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AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsUnderstanding that AI is here to complete HR not Compete with it.This week Barry Phillips argues that it's not AI v HR but something very different and so much better.
2025-07-0904 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsGenAI - Cognitive Debt or Wealth in the Workplace? It’s Up to Us to Decide…This week Barry Phillips argues that GenAI makes us lazier or better and its entirely up to us…
2025-07-0304 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI or Die: Why Waiting Is a Losing StrategyThis week Barry Phillips looks at a few stats that suggest HR needs to make bold moves in AI.
2025-06-2504 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI Development Running Just to Stand Still? Here’s Some Advice: Run Faster…This week Barry Phillips argues that the pace of change in most organisations now just isn’t anything like fast enough.
2025-06-1805 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe State of AI Adoption Report 2025 – The Stats and the Tea Leaves.This week Barry Phillips looks to a recent international AI adoption report for an indication of what might be going on here.
2025-06-1203 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips"Is Your Next Coach Human… or Digital?"This week Barry Phillips considers the rise of the AI coach in the workplace and whether it's time to try one.
2025-06-0505 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips"The AI Efficiency Drive: Layoffs or Lift-Off?"This week Barry Phillips considers whether the new AI efficiency drives will lead to lay offs or to company growth.
2025-05-2903 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI is no longer about upskilling. It’s about full scale transformationThis week Barry Phillips considers the importance of the Microsoft Build Conference and what it tells us about the true impact of AI
2025-05-2105 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Alarming Gap in AI Training at WorkThis week Barry Phillips shares the results of a survey of Irish employers and has reason to worry
2025-05-1504 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsIs AI Coming for Anyone Who Doesn't Do AI — Or Just Everyone?This week Barry Phillips comments on a shift in thinking and asks how do we view the change to come because of AI.
2025-05-0803 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips“When AI Becomes Too Much Like Us”This week, Barry Phillips, considers whether ChatGPT is becoming not only too like a human but too like the actual user.
2025-05-0104 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips"That Shopify AI Memo – why all the fuss?"This week, Barry Phillips, asks why the Shopify memo making AI use compulsory in the company proved so newsworthy.
2025-04-2304 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Stanford AI Index Report 2025 and Key Takeaways for HRThis week Barry Phillips takes a look at the AI Index Report of 2025 and gives his top five takeaways for HR
2025-04-1604 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips“From Co-Pilot to Colleague: Why AI Agents Are Your Newest Team Members”This week Barry Phillips considers a completely new type of team member that’s a little bit special.
2025-04-1004 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips“Adoption of AI in Ireland – our latest survey said ……”This week Barry Phillips examines the results of our latest survey on AI adoption and reads the tea leaves…
2025-04-0304 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT at Work: The Compliance Nightmare No One's Talking About (Yet)This week Barry Phillips argues that we all have to use ChatGPT much better to keep sensitive data secure
2025-03-2603 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsHow GenAI is Transforming HR Visuals – We May Never Have to Visit Istock AgainBarry Phillips takes a look this week at how GenAI is changing the visualisation of HR
2025-03-1904 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsHow to Deal with the AI NaysayersThis week Barry Phillips considers how we should deal with employees who just simply refuse to do AI.
2025-03-1204 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsOpenAI’s Deep Dive: "Will HR Ever Need to Google Again?"This week, Barry Phillips explores OpenAI's revolutionary Deep Research function and asks whether the days of endless HR research rabbit holes are finally over...
2025-03-0604 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Dark Side of GenAI Use in the WorkplaceThis week Barry Phillips considers whether banning ChatGPT outright is really an option for any employer.
2025-02-2604 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips“The AI Literacy Obligation under the EU AI Act: Early Adopters Leading the Way”This week Barry Phillips looks at the organisations already claiming to be AI Literate under the Act.
2025-02-2003 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI Literate? My Staff?! Yes, because Brussels Said So!This week Barry Phillips take a look at the new AI Literacy obligation imposed on organisations by the EU AI Act and ask what does it mean?
2025-02-1204 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips2025 McKinsey Report on AI- What are the Key Takeaways for Employers?Barry Phillips gives his views on the top ten takeaways from the McKinsey survey on AI published on Monday of this week
2025-02-0504 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhy GenAI is changing what misconduct at work may actually meanThis week Barry Phillips takes a look at how GenAI is forcing HR to rethink what amounts to misconduct in the workplace
2025-01-3004 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAccuracy when using ChatGPT - 3 Hot TipsThis week Barry Phillips offers 3 Hot Tips to help improve the accuracy of responses from ChatGPT and other GenAI models.
2025-01-2203 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhy Are Employers Playing Hard to Get with ChatGPT or Copilot?In a week in which the UK Prime Minister is promising to unleash AI in the UK Barry Phillips ask why is it that employers seem reluctant to embrace GenAI in the workplace.
2025-01-1603 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhy you should lead with a ChatGPT first approach to implementing AI in your workplace.This week Barry Phillips argues that if this is the year when HR finally embraces AI we should adopt a “ChatGPT First” approach to implementation.
2025-01-0904 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips“From Digital Clones to ChatGPT 5: The AI Tools You Can’t Ignore in 2025”This week Barry Phillips makes his predictions for the five GenAI tools you really need to what out for in HR for 2025.
2024-12-1804 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsHow to Use GenAI to Bring HR Policies to LifeThis week Barry Phillips looks at how developments in Gen AI are helping bring to life the likes of the poor old forgotten staff handbook.
2024-12-0404 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips"The Clone Wars: GenAI Avatars in the Workplace"This week Barry Phillips takes a look at what happens when your boss is a bot—but looks just like your boss.
2024-11-2805 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI vs. GenAI: What's the Difference and Why Should HR Care?This week, Barry Phillips goes back to basics to argue for a clearer understanding of what AI is and why we in HR should think differently about GenAI.
2024-11-2105 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsIs it data bias or algorithms that we should be most worried about in the workplace?This week Barry Phillips asks whether the concern for bias in data used to train LLMs such as ChatGPT is actually misplaced.
2024-11-1304 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Gender GenAI User Gap is High But Why?This week Barry Phillips comments on research published recently that suggests that many more males than females are using GenAI and seeks an explanation.
2024-10-3002 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT Version What, What, What?This week Barry Phillips tries to make sense of all the versions of ChatGPT4 now available and asks which is best for HR.
2024-10-2204 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsLatest ChatGPT Adoption Rates – Reading the Tea Leaves in HRBarry Phillips asks whether the latest adoption rates of ChatGPT suggest to HR that it’s a question of when not if..
2024-10-1604 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsBattle of the Workplace LLMsBarry Phillips asks whether we can expect a major battle soon for LLM supremacy in the workplace. But is it just a straight fight between ChatGPT and Co-Pilot? He thinks not.
2024-10-0204 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Two Golden Rules for Safe and Sensible Use of ChatGPTThis week Barry Phillips suggests two golden rules for safe and sensible use of ChatGPT before rolling it out to every staff member.
2024-09-2603 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT’s Latest Iteration (01 model) & Its Significance for HRBarry Phillips calls in the help of a goat to explain why this latest version of ChatGPT is so important.
2024-09-1803 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsUsing ChatGPT to Process Your Monthly Expense Claim – Why Wouldn’t You?Barry Phillips this week looks at a simple use case for ChatGPT that will save everyone time and represents a great place to start for anyone in HR struggling to secure employee sign up to using AI.
2024-09-1203 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsUnderground Use of LLMs by Employees: Why Banning ChatGPT Might Be a Big MistakeBarry Phillips questions whether the current approach of many employers to ban use of LLMs such as ChatGPT makes any sense at all.
2024-09-0503 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT Bias in…. bias out and what to do about it in HRBarry Phillips considers how HR can mitigate against the inevitable bias in ChatGPT
2024-08-2803 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Surveys this Week Said…..Barry Phillips examines the significance of two surveys this week about the adoption of ChatGPT in the workplace.
2024-08-1503 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Rise of the Avatar in the Workplace. Time for HR to Take Note?Barry Phillips considers the likely impact of avatars in the workplace for HR.
2024-08-0804 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhich version of ChatGPT4 was the game changer for HR?Barry Phillips analyses the many versions of ChatGPT so far and gives his view on which was the most important for HR.
2024-08-0104 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe launch of ChatGPT4omini – what does it mean for us in HR?Barry Phillips considers the importance of the launch this week of ChatGPT4omini and how it may help HR tool-up.
2024-07-2504 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT as your Personal HR Coach/Mentor?This week Barry Phillips reports on his experiments to create an executive coach for people in HR.
2024-07-1803 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsEmployers! What are the alternatives to ChatGPT?Barry Phillips considers whether there really are any viable alternatives to ChatGPT and if so, how we choose the best one.
2024-07-1105 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe AI Revolution. How does it stack up against revolutions of the past?Barry Phillips takes a moment to ask just how the current AI revolution compares to the Industrial and Digital Revolutions.
2024-07-0404 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI and the Rise of the Handheld MachinesBarry Phillips asks whether recent AI apps are really here to assist employees or to replace them.
2024-06-2602 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsApple this week announces its AI for the People with ChatGPT thrown in…Barry Phillips reviews Apple’s big announcements this week which confirms it’s a major AI player after all.
2024-06-1303 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhy the Legal Profession Should Be Worried About the Advance of LLMsBarry Phillips from Legal Island considers the likely impact of LLMs like ChatGPT on the legal profession
2024-06-0602 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsDeveloping an AI Strategy : Keeping it Smart. Keeping it CautiousBarry Phillips shares his views on how to get started on developing a robust AI Implementation Strategy
2024-05-3003 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsChatGPT 4o - The most under rated, under noticed seismic AI announcement in history?Barry Phillips, argues that this week’s announcement from OpenAI giving everyone free access to the greatest AI tool yet developed is a complete game changer for every organisation.
2024-05-1604 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWhy ChatGPT should be every HR Manager’s Brainstorming PartnerBarry Phillips argues that early evidence suggests that brainstorming now is always done better with ChatGPT than without.
2024-05-0902 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsModerna the Biotech Company Swallows ChatGPT Whole!Barry Phillips asks whether Moderna is the first sizeable employer to implement ChatGPT throughout the organisation and, if so, whether others are likely to follow their lead.
2024-05-0103 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsHonestly! Honesty is ChatGPT's most underrated characteristic in the workplace.This week Barry Phillips asks why it is that we don't make more of just about the only workplace assistant that's prepared to tell it as it is...
2024-04-2403 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI – Just how good does it need to get for us to overcome our paralysis?Barry Phillips from Legal Island wonders what impact ChatGPT5 will have if it drops in the summer. Will it finally persuade us all in HR to take AI seriously?
2024-04-1803 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI and a Job Apocalypse? We don’t think so…Barry Phillips from Legal Island cuts through the hype and identifies a likely roll out of AI in the workplace.
2024-04-1104 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsIs there such a thing as wholesale adoption of ChatGPT by any employer?Barry Phillips asks whether any employer in the knowledge sector has gone as far as wholesale adoption of ChatGPT4 and if not, why not?
2024-04-0304 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe three main drivers of AI in the WorkplaceBarry Phillips, considers what is really driving AI in the workplace and what it means for your organisation.
2024-03-1305 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI – Destined for the Trough of Disillusionment?Barry Phillips at Legal Island considers whether we’re all in for a period of disappointment from AI
2024-03-0703 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsLegal Island’s Top Five ChatGPT Plug-Ins for HR. Barry Phillips shares his view on the five plug-ins most useful to HR.
2024-02-2905 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsThe Jagged Edge in AIBarry Phillips considers how best to use ChatGPT knowing that it is flawed and likely to hallucinate.
2024-02-2203 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips"Scary? Is Trump the man to fix the AI Regulation Dilemma?"Legal Island Chairman Barry Phillips asks whether Donald Trump might be the one to finally solve the dilemma of how to regulate AI…if he can stay out of prison..
2024-02-0804 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsWorkplace Regulation of ChatGPT - Have We Finally Got The Answer?In this podcast Barry Phillips discusses the workplace regulation of Chat GPT.
2024-02-0104 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsAI Helps HR Talk to its Multilingual WorkforceIn this episode, Barry Phillips discusses how AI helps Human Resources professionals talk to a multilingual workforce.
2024-01-2402 minAI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry PhillipsIntroduction & Podcast OutlineWelcome to the AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips. Barry will deliver a weekly summary of AI developments relevant to HR in no more than 5 minutes.
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Barry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets The Lord Lieutenant Fionnuala Jay - O’Boyle MBE CBEThe Lord Lieutenant Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle MBE CBE was born and brought up in Derry/Londonderry in the 60s and 70s. Destined for a career as an opera singer in the conservatoire he career aspirations were cut short by a debilitating illness.
Active for a while in student politics at Queen’s University what followed was a hugely successful career in Public and Government Affairs, setting up her own consultancy firm and heading up major initiatives including “Taste of Ulster”– the award winning worldwide campaign to promote food and hospitality from Northern Ireland.
In 1996 she founded the Belfast Buildings Trust helping to...
2019-09-3000 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets The Early Poles of Northern IrelandThe Poles first came to work in Northern Ireland in big numbers when Polish citizens were granted the right of free movement as EU members in May 2004.
Many found employment here and were grateful for any type of work for it was guaranteed to provide more money than they could expect to earn at home. They worked as cleaners for Robinsons or as labourers in Camden Frames, Sam Mouldings or on the assembly line at what was then Schrader or in construction during the mini boom in 2007-2009. Whilst some worked in the health service as nurses, carers or doctors...
2019-08-0800 minBarry Phillips MeetsDealing With Overwhelm In The Workplace - Key Lessons From Paul O'Mahony, Cal Newport & Tim FerrissIn this keynote address for ASCL delivered at the Birmingham conference and events centre, Barry Phillips, gives his views on how to deal with overwhelm in the workplace. He talks about turning "FOMO" into "JOMO", practising a "Slow Yes and a Quick No" and finishes with his favourite five ways to ensure you're highly effective at work every day.
2019-06-0600 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Marie AndersonMarie has just been recommended by the Secretary of State to succeed Dr. Michael Maguire as the next Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
She was the Assistant Information Commissioner for Northern Ireland for five years and Deputy Ombudsman for seven. She became the first ever Public Services Ombudsman for Northern Ireland in April 2016. She is also the Northern Ireland Local Government Commissioner for Standards and the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman.
In this remarkably frank interview she explains how being wrongly suspected of theft at school led her to develop an early interest in justice and human rights. She talks...
2019-05-2000 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Padraig O'Tuama, author, poet and leader of the Corrymeela CommunityBorn in Cork, Padriag O’Tuama was one of 6 children. He studied theology with an eye on the priesthood. It was in his teens that he first began to realise that his faith, his religion and his sexuality did not sit comfortably together and that very hard, very personal choices, lay ahead of him.
Still a deeply religious man, last month you may just have heard Padriag presenting BBC’s Prayer for Today on Radio 4. But you’re as likely to find him carrying a dictionary of etymology as you are a bible. For he has an almost nerdy interest even o...
2019-04-1600 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets David RobinsonSince taking the baton in 1990 from his father, James, who started the cleaning business in 1972 David has increased turnover from £1million to £17million with Robinson Services now employing more than 1,700 workers making it one of Northern Ireland’s top employers by staff numbers.
Employees out on site find him affable and approachable and notice that he knows them all be name. Colleagues in the office say he’s personable but a tough decision taker too and very good at taking and managing risk.
David is a rare example of a business leader who does organic growth just as well as he doe...
2019-03-1500 minBarry Phillips MeetsThe Legal Island Story (Part 2) The Five Cornerstones of Our Business GrowthIn part 2 of the Legal Island story company chairman Barry Phillips discusses five key business development areas that helped him grow the business. He talks about early failures and set backs, discusses his favourite business leadership books and explains why he thinks using social media nowadays is a poor use of time.
He offers a few tips on how to network well in Northern Ireland and explains why he wishes he had read Gerber’s The EMyth long before he did.
Finally, he talks about the good and the not so good partnerships Legal Island entered into to help them de...
2019-02-2700 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets ..Ellen Murray Transgender Activist and Human Rights CampaignerEllen Murray is Executive Director of Transgender NI a not-for profit organisation that campaigns for the rights of transgender and non-binary people in Northern Ireland.
Born in 1993 and raised in West Belfast, she founded GenderJamNI a trans youth group and three years later set up the Belfast Trans Resource Centre the first such centre in the UK and Ireland.
Ellen is herself transgender having begun her own journey from male to female in 2013. In a BBC documentary recorded recently she said "I probably wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't transitioned".
In May 2016 Ellen became the first transgender...
2019-02-1100 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets ...Michael Cameron, Playwright, and writer of "Ruby!" the story of Ruby MurrayMichael Cameron is a former Northern Ireland Civil Servant turned playwright.
Born in Belfast in 1965 Michael left school in 1981 with just 2 O Levels and joined the Civil Service the following year. He soon worked his way up the ranks working towards the end of his career as a Political Liaison Officer and Private Secretary to various Ministers witnessing first hand some of the most turbulent times in recent British/Irish history.
In 2015 he left the Civil service for health reasons and began his career as a writer.
His first major work is the play Ruby! About the Belfast singer Ruby...
2019-01-2800 minBarry Phillips MeetsThe Legal-Island Story (Part 1)– From concept to start-up to industry leaderSince becoming an entrepreneur 21 years ago Barry Phillips has owned a property company, a travel business and developed products for sale to a global market but he is best known for founding Legal-Island the island of Ireland’s No.1 compliance and training organisation.
In the first of four episodes tracing the development Legal-Island, Barry Phillips about what prompted him to set up in business, his early challenges and some of his biggest mistakes.
Introduced by MD Jayne Gallagher this series of episodes (to be released over the next 6 months to mark Legal-Island’s 21st anniversary) is a must for all thos...
2019-01-1800 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Paul Roberts, Ashton Community Trust, BelfastPaul Roberts is CEO of the Ashton Community Trust in Belfast.
Born and brought up in North Belfast Paul and his nine siblings grew up during the Troubles in an area that suffered one of the highest levels of violence of anywhere in Northern Ireland. It includes many areas synonymous with the conflict – the New Lodge, Ardoyne, Rathcoole, Ballysillan and Woodvale.
In the 25 years he has been at the helm the Trust has grown from a small community business into a highly successful regeneration social enterprise. It employs over 250 people and turns over more than £7 million. Ashton is involved in a w...
2018-11-2900 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets The Ironmen of Norn Iron on Motivation, Self-Discipline & Optimum PerformanceIn this special episode Barry Phillips sets out to see if what he remembers about his own Ironman journey sits with what other ironmen learnt about themselves when training for and completing extreme endurance events.
Barry asks them about how they maintain their levels of motivation, he they get the best out of every training session and what they do to reward themselves for consistently high levels of input and output.
Barry concludes by sharing what he learnt from his Ironman training including the development of his own “six pack”. Six things he would do every day before he went to w...
2018-11-1200 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Leadership –5 Key Development Areas -5 Quick Wins –in Association with ASCL(NI)This special episode recorded at the Titanic Hotel, Belfast (18th October) is taken from the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders. Barry Phillips covers five key areas of leadership, identifies quick wins and aims to leave the audience of head teachers with homework to do. For he argues that conference “Takeways” should really be “Workaways”. Changing the habits of leaders in any field requires application and hard work.
The five key area are :
# Recognition
# Decision Taking
# The Skill of Saying No
# Single Tasking
# Leadership Wellbeing – Mindfulness & Journaling
2018-10-2900 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Liz WeirLiz Weir a business woman, festival director and children’s author, but perhaps best known for her role as a professional storyteller sharing stories of Ireland’s past not only locally in libraries, pubs, prisons and at festivals but on the international stage as well..
In 2002 she won the inaugural International Story Bridge Award of the National Storytelling Network. Many more awards were to follow helping her travel the world with her craft sharing her stories in countries as far away as Russia, Singapore, South Africa and Australia.
She is the author of some 27 children’s books, currently the Story Teller...
2018-10-0700 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Conor DevineConor is an entrepreneur with his finger truly on the pulse in terms of business activity going on in Northern Ireland having worked for many years in commercial property and more recently in debt management and alternative funding for those in business.
In August 2007 he was formerly diagnosed with MS. His response was to hit the illness head on. He self-medicated, he followed a plant only diet and started competing in endurance races.
He’s the author of two books. He has delivered countless key note conference speeches on motivation and managing a severe illness and has completed five half Ir...
2018-09-2400 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets – Special EpisodeThis episode is a bit different….
We thought it’s time to hit the pause button and review some of the most popular content thus far. So sit back and enjoy hearing from Bill Wolsey OBE, Mary McKenna MBE, Judith Gillespie CBE, Gavan Wall and many others.
2018-08-2600 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Hilary WoodsHilary Woods is Principal of Belfast Royal Academy which is widely recognised as one of Northern Ireland’s top post-primary schools.
Her teaching career began at Ashfield Girls School, and continued at Wallace High School and then Victoria College where she was Deputy Principal by the time she left in 2014. Her first permanant tenure as Principal was at Antrim Grammar school during which time the school topped the GCSE league tables in Northern Ireland with 100% of pupils gaining 5 GCSEs grades A-C.
In 2017, she became the first person in almost a century to be appointed principal of BRA from outside of th...
2018-08-1200 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Michael BruceMichael Bruce with his younger brother Kenny founded Purple Bricks the online estate agency famous for offering to sell your house in the UK for a fixed fee of just £845 inclusive of VAT. Purple Bricks was recently valued at £240million.
Michael, and his younger brother Kenny and four older sisters were brought up by their single mother in a council house in Larne in the 70s and 80s. His first experience of work was when he was still a school boy doing a milk round in the morning and collecting glasses in a local pub in the evening while his br...
2018-07-2900 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Sarah TraversSarah Travers – Journalist, T.V Presenter and Media Consultant. Sarah made her name as a journalist who got the most out of interviewees by giving them a full blast of her positive energy, charm and charisma. But how would she get on when in the hot seat herself?
Full of glamour and style and never short of words Sarah Travers shares a huge amount in this podcast. From her big secret she kept from her bosses at the BBC to how she dealt with imposter syndrome in the early days of her T.V career when still in her mid-twenties th...
2018-07-1300 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Judith Gillespie - Full VersionBefore joining the RUC as a police constable Judith Gillespie was rejected twice by the organisation she was to go on and lead with distinction years later.
She once stated “When I joined the force in 1982 men were issued with firearms and women handbags things were very different then.. “
Not only did Judith Gillespie face institutional discrimination but also misogynistic treatment from some male colleagues. How she responded is just one of the many remarkable revelations in this extraordinarily frank and honest interview.
Judith explains how she used her “Five Anchors” to get her back from the really low times when ser...
2018-07-0100 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Judith Gillespie - Short VersionBefore joining the RUC as a police constable Judith Gillespie was rejected twice by the organisation she was to go on and lead with distinction years later.
She once stated “When I joined the force in 1982 men were issued with firearms and women handbags things were very different then.. “
Not only did Judith Gillespie face institutional discrimination but also misogynistic treatment from some male colleagues. How she responded is just one of the many remarkable revelations in this extraordinarily frank and honest interview.
Judith explains how she used her “Five Anchors” to get her back from the really low times when ser...
2018-07-0100 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Gavan Wall part 2A successful criminal defence barrister for many years, Gavan is now a serial entrepreneur owning a stream of SPAR and Subway stores across North Belfast. In a remarkably candid interview, Gavan talks about the only defendant ever to truly scare him, paying protection money and dealing with employees who steal. What he has to say about how to walk into the house every evening, even after a long hard day at work, is advice every parent should follow.
2018-06-1700 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Gary McCauslandGary McCausland is one of the UK's most successful property developers with a string of successful prestigious developments to his name, mainly in London. Recently, he decided to "come home" and develop here beginning in earnest with The Gallery - a collection of 58 apartments on the Dublin Road, Belfast along with a café/bistro. In this fascinating interview Gary explains why he believes that Belfast is now not only a safe place to invest but a good one too. His next project, One Bankmore Square, in Belfast aims to provide the city with the kind of accommodation Google e...
2018-06-0300 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Bill WolseyPlease note this episode contains some bad language. If you are easily offended you are advised not to proceed.
By any stretch of the imagination Bill Wolsey is a remarkable man. Born to staunch socialist parents in Belfast in the 50s Bill borrowed all the money his parents had to start his first pub in Bangor. He now has a portfolio of pubs, restaurants and hotels including of course, the five star Merchant Hotel in Belfast.
“Give people a product or service your staff are proud of and you’ll keep both your staff and your customers” he claims.
This podcas...
2018-05-2000 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Niall McKeownAged 25, Niall McKeown started Ion Technologies creating what was at the time the world’s first email marketing engine with customers including Reuters, The European Bank. Goldman Sachs and Apple.
Today, he makes his living as a digital disruption expert/educator helping people throughout the world understand digital development strategies and how to use them to find new space.
He is co-author of the book "The 7 Principles of Digital Business Strategy" and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster.
In this rapid pace wide ranging interview, Niall explains why digital disruption is more about leadership than it is...
2018-05-0700 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Richard WigleyRichard was born in New Zealand and raised in a family of six boys and one girl. He studied in the US before embarking on a career playing the Bassoon for the Halle Orchestra, Manchester. It was here that he began his career in orchestral management which also took him to the Royal Northern College of Music and to the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra where for ten years he worked as general manager.
Richard accepted the post of Managing Director of the Ulster Orchestra in February 2016 at a time when there were big questions hanging over the financing of the orchestra.
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2018-04-1900 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets June BurgessBorn in Whitehead June Burgess attended Belfast High School before studying Landscape Architecture in Gloucester.
After a brief spell in Swansea as a surfer by day and a singer in a band at night she eventually re-located back to Northern Ireland to work as the lead consultant on the landscaping for Clarendon Docks a £3million state of the art re-development project.
In 2006 she established the national horse jumping trials in Northern Ireland which developed into an international event for a while afterwards covered by Sky sports and attracting competitors from all over the world.
In 2008 she and her husband began p...
2018-04-0800 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Mary McKennaMary McKenna MBE co-founded successful Northern Irish e-learning company Learning Pool following a long public sector career and a spell as a Silicon Valley dot-commer. She now invests in early-stage tech startups, is Entrepreneur in Residence at Catalyst in Belfast and she was recently voted into the Maserati Top One hundred entrepreneurs currently disrupting the business world.
Her journey is fascinating. Her weekly work schedule exhausting. Never one to hold back, this interview is a must for anyone wanting advice on how to start a business and make life a success.
Famed for her presence on social media (she tweets...
2018-03-2300 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Martin GilchristMartin Gilchrist is probably one of Northern Ireland's best networked professionals. He has a huge following on social media and is known for saying there are so many networking events going on in Belfast that "you could eat breakfast, lunch and dinner for free every working day".
As an accountant, he specialises in business start-ups and SMEs in Northern Ireland and has worked closely in this same field with Business in the Community, Digital Circle and the Social Media Association for Business, of which he was a founding member. He's a former Chairman of the Board of Down...
2018-03-0900 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Sheree AtchesonBorn in Sri Lanka Sheree was raised in Coalisland, Tyrone, after she and her brother were adopted by an Irish couple at just 3 weeks old.
In 2013 Sheree introduced “Women who code in the UK” founding the branches in Belfast, London and Bristol. Women who code is a global non-profit, with over 100,000 members designed to attract more females into the coding industry. She has spoken at numerous international conferences most recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Sheree is just 26.
In this frank interview she talks about the treatment of women in the tech industry, dealing with nerves when public spea...
2018-02-2300 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Tina McKenzieBorn in Belfast, Tina McKenzie failed her 11+ and went on to become a multi-award winning business leader in Northern Ireland. As MD of Staffline, she has led them from a cold start to £40 million turnover in less than four years. In this interview, she talks about how she takes her big decisions in life, reflects on what happened with NI21 and outlines her plans for the future.
2018-02-1100 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets Gavan WallA successful criminal defence barrister for many years, Gavan is now a serial entrepreneur owning a stream of SPAR and Subway stores across North Belfast. In a remarkably candid interview, Gavan talks about the only defendant ever to truly scare him, paying protection money and dealing with employees who steal. What he has to say about how to walk into the house every evening, even after a long hard day at work, is advice every parent should follow.
2018-01-2500 minBarry Phillips MeetsBarry Phillips Meets David GavaghanInfluenced by podcasts including Desert Island Disks and The Time Ferriss Show in this inaugural episode Barry Phillips meets the then head of the CBI in Northern Ireland David Gavaghan.
In what turned out to be an extraordinary interview, David, a parent of eight children, explaines how he manages to combine a busy life in the corporate world with family duties and the obligation he feels to look out for others not as fortunate as himself.
When David's wife's restaurant went bust a few years back their family (including 8 children) were forced to make some difficult economic choices. They are...
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