Marcus Uzubalis, Director
Marcus is a data-driven HR leader with over 20 years’ experience in delivering HR transformation and change programmes. Before Marcus joined LACE Partners in 2024 as a Director focusing on client delivery, he worked in global, matrixed organisations spanning multiple industry sectors, including management consulting, financial services, aviation, and pharmaceutical logistics.
Marcus is passionate about optimising organisation design and establishing HR as a strategic partner to the business. He holds deep, practical understanding of the HR Operating Model gained from in-house roles in regional and global business-facing HR, Centre of Excellence, and programme management with a focus on organisation design, and mergers & acquisitions. He has attained extensive international experience from having lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the UAE and Italy over the course of his career.
Outside work, Marcus is a keen traveller and avid gym-goer to both indulge, and offset, his love of good food and wine.
Skills
- Organisation and Operating Model Design
- Mergers and Acquisitions, Integrations and Divestments
- HR Change and Transformation Delivery
- Programme Management
- Cross-cultural Ways of Working
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What strategic disruptors will define HR in 2026?
HR leaders are being asked to deliver more strategic value at exactly the moment when uncertainty, cost pressure, and technology disruption are accelerating. In this episode of The People Agenda podcast host Chris Howard and fellow LACErs, Marcus Uzubalis, Gemma Ryall...
Rewired HR: Building an ecosystem for continuous change
Is it time to rewire HR? In this episode of The People Agenda podcast host Chris Howard talks to LACErs Kat Bernardes and Alice McCormack who are behind our latest campaign Rewired HR. This campaign explores our new HR operating model built to respond to rapid global...
Connected advisory that delivers HR and Payroll value
In brief Staying close to HR and Payroll technology vendors enables LACE Partners to provide informed, forward-looking advice grounded in real product capability and market direction. Vendor events help bridge the gap between HR ambition and technical reality,...
