Veronica Hope-Hailey, BA, MSc, PhD, MIPD, Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management.Veronica teaches across the broad spectrum of HRM and people management. She researches and writes specifically on the links between strategy and implementing change management through people management techniques used by line managers and HR specialists. In particular Veronica enables senior managers to make the links between organisational change at a strategic level and its implications for change at the level of individual staff.
Veronica is Project Director of the Cranfield Change Management Consortium, a multi-sector group of organisations researching a range of themes including managing across boundaries and the impact of continuous change on organisations and their staff. Members include GKN plc, Cable and Wireless Telecommunications, Glaxo Smith Kline and Hewlett Packard Laboratories. The Consortium was launched in 1999 and membership continues to grow.
As a Visiting Fellow at London Business School, she is part of the research team working for the Leading Edge Research Consortium, a multi-sector consortium of companies including Hewlett Packard, Glaxo Smithkline, Citibank, British Telecom, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Lloyds TSB, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Hospital Trust, Investors in People and WH Smith. They are funding a large nine-year research project examining HRM and change management in their own companies.
Her previous appointments include a Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.