Latest / The BioHub - by Avetix / Episode 227 - Jo Lane - VP People at Compass Pathways
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- 0:06So welcome back to another episode of the Bio Hub the of
- 0:08Ethics podcast. Today we're delighted to be
- 0:11joined by Joe, who's the Vice President of people at Compass
- 0:14Pathways, where she's helping shape the people strategy behind
- 0:17one of the most innovative companies in mental health,
- 0:20specifically in the field of psychedelics.
- 0:22Joe's built her career leading people and culture strategies
- 0:25across global healthcare and life science organisations, with
- 0:29previous leadership roles at companies such as Epson and
- 0:32IQVIA. In today's discussion, we'll
- 0:35discuss AI in HR, managing the HR function at Compass in both
- 0:40Europe and the US, and how they think about employee growth as
- 0:43well. So Joe, look, it's an absolute
- 0:46pleasure for for coming on. How are you?
- 0:50Very well. Thanks so much, Tom, for the
- 0:53opportunity to join you today and to talk about some exciting
- 0:58things that we're doing at Compass and the world of HR Say
- 1:01thanks so much. Yeah, for sure.
- 1:03Look, it's an absolute pleasure. So let's just start off with a
- 1:07little bit about your journey through the field and how you
- 1:09got to where you are today. So just talk us through that
- 1:12journey. What initially drew you into HR
- 1:15and at what point in your career did you realise that you wanted
- 1:18to build a long term career in in HR?
- 1:23Yeah. Thank you, Tom.
- 1:24So I think I never had a grand plan actually to go into HR.
- 1:30It was much more of a gradual pull than a sort of early
- 1:34conscious decision to go into HR.
- 1:38And the gradual pull really started in a small learning and
- 1:41development consultancy where I saw the power and the impact of
- 1:46executive coaching, one to one coaching, learning and
- 1:49development initiatives. And that really kind of started
- 1:53to spark my interest and my curiosity and have that more
- 1:57gradual pull be that defining moment that came a little bit
- 2:01later for me. So from there, I moved into a
- 2:06larger organization and my role was really focused on leadership
- 2:10development. I had some amazing mentors at
- 2:13that company, which has really stood me in good stead
- 2:16throughout my career and something that I hope and aim to
- 2:20offer back to others as well. Those mentors really guided me,
- 2:25really helped me see the impact that HR can have not only on
- 2:30individual success, but team outcomes, business outcomes.
- 2:34I found it fascinating and interesting how that shapes the
- 2:39business. And from there I moved into a
- 2:42larger organization. I took on roles, more senior
- 2:47level HR roles at that point in organizational development
- 2:51transformation. I was starting to get involved
- 2:54in the culture side of mergers and acquisitions and that sort
- 2:57of those sorts of initiatives. And then an opportunity came up.
- 3:02I was a director in OD at that time.
- 3:05An opportunity came up for a maternity leave cover actually
- 3:09in an HR director role. It was a European role.
- 3:13I really leaned into that opportunity and was very lucky
- 3:17to be placed into it. And that really was my start of
- 3:22this is where I really want to be.
- 3:24This is not just a function I want to be in, but this is a
- 3:27career I really want to build for the long term.
- 3:30So from that European HRD role, I moved into global HRD roles
- 3:36and really it just kind of progressed from there.
- 3:39And I'm just so happy that I'm able to work with people
- 3:44day-to-day and shape, I hope in a positive way, the employee
- 3:49experience. And so that's a little bit about
- 3:52how I started, how it progressed, and how it's led me
- 3:56to be where I am today. Yeah, amazing.
- 4:01And just just talk us through. So you're obviously at companies
- 4:04like IPSON, IQVIA. What, what was it in particular
- 4:07about Compass Pathways that I guess resonated you both the
- 4:11mission and the stage of the business and, and made you think
- 4:14that this was the right next step for you in your in your
- 4:16career? Yeah.
- 4:18So it was a couple of things actually, Tom.
- 4:21It was the mission primarily, but also the moment the
- 4:26organization was in and the stage that it was in.
- 4:29I think for me, in terms of the mission, it was something very
- 4:33close to my heart and something that I had a very personal
- 4:37interest in. I have members close to me and
- 4:41my family who live with depression or have lived with
- 4:45PTSD and it's having that first hand experience of people living
- 4:51with those conditions and the ripple effect that it has
- 4:55throughout the family of people wanting to help, trying to help,
- 4:59but sometimes not knowing how. So I think, you know, this is
- 5:03quite a an underserved and unfunded community that I think
- 5:08really needs some new and different help now and support
- 5:12and options for treatments. So having an indirect or even a
- 5:18direct impact on changing people's lives was extremely
- 5:22compelling to join. I think the other thing was the
- 5:26stage at which the organization was in at that time.
- 5:30I joined 3 1/2 years ago and it was just going through a slight,
- 5:35well, a quite a big transition from being a founder LED
- 5:39organization to really scaling up into the next phase of the
- 5:44journey at company. So again, being able to be a
- 5:47part of that evolution, being able to build on what had been
- 5:51started and shape the culture and engagement and leadership
- 5:56capability going forward was really exciting.
- 6:00And then I think the third reason was the size of the
- 6:03organization. So having come from much larger
- 6:07companies where there are phenomenal opportunities and I
- 6:12worked with some incredible people, I was looking for
- 6:15something a little bit different.
- 6:17I was looking for really nurturing and building on things
- 6:22that I've worked on before in terms of really trusted, strong
- 6:25relationships. And I wanted to build on that
- 6:29even more and work in a smaller company where we were scaling,
- 6:32we were growing, we were building and I could form those
- 6:35trusted relationships and really get to know everybody in the
- 6:38company and they get to know me. And that's something I learnt
- 6:42from working in the centres of excellence where I worked in
- 6:45leadership development and OD before bringing that SME and
- 6:50consulting experience into an HR senior leadership role, HR
- 6:56director role has really, really solved me well.
- 6:59I'm able to lean on those skills and experience and bring it
- 7:03through into my business partnering now.
- 7:06So a lot of things happening at the same time that really drew
- 7:09me in and extremely happy to have made that decision and to
- 7:13be a compass today. Yeah, for sure.
- 7:17And and your current role at the moment, you're overseeing HR not
- 7:21just in in Europe, UK, but also in the US as well.
- 7:26Just talk us through like, what are some of the most different
- 7:28challenging differences that you've had to navigate with the
- 7:31two different Europe US, whether that's across, you know,
- 7:34cultural or regulatory or operational.
- 7:37And, and how do you approach creating a sense of shared
- 7:40identity and culture across geographies while still
- 7:44respecting and embracing local differences in how people work
- 7:47and, and how people interact? How?
- 7:49How have you found that? Yeah.
- 7:54Well, it's a, it's a very interesting question and I'm,
- 7:57I'm so glad you've asked it, Tom, because there are, there's
- 8:01definitely a level of complexity with operating in both the UK
- 8:06and the US. Some of it is very, very
- 8:10tangible and some of it is a lot more intangible.
- 8:13So our head count at the moment is split between 45% UK and 55%
- 8:21US. So things like employment law,
- 8:24benefits, regulatory frameworks, as you say, they're
- 8:27fundamentally different, but often the more sort of nuanced
- 8:33differences are cultural and operational.
- 8:36So I think expectations around things like feedback, decision
- 8:40making, even how we deal with and how comfortable people are
- 8:44with ambiguity, those can vary hugely across the different
- 8:49geographies. And we actually welcome some of
- 8:53those, you know, those nuances and that that variability
- 8:57because, because my approach really is to start with clarity
- 9:01on what is needing to be consistent globally.
- 9:05And we talk a lot at Compass and we live our values, which are
- 9:09consistent globally, our leadership expectations and just
- 9:13the overall employee experience that we're trying to create.
- 9:17I think all of those things combined really form what I
- 9:20would call a sort of cultural backbone.
- 9:23And I think when everybody is clear on that and everybody is
- 9:26aligned with that and everybody is comfortable with that, then
- 9:30you can start to createspace for slightly different things, What
- 9:35I would call maybe subcultures in various functions or across
- 9:38the geographies where people have the space to complement
- 9:43that global cultural backbone with something that's slightly
- 9:47different and very special and unique to them.
- 9:50So I think allowing things to show up locally functionally
- 9:54allow those subcultures to evolve.
- 9:56You know, our commercial profile of of team member is very
- 10:03different to our R&D and scientific side of the business.
- 10:07They're both equally important, as are all of the functions that
- 10:11we have at Compass. But the way those people show up
- 10:14interact may be slightly different.
- 10:16And that's that's a great thing. I really encourage diversity of
- 10:20experience and collaboration to really harness those those
- 10:24diverse experiences. So I think it's really about
- 10:27listening. It's about really communicating
- 10:30clearly and being really intentional with your
- 10:33communication and you're constantly balancing and getting
- 10:37the balance hopefully right between consistency and
- 10:42adaptability, and that's what we're trying to do all the time.
- 10:46So I think there's some of my insights into managing across
- 10:49the two very different geographies.
- 10:55Yeah, amazing. And like from your perspective,
- 10:59what's the truly effective partnership between an HR leader
- 11:02and the CEO actually look like in practice?
- 11:05I guess any, you know, senior leadership stakeholder is super
- 11:08important. But I think yeah, the HRCEO,
- 11:11again, equally as important as any other relationship in the
- 11:14business, Just how does that actually look like in practice
- 11:18beyond just sort of regular check insurance or alignment
- 11:21meetings? And how do you build the level
- 11:22of trust required to not only support the CEO but but also
- 11:26challenge challenge them constructively when needed,
- 11:29especially on difficult or more sensitive people decisions?
- 11:36Yeah. So it is a very unique
- 11:40partnership and I use that word partnership because I think for
- 11:43me that's really what it is about, you know, the senior HR
- 11:47leader and that CEO and our CEO could be enough.
- 11:51And I meet on a weekly basis. I think it's very much about
- 11:57making sure that you're going beyond transactional operational
- 12:03update meetings. Yes, that's important as well.
- 12:07But I think an effective partnership really goes beyond
- 12:11that. And I do think it's built on
- 12:13trust, honesty, and I think a really shared sense of
- 12:17accountability for the organization and where it's
- 12:21going and what we feel is, is the right thing to do.
- 12:24So it's not all about doing what's easiest, it's really
- 12:27about doing what's right for the business.
- 12:31And I think that shared sense of accountability is, is very
- 12:34strong between Kabir and I. And I think at its best that HR
- 12:39leader should be and and needs to be a strategic partner and a
- 12:44sounding board. So I think that really means
- 12:47understanding the business and the people.
- 12:49And I think that's absolutely fundamental for any HR business
- 12:53partnering role. I do think that HR is not just
- 12:57about the policy and the process, it's way beyond that.
- 13:01It's really embedding yourself in the business, understanding
- 13:06the challenges, the priorities, the pressures so that you can
- 13:11then build solutions for that and you can hopefully speak with
- 13:15the CEO in things that are grounded and very relevant.
- 13:19I think that's the the other key thing, excuse me, I think it's
- 13:23about making sure that HR do have that seat at the table in
- 13:28the right meetings and the right forums so that we're close to
- 13:32what's happening. If there is re prioritisation,
- 13:35if there are pain points, if there are challenges that are
- 13:39bubbling up, it's critical that HR know about those early.
- 13:44Because one thing that I have learnt through my experience is
- 13:48sometimes things come to us too late.
- 13:50So that CEO partnership is all about kind of exchanging
- 13:56insights. It's about being sensitive to
- 14:00some situations as they're playing out and handling those
- 14:04again, sensitively and maintaining confidentiality, but
- 14:08also making sure that you're coming with solutions and
- 14:13recommendations. Again, that's another learning
- 14:15for me through my experience. It's not just replaying or or
- 14:20relaying or going through a laundry list of things that have
- 14:24to be done that that that conversation that I have each
- 14:27week. It's not just a laundry list and
- 14:30the To Do List. It really is a two way
- 14:32conversation where I'm hopefully bringing up some of the things
- 14:36that I do think are important. And that's a mutual exchange
- 14:40with our CEO, but also coming up with the solutions, the
- 14:45recommendations, the pros and cons as well.
- 14:48Looking at sometimes risk, looking at how to de risk.
- 14:52That's all part of that partnership and conversation, so
- 14:55much more than just a transaction.
- 14:58And it's, and it's a vital, very important partnership to get
- 15:02right and to hone and to nurture in, you know, in my experience.
- 15:09Yeah, for sure. I hear that a lot from from from
- 15:12HR leaders from from CE OS as well, just how important that
- 15:15that partnership is. So, yeah, for sure.
- 15:18I think one of the other things that's been talked about a lot
- 15:21recently is, is Hai in HRI guess it's becoming increasingly
- 15:26embedded in HR processes as well from, from not just hiring, but
- 15:31performance management. Where do you personally see the
- 15:34biggest opportunity for it to add real value in HR?
- 15:43Yeah. I mean, it's, it's really
- 15:44exploding AI. We've known this for some time
- 15:47and it will continue. So what I talk about today is
- 15:50very much grounded in today and where we're at now.
- 15:53I know it will evolve, it will change hopefully for the better
- 15:57going forward. I think AI has huge potential in
- 16:02HR. We are harnessing that at
- 16:04Compass Pathways, but I think the real value in the work that
- 16:09we do linked into AI, it's really about enhancement rather
- 16:14than actually replacing human judgement.
- 16:17I think AI is phenomenal and it's helped us in terms of
- 16:21looking at efficiencies, insights.
- 16:25It's helped us look at trending data.
- 16:28Some of the partners that we work with, particularly around
- 16:31things like employee engagement, AI is built into their
- 16:35platforms. So it's a really, really helpful
- 16:38tool. I think it can help to inform
- 16:42decisions. I think it's as powerful as
- 16:44that, that you can take evidence, you can take data, you
- 16:48can take trends, patterns, themes to business leaders to
- 16:52support decision making. But I think you you must leave
- 16:56room for human interpretation as well.
- 17:00It, it would be very risky, I think to take AI only data to a
- 17:05business leader, present that as facts without your own
- 17:09interpretation onto it and without your own research and
- 17:13your own analysis. So I think it's about using it
- 17:17in a complementary way for engagement, retention,
- 17:20performance, could be recruiting, could be HR
- 17:23operations. There's lots of ways in which it
- 17:25can start to support what we're doing, but with that caveat that
- 17:31that human interpretation is is really important and again,
- 17:35should be grounded in things like, you know, ethics and
- 17:38transparency as well. So for me, it's not just about
- 17:43adoption, it's really about thoughtful and responsible use.
- 17:49Yeah, for sure. I think in in every, in every
- 17:53sort of industry, every walk of life, it's, it's something that
- 17:56is people just, yeah, particularly for recruitment,
- 17:58what we do, it's something that you have to embrace, although it
- 18:01will never fully take over, I don't think just with the human
- 18:04element, but for sure something that you have to embrace.
- 18:10So, yeah, yeah. And like as you think about
- 18:14employee growth, how do you balance formal structural career
- 18:19frameworks with more sort of organic experience based
- 18:22development, experience based development and what roles in
- 18:26managers play in enabling growth and and how do you support them
- 18:29to be effective in that responsibility?
- 18:31Just yeah, just talk us about employee growth.
- 18:36Well, this is something that I'm massively passionate about
- 18:40because it goes right back to my start in my HR career, right
- 18:44back to learning and development, that small
- 18:47consultancy I worked in, seeing the power of development and how
- 18:52it can transform careers and literally lives.
- 18:56So very passionate about employee development and growth.
- 19:00And I see it as a balance really when you were speaking about
- 19:03kind of, you know, that formal sort of career framework and
- 19:06experience, I think it's about the balance between clarity,
- 19:11flexibility, empowerment. I think formal structures like
- 19:15career frameworks are really vitally important.
- 19:19They give people a sense of clarity about what is their
- 19:24direction as their career grows, transparency around what is the
- 19:30next level, the opportunities, the options.
- 19:33I think the framework is really important and we have core
- 19:38competencies at Compass and we have a job architecture and
- 19:42we'll definitely continue to evolve those as we scale and
- 19:45grow. And we are very much in a growth
- 19:48period right now. So as new roles and new
- 19:51functions appear and are formed and are structured and built,
- 19:56will definitely evolve our career frameworks around that.
- 20:00Having said that, I believe a lot of meaningful conversation
- 20:05and development actually happens through experience.
- 20:10I think as adults, the way that we learn is very much through
- 20:13practice, through experience, through just trying things out
- 20:19and if they work, really having that memory about what was great
- 20:23about it and what worked. And equally, if things don't
- 20:27work, you've tried, you've practised, let's reflect and
- 20:31think about what we might do differently next time and and
- 20:33give it another go. So experiential learning I think
- 20:37has a huge impact and I think it's about giving people
- 20:42opportunities, stretch roles, new challenges, exposure to
- 20:45other parts of the business. And this is where managers play
- 20:49such a critical role. They know their people, they
- 20:53sometimes know the opportunities and the business that are coming
- 20:57up. So I think they're the closest
- 21:00and they have that ability to support the growth in a very,
- 21:05very customized way that's right for that person.
- 21:08You know, it's not a one-size-fits-all approach.
- 21:11It really should be very tailored for the person.
- 21:14And I also talk a lot at Compass about job enrichment and again,
- 21:19something I'm really passionate about.
- 21:21How can we make our current role even more interesting, even more
- 21:25exciting? And sometimes we need to really
- 21:29master our own role before we step up in our career.
- 21:34I think that's really important as well.
- 21:35So it's not always about upward progression, staying true and
- 21:40kind of grounded and really mastering your current role,
- 21:44maybe taking a lateral move as well.
- 21:46I mean, that's that's a whole other area as well, stepping
- 21:51into something that's a sideways move, sort of zigzagging.
- 21:55So you're going sideways to go up in the future as well.
- 21:59So I think our role in HR really is to equip managers to do that
- 22:03well through training and tools and just creating the right
- 22:07environment is so important for having those development
- 22:10discussions that people feel supported and hard.
- 22:15And it's not just a once a year event, it really is, you know, a
- 22:19whole year conversation. So tools and and enablement
- 22:24really I think are key. Yeah.
- 22:29Can you talk us through just some of the key HR initiatives
- 22:32you've introduced since joining Compass Pathways and what are
- 22:36some of the challenges or needs that they were designed to try
- 22:38and address? There have been many.
- 22:43I'm very fortunate that that's another just fantastic part of
- 22:48my role and particularly in biotech where things move very,
- 22:53very fast. If you love a fast pace, you
- 22:56love change, you love doing something different everyday,
- 23:01then biotech is probably a very interesting place for you to be.
- 23:04Because my role and the people team, it's not about just
- 23:10repetition everyday and doing the same thing year in, year
- 23:13out. I mean, there are things that
- 23:15have an annual cycle for sure. Excuse me, but there are other
- 23:20things as well that we've introduced and actually we're
- 23:24building on a really, really strong foundation and there's
- 23:27been a lot of work to bring new initiatives over the years.
- 23:32So building on a strong foundation, I think, you know,
- 23:35we've focused a lot in the last year or so on organizational
- 23:39design. So really making sure that we
- 23:42have the right structure, the right roles, the right shape and
- 23:46size in our functions has been really important as we grow.
- 23:51Strengthening leadership capability has been really,
- 23:54really important and we've put a leadership programme in place
- 23:58over the last 12 months. I would say it's been really,
- 24:01really successful and it's been lovely and delightful seeing our
- 24:06leaders really just unlock so much more potential in
- 24:11themselves. And that has a kind of knock on
- 24:14effect into their teams where their teams are more engaged,
- 24:18The team's performance is even greater than before.
- 24:21So really positive effect individually and on the teams.
- 24:25And then of course that flows through into culture and
- 24:28organizational success and business outcomes as well.
- 24:32We've always ensured that our values are reflected in how we
- 24:36hire, how we develop, how we recognize people and that work
- 24:40continues. And then I think one of our
- 24:43stand out achievements over the last 12 months has been our
- 24:47employee engagement results. So we had an engagement score
- 24:52towards the end of last year of 90%, which I think flex the
- 24:58participation and the engagement that people had in that process
- 25:03and the high level of trust and willingness for employees to
- 25:07really share truthful feedback with us.
- 25:10That resulted in an engagement score of 89%, which we were
- 25:14delighted with and really puts us in the upper quartile of
- 25:19companies that were surveyed with our external partner.
- 25:23So amazing results and, and, and insights as well.
- 25:28But it's not, it's not just the score for me that stands out
- 25:32there. It's really what's behind it and
- 25:35what we learned. And it's a theme that comes
- 25:37through very strongly year on year is employee feedback that
- 25:42suggests and definitely identifies there is a very
- 25:46strong alignment with our mission.
- 25:51A lot of people have lived experience of treatment
- 25:54resistant depression and or PTSD and some of the other areas that
- 25:59that that we're that we're looking at.
- 26:02So strong alignment to our mission, confidence in
- 26:05leadership and also a really strong sense of connection with
- 26:10each other. And that's a very unique thing
- 26:12to Compass as well. I think because we're a fairly
- 26:15small organization, around 200 head count just over now, there
- 26:22is a very strong community feel within Compass, a huge amount of
- 26:26support, huge amount of very strong bonds and connection.
- 26:31And so that came through really quick, really strongly and the
- 26:34commitment to the organization as well.
- 26:38So our focus now, now with those great results is really how do
- 26:42we build on that, You know, harness that momentum, take it
- 26:45forward, keep learning from our team members, keep listening to
- 26:50the feedback, and we'll be doing more surveying this year.
- 26:54But I think really building on that momentum, but also
- 26:57preserving the culture that people value, you know, really
- 27:02holding on to what's important and that people want to continue
- 27:05to see year in, year out. We cannot ignore or, you know,
- 27:10move away from that too far. I would say another area has
- 27:15been around our benefits in the UK and the US, so really
- 27:19enhancing those. We have some very unique
- 27:23benefits at Compass that have been built again around our
- 27:26mission, our values, feedback from our team members and we've
- 27:33made sure that we are market leading, not market following.
- 27:36We've really got some very special and differentiated
- 27:39benefits at campus that we're incredibly proud of.
- 27:43So I think the challenge with with all the things that we're
- 27:47doing, all the initiatives that we're working on is, is
- 27:50maintaining the pace at which we're growing, maintaining the
- 27:53quality and the rigour in our science that we uphold at all
- 27:58times. And just making sure that with
- 28:02all of that huge volume of work and everything that we're
- 28:06working towards in the future that we continue to protect our
- 28:10culture and we have some fun along the way doing what to what
- 28:14we've also introduced over the last year or two, which has been
- 28:18massively impactful is our culture committee.
- 28:21And again, that brings diversity of functional representation,
- 28:26diversity of experience, diversity of different career
- 28:31experiences, different roles. So this employee LED cross
- 28:36functional diverse culture committee is a great forum for
- 28:42us to engage with as a sounding board to get feedback.
- 28:46It's a really good two way loop between people, team, senior
- 28:49leadership and our employee LED group that we meet with on a
- 28:54regular basis. That's been a really rich,
- 28:57diverse forum to learn from and to just meet with on a really
- 29:01regular basis and to exchange ideas, insights, hear their
- 29:06points of view, hear what they're learning from the people
- 29:10that they work with. So I think that's been really,
- 29:13really helpful and really useful as well.
- 29:17For sure, and this is a question that we always finish with as
- 29:20well. If if you to sit down and invite
- 29:23any free people from past or present for a dinner, who would
- 29:27you choose and why? It doesn't necessarily need to
- 29:30be people from the industry. It can be anyone you like.
- 29:33Yeah, three people you'd like to have dinner with and why.
- 29:37OK, probably lots of people, more definitely more than three
- 29:43come to mind. Definitely from different walks
- 29:48of life, science, culture, art, all sorts of people are coming
- 29:53to mind. But I think probably the three I
- 29:56would settle on is probably Marie Curie for her
- 30:02extraordinary scientific achievements and contributions.
- 30:08She was way ahead of her time. She overcame a lot of challenges
- 30:14and adversity, not just one Nobel Prize, but two.
- 30:20An incredible contribution to science, but also the legacy
- 30:25that Marie Curie left formed into auk charity named after her
- 30:31that supports families and people living with cancer.
- 30:36And so that human impact had a direct correlation to my life
- 30:40recently where my family and my mother were supported in her
- 30:44final weeks with cancer. And so Marie Curie top of the
- 30:49list definitely for me, not only scientific achievement, but that
- 30:53human legacy as well. Sir David Attenborough would be
- 30:58hopefully a good dinner companion as well as, you know,
- 31:02British biologist and natural historian and broadcaster.
- 31:09I think the way that he communicates and helps us think
- 31:13about there are things much bigger than us on this planet.
- 31:17He recently celebrated his 100th birthday as well.
- 31:21So I just think the passion that he brings to the world around
- 31:25us, his curiosity, his scientific way of, of
- 31:29communicating things is, is incredible and helping us
- 31:34connect with, with, with the bigger world around us.
- 31:37And then I think my final one would be actually Louis Theroux,
- 31:42who is a journalist, a British journalist and broadcaster.
- 31:48Again, I just, I think that the way Louis Theroux uncovers
- 31:55different elements of the world that we didn't know exists.
- 31:59So he uncovers things in people and in communities through the
- 32:03way he asks questions, the empathy, the curiosity that he
- 32:09brings, I think the psychological safety that he
- 32:12creates, the willingness to listen.
- 32:16I think the way he uncovers that side of people and the world is
- 32:20is incredible. So I think a theme running
- 32:24through probably all of those is that curiosity, giving people
- 32:28space, bringing those extraordinary talents to the
- 32:32world around us. I think they'd be fantastic
- 32:36dinner guests. And yeah, they would be my top
- 32:38three. Amazing.
- 32:41But look, thanks so much for coming on and helping us out
- 32:44with this. It sounds like the culture that
- 32:46you're building at Compass is, is super impressive and for sure
- 32:50a company I'm going to be following more in the future
- 32:53with some, I'm sure some some inflection points coming up as
- 32:56well. So look, it was an absolute
- 32:58pleasure and and thanks again. Thank you, Tom.
- 33:03Thanks so much. It's been really great chatting
- 33:05with you today and just really enjoyed bringing some of those
- 33:09questions to life and and sharing what we're doing at
- 33:13Compass. Thank you so much and it's been
- 33:16great fun to say thank you.