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Jean Tomlin

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Jean Tomlin OBE

Jean is a senior executive and consultant with extensive business experience working alongside CEOs across multiple stakeholders in the private and public sector.

Jean has delivered a series of landmark Start‑up and Transformation programmes within mature organisations. She was Director of HR, Workforce and Accreditation for London 2012, and is probably most widely known for the extraordinary success of the ‘people’ aspect of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the mobilisation of the UK’s largest peace‑time workforce of 200,000, including the universally‑acclaimed 70,000 Games Makers.

Prior to joining London 2012, Jean was Group HR Director at Marks & Spencer plc as well as an executive advisor to the BBC. Previous roles include HR Director of Egg Plc and Sales and Operations Director of Prudential Direct. Jean had a classic foundation to her career as a graduate trainee at Ford, starting in personnel, training and labour relations.

After the successful delivery of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, Jean founded, and is CEO of, Chanzo (formerly Tomlin&Co), specialising in working with world‑class organisations providing consulting, operational delivery and international recruitment services to major event and sport sectors. Most recently this included successfully recruiting the core management team (Directors, Heads Of and Senior Managers) for the inaugural European Games, Baku 2015.

Jean received the CIPD’s first Special Achievement Award in 2012 for services to HR practice and was awarded an OBE for Services to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the New Year’s Honours 2013.