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Philippa O'Connor

Philippa O'Connor

Chief People Officer at PwC UK, with over 20 years' experience in HR, remuneration, and management consulting.

Sep 6, 2026

14:03
That's just impossible.
14:04
I think this point Alan's making around the scaffolding between education and employment, where supply and demand meet, does feel like a critical point in terms of how, you know, the role of employers in supporting this problem.
14:17
It can't all be the responsibility of young people.
14:19
It also can't all be the responsibility of government.
14:21
But there's a connectivity there that I think is absolutely critical.
14:25
There's a number of pieces that link there from the research that we did that I thought was worth sort of touching on.
14:30
And sort of two recommendations that I'd pull out from what the Social Market Foundation was suggesting, because I think it speaks to what Alan is talking about.

12 MINS LATER

26:18
are some of the other examples of good practice that you see in the organisations that you work with? So
24:09
Tell me about
24:10
that.
24:12
So you come back into being a partner and, well, there are lots of things.
24:18
So I'd only been back in the office a couple of weeks and they announced the partner list.
24:23
And another fantastic one of our partners, Pete, came to pass my desk and said, can I have a word? And I sort of trotted after him.
24:30
There is definitely something about imposter syndrome in these stories as I tell them together.
24:34
And I thought, he's going to say, don't tell anyone you've made partner yet because these other people, you know, they're disappointed and just keep it to yourselves.

22 MINS LATER

46:31
Can you tell me how that topic relates to this in your mind and for PwC? Yeah.

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