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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

It's a tough life being in HR, but what can we learn from others functions?

HR magazine’s HR Most Influential ranking – the definitive annual lists of the HR practitioners and thinkers who have had the greatest influence in the field of people strategy – turns 10 this year.

You don't need expensive leadership courses to develop effective skills

Political astuteness is about working with conflict to achieve organisational goals, says OUBS