Ms. Penny Tamkin Program Director of management and Leadership Research, The Work Foundation, UK

Penny is Program Director of Management and Leadership Research and joined The Work Foundation in 2007. Penny has more than 20 years experience in HR issues and before joining The Work Foundation undertook a wide range of research assignments for policy makers, employer bodies and individual employers. Penny has considerable... read moreexperience of researching management and leadership issues including the importance of management capability and its measurement, the impact of skills and development on individuals and organizations and wider human capital investment and its link to business performance. Penny is currently managing a large scale, three year project exploring the characteristics that associate leadership with high performance.