Webinar: Aligning Future Skills with Early Careers - A Cross-Sector Perspective
Author WIG Date 1 Jun 2023
A recording of the WIG Webinar, Aligning Future Skills with Early Careers. With Lesley Frasher, Director-General Corporate, Scottish Government, Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, and Michael Tuller, VP HR UK&I, PepsiCo.
This panel discussion exploed how organisations are addressing changing skill requirements to keep up with new ways of working. Speakers included Lesley Fraser, Director-General Corporate, Scottish Government, Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, and Michael Tuller, Vice President HR UK & Ireland, PepsiCo.
As organisations identify current and future skills gaps, this panel discussion with expert speakers from across the public and private sectors looks at innovative approaches to future workforce planning.
Watch the recording to:
- Explore how organisations have identified future capabilities and their approaches to upskilling
- Discover changing approaches to early careers and the value of apprenticeships
- Pose your questions directly to the panel, in a live audience Q&A
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Lesley Fraser took up the role of interim Director-General for Organisational Development and Operations in July 2019. This role became Director-General Corporate in March 2021.
Prior to this role, Lesley was Director for Housing and Social Justice since 2013.
She has also worked across tourism, strategy, children’s rights, wellbeing and primary care.
Before joining the Scottish Government, she worked for Tower Hamlets Council in London, English Heritage and the UK Government. Lesley was a historic buildings expert before becoming a civil servant.
She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and teenage daughter.
Jennifer Coupland took up post as Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in November 2019. Her previous role was Director of Professional and Technical Education in DfE for three years, where she was responsible for T Level development and delivery, the L3 and below qualifications review and the Higher Technical Reforms. Prior to that, Jennifer was Acting Chief Executive of the Standards and Testing Agency, where she oversaw the Agency’s work on primary school assessment policy and operational delivery. Before that, she spent three years as the Deputy Director of the joint DfE/BIS Apprenticeships Unit.
Michael Tuller assumed the role of Vice President HR UK & Ireland, PepsiCo in July 2021 where he is responsible for the full people agenda for the organization. Prior to his current position, Michael held a number of roles across the HR organization at PepsiCo including HR Business Partner roles in the North American Beverages organizations and Corporate and Global Groups supporting functions including eCommerce and Global Nutrition. He began his PepsiCo career as part of the Enterprise Organizational Development group where he was responsible to lead and support a number of critical global leadership development and assessment programs. Michael holds a Masters Degree and PhD in Industrial / Organizational Psychology from the University of Connecticut.