Zoom Interactive Event: Talent: Careers, Development and Succession in a Changing Landscape

Prior to co-founding the Leadership and Personal Development social enterprise The Spring Project in 2009, Andrew had fifteen years of large blue chip HR experience. His corporate roles included Vice President for Talent Management and HR Strategy for the engineering conglomerate Invensys and Head of Resourcing and Talent Management at AstraZeneca UK. He has also been a director at the Leadership Development charity Common Purpose, designing and delivering ground-breaking bespoke cross industry leadership development programs. He is a multiple recruitment and employment branding award winner and spent several years overseas working on mergers and acquisitions and the cultural integration projects that sit behind them. A coach and facilitator, he has been voted twice in the top 100 most influential HR professionals by HR Magazine. Since 2015 Andrew has been the UK Head of Talent Acquisition at Roche a major global Bio-Technology company with 95,000 employees across 150 countries. Number 4 on the Times Top 25 Large Companies to work for in the UK, Roche are the 6th largest investor in R&D globally across all industries, working tireless on solving unmet medical needs for patients across the world.

Dr. Jessica Bigazzi Foster joined RHR International in 2008. She is a senior partner and serves as the firm’s practice leader for Executive Assessment & Development. Her work with clients includes senior-level executive development, talent management, and team effectiveness. She manages large global accounts for RHR, with a particular focus on systemic pipelining of near- and long-term C-suite successors.

Sarah has twenty three years’ of experience as an organisation development and talent practitioner. After eleven years in the not-for-profit sector working for both Cancer Research Campaign and Cancer Research UK, Sarah moved to L’Oréal for nine years holding a number of global talent and learning roles in Paris and London, including Global Director for Culture, Learning and Talent for The Body Shop Division.

Sarah is currently Vice President for Global Talent at Coty, a world leader in beauty, and home to an illustrious roster of cosmetic, skincare, fragrance, hair colour and styling brands operating in 40 counties, with a global employee base of c. 20,000. At Coty, Sarah has led the Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Learning and Talent teams on work spanning the employee lifecycle. Her work on a three-year strategy, concept and model for careers at Coty was short-listed for an HR Distinction awards (Distinction in Organisational Learning) and aspects of the work will be included in a forthcoming NICEC Journal.

Wendy Hirsh works as a researcher and consultant, specialising in the future-oriented aspects of people management – workforce planning, sustainable organisational performance, succession, talent and development. She is a Principal Associate of the Institute for Employment Studies and Visiting Professor at both Derby and Kingston Universities. Wendy works across private, public and third sectors and has been researching how workforce planning in companies is responding to the uncertainties of Brexit.

Celine Lammers is the Vice President Leadership Succession at Shell. She has a broad range of international experiences across several businesses and geographies. Her current work focuses on senior-level executive selection, development and Talent management across Royal Dutch Shell globally. She has a background in HR, primarily in the domain of Business Partnering, Organisational Effectiveness, Change Management and Cultural Change. She holds a Master in Organisation, Culture and Management.