Sample Podcast Questions for Amie Fox
- 1
You’ve said struggling to find early employment pushed you to design systems — can you walk us through that turning point and how it shaped your approach to manager systems?
- 2
You talk about the employee lifecycle as one connected structure rather than a set of separate HR tasks. Where do you most often see growing businesses lose momentum without realising it?
- 3
A lot of leaders focus heavily on hiring and onboarding, but you also talk about the quieter moments that shape whether people stay, perform, or disengage. What are some of those overlooked stages?
- 4
When a business is growing quickly, what are the warning signs that its people systems are no longer strong enough to support the pace of growth?
- 5
You’ve said that how people experience work directly affects performance. What practical changes can leaders make inside the employee lifecycle to reduce friction and help their teams do better work?
- 6
FoxBuzz is your flagship monthly system — what are its core components and how does it practically support hiring, onboarding, development and performance?
- 7
In Mind the Blind Spot: Decision to Done you diagnose why meeting decisions don’t become action — what’s the single biggest structural fix leaders can implement immediately?
- 8
For founders and “teams of one” with limited time and budget, what three onboarding or hiring routines deliver the biggest return in the first 90 days?
- 9
Many leaders say “culture matters more than systems.” How do you respond, and how do you translate the feeling of “people doing well” into boardroom-friendly routines?
- 10
As a visually impaired leader who uses assistive technology, what specific accessibility changes do you recommend that most organisations overlook during recruitment and onboarding?
- 11
For listeners who want to hire you for a keynote, start a FoxBuzz subscription, or book a consulting audit, what’s the simplest first step they should take after this episode?
Key topics
Your managers are running meetings that quietly decide whether the business scales or stalls
In growing organisations, managers spend a huge amount of time leading through meetings, but many still treat presenting as something reserved for stages, pitches or big client moments. Amie reframes everyday management communication as a performance issue: if a manager cannot explain priorities clearly, structure a conversation, handle questions and land the next step, the team pays for it in confusion, delay and disengagement. Her work helps managers move away from rambling updates, overloaded slides and vague takeaways, and instead build meetings around what people need to understand, feel confident about and do next. For founders, HR and operations leaders, this opens up a practical conversation about why better-presenting managers create better-aligned teams, stronger engagement and fewer avoidable performance problems.
Your people are not the problem, the structure around them is
Growing businesses often reach a point where ambition starts to outpace the systems holding their people together, and leaders mistake the problem for motivation, hiring, or culture. Amie Fox helps managing directors and middle managers see that the real issue often sits inside the everyday employee experience: how people are recruited, onboarded, managed, heard, developed, and eventually exited. Her insight is shaped by a career across communications, training, fundraising, business development, corporate responsibility, and operations, alongside her lived experience navigating workplaces that were not built for her as a visually impaired woman. This gives her a rare ability to spot the hesitation, friction, and hidden design flaws that leaders miss, and to show businesses how better people structures create stronger performance without losing the human experience of work.
The best candidates are not missing, your hiring process is blocking them
Many growing businesses struggle to hire the right people, often blaming a talent shortage. What they have truly missed is how hidden systemic barriers block great candidates before they even engage. These barriers aren’t always visible, even to senior leaders or HR, yet they quietly limit not just hiring, but organizational growth. Amie Fox draws from her extensive experience auditing recruitment and onboarding processes for professional services and logistics firms. As a visually impaired leader who has navigated inaccessible workplaces, she uniquely understands how to identify and dismantle these unseen obstacles. Her frameworks reveal how refining systems-a clearer job interview process or accessible onboarding protocols-can expand who feels welcomed and empowered from day one. Listeners will learn how to spot subtle 'blind spots' in their own hiring approach and practical steps to redesign these systems. Rather than chasing mythical 'perfect hires,' they can build inclusive, barrier-free recruitment routines that activate potential within reach. This shift ultimately accelerates growth by unlocking talent that was always there waiting to thrive.
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Key topics
Your managers are running meetings that quietly decide whether the business scales or stalls
In growing organisations, managers spend a huge amount of time leading through meetings, but many still treat presenting as something reserved for stages, pitches or big client moments. Amie reframes everyday management communication as a performance issue: if a manager cannot explain priorities clearly, structure a conversation, handle questions and land the next step, the team pays for it in confusion, delay and disengagement. Her work helps managers move away from rambling updates, overloaded slides and vague takeaways, and instead build meetings around what people need to understand, feel confident about and do next. For founders, HR and operations leaders, this opens up a practical conversation about why better-presenting managers create better-aligned teams, stronger engagement and fewer avoidable performance problems.
Your people are not the problem, the structure around them is
Growing businesses often reach a point where ambition starts to outpace the systems holding their people together, and leaders mistake the problem for motivation, hiring, or culture. Amie Fox helps managing directors and middle managers see that the real issue often sits inside the everyday employee experience: how people are recruited, onboarded, managed, heard, developed, and eventually exited. Her insight is shaped by a career across communications, training, fundraising, business development, corporate responsibility, and operations, alongside her lived experience navigating workplaces that were not built for her as a visually impaired woman. This gives her a rare ability to spot the hesitation, friction, and hidden design flaws that leaders miss, and to show businesses how better people structures create stronger performance without losing the human experience of work.
The best candidates are not missing, your hiring process is blocking them
Many growing businesses struggle to hire the right people, often blaming a talent shortage. What they have truly missed is how hidden systemic barriers block great candidates before they even engage. These barriers aren’t always visible, even to senior leaders or HR, yet they quietly limit not just hiring, but organizational growth. Amie Fox draws from her extensive experience auditing recruitment and onboarding processes for professional services and logistics firms. As a visually impaired leader who has navigated inaccessible workplaces, she uniquely understands how to identify and dismantle these unseen obstacles. Her frameworks reveal how refining systems-a clearer job interview process or accessible onboarding protocols-can expand who feels welcomed and empowered from day one. Listeners will learn how to spot subtle 'blind spots' in their own hiring approach and practical steps to redesign these systems. Rather than chasing mythical 'perfect hires,' they can build inclusive, barrier-free recruitment routines that activate potential within reach. This shift ultimately accelerates growth by unlocking talent that was always there waiting to thrive.
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