From self doubt to self trust

HR and people professionals are regularly required to exercise sound judgement, influence senior stakeholders and make complex decisions — often while balancing significant professional and personal demands.

In this interactive CPD session, Anne Stunell Chartered FCIPD, Executive Coach and former Head of HR, will explore how self-doubt can subtly show up in behaviour, decision-making and leadership presence, even for experienced and high-performing professionals.

Drawing on over 20 years’ HR leadership experience across public and private sectors, alongside her coaching practice, Anne will share practical tools to help participants strengthen self-trust, emotional resilience and confidence in their professional judgement. The session creates space for reflection, challenge and insight, supporting HR professionals to operate with greater clarity, confidence and courage in their roles.

This session is not about “fixing” confidence, but about enhancing effectiveness, influence and sustainable leadership impact.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the session, participants will:

• Understand where self-doubt comes from and how it shows up in leadership behaviour
• Identify personal patterns of inner criticism, over-adaptation or overachievement
• Learn practical techniques to interrupt unhelpful self-talk and build emotional resilience
• Strengthen self-trust to support principled, evidence-based and outcomes-driven HR practice
• Take away practical strategies that can be applied immediately at work

This session supports CIPD CPD requirements through:

• Reflective practice
• Professional judgement and decision-making
• Continuous development and upgrading
• Application of learning to real workplace challenges

Timings

18:00-18:30 - Networking

18:30-20:00 - Prsentation

20:00 - End

About the speaker

Anne Stunell

Anne Stunell, Chartered FCIPD, is an Executive Coach, Mentor and Consultant, ILM Level 7 qualified and ICF accredited. A former Head of HR and EDI Lead, Anne has over 20 years’ experience working across public and private sectors, including senior roles in male-dominated environments. She partners with individuals and organisations to develop authentic leadership capability, cultural change and measurable outcomes.

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