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?
Maxine Blake - Senior HRBP / Head of HR (the importance of having a strong commercial understanding to be truly effective as a HR professional)
I'm really excited for this week's guest as I have Maxine Blake joining me. Maxine is someone who has been operating at the senior HR level for a number of years now, having originally come from an operations background in the hospitality industry.
Maxine is a great example of someone who has used that Ops experience and broader understanding of things like sales, finance, marketing to make her a very rounded, commercially astute HR professional. She's also someone who wasn't highly academic at school but has more than made up for that in later life and holds a Bachelors degree, an MBA and a HR Masters.
Trust me that this really isn't an episode to be missed. I hope you all enjoy listening.