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Nick Kemsley

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Programme Director - The Advanced HR Business Partner Programme

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Nick is a highly experienced HR practitioner having had responsibility for organisational development, resourcing, talent, performance and L&D functions in three major global businesses; Travelport, Prudential and BOC/Linde, as well as cutting his HR teeth in European OD & Management Development at Mars. Most recently, Nick was Group Vice President, Organisational Effectiveness for Travelport, a global, private-equity owned provider of technology solutions and services to the travel sector with a presence in more than 140 countries worldwide. His role was to develop the organisational capability required to deliver strategy, whilst at the same time maximising efficiency and productivity. By contrast Nick spent the first ten years of his career as an engineer engaged in project and business management for world-classes businesses such as GE, GEC-Alstom and Rolls-Royce Aerospace.

Nick has leveraged his eclectic sector and functional career to build an industry reputation as someone who challenges both HR and the wider business to think differently and as a creator of innovative thinking in the organisational capability arena. He frequently speaks and writes on the subject and delivers open and bespoke development programmes for Henley. As Co-Director of the Henley Centre for HR Excellence he contributes to its research and activities for members as well as providing expert input to bespoke Henley programmes for corporate clients.

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