Public sector

Caroline Nugent, HR director, Financial Ombudsman Service

Nugent is director of HR and OD at the Financial Ombudsman Service

Jayne Billam, HR director, Nottingham Trent University

?Jayne Billam is HR director at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and has worked in HR for almost 30 years

Janet King, director of HR and corporate services/deputy chief executive, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

King has worked in retail, the civil service, an NGO, and the NHS

Sally Hopper, assistant director of HR, Hertfordshire County Council

Hopper has oversight for the people strategy for the council and associated traded companies

Shokat Lal, assistant chief executive, Rotherham Council

Shokat Lal is responsible for the council’s people and governance function and part of the strategic leadership team that took Rotherham Council out of intervention and on a rapid journey of...

Mark Grimley, group director for people and corporate services, government of Jersey

Grimley took up post as the chief people officer for the government of Jersey in June 2019, heading up the largest employer on the Channel Island

Joanna Brown, director of HR and OD, London Borough of Camden

Brown is director of HR and OD for the London Borough of Camden; a diverse inner-London local authority with 4,600 employees

Andrew Dodman, chief officer of HR, Leeds City Council

Andy Dodman is chief officer of HR at Leeds City Council, the second largest local authority in the UK

People

Claire Gore, director of HR and OD, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Gore has worked in HR for more than 30 years across a variety of public sector organisations

Paul Taylor-Pitt, assistant director of organisational development, NHS Employers

Leaving university in the mid-1990s without a plan, Taylor-Pitt began his career as a care worker in a residential home for people with HIV-related brain impairment

Gail Clark, Head of workforce change, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Gail Clark is currently the head of workforce change

Shokat Lal, Assistant chief executive, Rotherham Council

Shokat Lal is responsible for the council’s people, performance and OD function and part of the Strategic Leadership Team that is working on Rotherham council’s improvement and change journey.