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Culture Architect / Head of People Strategy

I am a Culture and Communications expert, with over 15 years in-house and consulting experience leading People Strategies and supporting global leaders to prepare for future disruption and growth.

Throughout my career, I have specialised in leading cultural change teams with a keen focus on designing and delivering people strategies that embed new ways of working and behaviours in fast-paced and complex regulated environments.

I am passionate about delivering real and long-lasting change, doing so by pioneering innovative change solutions, leadership interventions and compelling strategies that influence behaviour and leave a sustainable impact on the employee experience.

What I Do

Work Experience

Head of People Strategy and HR
Croftstone
(2021 – to date)
Leading the People Strategy, HR, and Internal Communications team for a rapidly growing startup consultancy. Developing the people strategy and leading the end-to-end implementation of the HR plans and workplace operating models.

Future of Workplace Change Senior Lead
Clifford Chance
(2021 – 2021)
Setting the new workplace vision and designing a change strategy to embed new behaviours and ways of working across Clifford Chance UK, preparing lawyers for the changing workplace and future disruption.

Senior Culture and Comms Consultant
PwC
(2019 – 2020)
Designing People Strategies and EVPs, while advising global executives across multiple sectors on all aspects of culture and communications to support a wider Transformation agenda and aid them deliver on their business objectives.

People Strategy & Comms Senior Manager
Barclays UK
(2015 – 2019)
Leading the cultural transformation for the Remediation function (4k FTE) by designing and delivering a new People Strategy and working with HR to deliver a new employee value proposition.

Change and Comms Senior Consultant
Lloyds Banking Group
(2012 – 2015)
Designed new operating models in line with regulatory changes and developed HR strategies to reskill and redeploy employees, while defining a compelling narrative, and delivering a suite of targeted and tailored communication strategies.

Business Strategy and Comms Manager
HSBC Bank UK
(2008 – 2012)
Led marketing and internal communications strategies, and delivered an overhaul to the organisational structure and operating model following regulatory changes which resulted in changes to over 40k FTE.