Stephanie Young

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 Imagine a workplace where everyone enjoys their job. After 25 years experiencing good and bad workplaces first hand, Stephanie created Origin HR Solutions (www.originhrsolutions.com) to help organisations learn to think about their employees the way they think about their customers. She specialises in helping find the right people and practices to build high commitment workplaces based on trust and results.  Stephanie is a distributor for global talent leader Harrison Assessments and uses their approach in most of her work because it can be customised to meet needs across any organisation.

 Helping organisations transform how they recruit, engage, inspire and develop their people.

Previously Stephanie was Director, Strategic Relations at Skills Development Scotland and Senior Director, Skills and Learning at Scottish Enterprise Glasgow where she led on a diverse range of creative skills and learning interventions. These include the internationally award winning physical and virtual learning environment, The Real Network, as well as the design and delivery of the largest sectoral skills plan in the UK.  Recognised as an innovative skills and learning professional, her experience spans all aspects of strategic planning, policy and organisational/human resource development.

A graduate of Edinburgh and Leicester Universities, Stephanie is an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, Vice Chair of Glasgow Caledonian University and a Fellow of the RSA.

She lectures internationally on skills and learning and has contributed to a number of books on skills and learning. Her current interests include learning futures, youth employment, personalisation and the use of design led approaches to public policy. She is currently researching and writing about youth employment issues, future jobs and recruitment.

Interests/Expertise: 
  • Strategies and policies for youth employment and the idea of a Lost Generation
  • Workforce and organisation development
  • Recruitment
  • Futures and design led thinking
Recent research/consultancy: 
  • Stakeholder Consultation on Rethinking Education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes COM (2012) 699, Submission from PASCAL to EU Committee of the Regions

  • Who is Really Lost? Policy responses to youth unemployment, Stephanie Young and John Tibbit. PASCAL Conference, Brest November 2012.
Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • Vice Chair of Court, Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Director, Origin HR Solutions (UK) Ltd
  • Trustee, Borders Forest Trust
  • Board member and chair of HR Committee, The Wise Group
  • Board member, PASCAL International HE Observatory
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
  • Member, Institute of Directors (IOD)
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

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