BEYOND THE STREETS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Director for Operations, Office for National Statistics. for Public and Charitable Services
• Trustee for Beyond

Philippa Bonay has been Trustee for Beyond the Streets for nearly 4 years, and we have benefitted from her integral support during the growth of the organisation over this time. The team at Beyond the Streets are delighted and proud to find out that Philippa has been duly recognised with an OBE for her incredible contributions in the public and voluntary sectors. As an organisation, we continue to be grateful to Philippa for sharing her expertise, experience, and wisdom, as well as her commitment and energy in supporting our cause. Philippa Bonay has transformed the people capability of public service organisations in which she has led and in her spare time goes above and beyond to make exemplary contributions to wider public life and the charitable sector. In her current role as Director for Operations, the National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond, states that she has transformed the delivery of people services at the ONS. She has done this through her personal advocacy for inclusion and diversity, leading by example in ways that go above and beyond what is expected for her role, through speaking regularly across the whole organisation. She single-handedly changed the conversation on menopause support, bringing it out of the shadows and personally leading the work to provide access to a leading menopause App to all colleagues. This has received very enthusiastic feedback from many women who have described it as life-changing. Her work overall has resulted in the ONS being the first and only Civil Service department to make it onto the list for the Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards for the UK's Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2023, since the award started 9 years ago - and one that is unique in being formed through employee nominations. Her contribution to wider HR leadership across government, outside her core role, has also been highly impactful; the Government Chief People Officer has stated that her work to develop an overall People Data Strategy and common and consistent dashboards has led to better decision-making and an ability to measure the effectiveness of People strategies across government. She is also the very first HR Director for the Analysis Function across government (some 25,000 people), an additional role she took on voluntarily, identifying a gap that no-one was filling. Her work has defined and measured the function, identified the capability needs, personally convened the analytical heads of profession to address these gaps, and this has led to more fluid models of resourcing across government. Beyond government, she was sought out in 2022 by the Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development to lead a session on managing diverse workforces at their annual conference. She provides insightful and practical thought leadership to the wider Profession - such as the podcast interview she gave this year to HRDConnect on ways organisations can improve their inclusion and diversity. But she also displays an inspirational personal touch and it is the combination of her contributions at both the profession, organisational and the individual level that is so unique. All colleagues that join her team of several hundred receive a handwritten note of welcome. Her mentoring of individuals from all backgrounds has seen them grow their capability and gain promotions.