How HR Drives Impact, Innovation & Inclusive Culture: Annemie Ress, Group CHRO, Sirius Facilities

Annemie shares her insights into HR’s power to drive social change, elevate innovation, and build cultures of belonging. By challenging assumptions in the workplace, Annemie explains how HR can enable data-informed leadership that fosters employee engagement and inclusivity. Exploring AI’s potential, Annemie envisions a future where AI frees HR to focus on more impactful, strategic work. With a passion for lifelong learning, Annemie shares practical steps such as book clubs, informal storytelling, and encouraging small, relatable actions to spark curiosity. Annemie emphasises the ripple effect of small, consistent actions, and advocates that with simple acts of kindness and fostering human connections we can create lasting, positive change, building organisational culture centred on empathy and equity. Thank you to Visier for supporting How HR Leaders Change the World Visier gives organisations a workforce AI edge, helping leaders drive productivity, performance, and agility in the face of change. As a global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation, Visier leverages its real-time people data platform to harness the transformative potential of both people and work data. By combining these insights, Visier enables smarter workforce decisions and elevates performance across teams. Visier proudly serves over 60,000 customers across 75 countries, including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Sanofi, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. Discover more about how Visier can transform your organisation, visit www.visier.com   👥 Join the free How HR Leaders Change the World community: https://frombabieswithlove.org/pages/hrchangemakers Join us on Linkedin: From Babies with Love | LinkedIn

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Explore how the work of HR Leaders is creating positive social change, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals - goals which the world’s companies are increasingly understanding the urgency of achieving, and investing in the action required. If you’d like clear, actionable ideas for how you can use the power of your role to effect change in your company, you’re in the right place. I’m the founder of social enterprise Uplifting People, we provide services to HR Leaders, and through this work I realised that HR professionals and social entrepreneurs are working in the same areas, albeit in different ways. So we created this podcast to share knowledge, on steps we can take through the work of HR. In my opinion, if you’re an HR professional, you are also a change maker. And this podcast will provide you with examples of how. By sharing the successes of some of the world’s most inspiring HR Leaders, you can frame your work in the context of positive change, implement brilliant ideas, and feel absolutely wonderful about doing so!