
Philippa O'Connor
Chief People Officer at PwC UK, with over 20 years' experience in HR, remuneration, and management consulting.
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Sep 6, 2026
Youth unemployment: Alan Milburn on NEETs and first jobs
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Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
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.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
There's a number of pieces that link there from the research that we did that I thought was worth sort of touching on.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
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.
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Hannah PrevettHOST
are some of the other examples of good practice that you see in the organisations that you work with? So
Lead From Within – Phillippa O'Connor, Chief People Officer UK at PWC
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Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
So you come back into being a partner and, well, there are lots of things.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
So I'd only been back in the office a couple of weeks and they announced the partner list.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
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.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
There is definitely something about imposter syndrome in these stories as I tell them together.

Philippa O'ConnorGUEST
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.
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