Kate Rand

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About Kate Rand

Kate Rand SHRM-SCP, MCIPD, PABP Chief People Officer, Threads Styling Ltd & Trainer at the AgileHR Community Kate is the Chief People Officer for Threads Styling Ltd and is the lead trainer for the AgileHR Community, where she has trained hundreds of HR professionals globally from well known businesses, in progressive HR ways of working and agile methodologies since she joined in 2019. Kate has always sought to disrupt the world of HR, having come from an operational and commercial background earlier in her career. She has held a number of advisory positions including the BIMA Inclusion & Diversity council where she co created tools and processes to support media businesses build more inclusive environments. She also acts as a mentor to a number of HR professionals, supporting them to navigate the challenges start ups and scale ups can bring to the people function. At Threads, she is responsible for the end to end people experience for the business, acting as an advisor to the executive team, and overseeing the strategic delivery of people products and services. The business itself is highly complex with a blend of e-commerce and social commerce, requiring a multi dimensional approach to the people experience. Recent projects at Threads have included the creation and delivery of the fully digital in-house Leadership and Next Generation Leadership program which aims to leverage typical business school models in a vocational way to support hyper growth, and the FlexAtThreads campaign which provided the Threads employees with flexible choices that worked for their needs and team constraints, delivered via a measurable employee marketing strategy, increasing company engagement scores and talent attraction as a result. In her spare time, she volunteers at a suicide prevention charity, and is completing her studies in psychology, working toward becoming a recognised psychologist, having completed previous studies in work psychology.