Jamie Getgood (Past Speaker)

Jamie is an award winning Senior HR Leader with a proven track record of achievement across Generalist and Specialist HR roles in a number of large multinational organizations. 

Before completing his HR Degree, Jamie started his career as a mechanical tradesman, which built a great foundation to his HR profession. 

With GM Holden closing its manufacturing operations in Australia in 2017, he took on the leadership in the closure of the industry with a strong focus around change management and employee engagement principles. The key foundation of this support has been around the development of a best practice Transition Centre to support all employees in the auto industry receiving the support, advice and training to help them transition into new work.

As a result of the work in this area, Jamie was named as the Australian Leader/Manager of the year at the Australian Excellence Awards in 2017 and was a finalist in the Australian HR Institutes (AHRI) HR Director of the year awards 2017. 

Jamie regularly travels internationally delivering keynote speeches and workshops to professional seminars and multinational corporations.