Benne Peto

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391 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Growth Workshop Podcast · Episode 30, Part 2 - Benne Peto: How to Assess Potential Properly with Data · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Think about what you can use in there.

Develop them in a way that allows you to draw upon some of that investment you've made and use across the organisation in a way that's not going to be expensive.

Yeah.

The Growth Workshop Podcast · Episode 30, Part 1 - Benne Peto: Why Generic Development Programs Aren't Sustainable · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Thanks for asking me.

I'm really, really pleased to be here.

Yep.

Yeah.

So when I was younger, I started actually in commercial roles in retail operations, then went into consulting and then sort of moved sideways into HR, looking at change management and development and then eventually moving into HR director positions.

So I think that sort of background of starting with the commercial heart of the business or front of mind before then thinking about what HR tools, what development can I leverage to help deliver on that strategy for growth has really, really helped me.

And over the last 15 years, I've been lucky enough to be

CPO or HR director in high growth PE businesses within financial services.

So I've really had the opportunity to really flex that muscle and make sure that HR is really delivering for the business and its growth and commercial agenda.

Well, Evelyn was really performing well, both inorganically in terms of its M&A strategy and comparing well in terms of its organic growth to its competitors.

So it wasn't as though there was a challenge or a problem with performance.

But I think the CEO at the time, Chris Woodhouse, saw that there was still an opportunity to do better.

And he sort of set me the challenge of looking at driving the development of its practitioners.

But what he wanted was to make sure that we were developing the right skills for

with the right people.

And I'd been in the business for about a year.

And of course, I was like, yeah, I can absolutely do that.

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