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Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Boxlight Creative Studio 267 Episodes Jul 24, 2026

Former Downing Street adviser Jimmy McLoughlin interviews top entrepreneurs, politicians, and other high achievers about their predictions for the future of the economy, focusing on how jobs will evolve. Each episode explores a different perspective on emerging industries, automation, and the changing nature of work.

Episodes

From Boots the Chemist to Lewis Hamilton's Boardroom | Dr. Hayaatun Sillem
From Boots the Chemist to Lewis Hamilton's Boardroom | Dr. Hayaatun Sillem Jul 24, 2026 4061 This week, a special crossover episode: Jimmy's Jobs of the Future meets What We Don't Know. Check out What We Don't Know here Hayaatun Sillem, host of What We Don't Know, spent eight years as CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering - the first woman, and the first person in over two decades, to hold the role. Before that: 8 years of biochemistry, a walkout from the lab that ended her PhD overni
How Heathrow Runs Britain's Biggest Workplace | CEO Thomas Woldbye
How Heathrow Runs Britain's Biggest Workplace | CEO Thomas Woldbye Jul 23, 2026 3328 Heathrow isn't just an airport - it's one of the UK's largest workplaces. Every day, more than 200,000 passengers pass through Heathrow, supported by around 100,000 people working across hundreds of different roles. From firefighters and engineers to security teams, baggage handlers and AI specialists, it's a city-sized operation that has to work flawlessly, every single day. In this episode, Ji
Johnny Reynolds on Jobs of the Future: Skills, Scale-Ups, Net Zero and AI
Johnny Reynolds on Jobs of the Future: Skills, Scale-Ups, Net Zero and AI Jul 22, 2026 3422 Johnny Reynolds on Jobs of the Future: Skills, Scale-Ups, Net Zero and AI This is a replayed 2023 interview with Johnny Reynolds, now returning to run the Department for Business amid major UK government reshuffles under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, including moving AI to the Cabinet Office. Jimmy and Johnny discuss visiting businesses such as Football Manager’s studio and Nissan’s Sunderla
Georgie Coleridge Cole, Sheerluxe Founder | Building a £40M Business By Ignoring the Rules
Georgie Coleridge Cole, Sheerluxe Founder | Building a £40M Business By Ignoring the Rules Jul 14, 2026 3306 SheerLuxe Founder on Hiring, Creator-Led Media & Selling the Business for £40M Jimmy interviews Georgie Coleridge Cole about building SheerLuxe over nearly two decades into a creator-led digital media business, what she looks for when hiring (culture add, broadcasters/curators/tastemakers), and how the company is structured across editorial, social, content, design, marketing, commercial, and vid
Amazon: The Plan to Get 30,000 People Into Work
Amazon: The Plan to Get 30,000 People Into Work Jul 6, 2026 897 Amazon’s Upskilling Push: Career Choice, Skilled Hiring, and Supported Internships At a new Amazon fulfillment center, Amazon UK & I Country Manager John Boumphrey discusses job announcements, hiring needs, and major upskilling efforts, including the Career Choice program that funds nationally recognized qualifications up to £3,000 a year in the UK, training about 30,000 people in the UK and 300,
Tom Kerridge REVEALS What Destroys the Hospitality Industry
Tom Kerridge REVEALS What Destroys the Hospitality Industry Jul 2, 2026 2334 Tom Kerridge on Why UK Restaurants Are Failing: Rising Costs, VAT the Problem, and the Fight to Save Hospitality Watch the full documentary: https://youtu.be/LKaEiZ5TE5Q At Tom Kerridge’s Whitehall restaurant, we explores why UK hospitality is struggling despite strong demand: rising utility bills, food inflation, minimum wage and national insurance increases, and business rates have eroded al
Brexit Made Us Poorer? Think Again | Vote Leave CEO Lord Elliot
Brexit Made Us Poorer? Think Again | Vote Leave CEO Lord Elliot Jun 23, 2026 4240 Lord Matthew Elliott on Vote Leave, Modern Campaigning, AI Microtargeting, and the Jobs Foundation Jimmy interviews Lord Matthew Elliott, former Vote Leave CEO and author of “Ten Years On,” about building and running political campaigns, recruiting and developing talent, and measuring success through objectives, media impact, and interim targets. Elliott contrasts traditional campaigning with t
The TRUTH About The BBC | Nihal Arthanayake, Former BBC Radio 1 Presenter
The TRUTH About The BBC | Nihal Arthanayake, Former BBC Radio 1 Presenter Jun 20, 2026 5618 Nihal Arthanayake: From Radio 1 to Corporate Storytelling - Class, Diversity & the BBC’s Blind Spots Nihal Arthanayake, former BBC Radio 1 presenter, joins Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future to trace his career, from promoting rap nights at 16 and fronting Collapsed Lung to being dropped by a major label and pivoting into music journalism and PR before becoming a Radio 1 DJ in 2002. Nihal explains how
Jimmy Wales: What Happens When Nobody Trusts Anybody?
Jimmy Wales: What Happens When Nobody Trusts Anybody? Jun 16, 2026 5226 Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Trust, and AI’s Disruptive Future This week's guest, Jimmy Wales, discusses how Wikipedia grew from an experimental, volunteer-edited side project spun out of the failed top-down Nupedia, from early “Hello, world” days and primitive accounts to organic traffic and press, and now a nonprofit with about 650 staff supporting tech, operations, fundraising, legal, and trust-a
The Adobe Takeover Nobody's Talking About & The Future of Creativity
The Adobe Takeover Nobody's Talking About & The Future of Creativity Jun 10, 2026 2186 How Adobe Quietly Powers the World (and the AI Fight for Creators)This episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future visits Adobe’s London headquarters to explore how Adobe’s influence extends beyond Photoshop and PDFs into marketing technology that powers personalized experiences for major brands and institutions like Tesco, the Premier League, banks, Channel 4, Sky, Disney, and governments. VP Simon M
Currys CEO Alex Baldock & Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson on Retail, Energy, Regulation and AI
Currys CEO Alex Baldock & Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson on Retail, Energy, Regulation and AI Jun 9, 2026 3149 Currys CEO Alex Baldock & Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson on Retail, Energy, Regulation and AI Jimmy hosts a panel with Currys CEO Alex Baldock and Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on how retail and energy drive jobs, growth and prosperity. Baldock outlines Currys’ scale (nearly £10bn sales, 24,000 colleagues) and argues retail employs around 20% of the private sector workforce with rising productiv
Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO Salesforce UK & I | Britain's AI Skills Gap
Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO Salesforce UK & I | Britain's AI Skills Gap Jun 2, 2026 2420 Thanks to Salesforce for Partnering on this episode, check out our new AI report here: https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/salesforce-ai-poll In this episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jimmy interviews Zahra at Salesforce’s new AI centre in London’s Devonshire Square, discussing careers, AI adoption, and skills. Zahra shares her first job in a pizza place, an early ambition to become a diplomat bl

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