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UCL is a London-based global university with over 50,000 students and 16,000 staff. I led an Organisational Development team of 30 people, managing a £4m budget.- Created a fresh OD strategy in response to changes in organisational strategy and context, and delivered on subsequent new approaches to talent management, culture-change and learning. - Directed the OD team to work with academic, researcher and professional services colleagues to re-design a range of learning and talent interventions across the employee cycle to align with organisational goals, including staff inductions, surveys and listening, apprenticeships, talent management, development & skills programmes, leadership development & coaching, culture & behaviour change, staff conferences & awards and Communities of Practice management.Role highlights include;- Doubled number of leadership and management interventions to respond to organisational challenges (e.g., DE&I related gaps, high potential retention and deployment, behaviours, and management capability). - Led a cross-functional team to urgently transform mandatory training compliance, implementing an agile process to transform policy, content, and digital accessibility, and introducing data, platform, and reporting innovations to drive significant compliance uplift.- Led design and rollout of a bespoke ‘talent management toolkit’ to consistently review staff performance, career paths, critical role analysis, and strategic succession planning.- Created strategic consultative networks to embed talent and learning initiatives through HR Business Partners, Communities of Practice, and business stakeholders.- Instigated digital content and system interventions to transform blended learning at UCL, including achieving governance and financial sign-off for a new digital talent and learning platform to support the vision.- Delivered team/ leadership development and coaching for senior executive / C-suite stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

Working to establish and embed career and behavioural frameworks as part of a large-scale transformation programme to redesign and reinvigorate the UCL professional services staff experience. Role highlights include;• Conceptualised, researched, and published UCL career pathways and frameworks in multiple professional areas, to enable staff to navigate and plan their career and progression opportunities (within and across-disciplines).• Engaged UCL leaders and colleagues to support in the development of the framework, and to adopt and champion finalised pathways in related people activities.• Developed and launched an in-depth UCL behavioural framework for staff, aligned to UCL Values, and then embedded within the employee lifecycle (e.g. recruitment, career pathways, talent management, appraisal, training and leadership development).

London, United Kingdom

• Business partner consultant for two Faculties, responding to individual and group needs.• Created and led on academic leadership programmes for high-potential academics at mid and senior levels.• Created and led a ‘masterclass’ capability development programme for researchers and early career academics to develop key skills for success in a competitive academic environment. • Created and led Imperial’s Academic Women’s Development Programme.• An ILM qualified coach, delivering coaching for a range of staff, using a variety of instruments such as 360 feedback surveys, MBTI and TKI. • Other varied projects included work on talent and succession planning, career pathways and impact evaluation.

Welwyn Garden City

• Designed and led an research project to reduce energy consumption across the Tesco store estate through behavioural change and process improvement. • Achieved annual energy consumption savings of £4 million savings within a headcount reduction. • Worked in parallel to achieve a research doctorate with Loughborough University• Designed and delivered a complex job re-design intervention to promote better performance of energy efficiency tasks, impacting staff in 800+ Tesco stores. • Carried out extensive longitudinal qualitative research to understand how best to align behavioural change with existing practice and culture. • Developed, piloted and validated a quantitative evaluation mechanism to measure behaviour-related energy savings in stores.• Developed communication materials for energy expert and non-expert staff, engaging stakeholders in senior leadership, technical and retail roles.• Developed and delivered behavioural change training and workshops for Tesco in UK/ Europe.• Published 3 high impact journal papers, and spoke at 3 international conferences

London, United Kingdom

Hong Kong

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Doctorate (Engd), Organisational And Socio-Technical Behaviours

Master Of Science - Ms, Psychology Of Work, Merit

Chartered Mcipd, Personnel And Development

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English/ American Studies, 2:1

Master'S Degree, Psychology Of Work