Strategic importance of HR wellbeing: from research to practice

About this event

This event offers academic and practitioner perspectives on strategic importance of HR professional wellbeing

This event offers academic and practitioner perspectives on strategic importance of HR professional wellbeing. The wellbeing of HR professionals is fundamental to their ability to provide a meaningful contribution to their highly complex work. HR professionals act as a “bridge” between the organisation and its employees. They constantly balance different expectations in a challenging operational climate. This requires an ongoing and intense level of personal, emotional contact with a number of people with different demands and issues, which can be quite stressful and lead to emotional exhaustion and burnout.

Join us at this event to hear what Siobhán Sheridan CBE, Chief People Officer at Financial Conduct Authority, and Dr Jelena Petrovic, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton Business School think about strategic importance of HR professional wellbeing and how HR professionals can support their own wellbeing.

About the speakers

Siobhán Sheridan CBE, Chief People Officer at Financial Conduct Authority

Siobhán Sheridan CBE is Chief People Officer at Financial Conduct Authority and Chair of the CIPD’s People, Culture and Remuneration Committee. Siobhán joined the field of HR 30 years ago as an L&D Specialist at NatWest Bank. Since then, she has worked across private, public and third sectors, at Capital One, DEFRA, DWP, NSPCC and the Ministry of Defence. Siobhán is an advocate for volunteering and has been a volunteer with Crisis at Christmas and a Trustee for several charities for many years. Following her role as Civilian HR Director at the Ministry of Defence, where her team achieved CIPD People Development

Partner Status, Siobhán joined the Financial Conduct Authority as Chief People Officer. She holds Master’s degrees in coaching and mentoring and organisational change, with her dissertation covering the subject of ‘Humanising HR’

Dr Jelena Petrovic, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton Business School

Dr Jelena Petrovic is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton Business School. She is also Knowledge Transfer Editor of Human Resource Management (a Financial Times Top 50 Business Journal), and Chair of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Branch in South West London. Jelena has 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy in corporate governance and strategic international human resource management in the UK and internationally. She is actively engaged in industry collaborations and developing partnerships through design and delivery of executive development workshops, consultancy, and management Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (mKTPs). Examples include Mercer (ORC Worldwide), the Guardian, BT, Park Plaza Hotels, the NHS, and Volvo Cars.

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