The cost of living crisis, falling real wages and wider dissatisfaction with working conditions are a potent recipe for the ongoing strike action across many public services.
Rising rapidly through the profession, Mark Grimley has a proven record of delivering within some of the more challenging public sector roles within local government, as well as taking roles in the...
Sally Hopper is the director of HR at Hertfordshire County Council with a workforce of over 8,000 staff.
Claire Gore was appointed director of the future of the NHS HR and OD programme in June 2022 - a programme designed to ensure that the HR and OD profession is fit to deliver the NHS people and...
Oonagh is originally from Northern Ireland and started her career in the NHS in 1988, working in a number of NHS organisations in Belfast before moving to Cambridge in 1993.
Cheryl Samuels was appointed deputy director of workforce transformation for the London Region at NHS England in 2020, overseeing the key priorities for delivery of the transformation roadmap for...
Alder is the director general of human resources at the Department of Work and Pensions. She sets and leads the department's people straegy, aligning it to the business strategy and the wider Civil...
Andy Dodman is the chief HR officer at Leeds City Council, the second largest Council in the UK. Andy moved into local government in September 2019 following a successful career at The University of...
O'Driscoll joined Companies House in May 2012 as head of human resources and estates. She took up the new role of director of people transformation in February 2018. This role brings together HR,...
A fellow of the CIPD and one of 2020’s UK 50 Leading Lights in Kindness & Leadership, Bonay has extensive international corporate experience across the whole HR remit in both the private and public...
Hall is head of resourcing and development at Hertfordshire County Council. Prior to this he has held numerous positions including roles with Anglian Water Group and IBM.
The City of Edinburgh Council’s executive director of corporate services since 2017, Moir Moir is responsible for leading the Council’s strategic and corporate services, including HR, Finance and...
