This session is for HR Directors and senior colleagues involved in transformational change at the Executive level.
Purpose of the session
This webinar will explore why executive team effectiveness is becoming a critical issue for universities and why HR directors have an important role in helping institutions respond. Executive teams are operating under significant pressure: financial challenge, restructures, changing portfolios, interim appointments, rising board scrutiny, industrial relations pressures and growing regulatory expectations.
The session will explore how Executive teams can increase their effectiveness and move beyond structure charts and role descriptions to focus on collective leadership, agile decision-making, accountability, culture and new ways of working with the governing board.
Presenters:
Susie Hills is a Senior Director at Huron and leads on governance. She has been working in higher education for 20 years. With a background in fundraising, she was part of the senior management team at the University of Exeter leading the University’s first international fundraising campaign and quadrupling annual philanthropic income. She moved into consultancy becoming a specialist in governance setting up Halpin Partnership which was acquired by Huron in March 2025. She has led governance reviews at more than 50 UK universities and her work has explored governance effectiveness and the interface between Executive teams and the Board. She regularly shares thought leadership on HE related topics and is one of the most followed UK HE leaders on Linkedin. Susie founded and led KindFest for 5 years which was the first global online festival of kindness.
Susan Basso is a Managing Director at Huron and co-leads the Organization & Talent Strategy solution area. She is an innovative and transformational human resources (HR) executive, with over 30 years of experience leading in all aspects of human resources management. She has led largescale business optimization projects and has expertise in strategic planning, enterprise resource planning and human capital management implementations, executive compensation, change management, performance management, leadership development, compliance, benefits administration, collective bargaining, workforce and talent planning and organizational design.
Emma Potts is a Senior Advisor (Education and Research) at Huron and has more than 35 years’ experience working across higher education, with particular expertise in professional services leadership, governance and organisational transformation. She has worked extensively with vice-chancellors, governing bodies and executive teams, helping institutions strengthen governance, improve performance and navigate complex change. Emma has a track record of driving efficiencies and a reputation for achieving organisational success through changing the culture and building high-performing management teams. Emma has held executive leadership roles at Rothamsted Research, the University of Sussex, Cardiff Metropolitan University, the University of Oxford and University College London. Since moving into interim leadership work, she has supported a range of institutions through complex operational and strategic challenges, focusing on building effective relationships within an academic environment and being perceived as a trusted leader.
Tagged : Organisational Development, Events, HR Directors
Type : Meeting
