In HRchat episode 656, we talk about developing strategic people capabilities in times of business transformation. My guest this time is Mary Glowacka, Learning & Leadership Development Lead at Rolls-Royce.

With 15+ years of strategic practitioner experience with an unusual journey from operations into HR, Mary is also a member of Josh Bersin’s Senior Faculty, a regular speaker at HR industry events, a founding member of Hacking HR Experts Council, mentor for HR Tech start-ups through the Workplace Accelerator program, and winner of the 2020 WinTrade Global Women in Leadership Award in recognition of progressive thinking in the banking sector.

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Questions for Mary include:

  • You have an unusual journey from operations into HR. Please introduce yourself and tell us about your career journey
  • We met at UNLEASH in Paris. What are your thoughts on the 2023 event and why do you believe other senior People Leaders should attend?
  • You’re a founding member of the Hacking HR Experts Council. What do you respect about Enrique and the Hacking HR group?
  • Tell me a bit about your role at RR – what you love and challenges? – includes mention of  strategic capability
  • Can you elaborate a bit more on why systems thinking is so imperative for HR Leaders?

 

More About Mary

Mary says her sweet spot is change enablement & transformation and her unique expertise combines strategy and execution across a wide range of people and HR processes with key focus on learning, leadership & talent development, performance enablement and HRIS/EdTech implementation.

Mary has led transformation programs across a wide range of industries and company sizes; including in global leadership roles at EY, Bank of America, Relx, Preply – a rapidly growing EdTech scale-up, headed a maturing People Operations function. Currently, as newly appointed Head of Learning & Leadership Development at Rolls-Royce, Mary is leading strategic people capabilities development in support of Rolls-Royce’s transformation agenda set out by its new CEO.

 

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