I am passionate and proud to be involved in the PPMA and the public sector and I look forward to leading debate and shaping the public services workforce agenda in 2015/16.

At our seminar – which has a theme of ‘Our past, our present and our future' – we celebrated 40 years of PPMA and SOCPO, looking back at what has influenced us all to the present day. Now we will be looking forward to the next 40 years of HR, people management and organisational development (OD), in the local, regional, central government arena – in fact across all public services.