Karen Bates joined Drax in May 2017 with a responsibility for the people agenda across retail

Having spent nine years at Serco as group HRD Geoff Lloyd moved to British aerospace company Meggitt during 2018 to be chief human resources officer

Jan Woods is a director of consumer-focused investor Lion Capital

Steve Whitehead joined Citizens Advice in November 2012

Coalter has previously worked in senior HR roles in local government, the NHS, the voluntary sector and with schools

Matt Elliott joined Virgin Money in 2011 as people director, leading the HR work required to acquire and integrate Northern Rock

?Caroline Waters is no stranger to the HR Most Influential list.

Althea Loderick is the strategic director for resources at Brent Council, where she has oversight of finance, property and FM, HR and OD, ICT and digital services, legal services and procurement,...

Josephs joined Historic Royal Palaces as HRD in 1999, shortly after it became an independent self-funding charity

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II professor of prganizational behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979

Kerry Smith joined the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in October 2013 from the Royal Horticultural Society

Patrick Lencioni is one of America’s pre-eminent thought leaders on topics related to leadership, management and teamwork at the executive level