Mary has 15+ years of strategic practitioner experience with an unusual journey from operations into HR. Mary’s sweet spot is change enablement & transformation and her unique expertise combines strategy and execution across a wide range of people and HR processes with key focus on learning, leadership & talent development, performance enablement and HRIS/EdTech implementation. Mary drove transformation programs across a wide range of industries and company sizes, including in global leadership roles at EY, Bank of America, Relx, Preply – a rapidly growing EdTech scale-up, headed a maturing People Operations function. Currently, as newly appointed Head of Learning & Leadership Development at Rolls-Royce, Mary is leading strategic people capabilities development in support of Rolls-Royce’s transformation agenda set out by its new CEO. Mary is a member of Josh Bersin’s Senior Faculty, regular speaker at HR industry events, Founding Member of Hacking HR Experts Council, mentor for HR Tech start-ups through the Workplace Accelerator program, winner of the 2020 WinTrade Global Women in Leadership Award in recognition of progressive thinking in the banking sector.
