Career Journeys in HR

Send a textFor over two decades, James Tastard, Ph.D., has served as a Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer in the global energy and oil and gas sector, leading people strategy across more than 15 countries. He has helped scale businesses from $25 million to over $2 billion in revenue while stewarding more than $18 billion in organizational value through efficiency, development, and M&A. James has designed and led talent strategies for over 10,000 professionals and 3,000 leaders worldwide, giving him a front‑row seat to what truly drives performance, culture, and leadership at scale. His HR career journey started in Los Angeles, California, to Houston, Texas, you’ll hear how a kid from Los Angeles built a global CHRO career with stops in Saudi Arabia, the UK, Norway, and Russia along the way.  James shares candid stories of his childhood and how he found HR as a career, through to his globetrotting assignments that led to senior executive roles as VPHR, SVPHR, and Chief Human Resources & Administrative Officer. Today, as a fractional HR Executive/CHRO, board member, and executive coach, he helps current and emerging leaders create and accelerate their impact, navigate transformation, and build organizations where people and performance both win . If you’re an executive, an HR leader, or a rising leader looking for an edge, you’ll walk away with real‑world insights you can put to work in your own career and organization

Send a text⏩ Rachel’s background is in People leadership and organisational effectiveness, with almost 20 years’ experience working in international, fast-growth businesses.✈️ She joined Skyscanner in 2014 and has held a number of senior leadership roles within the global People team. Over that time, she has led organisational design, strategic workforce planning, and the evolution of performance and reward frameworks across a 1,600+-person matrixed organisation, supporting the company through significant growth and change. Rachel has held senior HR roles at Amazon and Royal Bank of Scotland. 💻 As organisations navigate the impact of AI on skills, performance and operating models, Rachel helps guide senior leaders through the structural and workforce implications, emphasising employers' responsibility to ensure that technological progress continues to create opportunities and employment for future generations.

Send a textLucy’s background is business psychology with almost 30 years of international experience developing leaders, teams and organisational culture through programme design, coaching and facilitation, including 9 years with Unilever before becoming a consultant. She is CoFounder of Collaboration Equation - a leadership framework built around the mindset and behaviours of Curiosity, Care and Courage to create cultures of human connection that drive collective success. https://lnkd.in/eZHU_egRLucy also co-hosts the Finding Your Collaborative EdgeTM podcast together with cofounder Anni Townend where they invite leaders to share their collaboration stories and the insights they have gained along the way. https://lnkd.in/e2YcwsWTIf that’s not enough, Lucy is also co-creator of the WITHIN personal growth framework, together with Jane Baggott, inviting women to realign, rediscover and reignite their inner power. www.within-retreats.com 

Send a textJanice Doyle is Chief People Officer for Serica Energy plc, one of the largest independent energy operators in the UK.   Before this, Janice has worked for a number of large energy organisations, including EnQuest, Ithaca and Repsol at the C-Suite level.Janice will give us an insight into her journey, from her early career in various HR roles across different organisations and sectors, to ultimately becoming CPO at one of the largest UK energy companies, sharing key experiences along the way.

Send a textElrona is the cofounder of S&K HR Consulting, based in the UAE. She established their consultancy with her sister back in 2015, where they initially supported SME focus on their people. They now support international businesses to expand their operations into the UAE, whilst bridging the gap between home country HR and maintaining the culture of the business. Elrona gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career, with large international organisations, and then making the transition to running her own company.  

Send a textSadie gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career at L’Oreal to become Chief People Officer at Chromalloy, a global organisation with over 6,000 people worldwide, and moving to the US.  Sadie is the co-founder of Life Intended, a woman’s self-leadership movement that supports women in reclaiming clarity, confidence and agency. She also explains the transition from the C- Suite to our own consultancy.  

Send a textNatalie Brindeau is currently Stop Hunger Europe Director since 2019. Prior to that she has worked for Sodexo across a number of global locations since 2002, including France, Africa, US and UK.  She also worked previously at Disneyland Paris for 10 years. She was educated in France but also studied in Canada too.  Natalie gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career in France, but we also explore the other international locations and roles she has carried out over the past 20 to 30 years. 

Send a textAt the time of recording Melanie Bowes was Human Resources Director for the Kellogg Company covering UK&I for Sales, European IT leadership teams and now founder of Budie which provides HR Consultancy and Career Coaching.  Prior to this Melanie worked for Asahi Beverages in Australia and Tokyo, Origin Energy and Wood Group PSN in Melbourne.   Melanie gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career in Australia, but we also explore the other international locations and roles she has carried across very different business sectors.  

Send a textDaniel Bosman is Vice President for HR Services Delivery with Technip Energies based in the Netherlands.  Prior to this Daniel has worked in a variety of roles and locations for Technip including, Aberdeen, London, Paris and Rome as well as the Netherlands.Daniel will give us an insight into Human Resources from his early career in the Netherlands, including his academic education. He will also provide insight into working across multiple roles in different countries but with same organisation for past 20 years.  

Send a textLiat Berger is Chief People Officer for Cognite based in Norway.  Prior to this role, Liat held a number of leadership roles positions with Aker Solutions, including SVP for People and Organisation within their corporate head office, and other leadership roles across their different product lines across multiple locations including Norway and Brazil. She also worked in different sectors prior to this for Kraft Foods and HSBC.   Liat will give us insight into Human Resources from her early career in Brazil, including her academic career.  She also provided insight on an early upbringing across different cultures and how this impacted her and her future career as well as sharing her very unique career journey.