People Director
A results-oriented, entrepreneurial HR leader that thrives on partnering with organisations to achieve their strategic goals by developing an inspiring vision, creating a cohesive leadership team, recruiting great talent and creating a culture and structure that allows people to achieve their full potential.
Summary
Adrian is a commercial business leader who understands business models, financials, external markets and customers. Partnering with boards and executive teams in fast paced organisations, Adrian has a track record of shaping and influencing business strategy to move businesses forward. This is combined with being a functional HR leader with a future-focused approach.
In the first part of his career, Adrian worked primarily in FTSE 100 or Fortune 500 companies, including: PepsiCo, GEC, Shell, Prudential, Smiths Group, Cable and Wireless and Rank Xerox, in HR Director roles.
Following on from his successful corporate career, for the past 14 years, Adrian has worked as an Executive HR interim in privately and publicly owned, and PE backed high growth businesses. Adrian has focused on creating the talent strategy, driving culture and purpose, being a change leader and trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Team. Recent assignments have included supporting a crypto currency start up in the UAE and a recruitment start up in the UK, rolling up his sleeves to achieve results.
Adrian has supported businesses to improve engagement and retention through redesign of organisation structure, clarification of accountabilities, salary and benefits structure design and structured training programmes. He is confident establishing new HR functions as well as streamlining existing operations to increase productivity and profit.
Looking back on his career to date, Adrian would consider some of his key achievements as the design of business strategy and aligning people strategy to achieve fourfold growth and 25% improvement margin over a three year period, as well as improving leadership capability through training, coaching, mentoring and succession planning leading to a 29% increase in performance.
What Others Say About Adrian
- "Adrian engages and operates at a pace that the business can absorb. Instrumental in creation of overall 3-year business strategy, with an abstract view to better understand the correlation between different contributors and business lines." Nigel Cairns, MD, London Stock Exchange Technology