Read: Purpose Coalition partners bag influential HR awards

Purpose Business Coalition partners were amongst those included on this year’s prestigious HR Most Influential list which recognises the people whose ideas and actions have most shaped HR practices in the UK and globally in 2023:

 ·         Pam Parkes, Executive Director, People, Service Transformation and Technology Services at Essex County Council, voted number three on the list, was recognised for delivering workforce success at some of the most challenging and ambitious local authorities.

·         Nick Ulycz, Chief People Officer at Aldermore was placed at 7, praised for revitalising the bank's purpose and culture blueprint, which sits at the core of its business strategy, and delivering best in class employee engagement results for the group.

·         Lisa Dolan, VP of People Operations + Employee Experience at Teleperformance UK and SA, at 16, for championing colleague experiences, onboarding, wellbeing and engagement programmes, leading the UK team to achieve Great Place to Work status for the last four years and an Employee Experience awards for best employee recognition scheme and health and wellbeing programme.

Chair of the Purpose Coalition, Rt Hon Justine Greening, said: “ These awards are testament to the strength and depth of the partners we are working with across a huge range of organisations - businesses, universities, NHS Trusts and social care organisations, the third sector and local authorities – to drive better access to opportunity. Having a motivated and engaged workforce underpins the work that is needed to deliver meaningful social impact for their clients and for their communities. The winners here represent the best organisations where their leadership teams take their people with them to achieve real results through wide-ranging people strategies. They can include inclusive mentoring and on-boarding schemes to welcome new recruits, training and development initiatives to introduce new skills or update old ones, authentic employee engagement with focus groups, feedback sessions and surveys, health and wellbeing schemes that help to prevent poor mental and physical health as well as remedy it as well as a chance to support the communities they work in.

“Their achievements demonstrate that every sector can play its part in improving social mobility and I’m looking forward to continuing to work with these best-in-class employers to share their best practice more widely and to explore how they can go even further in spreading opportunity.”