People and Organisational Development
Award-winning skills, organisation and leadership development
Our vision
To be a catalyst for positive change, enabling the University to realise its strategic ambitions. Through our interactions we will support:
- Staff and students to achieve their full potential and take ownership of their own learning
- Teams to excel and continuously improve
- Leaders to empower staff through a dynamic and inclusive approach
What we offer
People and Organisational Development offer development and learning opportunities for everyone at the University of York, from individual staff, teams, departments to students through our diverse range of programmes:
Staff Development:- Open Programmes
- Statutory Training
- LinkedIn Learning
- Learning resources
- Apprenticeships for existing staff
- Leadership Programmes
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Bespoke Team Development
- Facilitation
- Project and change management
- Talent and Succession Planning
- Diagnostics
Principles of working
When you work with People and Organisational Development, be it through any of our open programmes, leadership programmes, bespoke work or 1-1 interventions, you can expect a service that follows these principles of working:
- We will be outcome focused and evidence driven to ensure the interventions we offer are aligned to the institutional strategic ambitions and departmental priorities
- We will co-create in collaboration and partnership to ensure we are culturally sensitive
- We will deliver our services in a flexible and inclusive way which is digitally enabled where appropriate
- We will adopt a facilitative approach to maximise learning and enhance best practice
- We will evaluate the impact of our provision against the agreed outcomes
Team members
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Bryony Jones
People and Organisational Development Project Officer -
Caroline La-Ffin
People and Organisational Development Administrator -
Emma Woolfrey
Apprenticeships and People & Organisational Development Administrator -
Heather Stout
People and Organisational Development Manager -
Kat Hesp
People and Organisational Development Administrator & PA -
Katie Oates
Development Partner - Talent -
Leigh McDowell
Development Partner - Student Leadership -
Melissa Rose
Development Partner -
Susan Kane
Assistant Director of HR Development (POD) -
Suzy Shelton
HR Partner, Arts and Humanities -
Vanya Gallimore
Development Partner