My family, friends and those in my network that know me well, know that I’m a life-long learner - I believe in the evolution that learning can bring - and so I wanted to share something that I’ve been working on in the background during 2021… in the hope that it might just spark an idea for a learning journey for someone else in 2022! xx

I’ve been a qualified accountant for nearly 3 decades now, and a fellow of my Institute CIMA for 15 years this year. I’ve loved all of the roles I’ve been lucky to have through-out my career so far. I always have been - and always will be - very much a finance gal!

As a leader, I count myself really lucky to have worked with thousands of truly lovely and talented people around the world (many of them a number of times!) and to have led amazing teams to some memorable and truly outstanding achievements. I have never ceased to be amazed by people and their commitment, innovation and determination to do the right thing to reach goals, break boundaries and realise outcomes. In fact, it’s been an essential part of my career to lead in such a way as to augment and enable team performance at all times: TEAM wins!

Having come up through all of the ranks in finance, I skipped over onto a full-on global SAP implementation as GPO FICO and #D, then into commercial and ultimately found my ‘groove’ in transformational change and business improvement. The bulk of my career so far has been in creating, shaping and enabling multifunctional SharedServices, GBS operations and transformation leadership (essentially people, process, technology, organisation, strategy, operating model and change.

It’s true to say that I am more than a little bit obsessed with being able to create, enable and bring as much end to end value as possible to the table in my roles… So… I had an idea early on in 2021, to try to professionally accredit my 20-odd years of global HR service delivery and people management experience and expertise - alongside my AICPA Finance, The Hackett Group Inc. Global Business Services and Lean SixSigma Blackbelt Business Improvement qualifications.

I’m delighted to share that this morning I received my CIPD #hartered fellow certificate! Thankyou so much to those that have supported me on this journey - you know who you are!

From this latest learning experience, I have concluded that (in my humble opinion) it’s never too early or late, and we are never too young or old, to learn something new… and even if we have an established career pathway already - trying something else, or looking at established skills and experience in a different way, might just help us to be more relevant or bring new value and opportunities we hadn’t thought possible.

Go on… give it a try - you never know what 2022 might bring if you dare to dream! xx



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