Connect with our team in Scotland
Join us in championing better work and working lives with our 11,000 members across Scotland
Join us in championing better work and working lives with our 11,000 members across Scotland
Choose from our growing professional networks. Join our annual conference. Read Working lives in Scotland, our analysis of local job quality. Take part in our learning events, campaigns and employer surveys. Keep up to date with our policy documents and research.
We run regular events for our networks, including our Senior People Professional Network and Independent Consultants Network. Find out more about the events below.
This forum, open to members and non-members, brings together people professionals with an interest in helping the CIPD to influence public policy. We consult and engage with policymakers on workplace practices by sharing our insights and analysis on labour market trends.
Get in touch if you'd like to join this forum
This peer-to-peer network brings together senior HR, L&D and OD professionals from across Scotland to network, learn and debate key issues affecting our profession and the future of work. This network is open to members and non-members.
Get in touch if you'd like to join the senior people professional network
This network is open to anyone in Scotland working as an independent HR, L&D or OD consultants. Our online and face-to-face events provide an opportunity for self-employed people professionals to network and learn from one another.
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This network brings together senior in-house employee relations professionals from different industry sectors across Scotland to connect regularly to share ideas, thoughts and learn from our collective experience.
Get in touch if you'd like to join the employee relations network
In addition to our nationwide networks, four volunteer-run branches across Scotland deliver local events, learning opportunities, professional networks and special interest groups. The branch committees collaborate with the CIPD team to shape our national conferences, identify opportunities and act as an advisory board to ensure everything we do in Scotland is relevant and impactful.
Find your local branch
Analysis and recommendations to support longer and more fulfilling working lives
Insight from senior leaders on how they have led responsibly and maintained trust and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gordon is responsible for building relationships and connecting with CIPD members and organisations in Scotland. This includes running networks, including the Senior People Professionals Network and the Independent Consultants Network, helping CIPD members in Scotland build a supportive community of peers.
Gordon came to the CIPD from the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) where he ran ACCA’s communities in Scotland, specialising in Financial Services. He also holds qualifications in counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and has worked as a volunteer counsellor.
Vivien’s passion is unlocking the true potential of individuals and the companies that they work for, which is why she loves her role as Senior Employer Solutions Manager for the CIPD in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Working directly with organisations, Vivien partners with clients to build the capability, impact and credibility of their HR and people functions in order to deliver business outcomes.
Having held multiple senior roles specialising in people development and organisational change, Vivien brings her extensive experience, expertise and energy to this role.
Whether it's establishing what good looks like, assessing current capabilities, providing industry-leading people development programmes, professionalising the people function, or becoming organisationally recognised as a CIPD People Development Partner, Vivien is the person to speak to.
Working to ensure fair work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for all individuals, businesses, organisations and society across Scotland. Together we’re delivering improved practice by successfully embedding the dimensions of fair work within Scotland’s workplaces.
The Scottish Government's initiative dedicated to helping individuals and employers with the advice and support they need when faced with redundancy. We support PACE through our network of people professionals in organisations of all sizes across the public, private and third sectors.
An independent, industry-led body which ensures apprenticeships are demand-led, fit for purpose and future-orientated. SAAB is made up of leading employers and industry bodies across a range of sectors.
Championing better work and working lives
At the CIPD, we champion better work and working lives. We help organisations to thrive by focusing on their people, supporting economies and society for the future. We lead debate as the voice for everyone wanting a better world of work.