An olive branch for Manchester HR Management

Olive Strachan, Founder and CEO of OSR Ltd and colleague of Diverse Magazine has become the Vice Chair of the Manchester Branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

CIPD is Europe's largest Human Resources and development professional body. As an internationally recognised brand with over 135,000 members across 120 countries, they pride themselves on supporting and developing those responsible for the management and development of people within organisations.

Elected to the voluntary position, Olive, who has been a member of the CIPD since 1995, takes over from Dr Dave Redfern.

She brings with her experience built up during an impressive career in the recruitment industry for Reed, Blue Arrow, Adecco plus Regional Manager for the Award Winning training company Video Arts. This has enabled her to build strong relationships with many Blue chip organisations within the northwest and internationally. Olive has also built a formidable reputation as an outstanding trainer. As the Northwest Development Agency Vice Chair for the Ethnic Minority Business Forum she has gained excellent board experience.

Olive said, "The CIPD is already held in the highest regard within the HR and Recruitment profession and the Manchester Branch is the largest outside London with over 4,700 members, it is an honour to have the opportunity to play an even bigger part in my own professional institute. I'd like to continue the work being done to cement the CIPD's role as an essential starting point for anyone entering the profession, but also in ensuring it is there to support members at all levels throughout their HR careers."

"I am delighted to be appointed Vice Chair of the CIPD Board at an exciting time for the Institute and the profession and also like to congratulate the incoming Chair, Dave Redfern, together we’ll make a cracking team "

OSR Ltd offers one of the region’s largest networks of CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development) qualified training consultants, with over 50 years combined experience across a variety of training consultancy projects, providing all manner of training courses for all types of businesses.

The CIPD is fortunate to have so many dedicated and experienced professionals who are willing to give up so much of their time on a voluntary basis to support their professional Institute.