Nicola McIntosh, Director of People and Organisational Development

Nicola is a compassionate and committed professional who loves to work with teams to culturally improve the lives of those who work in our organisations. Nicola took up the post of executive director of people and organisational development with us in August 2020, following a role as HR operations director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which she held from 2016. Nicola has previously held senior roles in HR, organisational development and operations in fast moving customer focused service industries, including United biscuits, Morrisons supermarkets plc and Jet2.com.

Nicola is a chartered fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development. Working in the patient centric NHS and the experience of working in very commercial and customer centric businesses allows Nicola to take a very flexible and dynamic approach as she loves to embrace the diversity of challenges that fall to us as leaders of complex systems. She is keen to celebrate difference and believes in empowering all to lead with an authentic style and loves to develop those she works with both internally and externally. Nicola is very passionate about equality and colleague wellbeing as well as doing the right thing as a leader, always ensuring that people have a voice and feel valued at work, every day.

Being a trustee of a charity, Nicola believes in allowing all learning to be facilitated at all ages in life and is keen to support development at all stages of a colleague’s lifecycle, especially as many of us are working longer with more complex needs. We must embrace difference throughout our careers. If there is any spare time left for Nicola, as she has three younger adults to support, she likes to spend this outdoors replenishing her energy in the hills with walks in the open air.

Page last reviewed: April 09, 2024
Next review due: April 09, 2025