Five years into her role as CEO, Rika Coppens is realizing her goals of growth for House of HR. An HR service provider that focuses on specialized talent solutions and engineering and consulting for companies across Europe, House of HR added three new platforms in the last year: Cohedron (Netherlands, public sector consulting), Solcom (Germany, [...]
As managing director of Randstad Enterprise Group, Tania de Decker steers over 170 strategic clients to ensure HR, talent and procurement leaders play a strategic role in driving growth locally, across regions and globally. A 28-year industry veteran, de Decker developed a passion for supporting pharmaceutical clients with their talent challenges and has led Randstad to [...]
Under CEO Rhona Driggs’s leadership, UK-based Empresaria Group saw adjusted profit before tax for 2021 grow by 65% year over year. Driggs also led the company in instituting a new leadership structure to accelerate further growth and drive operational efficiency. She recently collaborated with 14 other female leaders to write Together We Rise, a book [...]
Following leadership roles with Guidant Global, AMS and Rullion, Melanie Forbes launched Apsco OutSource in January 2021 and serves as the organization’s managing director. Under her leadership, Apsco OutSource members have worked with Apsco UK recruitment members to create guiding principles that outline best practice expectations across the entire talent supply program and specify ways [...]
Farida Gibbs is founder and CEO of Gibbs Hybrid, a resourcing and consultancy firm delivering talent and project augmentation across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the US. Under her leadership, Gibbs Hybrid, a globally certified Minority Woman-Owned Business, in 2021 grew its Polish division by 600% year over year and won a [...]
Under Norma Gillespie’s leadership, Resource Solutions has implemented several new programs to redefine work. Serving as CEO since 2020, Gillespie has led the firm to launch Rejoin, a program to get untapped talent back in the workplace following a career break. Most recently, Gillespie rolled out the new Recruiter Academy, a 12-week program to train people [...]
As global head of diversity, equity, inclusion and people engagement, Karima Green has developed a four-year strategy that embeds DE&I in every part of SThree through policy, practice and process. Over the last three years, Green led SThree to be recognized as Company of the Year at the 2021 European Diversity Awards and grew the employee [...]
Rebecca Henderson, CEO of global businesses and executive board member of Randstad, is responsible for the group’s global business portfolio, including Randstad Sourceright, Monster and RiseSmart. A 25-year industry veteran, Henderson has led Randstad with a focus on enterprise customer engagements and investments to ensure HR and talent leaders can accelerate growth locally, across regions [...]
As the global head of people and culture and a member of the executive board at Hays plc, Sandra Henke is focused on evolving Hays’ culture and people practices with a specific focus on diversity and inclusion, change management, leadership and talent development, succession, management skills and employee engagement. Under Henke’s leadership, Hays has been [...]
Ingrid Hofmann is CEO of I. K. Hofmann Group, parent company of global staffing and recruiting agency I. K. Hofmann (also known as Hofmann Personal), which she founded in 1985 in Nuremberg, Germany. She expanded rapidly into Eastern Germany upon the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That same year, the birth of her [...]
