Interview
Ruth Heaton, Talent Development Director, shares some insight into her role.
The work that I do supports our people to become self-aware and learn new skills and behaviours so that they can play to their strengths and be the best that they can be in their role at Gateley.
My role is really varied as I’m also the lead on Gateley Thrive, our employee health and wellbeing network. I design and deliver training sessions and collaborate with a variety of external training consultants to deliver an engaging, interactive and practical skills based workshops as part of our career development programme. I work one to one with teams or individuals to coach them on areas that might be of particular challenge or importance. I work closely with the wider HR team to deliver projects that will help to engage and retain our talent and further our commitment to be the employer of choice. I deliver a programme of mental health training and also help to organise various events and initiatives as part of our health and wellbeing offering.
I genuinely love working for Gateley. I originally worked for the company as a senior associate in the banking team, but even when I knew that it was time for a change in career direction, I was keen to stay with Gateley as the people and the culture really are great. There’s been lots of highlights but for me, the real highlights are when someone I’ve worked with on some training or coaching takes the time to contact me to say that it’s made a real difference to the way they feel about their work, a particular issue or how they are performing. That feels great.