MEMBERSHIP INSIGHT
5 minutes with…
Dr Sue Smith EdD, MA, BEd, FHEA, FCMI, CMgr, Assoc CIPD, Associate director of professional education, CIPP
What do you think you can bring to the future strategy of the CIPP? I’d like to see practitioners making a conscious decision to develop a career in this profession and make confident choices to progress along a clear pathway. I believe I can help people craft a strategic career progression, by building the supporting development to enable these practitioners to continually raise the standards of their own profession. What does the future hold for the future of payroll, pensions and reward? There are many exciting ways in which we can support our learners and students to learn more effectively and shape the profession. I’d like to see innovative partnerships with payroll, pensions and reward stakeholders informing methods of development. With so many generations being involved in the profession at any given time, I believe we can learn from each other and increase our capacity to learn better than ever before. What do you do in your available time to unwind? I play a lot of squash. I’m an England International Masters player; having received ‘caps’ for representing England on a number competing in tournaments and plan to travel to Barbados and the USA later in the year. I’ve played in Hong Kong, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Australia and The Netherlands. I also have an adorable Brittany spaniel called Buddy, who is my constant training partner in the outdoors. n of occasions in the last five years. I love to travel around the world
Tell us about your career and background I started my career as a primary school teacher. I’ve been in development pretty much since then, although I prefer to focus on the development of people; which seems to reflect the holistic nature of helping an individual grow rather than teaching or educating them. I have worked for some well-known household brands such as Accenture, Little Chef, Tarmac, and Punch Retail before starting my own development company in 2004. I’ve held commercial roles, learning and development roles and academic roles, and worked in many different sectors and industries – so feel I have a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience to offer; but I still like to consider myself a pragmatist. When did you first become involved with the CIPP? My first encounter with the CIPP was in 2008 when I was invited to speak about managing difficult people at the Annual Conference in Brighton. I had been introduced to Liz Lay (now a board director) by a colleague at a meeting and during the discussion she asked if I would
like to present at the conference. Then in 2012, I was working at the University of Derby as an associate lecturer and was asked to manage the CIPP portfolio, which included the MSc in Business and Reward Management and the BA (Hons) in Applied Business and Management. I managed and taught on both programmes. In the early summer of 2017 I replied to an advert for the associate director of professional education and started working with the CIPP in August. What does your role mean to you? My passion has always been about developing people and helping them to be the best version of themselves that they can be. Having started my career in teaching and having held a number of development positions (as well as spending almost a decade in researching coaching) this role epitomises all the various aspects that strategic development, training, teaching and learning can be. I work with an experienced team of great people and I believe this makes a huge (positive) difference to my contribution at work.
| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward | July - August 2018 | Issue 42 8
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