Grant Thornton strengthens public sector offering with senior people advisor
Grant Thornton UK has appointed Caroline Nugent as Managing Director to lead its public sector people practice, bringing over two decades of senior HR and organisational development experience across local government and statutory bodies to the firm.
Caroline has led large-scale equal pay programmes affecting entire workforces, steered organisations through major change and managed sensitive trade union negotiations to successful collective agreement. She has shaped organisational strategy at executive board level and is an experienced executive coach and accredited workplace mediator. Caroline holds Chartered Companion status with the CIPD — its most prestigious tier of membership, awarded to fewer than 200 people globally.
Caroline will lead the firm's growing work helping public sector organisations tackle their most critical people challenges – including workforce development, equal pay and HR team optimisation – with a focus on improving performance, managing cost and building long-term capability.
Commenting on the appointment, Simon Christian, Partner, Public Sector Consulting, Grant Thornton UK, said:
"The workforce challenges facing public sector organisations right now are significant and they're not going away. Caroline brings over two decades’ experience of solving these exact problems from inside the sector. That experience is hard to find and it's exactly what our clients need. Her appointment reflects our commitment to building deeper specialism in this space for our clients as that need continues to grow."
Caroline Nugent, Managing Director, Public Sector Consulting, Grant Thornton UK, said:
“Equal pay claims, recruitment gaps and stretched HR teams don't respond to off-the-shelf fixes. They need advisors who understand the public sector and have done this work from the other side. That's the kind of support I want to build at Grant Thornton – helping the organisations that keep our public services running make difficult decisions with confidence and build the teams they need for what comes next."