Will Hogg
Most recent experience: Strategy Consulting : with two $2bn Global corporations and two Global industry associations; Leadership / Regional Board Consulting: with two Fortune 100 companies; Strategic HR Consulting: with four Global leaders (two Retail, one Entertainment and one Food); Board member for four companies (Two Executive, two Non-Executive)
Previous experience: HR Director P&G Professional Care ($2bn business of 10,000 employees, 100 brands in over 40 countries); HR Associate Director P&G Beauty Care WE ($1bn+ regional business operating in 4 separate categories);
Light Infantry Officer (operated in Northern Ireland; Bosnia, Belize, Germany and Canada)
Education: Graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; 1st Class Bachelor of Arts in History, Politics and Philosophy; Numerous certifications across the full range of HR subjects (incl. psychological profiling)
An interview with Will
What is your area of specialty?
Defining strategy and taking it into action
What motivates you most in your role?
Seeing the vision happen.
In general, you meet people who are visionaries, or people who are doers, but rarely are both qualitites combined. To come in as a coach, to be able to facilitate the joint efforts of the visionaries and the doers, then see their vision happen – that is the success I strive for.
What is the biggest challenge? How do you overcome that?
Maintaining a balance. I take on a lot, and I have to be sure that I can deliver. So I am mega-organised.
What’s been your greatest success to date?
It’s been the development and implementation of a true cultural transformation within a company of half a million employees.
Who is your business hero?
I can’t idolise someone I don’t know, so my heros are people I have worked with or family. My entrepreneurial heros are my grandfather, my brother and brother in law. Each one has had the guts and the drive to become hugely successful in business against difficult odds. To be surrounded by people like that gave me the courage to launch my own venture.
My visionary hero: my last boss at Procter & Gamble. A man who could take strategy and drive it all the way. He had core (the vision) and edge (the spirit).
Give us your nugget quote…
‘We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.’ Mother Theresa
