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Leanne Smedmor

Senior Manager – People Advisory Services

HR operations specialist. Sustainable change agent in the people and culture space. Proud mom, animal lover and nature enthusiast.

Placing people at the heart of what I do, to build a thriving future fit culture of learning to support businesses and their teams.Leanne is an experienced HR operations and learning and development professional. As part of the People Advisory Services team at EY, she believes in delivering human-centric solutions and experiences within the learning space.

Leanne specialises in bringing the business goals and people together, holistic problem solving and building knowledge in future fit skills.

Career highlights include serving as an internally facing consultant; a trusted advisor to management teams to help them balance business objectives with the people agenda. Leanne’s experience includes skills transformation strategy and capability academies; change management; learning solutions (including the regulatory framework of the South African skills development landscape); talent and succession management; employee performance management; employee experience and employee value proposition (EVP).

She holds a degree in human resource management from the Rand Afrikaans University.

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Placing people at the heart of what I do, to build a thriving future fit culture of learning to support businesses and their teams.

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