Connect with our team in Northern Ireland
Join us in championing better work and working lives with nearly 4,000 of our members across Northern Ireland
Join us in championing better work and working lives with nearly 4,000 of our members across Northern Ireland
Representing the CIPD in Northern Ireland, 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 Northern Ireland. By gathering regional insight and championing local priorities, we help make work better for everyone. We’d love to hear from you.
The HR Leaders Network is a space for the most senior people professionals in Northern Ireland. It is designed for those in board-level or executive roles with organisation-wide responsibility for people strategy – such as HR Directors, People Directors, Chief HR Officers, and Chief People Officers.
The network brings together strategic leaders shaping policy, driving transformation, and leading organisational culture across complex landscapes. It offers a trusted space for peer learning, insight-sharing, and relationship-building, while also feeding into CIPD’s research and policy agenda to influence the profession nationally.
By joining, you’ll connect with peers facing similar high-level challenges, share strategic insights, and help shape the future of the people profession – while raising your profile across the CIPD community.
For CIPD members at Chartered Member level or above, this network is for those with strategic responsibility for people and organisational policy in Northern Ireland.
It provides a trusted space to share insights, reflect on challenges, and strengthen leadership resilience. Members join an active online community on Mighty and benefit from a year-round programme of Northern Ireland and national events, both in person and online.
Typical roles include Head of HR, Senior HR Business Partner, or People Lead – often reporting to the board or executive level and shaping people strategy and organisational culture.
By joining, you’ll connect with peers in similar roles, gain fresh perspectives, and contribute to CIPD’s research and policy agenda – helping shape the future of the people profession.
Our People Consultants Network is a dedicated space for CIPD members working independently or within consultancy firms, supporting a variety of client organisations.
Designed for people professionals who aren’t embedded in a single employer, this network brings together consultants delivering strategic or operational expertise across multiple clients. Whether you specialise in OD&D, EDI, reward, wellbeing, employee relations or other areas, this is your community to connect, collaborate and share insight.
Members benefit from opportunities to exchange experiences, explore client challenges, and build trusted professional relationships nationally. The network also provides a platform to contribute to CIPD’s research and policy work, ensuring the voice of consultants helps shape the future of the profession.
If your work supports organisations on a flexible, project-based or advisory basis, joining this network gives you access to a vibrant professional community where you can grow your impact and strengthen the role of consultancy within the wider people profession.
This national community is for CIPD members with a passion for organisation development & design (OD&D), bringing together HR professionals and specialists at every stage of their career.
It provides a dedicated space to connect with peers across the UK, share insights, and explore solutions to common OD&D challenges. Whether you work internally or in a consultancy role, the network is for those who influence how organisations develop, adapt, and thrive in a changing world.
Members gain access to a trusted network where best practice is shared, emerging trends are discussed, and the evolving nature of OD&D is explored. There are also opportunities to contribute to CIPD research and policy development, ensuring members play a part in shaping the future of practice across the profession.
These CIPD networks bring together members based in Northern Ireland to ensure the unique needs and priorities of each nation are reflected in national and regional decision-making.
The networks provide a trusted space for people professionals to share insights, contribute expertise, and shape public policy. Members work together to address regional challenges, champion inclusive and fair work practices, and advocate for quality jobs across all sectors.
Through these forums, members can:
Inform CIPD’s policy work with lived experience and professional insight
Contribute to Government and Executive consultations on key work-related issues
Influence debates on labour markets, flexible working, wellbeing, inclusion, youth employment, pay and reward, and more
Help develop practical guidance and policy recommendations for employers and policymakers
Connect with elected politicians, civil servants, and senior policy stakeholders
Each forum is supported by CIPD’s public policy team, ensuring members’ voices influence both national priorities and wider UK-level discussions.
Joining offers the chance to shape the future of work in Northern Ireland, access tailored research and insights, collaborate with peers in a confidential space, and represent the voice of the people profession at the highest levels.
We offer a range of events across Northern Ireland 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.
Our flagship event, the CIPD Northern Ireland Annual Conference in Belfast, brings together hundreds of people professionals from across the region. It’s a key opportunity to network, gain the latest insights, and hear from expert speakers on the most relevant and pressing topics shaping our profession.
We welcomed over 300 people professionals from across Northern Ireland for a day of insightful conversations, practical ideas and valuable connections - exploring the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of work.
We were proud to sponsor the ‘Employer of the Year’ award at the 2025 Belfast Telegraph Business Awards. Huge congratulations to S&W Wholesale on their well-deserved win - recognised for their exceptional people-first culture, deep community roots, and employee-ownership model.
Susan attended a brilliant session with the Women in Business NI HR Leaders Network, featuring Clare Duffield, FCIPD, Assistant Chief Officer of People & OD at the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Clare shared how her experience as a triathlete has shaped her leadership style and strengthened her impact as a people professional - truly inspiring insights on drive and perseverance.
Discover the latest news and and useful resources from our team in Northern Ireland.
A Northern Ireland summary of the CIPD Good Work Index 2024 survey report
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 out more about your branch in Northern Ireland, explore what’s happening in your area, and discover how you can get involved in our vibrant regional network.