Bio
Siân Harrington is an award winning business journalist, editor and publishing director with a 30 year career at the intersection of people, business and change. She has led some of the UK’s most influential B2B titles across retail, consumer goods and people management, including The Grocer, Retail Week and HR magazine.
As co founder and editorial director of The People Space, Siân helps senior HR and people leaders make sense of the trends shaping the future of work. Through its articles, podcasts and insights The People Space focuses on how humans and machines can collaborate to build better and more sustainable organisations. She also hosts the podcast, Work’s Not Working. Let’s Fix It, interviewing leaders and thinkers from around the world about what is changing in the world of work.
During her 10 years at Mark Allen Group, Siân edited and then published HR magazine before taking on a board role as publishing director with responsibility for a portfolio of B2B and consumer brands. She created the HR Most Influential ranking, developed the HR in the Boardroom programme for chief people officers and led award winning editorial teams through major digital and commercial change. Earlier in her career she held senior editorial roles at The Grocer, Retail Week, Leisure Week, Centaur Business Intelligence and In Store Marketing.
Beyond her editorial work Siân has served as a board member, trustee, mentor and awards judge, and has written and edited business thought leadership including the CIPD’s Responsible Investment in Technology Guide and Wayne Clarke’s book, How to Become a World Class Manager. She has interviewed more than a 1,000 senior leaders and continues to consult with HR teams and innovators on thought leadership, narrative development and strategic visibility.
Siân’s work is driven by a belief that ideas matter when they are expressed clearly and grounded in evidence. Across journalism, consulting and broadcasting she remains focused on helping leaders articulate distinctive points of view and build healthier, more human workplaces.
Latest stories by Sian Harrington
Productivity growth has stalled while expectations of HR continue to rise. New insight from Matrix and The People Space shows why organisations that...
A new class action against Eightfold AI shifts legal scrutiny of AI hiring away from bias alone and towards transparency, consent and access to data...
Courage is suddenly everywhere in leadership conversations. Yet HR leaders say they are being asked to show courage in conditions that make principled...
How work is increasingly performed through collaboration between people and intelligent systems – and what this means for job design, trust and HR...
How The People Space defines job reinvention, and how HR leaders can think about redesigning work as technology and new ways of working reshape what...
Organisations talk endlessly about productivity, yet rarely agree on what it actually means or who is responsible for it. In a world of shifting roles...