Margaret Gildea

Non-Executive member

Margaret is an HR professional with 30 years’ experience at Rolls-Royce, culminating in being the company director of learning and development and divisional executive vice president of HR. Since leaving Rolls Royce in 2009, Margaret has run her own business helping organisations with major change programmes.

She has been a Non-Executive Director with the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since 2016, helping to develop the ‘People First’ approach which has moved the Trust to a CQC rating of ‘Good’.  Margaret chairs two committees: the Remuneration & Appointments Committee and People & Culture Committee. She is also the Freedom to Speak up Guardian, Health and Wellbeing Champion, and Equality and Diversity Champion

Margaret lives in Melbourne, South Derbyshire.