Hi there and welcome to Blaydenmore's podcast series, Centre Stage. My name is Richard

Carpenter and I'm the chief executive of Blaydenmore. In Centre Stage, we tackle the issues

that business communicators face from investor communications to ESG to employee engagement

and brand. In this episode, which is the first in a two-part series on the topic of talent and

culture, I'm joined by Jig Ramji, Group Head of Talent at the London Stock Exchange Group, otherwise

known as LSEG. Hi, Jig. Welcome to Centre Stage.

Very good to have you join us.

Thank you very much.

So you work for an organisation that has significantly grown in size and scale in recent years,

moving from 5,000 or so people up to 20,000 plus.

What does that mean in terms of retaining talent and indeed

attracting talent? Well, first and foremost, Richard, thank you for having me as a guest,

really happy to be here and having a chat with you about it. Look, I think the reality of our

situation as an organisation, the London Stock Exchange Group, is we already knew that

we had significant work to do in terms of articulating the proposition around why it was

a great place to be.

The organisation has so much going for it.

It has a rich history, over 300 years old, a real figurehead in terms of the

city, in terms of brand. And yet, there was still a bit of a mystery around what this

organisation actually does, and actually the full remit of the organisation. The acquisition

of refinative has just given us a real impetus to accelerate some of that work and really start

to articulate why the London Stock Exchange Group or LSEG as we like to call it is such a great

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