New head of the Institute of Leadership and Management
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Penny de Valk – ranked 40th in a recent poll of the most influential people in HR – has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
Taking on the role in October, de Valk, currently Ceridian’s strategy director, joins the board of the City & Guilds Group that includes its subsidiary, ILM, a professional body committed to developing managers and leaders.
Reporting to Chris Humphries, director general of the City & Guilds Group, de Valk will be responsible for the performance of ILM, responding to the challenges of an increasingly competitive market place as well as contributing to the ongoing development of the strategic direction of the City & Guilds Group.
Humphries confirms that de Valk has the right credentials for the post. She was formerly the chief executive of New Zealand’s Institute of Management in Auckland for four years where she oversaw rapid growth and market impact before joining Ceridian in the UK ten years ago. She has also held two non–executive director positions with listed companies and worked in the fields of professional services, retail, insurance, publishing and management development.
Leading the work/life balance debate over the last ten years, she is a recognised pioneer in this area and was instrumental in making Ceridian the first organisation in the UK to offer a fully integrated EAP and work/life service. She was promoted to strategy director in 2005, with responsibility for planning and strategy development and the on-going build of Human Capital capability business through partnerships, alliances and acquisitions.
Armed with an impressive portfolio of senior positions in corporate marketing, management development and consultancy in business to business environments, she says: “I am delighted to be joining ILM and look forward to contributing to the on-going success of the organisation and its critical purpose of developing leadership and management capability.”
Humphries added: “Penny’s track record in leadership and applying leading edge HR interventions into deriving true business benefit makes her an excellent candidate to lead ILM into the future. She will be a great asset to ILM and the rest of the City & Guilds Group.”
