Top Tips for 2026

A Workforce and Employability Experience Shaped by AI

Our Insights podcast features host Alison McHarg, Sopra Steria Marketing and panel speakers Nick Heckscher, Chief Experience Officer – Sopra Steria Resourcing and Naomi Appleton Future Skills and Careers Manager, Sopra Steria. Moving beyond automation and productivity gains, the conversation examines AI’s impact on skills, employability, workforce planning, recruitment, fairness, inclusion and human potential. Drawing on their real-world experience, the panel share practical, human-centred insights into what AI is already changing in the workplace and what these developments mean for employers, candidates and employees alike.

Retention under pressure: Fixing culture in NHS Trusts

Employee retention in the NHS is under pressure. Organisational culture is defined by what people experience every day. From first interaction to everyday practice, culture shapes whether people stay. In this podcast, Allie Kennedy Resourcing Solutions Consultant and healthcare leader Janine La Rosa explore: - Why culture is built across the entire candidate journey, not just inside the organisation. - How behaviours under pressure can strengthen or undermine retention. - The role recruitment plays in shaping culture before day one. If you’re leading workforce, HR or operational performance in an NHS Trust, this conversation is worth your time.

Top Tips for 2026

In this new podcast episode of Sopra Steria Insights, Resourcing Solutions Consultants Allie Kennedy and Ceri Amphlett explore what’s changing in recruitment and what matters most.   If you’ve ever tried to place square pegs in round holes in public sector hiring, this podcast is for you. Allie and Ceri reflect on 2025 and share 10 practical tips for 2026 that teams can use right now.   Included in what they cover: * AI & automation for speed and fairness (humans make the final call). * Robust screening for AI‑assisted applications. * Values‑ and potential‑based hiring. * Inclusive assessment by design. * Skills analytics and workforce planning. * Transparent, fear‑free AI adoption.

Human-centred transformation: Technology that works for people

In this episode, Adrian Fieldhouse, Managing Director of Strategic Digital Solutions at Sopra Steria, and Marc Hardwick, Senior Research Director at TechMarketView, discuss how organisations can responsibly scale digital transformation by embedding trust, transparency, and human-centered values throughout the process.

Scaling with confidence: Embedding AI into the digital core

In our new podcast series, we join forces with TechMarketView to unpick what it really takes to embed and scale AI responsibly. Spoiler – you need to look beyond the tech.   Across three episodes, Adrian Fieldhouse, Managing Director of Strategic Digital Solutions at Sopra Steria, and Marc Hardwick, Senior Research Director at TechMarketView, discuss the elements that can make or break an organisation’s experience with AI.  Adrian Fieldhouse, Managing Director of Strategic Digital Solutions at Sopra Steria, and Marc Hardwick, Senior Research Director at TechMarketView, discuss how organisations can move beyond experimental AI and successfully integrate it as a reliable, scalable core driver of growth and resilience.