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Neil Morrison

Transform workplace culture with Neil Morrison, speaker and HR transformation expert. Neil works with organisations to navigate digital disruption, develop leadership capabilities, and implement strategic workforce planning, delivering FTSE 100 insights as a five-time most influential HR leader.

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Neil Morrison, Speaker | HR Director, Severn Trent
Neil Morrison

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  • HR Director at Severn Trent
  • Expert in leadership development and talent retention
  • Specialist in skills-based workforce planning
Neil Morrison is the HR Director at Severn Trent, where he spearheads workforce strategies for a FTSE 100 utilities provider. Neil's expertise empowers businesses with robust frameworks to tackle leadership development, talent retention, and agile organisational design. His practical guidance enables teams to effectively address the challenges of hybrid work and align company culture with operational objectives, leveraging his extensive experience in enhancing large-scale employee engagement initiatives. Neil's insights into skills-based workforce planning provide leaders with the clarity needed to adapt to automation and evolving labour markets. Engage with Neil to transform HR practices into catalysts for measurable business success. Book him now to elevate your organisation's performance. Neil Morrison is the Director of HR for FTSE100 water company, Severn Trent. Neil's executive career has taken him across multiple industries and sectors, including media, retail and utilities as well as the public sector. Throughout this time there has been a common thread, helping organisations, and their people, to successfully navigate change. As Director of Strategy, Culture and Innovation, Neil was one of the leads in the global merger between Penguin and Random House, the largest merger in publishing history and helped successfully navigate the rise of digital publishing and media. This followed five years as HR director at Random House, which he joined in 2008 after working for Rentokil and Argos. Neil is excited about the opportunities we have when creating something new. Building an organisation for the twenty-first century is something that not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do; and that in this modern era people can be part of more than one culture, and they are central to the success of a company. In engaging and thoughtful presentations Neil speaks about leading in times of disruption, embracing lessons from leading an organisation through digital change, the future of work; how technology is impacting the way we work and think about work. He believes purpose and values are what drives organisational success - getting this right is key. Neil has served on the board of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, was one of the inaugural members of the Good Recruitment Campaign as well as advising and supporting the Government on a number of policies and initiatives. He writes regularly about leadership and change, is a frequent media commentator and has spoken at events around the world. He has been named as one of the most influential people in HR for the last five years.

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Thanks SO much Neil, you were brilliant, and the feedback has been fantastic. I thought it worked really well hearing your stories and it was amazing despite us being in totally different industries how much was applicable.

Owen James

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Neil Morrison draws on first-hand experience of leading large-scale organisational change — including the Penguin and Random House merger — to frame his presentations around lessons from real transformation programmes he has directed across media, retail, and utilities.

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Neil Morrison speaks on leadership in times of disruption, the future of work and technology's impact on how we work, and organisational culture, purpose and values. He is HR Director at Severn Trent, a FTSE 100 water company, and previously led the global merger between Penguin and Random House as Director of Strategy, Culture and Innovation, described as the largest merger in publishing history.

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