Cathy Acratopulo, Founder and CEO
Cathy co-founded LACE with Aaron in 2014. She started her career in Barclays where she worked in various HR roles before joining Accenture to focus on HR consulting. Cathy is passionate about helping clients to achieve their HR goals through transforming the HR function. Her specialisms include developing people strategies, designing future HR operating models and delivering long term adoption of HR systems and new ways of working. As a Director of LACE, Cathy also manages key client relationships and drives the operational performance of the business.
Outside of work, Cathy spends time with her family including her two teenage children and in the gym to compensate for her love of good wine and food (in that order).
Skills
- HR operating model
- HR strategy
- HR Business Partner capability
- Technology adoption
- Business change
- Organisation design
- HR policies and processes
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Insights. Our latest thought leadership, including blogs, webinars, podcasts and videos.
Can payroll drive employee experience and business success?
What does the future hold for payroll? In this episode of the HR on the Offensive podcast Chris and LACE payroll expert Chris Kirby speak with Nick Day, Founder of JGA Recruitment Group. Payroll has come a long way from being a purely transactional, back-office...
How can HR drive success in 2025?
In this episode of the HR on the Offensive podcast Chris, predicts the year ahead for HR with guest Idris Arshad, Head of People at Asthma + Lung UK. Idris believes that in 2025 HR transformation must transcend buzzwords, advocating for clearly defined roles and...
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Despite skills-approaches becoming increasingly popular, unpacking some of the nuances can be confusing. Part of our Becoming skills-powered campaign, this article from Gemma Ryall looks to demystify some of the language around skills to help you understand how skills...