Student recognition & Alumni journey to success

This event will celebrate ‘the Student of the Year’ 2025 award in the CIPD Tees Valley area. It will also provide opportunity to gain insight from our alumni who won the CIPD Tees Valley Student Award.

This interactive panel event invites CIPD Tees Velley area ‘The Student of the Year’ award winning alumni to share their experience and learnings of their HR professional journey.

Speakers bio:

Becky Iles – Winner of CIPD Tees Valley Student Award 2024 and graduated with Level 5 Associate People Management in 2025. Becky is an HR Consultant at Outsourced HR and has recently qualified as a Workplace Mediator.

Nicola Coultard – Winner of CIPD Tees Valley Student Award 2019 for the MSc HRM level 7 (part time). Nicola shared ‘after a varied career across the public sector and having had my family, I decided I wanted to build a career and spent a long time deciding what that would be. With varying experiences with managing staff and supporting people, and lots of transferable skills, HR felt like the right choice and an application for the HRM went in. At the Easter of my second year, I got my first role as a HR Consultant and loved it! Since then, I've experienced HR Manager role and now a HR Lead, all within family run SMEs, and I know HR is where I want to be’.

Paul Knighton – Winner of CIPD Tees Valley Part-Time Student Award 2018. Paul has 15 years’ experience within HR across BT Group. Starting as

an Employee Relations Case Advisor in 2010, Paul progressed his career within the ER specialism over the following 9 years, leading significant change and transformative people programmes including most notably the design and delivery into BT Group of the HR Services reorganisation and redundancy policy in 2018. During this period, Paul studied at Teesside University, achieving a Master’s in HR with Distinction in October 2018.

Additional details:

Limited Parking (to be requested at booking)

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