Radio Show #592: How Business Transformation Accelerates Organisational Performance

Guest: Tim Pointer: Operating Partner at Three Hills

Tim Pointer is Operating Partner at Three Hills, working as a portfolio Chief People Officer across Three Hills’ group of investments. Tim creates organisational value through select people strategies covering talent, organisational design, learning & development, performance data, reward and governance. He has held global Chief People Officer roles in a breadth of sectors including brand & talent management (Creative Artists Agency); fashion, sports & retail (Pentland; Diesel); health (Nelsons); technology (Currys); and liquor & wine (Beam Suntory). Tim is fascinated by organisational culture and co-founded the Business Culture Awards & Business Culture Connected community in 2015.

Tim is passionate about accelerating organisational performance by strengthening purpose; clarifying strategy & measurement; designing structure; aligning talent; and enhancing business culture. The work Tim has led has been recognised by the CIPD Awards (Overall Winner) and Great Place to Work (Top 10), and he was recognised by the readers of HR Magazine as the UK’s 3rd most influential HR leader in 2024. Tim is currently recording ‘Powered by People’ a Three Hills business podcast, focussed on people strategies that lead business transformation, that will launch this autumn.

Tim has lived and worked in EMEA; the US; and Asia-Pacific. He studied executive coaching at Hult Ashridge International Business School and is an alumnus of the University of York, Lancaster University and London Business School. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Tim is an FA football coach and can be found on the touchline most Sunday mornings.

Tim has been a supporter of Engage for Success since attending the launch event in 2012. In this conversation Tim explores how business transformation accelerates organisational performance drawing upon his work at private equity firm Three Hills; the case studies gathered by 10 years of the Business Culture Awards (that he co-founded in 2015); and how he is drawing these experiences together in a new business podcast, ‘Powered by People’. Tim’s experience as Operating Partner, Founder and Chief People Officer covers multiple geographies, sectors and market contexts, but he sees the same playbook consistently delivering business success. Tim explores how intentional and winning business cultures strengthen purpose, clarify strategy & measurement, design structure & accountability, embrace technology, embed governance, build capability and align talent. Tim demonstrated how this requires multi-stakeholder engagement, encompassing colleagues, customers, investors, partners and the community.

Join us as we discuss how intentional and winning business cultures strengthen purpose.

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Host: Jo Dodds