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These include senior positions at: BBC Worldwide, where she spent over seven years as People Director developing the organisation’s culture to support and deliver a global growth strategy. 20th Century Fox, during a time when the market was shifting towards digital Discovery Channel and later Kantar gaining valuable international experience as International Vice President Currently, Kirstin is People Director for all Channel 4’s People functions, leading a strategy to enable and underpin a dynamic culture that fosters creativity, diversity, inclusion and innovation. Kirstin is also a non-executive director for British Wheelchair Basketball Kirstin is on a mission to make the world a better place to work. In a typical working life people may spend 120,000 hours at work. Kirstin believes these should be as satisfying, rewarding and productive as possible, for individuals and the organisations in which they work. Recently, working with academics from the University of Exeter, she’s researched and explored the causes of the Sunday Night Blues, a negative feeling you get on a Sunday that can impact your ability to perform your best on Monday. Unchecked, the Sunday Night Blues can have a profound effect on employee well-being, productivity and retention In her entertaining and deft presentations, Kirstin shares her findings and personal strategies to build cultures where employees can thrive. She develops honest, pragmatic, applicable tools and techniques for leaders to use to improve performance and employee engagement, breaking down ideas into digestible chunks to take away and use for personal and organisational success. Kirstin is passionate about organisations supporting individuals to be their best, so as to drive company results. Her resource site (kirstinfurber.com) has been developed specifically to support leaders looking to create a human culture at work and she also has a commitment to support people to banish the Sunday Night Blues. Kirstin on LinkedIn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/e9ad0b18-6995-4af0-983b-38ba54249cbf/600x900Kirstin+Furber++Vicki+Knights+Photography-01.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://kirstinfurber.com/alleviate-the-sunday-night-blues daily 0.75 2024-04-18 https://kirstinfurber.com/prioritiseyourself daily 0.75 2024-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/377ee993-b39e-4cd0-ac85-18ae9545707c/watering-can-man.png Prioritise yourself - Pillar 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://kirstinfurber.com/plan-positive daily 0.75 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/ba515ec6-ca05-4920-b3b5-a3e8b188f5ab/600Pillar3.jpg Plan positive - Pillar 3 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://kirstinfurber.com/create-space daily 0.75 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/0640dc4a-b394-43fa-81bb-8b8a6e69af1f/600pillar2.png Create space - Pillar 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://kirstinfurber.com/kirstin-furber-home daily 1.0 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/b6c23453-ae2b-4c05-9f0d-8c2adc338afd/disruptlogo.webp Kirstin Furber - Kirstin talks at Disrupt HR Sunday Night Blues – a DisruptHR talk by Kirstin Furber – People Director at Manchester United Football Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/1f697ae5-e10b-42fd-b789-196abcee116b/managing-the-sunday-blues-logo+%281%29.png Kirstin Furber - Sunday Blues toolkit A really useful and practical interactive set of tools to help individuals and organisations to manage and address the Sunday Night Blues. Read more or Go straight to the tools (opens an external site) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/ca8fad15-2d41-4d7d-be41-274546a5d205/Screenshot+2024-04-25+8.33.16+AM.png Kirstin Furber - TEDx listens to Kirstin discuss the Sunday Night Blues I was delighted to be able to share the story of the Sunday Night Blues and ways to alleviate them with an enthusiastic and engaged audience at TEDx Oxford. You can watch the speech free in YouTube by following the link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/84bd96b0-7be5-4ae1-9988-fecd962d9e86/IIP+event+logo.jpg Kirstin Furber - Kirstin invited to speak Kirstin participated in the “Make Work Better” conference in September, joining other leading speakers to talk on the Sunday Night Blues. We hope to provide you with a ‘toolkit’ to use in your own enterprises in due course. You’ll be able to download it from here when available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/823c3b6b-2664-4476-80ec-c06138f2d48f/Screenshot+2023-05-27+08.47.11.png Kirstin Furber - Kirstin at the People Director Partnership It was a real privilege to share the ‘Beating the Sunday Night Blues’ preliminary results with the People Director Partnership Network. As HR professionals there’s some things we can do immediately. Recognise that the Sunday Night Blues is a very individual experience. People react and feel differently, so create an open culture where they can say how they feel. Be mindful of the Sunday Night Blues when organising meetings or delegating tasks, giving colleagues time at the start (and the end!) of the week to keep things in good order. A few simple changes like this will help everyone be the best they can be at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/3eb2935b-25e0-4e0c-acfd-845e9eca983d/52749030814_8a79982c65_k.jpg Kirstin Furber - Kirstin Furber discusses research findings of Beating the Sunday Blues Video of a discussion March 14th 2023 where recent research on Beating the Sunday Night Blues was presented, along with practical solutions and outline of future likely trends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/0970950c-5aea-46ab-a2c8-95d25d57b5af/Screenshot+2023-01-21+08.36.05.png Kirstin Furber - Banishing the Sunday Night Blues What is it and what are we doing about it? A podcast with Jane Sparrow from Culture builders. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/25c74a96-2449-46cf-aa43-feaa12d51d00/Screenshot+2023-01-12+09.57.42.png Kirstin Furber - Five minutes to start to beat the Sunday Night Blues A quick set of practical ideas for banishing the Sunday Night Blues from your organisation. Food for thought delivered in a five minute video. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/05018f9e-0684-4043-ac02-80201b9049e1/50linkedin.png Kirstin Furber - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://kirstinfurber.com/resource daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://kirstinfurber.com/public-speaking daily 0.75 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a527a50cd39c3cc6eafb088/d754e923-3cc0-4e9e-9f1e-dac8a46eafe5/Kirstin_Furber_at_TEDx_2024.jpg Keynote Speaking - Kirstin Furber has a mission to make the world a better place to work. She is a sought-after and engaging public speaker at events and seminars. Using her experience and cultural observations from 25 years in senior global Human Resource roles, Kirstin shares her relevant research and personal strategies to build cultures where employees can thrive. She develops honest, pragmatic, applicable tools and techniques for leaders to use to improve performance and employee engagement, breaking down ideas into digestible chucks to take away and use for personal and organisational success. Speaking Topics include: # - What do you need to support a culture for growth today? # - How to alleviate the Sunday Night Blues and be our best at work # - Key questions for People Directors so as to drive organisation performance # - Creating an emotionally healthy organisation that drives success You can book Kirstin for a paid future keynote, in the UK or overseas. To start the conversation please get in touch. https://kirstinfurber.com/booking-form daily 0.75 2023-03-10 https://kirstinfurber.com/story-of-the-sunday-blues daily 0.75 2025-09-21 https://kirstinfurber.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2024-03-14