Some exciting news for you regarding our Social HR Conference on 16th October
We are happy to announce that Ryan Cheyne will be the closing the conference at the Lancashire Cricket Club. Ryan Cheyne is People Director of Pets at Home, the UK’s leading pet specialist retailer. In the 9 years Ryan has been with Pets at Home it has become recognised as a retail employer of choice being named as the No 1 Big Company to work for in 2013 by the Sunday Times, having come 2nd in 2012. In his role as People Director he finds innovative ways to bring Pets at Home’s core values to life, as his team works to build the engagement levels of colleagues across the business. A recent engagement survey with a 98 percent participation rate more than 6000 colleagues produced an engagement index of 93 percent.
Ryan is also the Chair of Trustees for Support Adoption for Pets, a charity that supports national and local animal rehoming centres in providing thousands of pets each year with a second chance of happiness.
Prior to Pets at Home, Ryan was an HR Manager with Topshop/Topman and before that he spent 13 years at Argos in a variety of retail management and HR roles.
For fun, Ryan is a regular tweeter on all sorts of topic matters which is why his experience on Social HR will be very interesting and valuable. Follow him –> @ryskicheyne and don’t forget to follow our #socialHRmcr hashtag. This will be the best way to end a conference focused solely on ‘social’ and all its implications: social recruitment, social learning and employment law and social media for beginners to expert users. Book here and remember that this event also welcomes non CIPD members.
See you there
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