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Perry Timms

Perry Timms

Founder & Chief Energy Officer of PTHR, HR thinker, author of "Transformational HR" and "The Energized Workplace", and 2x TEDx speaker.

Jul 21, 2026

1:59
I'm really looking forward to diving deeper and hearing more about the work that you do and some of the perspectives that you have.
2:05
Yeah, I mean, none of those things were on my bucket list when I left school.
2:10
Council house boy from Northampton, parents were shoe factory workers.
2:13
When you're from Northampton, that's right at the sitch.
2:16
I was interested in the sort of clerical side of work.
2:18
I wasn't very drawn towards anything manual.
2:20
I just wasn't very good at it.

10 MINS LATER

12:32
And C, we might be missing opportunities that would otherwise be on the table.

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