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Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Continuing in the same role within Group POD, but based remotely from the UK, travelling as needed. Led the event design, development and delivery of a virtual three-day Group Leadership Forum (c230 top leaders) in Nov ‘21, including a special Group Functions follow-up event in March ‘22 for c3,000 employees around the globe. Also partnered on the design.

Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland

With the formation of Syngenta Group, joined the Group POD team working across the 4 Business Units, and on Group level POD activities, in particular for projects requiring Org Development, Org Design, Change and Transformation expertise.Continued with the Finance Evolution transformation journey for Crop Protection, Seeds and Group Finance. Partnered on a.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Co-led the event design, development and delivery for the Jan 2019 Global Leadership Conference in Barcelona (c160 top leaders over 3 days), including content development with the Syngenta Executive Team regarding culture change and leadership behaviours. Held the event design and delivery for a virtual Group Leadership Forum (c180) in September 2020. Led.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Led the Org Design for Project Olive, a re-organization of the Veg Seeds business, with significant impact on the operating model across R&D, Sales & Marketing, Seeds Production and Operations. Gained Leadership Circle’s LCP accreditation (C1 and C2), and led a bespoke “LCP Leadership Pathway” for the ASEAN Territory LT. Led the org. design and change.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Provided integrated L&D and Organization Development consultancy to the global Production and Supply organization within Syngenta. Lead Consultant on a number of major Organization Design projects within the Company. Transformation design and OD Lead to the "Seeds End-End" project - a major component of the Syngenta Accelerating Operational Leverage.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Provided internal Organization Development design and consultancy to the Business Services (SBS) and HR Functions within Syngenta. Lead the cultural and human change elements of the functions' transformation journeys.Designed and co-delivered the SBS "Different" engagement workshops - delivered to over 1,000 SBS employees across NA, EAME and APAC..

Basel Area, Switzerland

Transformation Lead for the global HR Transformation for Syngenta. Highly complex transformation affecting all 600 HR staff globally: new HR value proposition; new organisation model - BPs, CoEs for C&B and People & Organization Development, out-sourced transactional HR Services for 27 countries (with Capgemini) and in-house HR Services with responsibility.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Member of the Global POD Leadership Team, as the EAME Region Head, leading the disciplines of Learning & Development, Organisational Development, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management for EAME.Also responsible for developing and delivering specific strategic interventions, for example the "MaSE Leaders Program (MLP)". MLP was a high investment.

Basel Area, Switzerland

Led a dispersed team of L&D professionals across the EAME Region, shaping and determining the L&D curriculum, and developing and delivering specific strategic interventions, for example the critical EAME "Global Leadership Fair" in Barcelona. This 3 day event, in October 2008, involved the c350 senior leaders from across the EAME region, and was part of a.

Bracknell, Berkshire, UK

Led a team of 10 L&D professionals based at the various R&D or Production & Supply sites in the UK (c 3,000 employees at that time). Introduced the Syngenta Frameworks culture and engagement initiative into the UK - including 24 two day leaders off-sites covering all c400 first and second level leaders in the UK. Including extensive train-the-trainer and.

Bracknell, Berkshire, UK

Leading an HR team of 16 across 2 R&D sites. The Senior Management team of HR in the UK comprised the Hd of HR for R&D, the Hd for Production and Supply and the Hd for Commercial. The UK was approx 3,000 employees at this time, of which 1,200 were in R&D at the Jealott's Hill (Bracknell) or Alderley Park (Macclesfield) sites. During the post-merger period.

Bracknell, Berkshire, UK

From Senior HR Manager, growing to take responsibility for generalist HR support to major R&D units in the UK - including Chemistry, Biology, R&D IS, Patents.Many major project activities for local units or for R&D globally, such as Leadership Development Centres. Working with A&DC Ltd, set up a 3 day Leadership assessment and development centre, of which.

Cheltenham

Following 18ms as Personnel Officer for London and the South East, I was appointed as the Assistant Personnel & Training Manager for Endsleigh (c1,000 employees at that time), with responsibility for the Personnel team for recruitment (c150 pa), training (including onboarding, initial sales training and management development) and employee relations and.

Bsc, Biology

Post Grad Diploma, People Management

Qualification provides professional membership of the CIPD in the UK.

Secondary School, A Levels