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Emma Leonis-Hughes, Client Executive Director

Emma is an experienced global HR transformation director and a member of the Executive team at LACE Partners. She’s accountable for strategic client account delivery, senior client networks and events and leads LACE’s research into the future of HR.

Emma is passionate about HR and challenging, inspiring and motivating HR leaders to achieve more. She works with Chief People Officers and their leadership teams to develop and implement people strategies that drive business value – be that designing the HR operating model around the employee experience, optimising HR service delivery through improved use of digital tools or through building HR’s capability.

Skills

  • HR operating model assessment and design
  • HR operating model implementation
  • HR transformation
  • Business case development
  • Shared services
  • Solution design
  • Employee experience
  • Organisation design
  • Change management

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