Hayley is the Senior Vice President – Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer at Asda having joined the Executive Board in 2011; with responsibility for over 150,000 UK colleagues. Asda has been listed in the UK Top Employers for 5 consecutive years. Prior to this she spent 20 years working through the ranks of Tesco both in People and Operations where her last position was UK and Republic of Ireland HR Director. Hayley has Non-Executive experience having completed a role for the Cabinet Office and advisor to Department of Work and Pensions (November 2017 – December 2020). Hayley has a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management and has Companion status of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and is a qualified NLP practitioner. Hayley was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for service to the HR profession in 2019. She continues to be an ambassador for the profession with her appointment in 2020 to the editorial panel of the HR Director magazine and was awarded the HRD of the year 2021 from HR Today.

Passionate about social mobility and in-work skills and education she has been an active member of the Ambassadors Apprenticeship Network since 2007, she is a former chair of Business in the Community Employment & Skills Leadership team and in 2021 was appointed to the Grocery Aid Board of Trustees and RemCo chair. Asda has raised over £80m during its award-winning partnership with Breast Cancer Now and Hayley is both a survivor and an avid sponsor, campaigner and fundraiser for the important work of the charity. She is also a Trustee for the charity Tommy’s. Tommy’s fund groundbreaking research into pregnancy problems and premature birth as well as providing information to parents. She was awarded an MBE in 2024 for services to the voluntary and charity sector.

Hayley lives in Buckinghamshire, with her husband and 2 dogs. Whilst juggling the commute to Leeds, she also enjoys mini-breaks, family holidays with her 2 grown up children, gardening and personal fitness.