Associate Director of People for Lincolnshire ICS, Saumya Hebbar
Saumya is currently the Associate Director of People and leads a team of senior programme managers (People Hub) who deliver on workforce transformation programmes for Lincolnshire Health & Care. System wide wellbeing programmes, an innovative approach to equality & diversity, reduction in bank and agency costs, sustained improvement in retention – these are just few of the areas her team leads on – https://www.oneworkforcelincs.co.uk/
Before this she was the Head of Organisational Development at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust where she worked for three years. She has over 20 years of experience in Global HR/OD transformation roles both in Private IT / Consulting companies as well as in the NHS.
Saumya’s particular interest and passion is ‘Enhancing the Employee loyalty factor’ and how various ethnicities and cultures have an impact on Organisation culture and its loyalty factor. Working on improving this stickiness and thereby retention is key, especially given the pandemic and its impact on our workforce. She is a motivational speaker and has spoken on many topics from breaking the glass ceiling for BAME women in NHS management, to creating a diverse & inclusive culture, to the financial benefits of a focus on retention.
Saumya has a degree in Psychology and Sociology and also a Masters in Organisation Behaviour. She has a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and is an accredited facilitator for a number of psychometric tools.
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