About this event
An in-person collaboration event exploring how L&D & Recruitment can work together to attract, curate and retain great talent.
A collaboration between the Learning & Development and Internal Recruitment special interest groups. This in-person event will explore how L&D and Recruitment teams can work together to attract, assess, onboard, develop and retain great talent.
About the Event:
In today's talent market, attracting the right people is only part of the challenge. Organisations must also create environments in which people can develop, contribute, grow and stay.
This joint event brought to you by the CIPD Wales Recruitment and the L&D Special Interest Groups and supported by the CIPD Branch in Southeast Wales. We will explore how Recruitment and L&D can work together across the entire talent lifecycle - from attraction and assessment through to onboarding, development and retention.
Through a mix of panel discussion,interactive learning and facilitated roundtable conversations, attendees will hear practical examples, share experiences and explore new approaches to creating exceptional talent experiences.
The event is designed to encourage collaboration between both professions while providing valuable networking opportunities with peers from organisations across Wales.
Agenda Highlights
Learning, Development and Career Growth as a Talent Attraction Strategy
A panel discussion exploring how organisations are using learning opportunities, career pathways and development programmes to strengthen their employee value proposition and attract talent.
Panel members include:
Emily Davey, Educ8 Training
Representing one of Wales' leading apprenticeship and workforce development providers, Emily will share insights on how organisations can use learning and development to build capability, improve retention and strengthen future talent pipelines.
Understanding People: Using Behavioural Insight Across the Talent Lifecycle
Delivered by Mark Hector (Training and Development Manager) – Transport for Wales
This interactive session explores how behavioural insight can support recruitment, onboarding, leadership development and retention. Using practical examples from Transport for Wales, we'll explore how a deeper understanding of behaviour can help create environments where people can perform at their best.
Talent Challenges and Opportunities Roundtables
Facilitated discussions shaped by attendee voting at the start of the event, providing an opportunity to share experiences, explore common challenges and learn from peers across Recruitment and L&D.
What Attendees Can Expect to Walk Away With:
Practical ideas for attracting, developing and retaining talent
Insight into current recruitment and learning trends
Perspectives from both Recruitment and L&D disciplines · Opportunities to network and exchange ideas with peers
Inspiration and practical approaches to take back into their own organisation If you’d like to stay in touch with the work of the SIGs, please join their LinkedIn groups as follows:
Speakers bio:
Emily Davey – National Account Manager, Educ8 Training Group
Emily Davey is a National Account Manager at Educ8 Training Group, with almost 30 years of experience working in the training and apprenticeship sector, dealing with a wide variety of both funded and commercial qualifications. Over the course of her career, Emily has had the opportunity to work with a wide range of employers , helping them develop their people, build talent and make apprenticeships work for their business.
Emily is passionate about the positive impact that learning and development can have on both individuals and organisations. Having seen the apprenticeship landscape change significantly over the years, she is a strong believer in the value of apprenticeships and work-based learning as a way to bring new talent into a business, develop existing employees and create genuine opportunities for career progression.
Emily is looking forward to sharing her experiences and joining the conversation around how apprenticeships can continue to meet the changing needs of employers and their people.
Lucie Thomas, Director of Talent Attraction and Development, Codi Group
Lucie is responsible for ensuring the 2600 strong workforce at Codi Group have the right skills, competencies, and behaviours to provide exceptional service to customers and support the groups ambition to create lasting impact in communities across Wales.
With 25 years’ experience working in Talent, she is passionate about bringing great people into teams, supporting them to grow, and creating inclusive environments where everyone can thrive. With senior-level experience across both the private and public sectors, Lucie has successfully led high-impact, organisation-wide initiatives, shaping strategy and delivering meaningful results across leadership development, performance, talent acquisition, employee engagement, and organisational change.
She is currently leading on an organisation wide Strategic Workforce planning project which will establish the organisational capacity, capabilities, and skills required to deliver current strategic priorities and achieve the organisation’s objectives over the next three years.
Annette Mason, Head of Talent and Inclusivity, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
Annette is an experienced senior leader and has worked in learning and development for over 30 years, with a career spanning Education, Defence, Engineering and Utility sectors. Skilled in leadership and management development, talent management and succession planning, learning and development strategy, early careers and recruitment. Annette joined Welsh Water in 2017 and has implemented a talent strategy aligned with the broader people strategy to support driving performance through development of people and nurturing talent to enhance employee engagement, increase retention and improve service delivery capability. Annette believes talent management strategies come to life when the right talent meets the right opportunity within a business with the right culture.
Mark Hector, Training & Development Manager, Transport for Wales
Human behaviour — and particularly the WHY behind the way people think, communicate, and react has been at the heart of my professional journey for more than 17 years. As a learning and leadership development professional and long-standing Insights Discovery Practitioner, I have worked with leaders and teams across organisations to build greater self-awareness, behavioural agility and, most importantly, a better understanding of the people around them.
But I've never been particularly good at simply accepting that "this is how the model works." I'm naturally curious about what sits underneath the behaviour.
My continued studies in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy have encouraged me to question established thinking, challenge the natural boundaries of behavioural models and explore how different theories can connect. Rather than accepting logic as the end point, I like to ask why, what else, and what happens next? That curiosity continually evolves both my own learning and the way I develop others.
My work with leaders goes beyond understanding a behaviour preference or recognising a behavioural style. It's about creating the curiosity to explore why behaviour exists, what the brain may be trying to make sense of, and how greater self-awareness can give us more choice in what we do next.
For me, development isn't about teaching people one "correct" way to lead. It's about creating environments where people feel able to question, explore, challenge their own thinking and continually evolve.
Please note:
Guest speakers
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