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.
Join us at the CIPD Wales Annual Conference 2026 to explore how HR can maximise business impact. Engage with thought-provoking sessions, learn from real-world case studies designed to equip you with practical tools and insights. Connect with peers, challenge assumptions, and leave inspired to elevate your organisation through people-focused strategies that truly make a difference.
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.
The HR Leaders Network is a space for the most senior people professionals in Wales. 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 Wales.
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 Wales 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 Scotland, Wales and 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 your nation, access tailored research and insights, collaborate with peers in a confidential space, and represent the voice of the people profession at the highest levels.
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.