Over 6 years of experience supporting software and financial technology organisations in hiring, developing and engaging their people across EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Current engagement · Global People Operations
Details are kept confidential while the engagement is ongoing.
2025 to today
People partnering · Performance and reward · Learning · Organisational change
Partnered with senior leadership at a global software company across the full people agenda, from learning and leadership development to performance, reward and change.
2024 to 2026
Talent acquisition · Learning and development
Hired the teams that built a cloud banking platform, then created the training academies that helped them grow.
2022 to 2023Details are kept confidential while the engagement is ongoing.
Led the design of a company-wide career framework end to end, giving every function a shared language for growth and a path that does not depend on managing people.
Led the move from a once-a-year review to a continuous performance cycle, from design and system set-up through to calibration and rollout.
Designed and ran a year-long leadership programme for high-potential talent, with mentoring, a sponsored project and 360-degree feedback.
Built and facilitated recurring workshops where managers practise the conversations they will actually have, learning from peers and real scenarios.
Led hiring across product, engineering, operations and go-to-market, then built the academies that developed those teams.
I sit with senior leadership on organisation design, workforce planning, succession and the difficult decisions in between, and I stay for the delivery.
I have led three restructures across three countries, with legal counsel, clear communication and real support for every person affected.
Career frameworks, leadership programmes, sales and management academies, and the learning platforms underneath them.
Onboarding, documentation and people data across many countries and legal entities, designed so growth never outruns compliance.
I started using AI in people work early, and each role took it further. Always as an accelerator, always checked by a person before it reached anyone.
2022 to 2023
Drafting and improving job descriptions, and creating employer brand material for careers fairs.
2024 to 2026
Bringing AI into everyday people work: drafting, analysis, learning content, and an automated internal newsletter.
2025 to today
Details are kept confidential while the engagement is ongoing.
Where the foundations came from: recruitment, research and frontline support.
Recruitment Consultant, 2021 to 2022
Full hiring cycles across technology, financial services, biotechnology and automotive, including market mapping, salary benchmarking and package negotiation.
Human resources internship, 2019 to 2020
Employee relations, confidential records, payroll and benefits, recruitment, training coordination and reporting.
Research Assistant, 2019 to 2021
International research across six European countries: participant recruitment, interviews, surveys and data analysis, plus Romanian and French translation.
Advisor, 2019
A confidential caseload, support planning and coordination with caseworkers and community services. It taught me how to handle sensitive situations with care.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, in progress since 2024.
University of Surrey, 2017 to 2021. Focus on organisational and occupational psychology, with a dissertation on burnout and wellbeing in frontline hospital staff during the pandemic.
Certified Mental Health First Aider, Mental Health First Aid England, 2022.
Three things I keep coming back to, whatever the company.
Most people problems repeat. The job is to make the right decision easy to make again, through clear rules, good guidance and managers who know what to do.
Calibration, benchmarking and consistent documentation are what make people believe a decision was fair. Good intentions without a process do not survive scrutiny.
The legal steps have to be right, but what people remember is whether their manager could hold the conversation. That is where I spend the preparation time.
Automation and AI belong in drafting, documentation and reporting. The conversation, the judgement call and the difficult message stay with a person.
Want to work with me, or debate whether Wendy Rhoades was the best performance coach on Wall Street? Send me a message on LinkedIn or email me directly at [email protected].
