Episode 124

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16th Apr 2026

The Quiet Power of Learning: How Leaders Build Capability for an Uncertain Future with Kerri O’Neill

Learning can’t be treated like an extra anymore. Not when the pace of change is this high.

Kerri O’Neill, Chief People Officer at Ipsos UK & Ireland, joins me this week, and we look at what it takes to build capability in an intentional and useful way, especially when strategies, markets, and tools keep shifting.

We talk about why organisations need to focus less on big learning programmes and more on clear outcomes, everyday practice, and the human skills that still matter no matter how much technology changes.

This episode is a useful one for leaders, HR teams, and anyone thinking seriously about how people keep learning, adapting, and making good decisions when the future feels anything but settled.

Highlights:

(02:28) Why capability building starts with commitment

(05:28) Focusing on outcomes instead of fixed learning plans

(09:48) Why learning with others matters, especially around AI

(13:20) The human skills that still matter in an uncertain future

(35:52) The risk of relying too heavily on AI for people decisions

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Website: https://aurorawellnessgroup.co.uk/

Ngozi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-weller-aurora/

Obehi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obehi-alofoje-psychologist-aurora/

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About the Podcast

The Wellbeing Rebellion

Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion, an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy.

This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time.

The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within.

This is where the conversation needs to shift.

On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity.

Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice.

If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

About your hosts

Obehi Alofoje

Obehi is a psychologist and culture change consultant who helps senior HR and business leaders reduce employee burnout, absenteeism & talent attrition through mental wellbeing strategy, training & coaching.

Ngozi Weller

Ngozi Weller is a culture change consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive.