Claire Silvester – Vice President, Human Resources, Cronos
previously UK HR Director, Vector Aerospace

“I think being interviewed by theHRDIRECTOR and appearing on your Cover has had a part in some of my trajectory. I think my CEO saw that I was on the cover of such a prestigious magazine and it elevated my presence and highlighted my achievements – something about seeing it visually. I also think he gave me the edge over another internal candidate that they were considering. I tried to attend your Roundtables during my visits, but I wasn’t able to manage it, so I’m so sorry because I really value your publication and all that it does. Thanks once again, you really made a difference to my life and I’m very thankful. Plus I’ve been spoiled with photography since your photos – I’ve never found a photographer that has been so good since.”

Joan James – Manager of HR, Infrastucture
Bechtel Ltd

I was introduced to HRD within a few months of my own transfer to London from the Washington DC area.  Of course, my goal at that time was to become fully immersed in all that is HR in a new city and country.  My experience with HRD in terms of networking opportunities and, of course, the HRDirector publication has been very positive.  I find the featured articles to be relevant, timely and very informative.  I often find myself discussing some of the articles with my colleagues in America who don’t have access to HRD.  Really a super publication.

Sheila Barbosa Roberto MCIPD – HR Director
Strategem Technologies

“Being a Subscriber helps me keep on top of new trends in HR and provide me with refreshers of things we should already know.”

Ravi Chand – HR Director, Workforce Management & Planning
HM Revenue & Customs

“theHRDIRECTOR helps keep me on top of the latest thought leadership, insights and emerging HR issues, satisfying my curiosity to learn from the best.”

Lucy Adams – Director of Human Resources
Serco Group plc

“I first became interested in theHRDIRECTOR magazine through their Diversity Day conference. I found it really refreshing that they were prepared to look at this issue from much more radical and progressive angles than the traditional approach. Having found the day so stimulating I then picked up the magazine. There are several of these kinds of magazines on the market but theHRDIRECTOR has an edge. It offers really practical advice from practitioners, provocative articles from people who are not afraid to give a different opinion and access to events that can make a difference to our business.”

Tony Cooke – Senior Director Human Resources
Adidas

“I love theHRDIRECTOR because it always manages to create a good blend of theory and practice in the world of HR. The stories are always fresh and topical and never too long. If ever we are looking to introduce something new into our business, theHRDIRECTOR is always a good starting point of reference. They tend to be ‘in the know’ before it becomes common knowledge which is always encouraging.”

Sharon Ellerker -HR Director (UK & Ireland)
Hewlett-Packard

“theHRDIRECTOR is a fabulous resource that helps me to keep abreast of what’s happening within the HR profession. It also gives me visibility to HR practices outside of my immediate market via case studies and articles. The content is a rich source of benchmark data that I regularly reference when reviewing our existing HR programs and practices.”

Sandy Begbie – Group Operations Officer
Standard Life

“Maintaining an external perspective is just one part of being an effective and commercial executive. theHRDIRECTOR brings best practice thinking in a meaningful way for those of us seeking to enable strategic opportunities and deliver competitive business advantage.”

Richard Higginson – Chartered FCIPD Reward Manager
Towry Law

“This is just about the only industry magazine that I read cover to cover, such is the quality of content and diversity of opinion. And it is not full of re-hashed press releases from companies wanting the world to know how wonderful they are.”

Rachel Lock – HR Director
TSB

“As the only magazine dedicated to HR directors, theHRDIRECTOR is my go-to source for news across the HR profession, keeping me up to date with the latest goings on and providing me with insight on key HR trends. It regularly provides me with food for thought! I look forward to future issues.”

Louis Parperis – HR Director
Bechtel Ltd

“An informed and stimulating magazine that has a good feel for the big issues.”

 

Julie Armstrong – Group Airlines HR Director
Thomas Cook Group Airlines

“theHRDIRECTOR gives a brilliant insight into what is going on in the industry as well as access to a professional community to share knowledge, experience and ideas. It really helps bring reality and opinion to conceptual ideas, which is what matters if you want to consider or deliver benefits to your business. A very good read!”

Jordan Archer – Deputy Director
NEL CSU

“Your publication is fantastic – I wouldn’t be without it.”

Jack Constantinides – HR Director
Monster UK and Ireland

“theHRDIRECTOR’S focus on the senior HR Community provides me with a specific forum for keeping in touch with my peers in the industry. The magazine’s use of case studies from other senior HR professionals provide insights which relate directly to my role. I frequently use theHRDIRECTOR as a reference point during my working day.”

Hilary Stables – HR Director
Celesio

“theHRDIRECTOR magazine is a useful resource for any leader looking to shape the future of their business. The articles provide an authentic commentary on a range of HR subjects which has certainly helped me to think about the art of the possible at Celesio UK. I’ve been able to take inspiration from the various case studies and insights when crafting our own award winning approach to managing and recruiting talent.”

Harvey Francis – Executive Vice President
Skanska UK

“theHRDIRECTOR is a really useful way of keeping up to date with what others are doing across all sectors, helping benchmark what we do and also providing useful insight into what else we could be considering. It has a very useful breadth in terms of the topics covered, and strikes a good balance between the right amount of depth to make it robust whilst making it easy to access the salient points given the time constrained world in which we live and do business.”

Emma Jayne – Director of Human Resources
The Savoy

“I always look forward to reading theHRDIRECTOR, I particularly find the cover story of great interest; reading about the working life and background of a fellow HR Leader is really interesting and oftentimes inspiring. The magazine is always full of relevant and practical articles, which makes it a really reliable source of information for all levels of HR professional. The content is always broad across many different topics that fall under the umbrella of HR which provides me with much food for thought.”

Connie Gibney – HR Director
LinkedIn

“Our industry is undergoing one of the biggest changes in its history with the rise of new technologies and best practice. I find theHRDIRECTOR a key resource in guiding me through these critical developments.”

Christine Pearson – Business and Management Lecturer
North Warwickshire and Hinckley College

“theHRDIRECTOR publication is one of the best journals I have used and is a valuable resource for anyone involved with lecturing on business and human resource issues or anyone in a human resource management capacity.”

Brian Newman – Vice President of Human Resources
Live Nation Entertainment

“I look forward to receiving theHRDIRECTOR as it gives me access to relevant people, developments and stories across my profession, looking both within other businesses through the valuable case studies and a higher level viewpoint across sectors and International markets. I consider it a reliable source of information providing me with valuable insight which contributes to my own continued development and the HR expertise I can bring to the business. It’s a little bit of virtual networking, and also a really good read”.

Roopali Sharma, Marketing Manager, Alight Solutions

Thank you for your time and dedication in delivering a well-organized webinar. I appreciate your and your team’s efforts. I am sure the extensive knowledge and keen insights from our panel greatly enhanced the overall experience for our attendees.

Webinar sponsored by Alight

Kirsten Watts, Associate & Business Development Consultant
Employee Benefits – Barnett Waddingham LLP

Thank you ‘theHRDIRECTOR’ for hosting the day and to all of the delegates for such a thought-provoking debate. I know we found the discussion really insightful, and we really appreciated everyone taking part.

Dr Robin Clark, Medical Director – Bupa Global and UK Insurance

HRDEBATE

Thank you all, it was a great afternoon and I loved hearing the real-life examples – really brought the message to life. Excellent discussion and lovely to meet everyone.

Paul Quarterly, Enterprise Sales Lead – Bright Horizons

HRDEBATE

It’s enormously helpful for us to be part of such an honest and in-depth discussion and we’re very grateful for everyone’s time, energy and candour.

Matthew Gregson, Executive Director – Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing

SPONSOR HRDEBATE

Thanks so much for a lively and engaging debate and idea sharing on the things that will genuinely move the dial for employee benefits.

Denice Angiolini – Paid Media Program Manager
Thomas International UK Ltd

“It was a great session and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it too. The information you provided and how you bounced off each other was perfect. We had some great questions through the Q&A too. And thank you very much to you Peter for guiding us through, hosting and keeping us on track! It was brilliant!”

 

To watch the webinar, click here

 

Stephanie Jeanmougin – Senior Manager, EMEA Strategic Marketing Programs
Hootsuite

“Absolutely loved working with you and Jason. Really enjoyed the responsiveness, the way Jason moderated the roundtable and the peace of mind you guys provided me on the logistics side of things. The event was a major success on our side and Rob has been raving about it to all of EMEA.”

LAURA EDWARDS – MARKETING OFFICER EVENTS, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT UNIT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

“Thank you for organising such a fantastic event, we had great feedback from our participants’ Viren and David. I look forward to reading the Report as it sounds like there were some interesting topics raised. I am keen to arrange more of the roundtable events so I will feed this back to the team and see when we can get another one scheduled.”

Manish Grover – Marketing
Northgate HR

“theHRDIRECTOR magazine always plays a key role in Northgate HR’s marketing campaigns; it has its finger firmly on the pulse of the HR industry.”

Catherine McMenamin
ORC Worldwide

“ORC Worldwide hold an ongoing directory entry with theHRDIRECTOR listings. This provides exposure to generalist HR practitioners throughout the UK, and has the ability to demonstrate the amount of interest on the listing per quarter to provide tracking information. The magazine itself also runs frequent advertising for HR service providers, and the advertising team keep our organisation up to date with timely offers and opportunities to advertise alongside relevant articles.”

Marc Holland – Managing Director
PTP Training & Marketing Ltd

“PTP Training & Marketing Ltd have found theHRDIRECTOR to be an excellent magazine to promote our wide range of management and customer care courses. They have certainly helped us with increasing our customer base which now includes over 40% of the FTSE 100.”

Richard Harnden – Managing Director
The Lighthouse Agency

“Professional, insightful, helpful. An excellent forum for the senior HR market.”

Makbool Javaid – Partner
Simons Muirhead & Burton

“In an ever-changing, fast moving, competitive environment, and against a background of ever-increasing complex employment legislation, HR have to be at the leading edge, delivering best practice, legally compliant people management practices, which get the best out of the people. That’s why I consider it a privilege to be on the Editorial Panel of HR Director, as well as contributing articles and providing up-to-date employment law news for the website, as there is no doubt in my mind that HR Director is the magazine of choice for senior HR specialists wanting practical, proactive commentary and advice on both strategic and day-today human resource issues, enabling them to be one step ahead and to be regarded as change agents operating at the top of their profession.”

Alex Shacklock – Director of Marketing & Innovation
theGrogroup Ltd

“As a director of a consultancy that sets out to help HR Directors align their plans and people initiatives with vision and strategy of their business, theHRDIRECTOR magazine provides essential insight into the current topics, challenges and pain-points that our clients are facing and tackling. Where the magazine really adds value is in the ‘advice’ that it gives both directly and more subtly. Whilst many other publications provide facts and/or research, theHRDIRECTOR doesn’t sit on the fence – it’s articles and editorial add in opinion and, often, even those essential next steps to take. My monthly reading experience usually includes making a lot of notes and churning out ideas on the back of the deep and varied content.”

Neve Grueber, Head of HR & Operations – Leadenhall Search

HRDRINKS

Thank you so much for the invitation to the drinks yesterday evening! I had a lovely time and thanks again for organising such a great venue and refreshments for us.  I enjoyed reconnecting and meeting other HR professionals around the London area. Really encouraging to know we have such a strong network around us. Do keep me in the loop with further events!

Anthony Richards, Head of HR Policy & Reward – Metropolitan Police Service

HRDRINKS

Thank you for such a great networking event yesterday evening. It was really fun as well professionally fascinating! You managed to get a perfect cross-section of guests. The venue was pretty special too.

Anna Pascu, Head of People – Aspire Payments Ltd

HRDRINKS

Thank you for an amazing evening. You were fantastic hosts and I appreciate all the effort that went into organising the event. I rarely go to networking events and this was by far the best, giving me the opportunity to connect with peers and have meaningful conversations on people best practice, strategy and challenges ahead. So thank you for that and the learnings I took away with me.

Gudrun Neumann, Global HR Director – BMT

HRDEBATE

Thank you so much for the great event – I thoroughly enjoyed it and took a lot of ideas away from the debate!

Mark Taggart, Talent Director – Gamma

HRDRINKS

I just wanted to say what a great event last night was, it was a fab venue and a great mix of people.

Tim McCarthy, Senior Lead Training and Support Services – Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) Limited

HRDRINKS

Thank you for a really great evening. I really enjoyed myself and it was a fantastic event. It was a great opportunity to meet up and network and I met some lovely people. Great location and amazing hospitality. Loved it.

Mike Hood, Learning & Development Consultant/People Lead – Hood People Solutions/CPRE

HRDEBATE

Great day ‘not in the office’ and an opportunity to swap ideas with and learn from peers.

Simon Gibson, Group Head of Learning & Development – Marks & Spencer

HRDEBATE

Appreciated the time to share views, ideas and learn outside of my norm.

Andrew Savage, HR Director Europe – NSK Europe

HRDEBATE

Thank you for the invitation to the debate, I found it very helpful and interesting to benchmark and share how other companies are dealing with similar challenges.

Jackie Tullett, Chief Talent & Employee Experience Officer – British Business Bank

HRDEBATE

Thank you for hosting such a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the cost of living, and how companies’ view their responsibilities and support their employees. Great to hear from the experts and share peer views and experiences.

Sarah Fernandes, Director of People (UK & Global) – SSAFA

HRDEBATE

Thank you for hosting such an inspiring session with an amazing group of People. There was so much to learn and share. The room was filled with knowledge and experience that flowed so generously that I never felt so grateful to receive!

Caroline Foster, People Director – National Autistic Society

HRDEBATE

My sincere thanks to the host, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to a fantastic conversation.

Louise Tofts, Head of HR & ER – Finatal

HRDEBATE

Thank you to theHRDIRECTOR, and Barnett Warrington, for the insightful roundtable debate today on the role of the employer in supporting employees financial, mental and physical wellbeing, attracting and retaining the best talent, and the impact on performance. It was really inspiring to be part of a debate with such a knowledgeable, varied and engaged group of HR professionals and to explore all angles of such a timely topic. I came away feeling really energised and thoroughly pleased I came.

Anita Patel, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – GBS

HRDRINKS

Thank you for inviting me along to HRDRINKS. I had a great time and met some interesting people.

Bilwa Iyer, Global Talent Acquisition & HR Specialist – Generation

HRDRINKS

Thank you for organising such a fantastic event and evening. I had an amazing time interacting and getting to know the other delegates.

Temitope Lawal, Head of Resourcing – HM Treasury

HRDRINKS

Thank you for organising such a beautiful event for senior HR professionals. The event was great, everyone was so engaging and interesting. Well done for spending time to welcome each and every guest and for making us all smile.

Florian Bosch, Regional HR Director, Europe – Howden

HRDRINKS

Thank you so much for an incredible evening, I had a great time networking with both other HRDs and the sponsors.

Melanie Manners, Chief People Officer – Eagle Genomics

HRDEBATE

Thanks to my fellow panel members and hosts for a fabulous afternoon of thought leadership, discussion, insight and reflection. Lots to think about!

Caroline von Koenig, Global Wellbeing Lead – Fidelity International

HRDEBATE

Thank you for having me – such an insightful exchange.

Mark Grimley, Chief People and Transformation Officer – Government of Jersey

HRDEBATE

These round tables are always able to pull together lots of different views and perspectives with experience. And then helpful to read the write up afterwards. Have done a few and benefited both from participation and sharing experience. Look forward to the write up!

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