Holly Hirst
Holly is a senior HR professional and coach with over 20 years’ experience in HR and recruitment, predominantly in the legal sector. Throughout her career, Holly has built strong and long-lasting relationships with the highest level of stakeholders from Executive Committees, Global Practice Leadership and Business Services Directors. Holly is focused on team development and has delivered countless HR and DEI training sessions during her career.
Holly’s last inhouse role was as Head of HR in the London practice at Linklaters. Prior to that she worked for 10 years with Herbert Smith and Herbert Smith Freehills.
In both her inhouse and freelance roles Holly has delivered:
– Facilitation of talent programmes
– Performance and feedback initiatives
– Partner conference and strategy days
– Culture and Values projects
– Talent pipeline work
– Gender and Race Action Plans
– Team development programmes
– Employee Engagement initiatives
– Partner upward feedback
– Workday Implementation
– Secretarial restructures
– Legal restructuring projects
– Internal communications
– Merger integration planning
Holly has an MA in Human Resource Management from Warwick University and a BA (hons) in English language and literature from the University of Manchester.
