Simon Thornton

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ABOUT SIMON THORNTON

Purpose-driven People & Culture leader with 15+ years’ experience shaping inclusive, high-performance workplaces across regulated, safety-critical and customer-facing organisations.Helping organisations align people, purpose & performance — building engaged, accountable, high-performing cultures.Highlights include:Led Trust Alliance Group’s organisation-wide Legitimacy and culture strategy, integrating values, engagement and performance — delivering a 50% increase in volunteering,+10 NPS uplift, and improved colleague engagement and wellbeing scores.Partnered with senior leaders to drive data-led workforce inclusion and customer reach, increasing representation across Asian (+3%), Black (+2%), women (+2%) and under-60 customer profiles.Created Liverpool FC’s first Diversity & Inclusion strategy, delivering measurable workforce representation gains, improved fan experience, and national recognition.Established national equality, safeguarding and compliance frameworks at British Cycling, supporting over 140k members and 50k women cyclists across a highly regulated sporting environment.Led large, multi-disciplinary teams through operational change, service performance uplift and complex stakeholder environments, including a 42-person turnaround team delivering £2.5m in revenue.I bring strong business partnering capability, emotional intelligence and delivery focus. Whether advising leaders, embedding policy, managing change, or strengthening engagement and accountability, I focus on making people strategy practical, compliant and performance-enhancing.Open to: Senior People & Culture / HR Business Partner roles within complex, regulated and growth-focused organisations.