HR for HR Session one: Everything starts with you

Overview

This two-session event has been designed in direct response to CIPD South London member feedback, particularly around:

• Burnout, self-care and mental wellbeing
• Resilience and confidence in HR roles
• HR identity, purpose and credibility
• Finding and using one’s voice
• The need for practical, applicable content
• The value of honest discussion and shared lived experience

Each session is standalone and delivers value independently. Together, they provide a coherent journey from personal sustainability to professional impact.

The approach recognizes the unique emotional and organizational pressures of HR roles and supports HR professionals to remain both human and effective.

Session one

Focus

Session one supports people professionals as humans first, roles second. It addresses the emotional reality of HR work and builds the self-awareness required for sustainable resilience.

This is a practical, reflective session, not a motivational talk or generic wellbeing lecture.

Key themes

• The invisible and emotional demands of HR work
• Burnout, emotional fatigue and compassion fatigue
• Self-awareness as the foundation of resilience and confidence
• HR identity under pressure
• Values, integrity and personal limits
• Whole-person resilience

Outcomes

Participants leave with:

• Increased self-awareness and emotional clarity
• Language to articulate their lived HR experience
• Insight into their own resilience patterns
• Practical understanding of burnout prevention
• A renewed sense of personal grounding

Design principles (across both sessions)

• Grounded in real HR experience
• Practical, not theoretical
• Designed to create individualised outcomes
• Supports honest discussion within psychologically safe boundaries
• Directly aligned to the realities of modern HR roles

Timings:

18.00 – 18.30 - Networking

18.30 – 20.30 - Session starts

20.30 – 21.00 - Networking and close

About the speaker

After hitting a massive burnout brick wall Claire’s corporate HR career ended and was forced to re-evaluate every aspect of her life. Her recovery journey led to Claire creating , with a mission to impact and influence the HR profession to put their oxygen masks on first, and to answer the question ‘who looks after HR? by providing the HR profession with the same care, support and love that we in HR provide to others. She authentically shares her personal journey good, bad and ugly to demonstrate that HR are humans and employees too, as well as the tools she has created to support the profession to thrive.

Claire has a non-negotiable ‘whole person’ approach to the transformational coaching and consulting services she provides to HR individuals, teams and businesses, with core foundations encompassing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. She radically improves culture and wellbeing, with prevention at the heart. With expertise in burnout prevention/recovery, confidence and resilience, Claire has a clear focus on both professional and personal pathways to progress and ensuring that ‘the basics’ are never overlooked in favor of the next shiny new thing.

Claire is hugely passionate about providing safe spaces to allow HR individuals and teams to explore and create lifelong change so that they thrive in multiple aspects of their lives, there are no papering over cracks or box ticking with Claire, just realistic and personalized results that genuinely make a difference.

Claire is a regular speaker both inside and outside of the HR profession, has won the CIPD Wales award for Outstanding Impact in HR, and the 2025 Coach of the Year at the British HR Awards. She is in the process of writing several books and is a self-confessed stationery and beetroot lover.

If you have already met Claire, you’ll know that her values are authenticity, empathy and passion, she is all about being real and therefore is pretty down to earth and is known for her informal style, so please feel free to show up as your whole self, she definitely will.

“Everything starts with you....”

Please note:

1. Reminder emails will be sent to you the day before, with a further reminder on the day of the event.
2. Photography and video production may be taking place at the event, and these images may be used in the CIPD newsletters.
3. By attending the event, you are giving consent for your image to be used on any CIPD promotional materials.
4. As we are supplying refreshments, if you can no longer attend, please cancel your place either on Eventbrite, or by responding to the confirmation email.
5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.

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