Amanda Glaeser has retired from a 40 year plus successful career. More recently she left the role as Executive Director: Human Resources (HR) in Higher Education (HE). (15 years at UWC and 16 months at CPUT-post retirement contract)
These roles comprised the full spectrum of HR work, content, and context work, as well as executive level accountabilities for the universities.
Her area of specialization, apart for the generalist HR role, is helping people learn at an individual level (training and coaching); Organization Excellence work for teams and divisions (OD/OE).
She has a particular flair to facilitate Change and Transformation, Leadership enhancement and assessing individuals for “best fit” for job roles in context for environments and culture.
Prior to working in HE she was with Woolworths for 15 years, first as a generalist HR practitioner managing the HR-function for Gauteng and the Northern regions; and the last 5 years in Cape Town Head Office as an executive-managing national training and development.
In these various roles she directly managed professional people and teams in structures of up to 80 people.
The real challenge however has been the indirect management of academic staff and line managers who did not report to her directly.