Personal Development

Dean Royles, director of human resources, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dean Royles has been a leading figure in HR within the NHS for nearly two decades. Chief executive of NHS Employers since December 2010, Royles joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals mid-2014. The NHS trust...

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Helen Giles, executive director of people and governance, St Mungo’s Broadway

Giles is executive director of people and governance for St Mungo’s and MD of Real People, an HR consultancy

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Pauline Best, global people and organisation director, Specsavers Optical Group

Best joined Specsavers in 2008 as group HRD, responsible for all elements of people and organisation strategy and activity

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Neil Foulger, managing director, HR, Liberty Global Group

Neil Foulger was the HR lead in the acquisition of Virgin Media by Liberty Global in 2013. Denver-based Liberty Global is now the largest international cable company with operations in 14 countries...

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Gap between 'rhetoric and reality' of what CEOs want from HRDs

There is a difference between the qualities CEOs say they want in an HR director and what they actually want

Will Serle, HR group director, Amec Foster Wheeler

Will Serle was appointed as Amec Foster Wheeler’s group HRD in 2011, having previously been the consultancy’s HR operations director since 2009. He is also responsible for sustainability at the...

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Andy Doyle, chief HR officer, WorldPay

Andy is commercially-focused, having spent his career in a variety of HR and general management roles

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Therese Procter, people director, Tesco Bank

Therese Procter became people director of Tesco Bank after a career at the UK’s largest food retailer starting in 1986. She had a key role in the bank’s ambitious expansion programmes which followed...

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Liz Reilly, group HR director, Segro

Liz Reilly has been group HR director at real estate investment trust Segro since July 2010. She joined from FCC Environmental, where she was group HR director for three and a half years.

HR's role in keeping 2012's legacy alive

London Legacy Development Corporation’s HR director Sally Hopper shares the story of her organisation’s unique challenges as it strives to turn Olympic promises into reality

Business sectors must share management ideas

The public, private and non-profit spheres can learn more from each other than they realise

HR reaching for the stars at Amec Foster Wheeler

Why the company's technical feats all come down to having the right people