Is This Room Free?
Welcome to Is This Room Free? In this podcast I will be talking to HR professionals and listening to the stories of their careers. I will be finding out about the journeys they have taken and what they learnt along the way. The purpose is to help others in the profession identify and understand the various paths available and take inspiration from my guest speakers. Whether you are someone who is looking to get that first step on the HR career ladder or an aspiring HR Director, I hope you get value from these conversations.
Is This Room Free?
Deborah Mowbray - Senior HRBP (what it's like to work for some of the world's most iconic brands and what the Gold Standard of HR looks like)
On this episode I have Deborah Mowbray join me.
Deborah has been working at the Senior HR Business Partner level for the past four years. However, she has also spent her professional career working exclusively within major, global brands (Harrods, McDonalds, William Hill, Uniqlo, and Lacoste). I was therefore keen to not only understand how she operates as a Senior HRBP but what it's like working for organisations like this.
Deborah shares with us her story from getting on the graduate programme at Harrods to taking a role in a slightly more entrepreneurial environment that will help her take that next step to Head of HR. We talk through how learning a Gold Standard of HR early on gave her the discipline for the rest of her career but how it's important that you always stay authentic.
There's plenty of great learnings and takeaways from our chat so I hope you all enjoy listening.