People Director
Sally has over 30 years’ experience in HR, holding leadership roles in some fantastic corporate and privately owned companies including Apple, Ermenegildo Zegna, Coca-Cola and Mars, spanning locations worldwide. She is known for her broad business acumen, building trusted relationships throughout organisations and developing high performing teams.
Summary
Sally has a track record of delivering strategic people solutions that drive business results. A true business partner, Sally enjoys working with leadership to develop business strategy, maximise performance and deliver bottom line results.
Pragmatic and commercially focussed, Sally brings an optimistic can-do attitude. With both strategic and operational experience she has developed expertise across all professional areas of human resources, with deeper specialism in organisation development, talent management, learning and change management.
Passionately believing that everyone plays an important role in the success of an organisation, Sally seeks to unlock the potential of individuals at all levels. Coaching, asking tough questions, ensuring common goals are in place and balancing challenge with support, have been key to the successes Sally has enjoyed developing high performing teams. She also particularly enjoys building engaging and inclusive workplace cultures, where everyone can be their best and have fun.
Sally has broad international experience. Most recently she lived and worked in China leading Human Resources for Apple Retail to achieve their aggressive growth plans across Greater China. As Global Human Resources Director for the leader of luxury menswear, Ermenegildo Zegna, she led teams across Western Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America.
What Others Say About Sally
“Sally is always driving forward and looking for ways to make improvements in all aspects of the organisation – she is continually asking questions on how we can learn more and get better from what we learn. During meetings with Sally she showed her skill at getting us to understand the root cause of issues within the organisation or clearly defining the problem statement and could then also help us envision the change necessary to reach goals. This drives her energy for affecting change, either with small increments or, when necessary, larger organisational and/or process change. I found Sally to be very skilled at aligning the organisational design with the work processes we were implementing, assessing the lead times involved, and understanding what was necessary to deliver the number and level of talent required. Sally is a planner and someone who is skilled at sizing up talent, combined this has produced great results as we grew our organisation and we continue to benefit from it today.” Richard Hames – Senior Retail Director, Apple