Today our Host and CEO, Stuart Elliott, is joined by Ruth Gellert-Neale, who speaks about strategic HR leadership. It is very difficult to execute and be a true strategic HR leader, this episode aims to guide HR leaders to be just that by using Ruth’s myriad of knowledge and expertise. 

Throughout the episode, Stuart and Ruth discuss how strategic leadership can contribute to organisational success, strategies to get businesses through times of change or crisis, ensuring the development and succession of leaders, metrics and analytics that strategic HR leadership can use to measure and improve organisational success and the challenges or barriers to effective strategic HR leadership and the routes to overcome them. They also touch on Ruth’s career story, attrition rates and how the perception of DEI has changed over the last year.

Ruth is an experienced HR Executive with a diverse portfolio of global expertise; advising C-suite leaders, as well as developing and growing teams to operationalise and deliver strategic HR initiatives. Originally from the UK, Ruth got her master’s degree in human resources from the University of Hertfordshire and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Ruth moved to Singapore in 2019 and is now the Chief People Officer for APAC and EMEA for JLL Technologies, where she champions the use of AI within the HR function and has driven a culture of high performance. 

Key Timestamps

• 02:45 – Introduction to Ruth Gellert-Neale
• 13:14 – How strategic HR leadership can contribute to organisational success
• 16:30 – Understanding what strategic HR leadership is
• 20:38 – Effective strategies to manage difficult times 
• 26:56 – How strategic HR can ensure continuous development and succession of leaders
• 32:42 – Metrics for measuring organisational success
• 36:20 – The rise and fall of attrition rates 
• 39:42 – The perception of DEI 
• 42:02 – Challenges and barriers for strategic HR leadership and how we can overcome them

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