Breakfast Briefing with Kathryn Al-Shemmeri, Chief People Officer, Cabinet Office
Author WIG Date 2 Nov 2022
We were delighted to welcome Kathryn Al-Shemmeri, Chief People Officer at the Cabinet Office, for this Breakfast Briefing exploring the department’s locations strategy, within the context of wider civil service reform and relocation.
Catch up on this Briefing for your opportunity to:
- Hear insights from Kathryn's experiences of leading transformational public-sector change programmes
- Understand how the team have approached design and implementation of the Cabinet Office’s locations strategy, in collaboration with the Government Property Agency (GPA) and other key stakeholders
- Learn about how the locations strategy has evolved in response to the transition to smarter, hybrid, ways of working, and possible lessons learnt for organisations across the sectors
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Speakers at the Event
Kathryn Al-Shemmeri was appointed as the Chief People Office in the Cabinet Office in September 2022.
Kathryn leads the Cabinet Office People & Places directorate and has responsibility for Cabinet Office 2025, the department’s Transformation Programme with its strong focus on people, skills, L&D, and recognition, which are core to developing a better, skilled and high performing Cabinet Office.
Kathryn reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer for the Cabinet Office and is strategic people partner to the Permanent Secretaries across the Cabinet Office group.
Kathryn joined the Civil Service Fast Stream in July 2002 and has held a number of roles within the Cabinet Office, Civil Service Human Resources, HM Revenue and Customs, and HM Treasury.
Kathryn attended Victoria College Belfast, and graduated in Modern History with Politics from The Queen’s University, Belfast.
Kathryn is married with two children.