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.
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.