Emma Lomas-Clarke

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ABOUT EMMA LOMAS-CLARKE

A Learning & Organisational Development professional specialising in Leadership development over 15 years across different industries and sectors. In my current role, I am leading the People Transformation, Onboarding & Compliance education team at EssilorLuxxotica for the UKI market. My role sees me supporting leaders of all levels through blended interventions as well as supporting the wider learning & development strategy across all 4 businesses that I service in the UK and Ireland: Optical Retail, Sun Retail, Ecommerce and our Professional Solutions business. Previous Experience: Leading on senior leadership development at the University of Leicester - design and delivery of Leadership Programme workshops and 1:1 coaching using MBTI, Hay Leadership Styles and Climate to build development plans. Design and implementation of Leadership Alumni programme including external speakers. This programme was well received and achieved 50% increase in engagement. I am passionate about how leaders can make a huge difference to the culture, success and happiness of an organisation and its people and as such I love being in a position to support people in this endeavour whether within group workshops, through 1:1 coaching or both. At Walgreens Boots Alliance I partnered global functions to investigate and analyse their functional and leadership development needs and design and implement solutions to meet those needs. I led on Leadership Development & Coaching initiatives across WBA (Global Brands). I worked alongside HR Partners and the business enabling me to successfully implement numerous large and smaller scale learning & OD interventions across several business areas. As Learning & Development Business Partner at Thorntons, I scoped, designed and delivered a seven module leadership development programme \'The Engaging Manager\' for 200 \'people managers\' in the business. Working with the HR business partners and the leadership team to facilitate the learning of the people managers within the modules as well as embedding the learning. This programme led to many lightbulb moments across senior, middle and first line managers, there was increased cross functional working, increased focus on key objectives by managers and leaders and crucially a new focus on coaching and strengths based leadership.