Jane Chesters

Jane Chesters (née Saunders) is one of Orion’s founders, and leads our Strategy practice. Jane is a highly experienced HR and change consultant who has led many of our major change programmes with clients in both the public and private sector. Her main focus is helping  leaders and their teams define and develop people strategies for their business, and then ensuring they have the service and organisation in place to execute.

Before starting Orion, Jane had several senior operational-HR roles in manufacturing and professional services, as well as consulting positions in Accenture’s Human Performance and HR Outsourcing practice. She has a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Masters in Human Resource Management. Jane is also a qualified executive coach.

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    Does your talent strategy work?

    We are undertaking some research to understand what the companies who  most successfully  execute talent strategy actually do in practice. Our work suggests that at the core of an effective talent strategy is a simple, but not simplistic articulation of what makes an organisation successful

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    The HR in Harrods

    How we helped a world-famous department store create a world-class HR department.

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    It’s All in the Mindset

    What it takes to be exceptional in Shared Services and Centres of Expertise.

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    Excuses, Excuses, Excuses….

    ‘How can we build a robust people strategy when there is no clear business strategy to align it to?’

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    Talent

    Does your talent strategy work?

    We are undertaking some research to understand what the companies who  most successfully  execute talent strategy actually do in practice. Our work suggests that at the core of an effective talent strategy is a simple, but not simplistic articulation of what makes an organisation successful

    Read more →

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