Sonal Riley Email & Phone Number

St Albans, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

An active member of the People Function leadership team with a key remit to establish a cohesive personal development agenda for diverse individuals and teams, embed and bring to life a performance framework, and galvanize employee engagement to maintain and build on a respected organisation culture. Working with the US and UK business, some key achievements to date are:• Working with the CEO and Executive team members on their leadership effectiveness either via 1:1 coaching or through leader assimilation exercises• Partnering with functional leads to drive team effectiveness • Thought partner for functional leads on their team's learning and effectiveness to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth• Upskilling leaders and individuals on how to get the best out of the annual performance cycle incorporating personal & career development conversations• Development of a learning curriculum to empower professional and personal career development • Facilitate twice yearly review and calibration of critical talents across the business leading to retention and development actions

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

Member of the Global Talent & Rewards within the Centre of Excellence team. Developed and embedded talent and development related frameworks across countries. Some of my proud achievements were:• Project led introduction of ‘High performance behaviours’ integrated into key HR processes• Introduced and embedded a ‘Leadership Framework’ applicable to all people managers • Effective collaboration with HR Business Partners across countries internationally • Integrated a simple assessment methodology to support a meaningful development discussion and plan for identified talents• Co-designed highly engaging talent development programmes with external partners to support succession planning (up to and including Executive -1 roles) resulting in positive feedback year on year• Developed an evaluation framework to measure effectiveness of leadership programmes• Co-led a project to configure and implement new Talent & Succession system solution with supporting resources resulting in significant simplification of processes • Delivered New Leader Assimilation workshop virtually for new CEO and direct reports resulting in new executive team members wanting to run the exercise for themselves• Developed multiple line manager toolkits deployed through wider HR community e.g. embed high performance behaviours, team effectiveness, onboarding, new leader assimilation, personal development planning• Procurement of external providers resulting in longstanding effective collaborations

Uk

As an associate for Penna (now LHH), I provided 1:1 career coaching for individuals across a diverse range of industries to support them in establishing their goals for securing new roles. The coaching ranged from practical support on developing their CVs through to instilling confidence, navigation and preparation to secure their next role and fulfil their interest and potential. I additionally ran workshops for a range of participants supporting them to manage their 'job campaigns' i.e. job search, CV development, interview preparation and skills.

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

Running my own freelance consultancy where I was fortunate to accumulate diverse industry insight within retail, defence, postal & courier services by providing team and leadership development solutions together with outplacement and career coaching for individuals experiencing a career cross-roads e.g. change of role, maternity return, redundancy.

London Area, United Kingdom

Primarily partnering commercial teams of which the majority were remotely based, I had direct line management responsibility for a successful team of 4. Key focus areas entailed strategic and operational HR including recruitment, performance management, business change through employee consultation. I successfully did a job swap to transition into Learning & Organisation Effectiveness where I was proud to have:• Developed a multi-level leadership curriculum ensuring consistency in models & concepts• Developed and facilitated change management workshops for senior commercial leaders• Created and delivered team effectiveness interventions for a range of leadership teams• Extensive 1:1 coaching of managers to establish themselves in newly-promoted roles• Established a credible group of high-quality preferred suppliers e.g. for executive coaching• Implementation of 360 feedback including debriefing and development planning• Management, analysis and communication of employee engagement using Gallup Q12

London, England, United Kingdom

Employing circa 9,000 people in the U.K. at the time of working there, Pizza Hut was a joint venture between PepsiCo and Whitbread Brewery creating a dynamic and progressive culture. I cut my teeth in a variety of HR roles in a thriving and innovative business.