Sharon Looney – Business Transformation Leader

Sharon Looney is a business transformation and change leader. She creates environments in which people excel and firms thrive.

Sharon has extensive experience in large-scale transformational change management, leadership development and cultural innovation. She steers organisations and their HR teams to ignite and accelerate delivery of the human aspects of business transformations. She is frequently invited to speak at management and HR conferences and has worked in more than 21 countries.

Awards & Achievements

Winner of the CHRO of the Year Award
Named one of the world’s Top 50 HR Tech Minds
Member of the World HRD Congress Advisory Board
World HRD Congress 2019

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Overcoming ‘HR sophistication bias’

HR has a strategic role to play in most organisations. Yet it sometimes builds barriers by trying to be seen as sophisticated. Constantly presenting complex new ‘best practices’ that bamboozle management undermines HR as a strategic function. It’s time to simplify!

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How can Sharon help you?

Speaking

Sharon is a highly rated speaker. She welcomes invitations to speak or facilitate at leadership conferences and HR events worldwide.

Mentoring

Sharon is an experienced executive mentor on all aspects of people-led change and transformation.

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Latest Blog/News

November 21, 2019

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Aligned in thought – Dave Ulrich with Sharon Looney – November 2019

Attended the HR Congress in Nice today and had the pleasure to meet David Ulrich...

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Article Mentions

21/10: Raconteur: Why Employee Journey Mapping Matters

02/10: Thrive Global: How To Identify & Retain Top Talent with Sharon Looney Of CoreHR & Kage Spatz

02/10: HR Magazine: Engaging the Workforce with HR tech

01/08: HR Grapevine: Will AI take the Human out of Human Resources?

01/08: Headspring/FT: What Emotional Labour Tells You About Your Organisation

29/07: HR Review: Sharon Looney: Four big steps to raising the strategic role of HR

03/07: Computer Weekly: Forward-thinking companies listening to employees

02/07: Raconteur: The Power of People Analytics

Testimonials

“Sharon perfectly balances her strategic outlook with a human touch. That means we can truly leverage the value created every day by our people. Our company today is a world away from the one I joined a couple years back. We’re more collaborative, we work smarter, and we all know our role in contributing to business objectives.”
Dean Forbes
CEO, CoreHR
The positive and objective impacts of Sharon’s thought leadership has resulted in significant material consequence for the businesses she’s supported. Her achievements and leadership are endorsed at the highest levels as delivering monumental impacts in effecting organisational change. Her contributions to thought leadership in the HR space deserve the highest recognitions.
Thierry Couillaud
VP Human Resources ChassisBrakes.com
My engagements with Sharon as a Consulting HR strategist, span across a number of years in cases of highly complex transformation and restructuring projects. I required a level of HR expertise which did not exist internally. I relied heavily on Sharon as my ‘navigator’ in defining the HR strategies in situations of high impact to our people and our teams. She has a unique talent, which proves and amplifies the immeasurable value of HR with the right leader in the HR seat.
Brian Martin
Former CEO Shanakiel and Mater Hospitals, Cork