Maxine Blake - Senior HRBP / Head of HR (the importance of having a strong commercial understanding to be truly effective as a HR professional)

I'm really excited for this week's guest as I have Maxine Blake joining me. Maxine is someone who has been operating at the senior HR level for a number of years now, having originally come from an operations background in the hospitality industry.Maxine is a great example of someone who has used that Ops experience and broader understanding of things like sales, finance, marketing to make her a very rounded, commercially astute HR professional. She's also someone who wasn't highly academic a...