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With fifteen years experience in consulting, consumer goods and business-to-business markets, Robert Rigby-Hall is responsible for all of the LexisNexis HR, internal communications and corporate social responsibilities activities, a role that feeds the success of 13,500 people in more than 26 countries. A Human resources leader who combines emotional intelligence with a keen numbers focus, he has a zeal for the details of execution. His unique breadth of experience, in both HR and operating roles, explains why he works so closely with LexisNexis executives on everything from strategy, to global people initiatives, to hands-on execution.Joining LexisNexis in 2004, Robert has been instrumental in helping lead the company in making the critical shift from a research and products focus to a solutions focus. Prior to LexisNexis, Robert worked in sister division-Reed Business. Here, after a steady rise through various senior HR roles, he had his first exposure to an operating role when, between 2002 and 2003, he was the Interim President of Reed Exhibitions North America, a $180m revenue business based in Connecticut, USA.Prior to Reed Exhibitions, Robert held a variety of Human Resources roles in the international headquarters of Hasbro, Inc. With 3,000 employees throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, and emerging markets, Hasbro is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of toys, games and interactive products. As a proving ground, Hasbro not only gave Robert product and global experience, but deep experience in the most critical HR competencies: compensation and benefits, generalist HR, training and management development.Robert gained his first HR experience as a consultant with a major European employee benefits and HR consulting business. This role involved yet another competency that has served him well in his career: Sales. When added to his HR experience-compensation and benefits, international HR, expatriates, training, management development, recruitment, communications and change management-it suggests what Robert sees as the fundamental journey the HR professional must make in the 21st century: Namely, to take HR from a support role to a key strategic partner directly wired into the business.Today, Robert is a member of both the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the American Society for Human Resource Management. His broad experience also includes Board Director of a non-government training organization, as well as his experience on the Advisory Board of a global HR consulting business. | 