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You’ve built a reputation for delivering great L&amp;D work - facilitating training, designing programs, and running onboarding. People trust you to get things done.But to grow into your next role, it’s not just about great work anymore.Now, it’s about influence, alignment, and leadership.You’ve got great ideas, but they’re not always landing.You want to be seen as a strategic partner, but you’re still treated like a service provider.You’re ready to grow, but what you need isn’t tucked inside another course.You need real-world support from someone who understands what L&amp;D excellence looks like - and how to lead it.That’s where I come in.I’m Sheree Comninellis, L&amp;D Executive and mentor for emerging L&amp;D leaders.I help L&amp;D professionals like you step into leadership.If you’re ready to lead, start here:📬 Executive Moves — my 5-minute weekly leadership edge for ambitious L&amp;D professionals.Each edition gives you:📌 1 bold insight to reframe how you lead📌 1 practical move you can apply immediately📌 1 growth resource to help you go deeper➡️ Get Executive Moves here: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/589169/98676779613423573/share.💡 Want to go further?Join the waitlist for The L&amp;D Professionals Collective - a monthly membership that helps you grow your confidence, visibility, and strategic influence, so you can be recognised as ready for L&amp;D leadership.Inside, you’ll get monthly live sessions, coaching, and practical tools designed to help you bridge the gap between delivering learning and leading it.➡️ Learn more and join the waitlist here: https://leadwithsheree.com/ldprofessionalcollectivewaitinglistMore about me:I live in Cape Town with my wife and beautiful children. I love historical fiction, good coffee, and my all-time favourite series is Gilmore Girls.

Sheree Comninellis (she/her)

Transurban

Head of People and Culture NSW

Washington H. Soul Pattinson

Undertook an end to end review of the employee lifecycle to identify opportunities for enhancement to the employee experience including: people policy and contract review, WHS policy and approach, essential learning, onboarding and offboarding processes and HRIS optimisation and reward framework.

Consultant People & Culture

10x Banking

Provide strategic partnership to the Regional Director APAC supporting the growth of the business in the region.
Company Director and Public Officer for Australian entity.
This role provides end to end people support to the Australian business in partnership with Global HR Operations and TA.
Provide business operations support to the Regional Director including the sourcing and move into new premises in the Sydney CBD.
Received recognition by @HRD Australia for Best HR Team for Innovation 1-99 employees.

People and Culture Business Partner APAC

Commonwealth Bank

Strategic Business Partner to Executive General Managers across Finance and Remediation and the  Chief Risk Officer IB&M focussed on Talent Management, Strategic Workforce Planning and Capability, Transformation and Change;  Operating Model and Organisation Design, and Leadership and Culture.

Executive Manager Human Resources

Head of P&C Business Partners & People Transformation AMP Life

Head of P&C Integrated Change & Delivery & Business Partners

Head of Integrated Change & Delivery People & Culture

American Express

Lead market wide initiatives that deliver against our ANZ People Plan in order to drive the business strategy. These include talent management, learning & development and engagement. 
Partner with our Merchant Sales business and Travel Servicing leadership team to support the delivery of the line of business strategies focused on engagement, leadership coaching, talent management and business transformation.

Manager Human Resources ANZ

Lead the ANZ HR team to design and execute the ANZ People Plan for 2016 driven by the critical market business priorities. The plan focused on building business capability to deliver against the strategy across the key themes of cross-Amex business integration, talent planning, employee development and employee engagement and advocacy.

HR Director (Acting)

Partner with the Director of Talent Acquisition JAPA to set the strategic direction to support the acquisition of Talent for the business across the Asia Pacific region. A large part of this remit is ensuring the delivery of talent aligned to the future strategic deliverables to support business growth. 

Key responsibilities of the role include: 
•	Manage the delivery of the program of work to meet regional Talent Acquisition objectives. This includes facilitation of the program committee, reporting, training on Project fundamentals, implementation of project methodology and ownership of overall Project Governance. 
•	Serve as an SME for the RPO and the Business as it relates to Project Management, Branding and Sourcing Channel strategy and activation, Recruitment process, Policy, Compliance etc 
•	Partner with the Strategic Sourcing Manager to develop recruitment strategies aligned to annual business goals (diversity, digital, etc.) and/or specific critical initiatives. 
•	Partner with the RPO partner for the development and utilization of diverse and proactive sourcing strategies, including driving the use of online, social media and other digital approaches 
•	Drive and support corporate initiatives for Global Talent Acquisition and the broader JAPA HR team. 
••	Collaborate with third party vendors ensuring effectiveness and compliance in line with AXP standards and be key point of contact for establishment of vendor contracts across the region. 
•	Act as relationship manager for some third party vendors, ensuring compliance to Amex regulations and policies.

Regional Project Manager Talent Acquisition

Responsible for the delivery of HR projects to the business for the regional Services division.

Regional HR Project Manager

The Royal Bank of Scotland, Financial Markets

Responsible for the delivery of HR projects within the requirements of the HR People Plan for the Australian business.

RBS Global Banking & Markets

Partner with the country CEO and Leadership team to design and execute the people strategy across the Australian business of 650 employees. 
Support the business through significant transformation due to both internal and external factors coaching and advising on business transformation principles and best practice.

Interim Head of HR Australia

Reporting to the CEO GBM Australia, this role represented the CEO office in HR, Communications, Risk and Compliance issues working with the functional leaders to ensure compliance with the Country and Regional Change Strategy.

Business Manager

Country Program Manager

Regional HR Program Manager responsible for a number of key initiatives as part of aggressive growth plans for the region. 
Projects included leading the HR Transformation program in partnership with the global HR leadership team hiring 13 experienced HR professionals across 3 locations. 
Lead the establishment and ongoing leadership of the HR program for all people related integration activity for Global Banking and Markets as a result of the acquisition of ABN Amro spanning 16 countries. 
In addition, this role was responsible for the program management of all HR projects in the region with responsibility for the allocation of resources and engagement with the business.

Regional HR Program Manager

Partner with the Global Corporate and Institutional banking business CEO and leadership team to develop change strategies and initiatives within the commercial context. Delivery of HR initiatives to the global line of business including talent and succession planning, reward and recognition and development to enable the business to meet its strategic priorities.

HR Business Partner

Coca-Cola HBC

Project Manager for the implementation of the HR Module of SAP for CCHBC Corporate Office

HR Project Manager

Full scope project management for the relocation of the London office to Athens.

HR Generalist responsible for full scope HR Management activity for the Corporate Office employees across 10 countries.

Regional HR Manager

As a HR Business Partner I provide strategic partnership to senior leaders. I have over twenty five years of experience as a senior human resources leader in the financial services and fintech industries, with a credential in Australia Fair Work Legislation and Employment Law from the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications (CIP).

My core competencies include HR consulting, business transformation, leadership coaching, project management, and leadership and culture. I am passionate about enabling and empowering people to achieve their potential and deliver outstanding results for the organization. I have successfully led and supported multiple initiatives in talent management, strategic workforce planning and capability, transformation and change, operating model and organization design, and business operations.

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