George Stone - Director of HR
Culture, change & capability focused HR Director with experience across Europe and USA. George is a passionate and results-oriented HR Leader with a proven record in guiding business strategy, organisational growth and change management. George has been with Shields since February 2020 and his first meeting in the business was to discuss whether COVID-19 would affect the workforce. During his time at Shields he has guided the business by leading the global agendas to deliver impactful strategies in scalability, ESG and connecting workforces in new ways of working.
After a rapid progression and growth in the practice of people, George has been involved with different programs and seminars supporting other business leaders and HR professionals. He has a passion for helping the younger generation in the workplace and has recently been visiting schools across the country, holding ‘Education to Employment’ seminars for 16-18 year olds getting into the workplace.“
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"It’s easy to forget that people want to work and want to be fair. Empowering employees with internal financial decisions for themselves, can produce more engagement and more trust".
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“Interesting to hear about a different approach and including where things did not go as expected”.
“George was the most insightful I found and focused on allowing the employee to be involved in the decision making and trusting local management."