{"id":418005,"date":"2026-04-30T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/railuk.com\/?p=192776"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:19:33","slug":"m-group-appoints-adele-barker-as-chief-people-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418005","title":{"rendered":"M Group appoints Adele Barker as chief people officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/rail-news\/m-group-appoints-adele-barker-as-chief-people-officer\/\" title=\"M Group appoints Adele Barker as chief people officer\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30111924\/Adele-Barker-M-Group-scaled-2-485x360.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30111924\/Adele-Barker-M-Group-scaled-2-485x360.png 485w, https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30111924\/Adele-Barker-M-Group-scaled-2-80x60.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adele Barker has joined M Group as chief people officer, to lead the people strategy, supporting sustainable business performance.<\/p>\n<p>With extensive sector expertise and strategic leadership experience from senior positions held at British Gas, Orange, and other well-known consumer brands, Adele is well placed to drive business growth, transformation and change, in line with M Group\u2019s ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Adele joins M Group from Pennon Plc. Adele champions the power of engaged teams and believes in nurturing exceptional leadership at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Andrew Findlay, said: \u201cAdele brings outstanding experience to M Group at a pivotal time for our business. Her focus on leadership and people engagement will drive sustainable performance and help us build strong, agile teams for the future. I\u2019m delighted to welcome Adele on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adele commented: \u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining M Group and for the opportunities ahead. I strongly believe that the best businesses today are those with engaged teams empowered to do what\u2019s right for customers, and each other, working together to deliver long-term business success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to leading the M Group people strategy, working with Andrew and the executive team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: M Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/rail-news\/m-group-appoints-adele-barker-as-chief-people-officer\/\" title=\"M Group appoints Adele Barker as chief people officer\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30111924\/Adele-Barker-M-Group-scaled-2-485x360.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/a>Adele Barker has joined M Group as chief people officer, to lead the people strategy, supporting sustainable business performance. With extensive sector expertise and strategic leadership experience from senior positions held at British Gas, Orange, and other well-known consumer brands, Adele is well placed to drive business growth, transformation and change, in line with M [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8202,16017,16014,47,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news","category-industry-news","category-people-moves","category-rail-news","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418051,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418005\/revisions\/418051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}