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Liat Berger is Chief People Officer for Cognite based in Norway.  

Prior to this role, Liat held a number of leadership roles positions with Aker Solutions, including SVP for People and Organisation within their corporate head office, and other leadership roles across their different product lines across multiple locations including Norway and Brazil. 

She also worked in different sectors prior to this for Kraft Foods and HSBC.
   
Liat will give us insight into Human Resources from her early career in Brazil, including her academic career.  

She also provided insight on an early upbringing across different cultures and how this impacted her and her future career as well as sharing her very unique career journey.  

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Daniel Bosman is Vice President for HR Services Delivery with Technip Energies based in the Netherlands.  

Prior to this Daniel has worked in a variety of roles and locations for Technip including, Aberdeen, London, Paris and Rome as well as the Netherlands.

Daniel will give us an insight into Human Resources from his early career in the Netherlands, including his academic education. 

He will also provide insight into working across multiple roles in different countries but with same organisation for past 20 years.  

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At the time of recording Melanie Bowes was Human Resources Director for the Kellogg Company covering UK&I for Sales, European IT leadership teams and now founder of Budie which provides HR Consultancy and Career Coaching.  

Prior to this Melanie worked for Asahi Beverages in Australia and Tokyo, Origin Energy and Wood Group PSN in Melbourne.   

Melanie gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career in Australia, but we also explore the other international locations and roles she has carried across very different business sectors.  

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Natalie Brindeau is currently Stop Hunger Europe Director since 2019. 

Prior to that she has worked for Sodexo across a number of global locations since 2002, including France, Africa, US and UK.  

She also worked previously at Disneyland Paris for 10 years. 

She was educated in France but also studied in Canada too.  

Natalie gives us an insight into Human Resources from her early career in France, but we also explore the other international locations and roles she has carried out over the past 20 to 30 years. 

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Stuart Payne is our final guest of this series.  Stuart has just moved into new role as Chief Executive of the North Sea Transition Authority.  

In this episode we discuss Stuart's early career in HR working within large international organisations across different geography (US and UK).  

We also discuss his work outside of HR in the third sector and finally going beyond senior HR leadership roles and becoming a Chief Executive at one of the key industry bodies in Energy.

A fantastic guest to finish these series of career journeys.  Six fantastic discussions, six very different paths, six passionate highly successful HR professionals.

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Kim Woolner is our fifth guest on this podcast.   Kim is the Head of People and Culture at Ithaca Energy.  I have known Kim for over 10 years through a number of different HR network forum within Aberdeen Energy sector.

In this episode we will explore Kim entry into Human Resources and her early journey.  We then explore her move into a different industry and location in London ,before her return to Aberdeen and Oil and Gas into senior roles. We also discuss Kim involvement in Well Being and its increasing impact on Human Resources.