Latest People Management Masterclass: Lynne Burns, HSBC

The Department of Work, Employment and Organisation was honoured to welcome back alumna Lynne Burns for the latest of its ‘People Management Masterclass’ series on March 18. Lynne is Global Head of Talent and Member of the Group HR Executive Committee for HSBC, the largest Europe-based bank, with approximately US$3 trillion in assets, employing more than 220,000 people worldwide.

The Department's Masterclasses are designed to help Masters in HRM and MBA students to come together and learn from world leading people managers, and we were happy to bring together more than sixty of our students (and members of the HR community) to hear from Lynne. Lynne’s keynote focused on some of the key challenges facing multinational businesses, from managing the risks and opportunities of AI to rapidly reskilling the workforce to responding to demographic change. She also shared insights from her own HR journey, since graduating with an HRM (then Industrial Relations) degree from Strathclyde Business School. Lynn’s advice – on the need to develop a broad range of people management skill and develop expertise in your organisation’s business model – was hugely helpful for our students who aspire to follow in her footsteps to become a senior people executive.

Future Strathclyde Business School People Management Masterclasses are posted on our LinkedIn page. Further information about postgraduate study in people management at Strathclyde is available here:

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Published: 25 March 2025