gamifying change, unlearning and hope.
Timecodes:
- 00:18 Intro to Louise
- 01:21 Being a backing violinist for Lisa Stansfield
- 04:37 Louise's typical clients
- 06:24 Support Louise received during her own company transitions
- 10:57 Significant moments during emigrating
- 15:21 How Louise adapts and navigates
- 17:08 Tips for employers laying off people due to AI
- 19:46 The worst way organisations lay people of and how to avoid
- 23:04 Help for people who have be sacked
- 27:34 The main problem Louise is trying to solve in companies
- 32:43 Louie's phrase and framework - Imagine, Align, Believe Create
- 38:14 A picture of Louise's best year going forward to 2026
- 42:11 Ideal candidates to collaborate with Louise
- 43:44 Volunteering
- 48:40 The last time Louise did something for the first time
Connect with Ross:
Connect with Louise:
- CareerMovers
- Email - louis.shipway@careermovers.ca