Liz Ponting
Liz Ponting has been working at the Open University for seven years, and for the last two years within the transport and logistics sector. Her expertise and experience comes from working with organisations to support them in their strategic goals where learning and development is often the key. A lot of organisations find themselves ‘reacting’ and going around in a circle, often trying to solve the same problems they thought they had already fixed. Liz sees her role as supporting these organisations to unravel what these actual problems are. At the crux of most of these problems are employee skills, and then keeping the talent within the business. Working with organisations, such as Amazon, Liz believes that investment in people is the key – through career pathways all the way to encouraging new learning even outside of their job role. To address the challenge retail has for attracting and retaining staff, using benefits, such as education, could be a way to not only attract new and younger workers into the sector but also retain existing ones.
