Date: Tuesday 12th May 2026
Time: 9:00am – 10:30am
Topic: How to Break Through the Glass Ceiling and Land a CPO/CHRO Position
Take the next step in your leadership journey with How to Break Through the Glass Ceiling and Land a CPO/CHRO Position. Join expert speakers Simon Hudson and Andrea Sanchez on 12th May as they share practical insights, career strategies and real‑world lessons for HRD leaders ready to break through the glass ceiling and secure their first CPO role.
Key Takeaways
- First-hand insight from ‘one of their own’ – Learn from someone who has successfully navigated the HR career path to the top table.
- Proven methods for career advancement – Techniques you can apply internally or externally to confidently progress relative to your peers.
- Awareness of critical detailers – Recognise the factors that, if overlooked, can hinder or prevent achievement of your professional goals.
- Knowledge transfer from real clients – Learn the methods used daily by Morphosis Partners’ clients (permanent, interim, fractional, portfolio) to succeed in a constantly evolving environment.
- Practical networking and small-group engagement – Participate in discussions on topics that matter most to you, facilitated by those who have achieved success.
- Actionable insights – Gain clarity, confidence, and tangible tools you can immediately apply to your own career journey.
- Understanding Morphosis Partners’ impact – Discover why over 700 professionals have chosen Morphosis Partners as their strategic ally, helping you assess relevance and value for your own career path.
Simon Hudson – Co-Founder at Morphosis Partners
Simon Hudson is Co-Founder of Morphosis Partners Limited, a business focused on people.
Morphosis Partners are career alignment and in some cases career realignment expert practitioners. Their clients are executives who retain their services to better enable future career sustainability. In practical sense that means Morphosis Partners centre their time, expertise and energy on putting you at the centre of your professional journey. This is not outplacement as Morphosis Partners are focused on the individual rather than providing employer convenience.
Gaining clarity, aligning your social blueprint to your intention, elevating your personal/professional brand enabling you to become more visible to those who ultimately influence your forward career trajectory, whether that be to switch sectors, transition function, to break through ‘glass ceilings’ or simply to perform better at landing the right opportunity from choice whether internally or externally. Morphosis Partners uniquely work with their clients in a partnered and pro-active manner from knowledge transfer to a wholly outsourced capability.
Morphosis Partners has supported more than 700 individuals covering many functions, sectors and geographies. Prior to co-founding Morphosis Partners with Jo Rawcliffe, Simon spent several years in executive search covering HR and Finance amongst other specialities and has navigated the career paths across and within the private, public and not for profit sectors, with clients in more than 30 countries.
Morphosis Partners are an executive’s critical partner for in-market competitive advantage.
Andrea Sanchez – Chief People Officer
Andrea Sanchez is a commercially focused Chief People Officer with over a decade of executive leadership experience across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, operating at Board and Executive Committee level within complex, multi-national organisations. She is known for translating people strategy into measurable business outcomes, particularly in periods of transformation, acquisition and accelerated growth.
Andrea has led people agendas for organisations of up to 36,000 employees across 50+ markets, with full P&L awareness, regional budget ownership and accountability for organisational design, leadership capability, workforce planning and culture. A trusted advisor to CEOs and Executive Teams, she partners closely with business leaders to enable growth, improve EBITDA and build scalable operating models.
Her track record includes leading the people integration of a $1bn acquisition spanning 17 countries and 20,000 employees, delivering cultural alignment and operational continuity through significant complexity. She has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to unlock value through data-led decision making, including spearheading a Workday HRIS transformation across EMEA and APAC, improving data integrity, standardising processes and generating clear commercial insights for leadership.
Andrea brings deep expertise in HR transformation, people analytics, M&A, engagement, D&I and leadership development, with a strong bias for execution. Her initiatives have delivered tangible results, including cost savings exceeding $400k through innovative workforce solutions, material improvements in engagement and retention, and demonstrable contribution to revenue growth and EBITDA improvement.
A Fellow of the CIPD, with an MA in HRM (Distinction) and Board Trustee experience, Andrea combines academic rigour with pragmatic, results-driven leadership. She is recognised for building high-performing cultures that balance performance, inclusion and accountability, creating organisations where people thrive and businesses outperform.
