How to actually futureproof your career and get promoted with Vanessa Kingori
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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I loved loved loved this recording! Today I am talking to Vanessa Kingori, one of the most respected leaders in British media. She has led huge brands, shaped culture, and built the most incredible, bucket list career.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast-shaped guide book on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing, because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice. |
| 0:25.2 | What is up and welcome back to working hard. Today's episode is for absolutely anyone who is |
| 0:29.5 | stepping into a new chapter in their career or feels ready to aim higher but wants clarity |
| 0:34.3 | on what that actually looks like. I'm joined by Vanessa King Ori, a woman who |
| 0:37.8 | has consistently shaped the industries she has worked in. She became publisher of GQ UK and GQ Style, |
| 0:43.1 | the first woman and first person of colour in that role, and went on to become publishing |
| 0:46.8 | director of British Vogue. She later served as chief business officer at Condé Nast Britain, |
| 0:51.8 | overseeing 10 major brands, and she now leads the technology, |
| 0:55.4 | media and telecoms division at Google UK. Her career has been built on courage, purpose and a very |
| 1:00.7 | intentional approach to leadership and progression. If you want practical, grounded career guidance |
| 1:05.5 | that actually translates into action and how to do it, this conversation will give you exactly |
| 1:10.0 | that. And before we dive in, make sure you follow us on your podcast app. A huge number of you listen on Spotify, but it can be able to do it, this conversation will give you exactly that. And before we dive in, |
| 1:11.2 | make sure you follow us on your podcast app. A huge number of you listen on Spotify, but if you |
| 1:15.1 | haven't hit follow yet, this is your reminder. It hugely helps us at the podcast. So let's get into it. |
| 1:24.0 | Vanessa King-O-E-O-V-E. Are you currently more working hard or hardly working? |
| 1:28.2 | Hi, Grace. It's so lovely, don't you? I know. I'm literally straight in. You're like, hello. Hello. |
| 1:33.5 | Are you working hard or working? I know. Girl, I'm working hard. |
| 1:37.6 | Working hard or hardly working. I think I am working very hard right now with a view to not feeling like I'm working. |
| 1:47.3 | Oh, I like that. |
| 1:48.5 | So I, I, one of my, um, the voices in my head is interestingly a very prolific photographer |
| 1:55.6 | called David Bailey. |
| 1:56.8 | And the first time I worked with him years and years ago on a GQ shoot was absolutely mad experience. |
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