Connect with our team in Wales
Join us in championing better work and working lives with our 6,000 members across Wales
Join us in championing better work and working lives with our 6,000 members across Wales
Representing the CIPD in Wales, we’re here to help you get the most from your membership by connecting you with other people professionals through our networks, events and local opportunities.
We collaborate closely with people professionals, employers, HR leaders, combined authorities, and policymakers to shape a better world of work—right here in Wales. By gathering regional insight and championing local priorities, we help make work better for everyone.
We’d love to hear from you. Whether it’s through surveys, consultations or our wider campaigns, your voice helps us drive meaningful workplace change across the country.
Annabelle is the CIPD’s Regional Engagement Manager for Wales, bringing a strong focus on stakeholder engagement as a key member benefit. She works on the ground with people professionals, employers and partners to ensure local voices shape CIPD’s priorities and support. Annabelle is passionate about championing the profession, raising awareness of available resources, and enhancing the member experience. Her work helps ensure CIPD’s mission to champion better work and working lives is relevant, responsive and impactful across Wales.
Claire is an Engagement Executive at CIPD in Wales. With extensive experience in building partnerships across the education and business sectors, she drives regional engagement activities, including collaborative event initiatives that enhance CIPD’s visibility. Claire ensures a customer-first approach and holds qualifications in training, assessment & leadership and management, underscoring her commitment to professional development.
This forum provides an opportunity to find out more about the CIPD’s public policy influencing work across a range of workplace areas, including health and wellbeing, inclusion and diversity, and pay and reward.
The expertise and insight gained through the forum helps the CIPD respond to work-related government consultations and recommend vital changes to policy, as well as create practice guidance for employers and policymakers.
We run regular online policy forum sessions on specific themes such as hybrid working and menopause at work. All forum members receive a quarterly update with details of the forum’s achievements and upcoming events.
This pan-regional peer-to-peer network brings together senior HR, L&D and OD professionals from across Wales to network, learn and debate key issues affecting our profession and the future of work. We get together face-to-face once a year and meet online bi-monthly. This network is open to members and non-members.
Former sessions have focused on career development, the cost-of-living crisis, and how HR can influence the board.
This network is open to CIPD members only.
Our senior HR leaders network is open to HR directors (HRDs), chief HR officers (CHROs) and chief people officers (CPOs) from organisations such as large publicly listed companies, public health trusts, central government departments, local authorities, large charities, and high-street names. Members of the network are the most senior HR professionals in the organisation, reporting to the CEO.
We offer a range of events across Wales to support connection, learning, and insight for people professionals. These include our senior people professional network, which brings together senior HR, L&D and OD professionals to discuss key issues shaping the world of work; our HR leaders network, designed for HRDs, CHROs and CPOs from major organisations to explore strategic people and business challenges; and our public policy forum, which enables members to contribute to CIPD’s policy work through themed sessions on current workplace issues.
At the Wellbeing at Work Conference in North Wales, hosted by Annabelle and Claire, people professionals came together to hear from expert speakers on the vital link between employee wellbeing and organisational performance.
To mark International HR Day, the CIPD in Wales team hosted the West Wales Senior People Professionals Network at a sunny Ffos Las Racecourse - sparking great conversations on AI, leadership and the future of our profession. Claire and Annabelle were joined by Matt Gofton, CIPD Employer Solutions Manager, for an inspiring session.
CIPD in Wales Engagement Manager, Annabelle Llanes, took the stage at the Future of Work conference at the ICC with the Wales HR network to share the latest CIPD research on wellbeing - a vital topic as we support people professionals and organisations across the UK.
CIPD branches are local, welcoming communities of HR, L&D and other people professionals. They form part of a UK-wide network that supports and connects our profession. Open to all members, non-members and students – each branch offers the activities we need to thrive: learning events, thought leadership, practical insights and peer support.
Find your nearest branch, explore what’s happening in your area, and discover how you can get involved in our vibrant regional network.
