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Jane Sparrow is widely regarded as an expert in employee engagement, performance and culture. She is a facilitator, consultant, performance coach and impactful speaker who has worked as advisor to many large-scale and SME organisations, to help them build and sustain the highest levels of people performance. She uses her passion, capability and drive to enable others to maximise their potential, build capacity and implement behavioural change programmes within different cultures and in changing business environments. She is the former Director of Communication & Change for Sony Europe and is founder of The Culture Builders. Jane is highly adept at working across cultures and holds Cranfield School of Managementhttp://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/ accredited qualifications in individual and team cultural profiling.

Her published work

In Autumn 2012, she published her most recent book, The Culture Builders, Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance, which encapsulated her professional experience of instigating and sustaining performance through people, and extensive research with some of the most exceptional leaders around. The book features organisations including Sony, Diageo, Pfizer and UKTV. Accolades for her book include those from Russell Grossman, Director of Communications, Department of Business, Skills and Innovation, Amanda Davies, HR Director at Mars UK and Lesley Morgan, Group IT Director at Hachette UK.

The Culture Builders, Leadership Strategies for Performance, combines clear evidence for the need to engage people for performance and outlines the specific role that middle managers and senior leaders play in securing the right engagement strategy for their own unique culture. As well as detailed practical support and advice for those tasked with engagement, the book draws upon many inspirational stories taken from Jane’s own research and experience of working with some of the world’s most successful and innovative brands including John Lewis, Innocent, Pfizer and Sony Europe.

Professional Speaking Jane is a frequent and active speaker who is regularly sought to deliver keynotes and conference speeches for professional bodies including the CIPD, Melcrum, The HR Society and the IOIC. She also speaks at many in-house leadership events and is part of the faculty for leadership development programmes in many organisations. She delivers high energy, informative content that offers a new approach for investing in organisational culture that delivers sustained, high employee performance. She always ensures attendees are able to take-away actions and approaches that they can readily implement themselves. Jane is an active member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the past Programme Chair for the IABC Global Conference in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She consistently achieves highly positive feedback as a professional speaker and has been rated an ‘All Star Speaker’ by the attendees at the IABC World Conference.

Other published work Jane regularly contributes to a wide range of business, HR and Comms media, including HR Magazine, The HR Director, Strategic HR Review, Journal of People and Development, Communication World, HR Zone, SMEweb and Working Mums. She has contributed articles to professional groups including the Association of Project Managers, Melcrum, CIPD, IABC and IOIC. Jane is a co-author of the IABC Handbook of Organisational Communication.

Early career Jane began her career in IBM and has worked with an enormous variety of organisations including Sony, BBC WorldWide, WPP, Novartis, the British Army, FedEx, HP and Save the Children. She has held a variety of senior positions in organisations such as Sony Europe and MCA (now part of the WPP Group). Her entrepreneurial spirit saw her start two successful service businesses in 2000/2001 and she continues to act as an advisor to a variety of small companies. As Director of Communication & Change for Sony Europe she instigated a new culture of communication, involvement and personal growth through coaching members of the board to engage, motivate their people and sustain high performance. Jane also advised other regions and was a member of many Global Sony Initiatives.