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Welcome to the Oakleaf Academy!
‘Building a strong community to aid rising HR talent to achieve their ambitious career goals.’
Are you currently in the early stages of your career? Looking to learn from other like-minded HR professionals? Build out your HR network? Keen to hear from Senior HR Professionals on how they grew within their career? Need more specialist help/advice in certain areas of HR? The list goes on…
If so, the Oakleaf Academy is here for you!
The Oakleaf Academy was set up in 2015 to support rising HR talent progress as they set out on their career. The idea is to bring together talented HR professionals with senior HR leaders in a social setting, allowing them to impart their wisdom and career advice. It’s a unique and invaluable opportunity for our candidates to ask questions and expand their personal network of like-minded, ambitious HR professionals and share knowledge, learning and best practice across industry. Our aim is to nurture and support talent in the HR community, with each session having a key development theme led by a senior HR professional who will talk through their career journey and how they overcame obstacles.
Events & News
Danny Harmer and Joel Davies: Commerciality in HR – being a strong partner
Danny Harmer and Joel Davies: Commerciality in HR – being a strong partner OP Academy Article 28 FebruaryOn February 28th, OP Academy took off for the first time in 2023 and what a start! Following on from our successful Reward focused event with Dedar Singh Mahal at...
Dedar Mahal Singh – Reward Manager
Dedar Mahal Singh Reward Manager - Event: 16th November 2022 Dedar is a Performance and Reward specialist who has worked in investment and retail banks. Dedar has gained extensive experience in reward and performance, governance, MI, analytics and HRIS in global and...
Owning your own growth
– Following our theme of supporting HR professionals within their career, this event was centred around the idea of ‘Owning your own Growth!’. Our Speaker, Emy Rumble-Mettle, CPO of Flutter Entertainment took us through what a typical growth journey looks like and how to challenge and drive this going forward.
Next Event – Emy Rumble-Mettle, CPO of Flutter Entertainment
Academy Emy Rumble-Mettle Chief People Officer at Flutter EntertainmentOur speaker Emy Rumble-Mettle, CPO of Flutter Entertainment will be presenting a piece on ‘Owning Your Own Growth’. Emy will cover areas that we can all relate to when looking to progress in our...
The Relaunch 2022 – Kav Patel, Chief People Officer of Yondr
Academy Kav Patel Chief People Officer of YondrThursday 20th January saw the relaunch of the OP Academy via Zoom and what a kickstart to the New Year it was! Oakleaf Academy prides itself on supporting and nurturing our HR network as they progress and set out into...

Robyn Wells
HR & Talent Specialist Recruiter within Tech/FinTech, Media, Telco and B2B