When you are no longer around what do you want people to be grateful to you for? What impact do you want to have had?

The answers to this type of questions is how we decide what we want our legacy to be.

My Work Legacy

I have been thrilled when former work colleagues have contacted me to tell me about the success they have had in their careers and how they attribute that success to the training that I provided.

It meant a lot when several years after we stopped working together one of my former colleagues told me that he had come to understand just how far ahead of the game what I was introducing had been.

My Volunteering Legacy

The biggest opportunities to make a difference often come through the volunteering that we participate in.

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • CIPD National Council
  • CIPD North Yorkshire Branch
  • CIPD Northern Area Partnership
  • CIPD Yorkshire and the Humber HR Leaders Forum
• School Governor
  • Boston Spa Academy
  • Leeds City Council School Governors’ Forum
• Blood and Organ Donation
  • Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow

I spent ten years as a volunteer branch committee member of the North Yorkshire branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the professional body for HR and employee development professionals

For eight of those years I was a member of the Institute’s National Council, and for six I was the branch chair.

I led the team that built the North Yorkshire branch into one that delivered an event almost every week

As a member of the committee which ran the Northern Area Partnership I was instrumental in bringing the ten branches in the North of England together.