Mr. Neil Morrison Penguin Random House, UK

After starting his working life as a lecturer in Psychology, Neil started a career in HR management in 1996. For the next 12 years he worked in a variety of specialist and generalist HR roles in FTSE100 companies, including Rentokil Initial and GUS (which latterly became Home Retail Group).... read more

Neil joined the Random House Group in 2008 taking responsibility for strategic people issues across their publishing and distribution offices in the UK, APAC, India and South Africa. He was one of the main leads in helping to steer and finalise the global merger between Random House and Penguin – the most significant merger in publishing history.

Neil has won numerous industry awards and is a regular commentator on workplace issues for a number of trade and generalist publications. He writes his own popular blog, Change-Effect and tweets as @neilmorrison.

In 2015, Neil was appointed as a non-executive director to the board of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development and is currently Director, Strategy, Culture & Innovation at Penguin Random House.