Haylie Robinson, Lead Consultant

Haylie Robinson is a senior global people leader with extensive experience shaping talent, performance, culture, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) strategies across complex, multinational organisations. With a career spanning transportation, retail, insurance, finance, engineering, FMCG, and the public sector, Haylie is recognised for driving inclusive, data-led people strategies that enable organisational transformation and sustainable performance.

Career History

While at Hitachi Rail (formerly Thales GTS), Haylie led the integration and delivery of global talent and performance frameworks across 54 countries, partnering closely with senior leaders, HR teams, and global centres of expertise. Her work focused on succession and critical role planning, leadership development, inclusive performance practices, and the governance and coordination of global employee resource groups. A strong advocate of inclusive leadership, she embeds DEI principles into core people processes while ensuring compliance with evolving global legislation.

Previously at Currys, Haylie transformed the organisation’s approach to colleague engagement by moving from traditional annual surveys to a colleague-centred, insight-driven, listening strategy. Alongside this, she played a key role in advancing DEI across recruitment, talent development, retention, and employer brand, building employee networks, strengthening external partnerships, and delivering measurable improvements in engagement, inclusion, and organisational culture. This work contributed to top global engagement benchmarks and external recognition, including a Great Place to Work award.

Earlier in her career at Carlsberg UK, Haylie led large-scale culture change, talent and performance initiatives, and engagement activity during a period of significant organisational transformation. Her work delivered substantial improvements in internal mobility, leadership capability, and employee engagement, supporting both commercial performance and long-term cultural change.

Haylie has also delivered critical people, culture, and transformation programmes through interim and global roles with organisations including Canopius, BP, NHS, RBS, Arup, BT, and Kuehne + Nagel, often supporting leadership teams through periods of rapid change and uncertainty.

Known for combining strategic insight with practical delivery, Haylie uses data and evidence-based approaches to inform decision-making, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement. She is passionate about creating environments where people can perform at their best, feel a genuine sense of belonging, and see clear and equitable pathways for growth.

Haylie holds multiple professional certifications in talent management, leadership assessment, position evaluation, coaching, and DEI, and is a qualified Mental Health First Aider. She brings a thoughtful, inclusive, and commercially grounded approach to people leadership—focused on unlocking potential at every level of the organisation.