Liz Compton is a senior HR and People & Culture executive with more than 30 years’ experience partnering with boards, executive teams, and leaders across complex, fast-growing, and highly regulated organisations in Australia and Europe. Her career spans senior leadership roles with organisations including Auto & General (Budget Direct, Compare the Market), National Australia Bank (NAB), and BP (Castrol).
Liz brings a highly commercial, pragmatic and strategic approach to HR consulting, helping organisations align their people, culture and leadership practices with business strategies and performance outcomes. She is recognised for her ability to quickly understand organisational context, ask the right questions, and deliver clear, practical solutions that create meaningful and sustainable impact.
Her expertise spans the full breadth of people and culture advisory, including leadership alignment, employee experience, values and cultural development, internal communications, diversity, equity and inclusion, workforce surveys and insights, and people and culture strategy. Liz has led large-scale engagement, capability and transformation initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in engagement, leadership capability and organisational effectiveness.
Liz works closely with clients on attraction and retention strategies, employee value proposition design, talent acquisition and executive recruitment, as well as talent assessment, succession planning, executive coaching, leadership development and team effectiveness. She is a trusted adviser to senior leaders navigating growth, transformation and complex people challenges.
With extensive experience as a Group Chief People Officer, Liz also provides expert advice on performance management frameworks, organisational design, restructures and right-sizing, employee relations, HR governance, policies and procedures, and remuneration and benefits design and benchmarking. Her Board and Remuneration Committee experience ensures advice is commercially sound, compliant and aligned to long-term organisational objectives.
Liz offers flexible on-demand HR consultancy, providing organisations with access to senior, hands-on HR leadership and advisory capability without the need for a full-time internal resource. Her approach is practical, outcomes-focused and tailored to the needs of each client.
Liz is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), a qualified executive coach, and a trusted partner to organisations seeking to build strong cultures, capable leaders and sustainable performance.