When HR professionals come together in a room, the conversation is rarely superficial. They know the weight of a difficult conversation. They understand pressure, complexity and change. They spend much of their working lives supporting other people through important moments.
What they rarely get is time to focus on themselves: how they show up, impact others and communicate confidently when the stakes are high. Elliott Scott HR - search & recruitment is the exclusive HR search and recruitment partner of HR leaders and professionals across the globe. Through a bespoke Make Your Mark For HR Leaders workshop series, Susan helps its global HR community build their confidence, leadership presence and communication skills.
Why Elliott Scott partnered with Susan Room
HR professionals are often the people others turn to for guidance. They influence, advise, challenge, reassure and hold conversations that require both authority and care.
They also need to advocate for themselves: in interviews, senior stakeholder meetings, presentations, career conversations and moments of transition.
For Elliott Scott, the workshops are part of a wider commitment to supporting HR professionals beyond the next role - helping them build the confidence, presence and communication skills to thrive in it.
The idea was simple: give HR professionals time to pause, practise and leave with tools they could use straight away.
Make Your Mark Workshops for Elliott Scott
Susan brings to the sessions her experience as a former C-suite leader, business voice coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach.
The workshops are grounded in her Make Your Mark with Susan Room® framework and tailored to the moments HR professionals know well: speaking with senior stakeholders, presenting ideas, giving feedback, creating psychological safety for others, and communicating the value they bring, amongst many others.
The roundtable format creates a confidential, practical environment where participants can speak honestly, practise safely and learn from peers who understand the realities of HR leadership.
"I've always believed HR leaders should never stop investing in themselves, and that's exactly what Make Your Mark with Susan Room creates space for. For us, the value goes beyond the sessions themselves. It's about helping HR leaders strengthen their communication and leadership presence, while building lasting connections with peers. We're proud to create a space where those conversations and learnings can continue long after the programme ends."
Stuart Elliott, CEO & Owner, Elliott Scott
"Susan has a unique ability to immediately engage, empathise, and create a safe space for discussion."
Kirstin Hunt, Managing Director, EMEA, Elliott Scott
Presence coaching for global HR leaders
Running sessions for Elliott Scott's community in London, Singapore and Hong Kong has shown how consistent the challenges are, whatever the market, role or career stage. It's also highlighted the value and benefit of getting HR leaders together across geographies, sectors, roles, and career stages, to learn and grow together.
What changes in the room
In the sessions, participants start to notice what happens when pressure rises.
The breath changes. The voice changes. The body reacts. The message can become rushed, apologetic or unclear.
Susan helps participants make small, practical shifts in how they prepare, speak and connect, so they feel more grounded and in control. The emphasis is never on becoming someone else. It is on helping HR professionals bring more of themselves into the room, with confidence, authority and ease.
Building HR Leaders’ presence, confidence and communication impact
The Make Your Mark sessions give Elliott Scott’s community practical tools they can use when preparing for interview, speaking up in meetings, presenting to senior stakeholders, giving feedback or managing pressure in important conversations.
They also leave with a stronger sense of connection - to themselves, to their peers and to the wider HR community.
For Elliott Scott, the partnership reflects its wider commitment to elevating the HR profession and supporting HR leaders and professionals as they move through their careers.
To learn more about the Elliott Scott workshop series, visit Make Your Mark For HR Leaders.
Or register your interest in joining a future cohort here.
"Susan is a truly engaged speaker and asks you to challenge your inner voice, the one that sometimes makes you doubt yourself."
Hazel Webb, Global Director of People | HR Director | Chief People Officer | Chief HR Officer | Senior HR Professional
"Such a great event listening to the inspiration that is Susan Room. So often we focus on what we are going to say in meetings and at presentations but spend little time considering how we are going to ‘show up’ and convey those messages."
Tracey Morgan - HR Director | Programme Manager | Transformation & Change | M&A | Employee Relations
"Susan ran the most wonderfully cathartic session today on Executive Presence. Carving out the time for personal and professional development is so important."