JO WAKEHAM
GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, K2
CORPORATE MOBILITY
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
WITH A FOCUS ON PEOPLE Jo Wakeham, group managing director at relocation management company K2 Corporate Mobility, has crafted her career around helping international businesses thrive. Jo’s story highlights the global mobility sector’s vital role in supporting talent.
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o Wakeham has always worked in mobility. Over the course of her three-decades-long career, Jo has seen the sector grow and align ever more closely with clients’ goals as both international and talent
resourcing become increasingly
nuanced and challenging. From her first role in the 1990s, to international business development at Cartus, BGRS and Airinc, and now in the UK-headquartered international corporate relocation company K2, Jo has always been driven by a passion for both meeting clients’ needs through operational excellence, as well as helping develop new and experienced talent within the industry – with people at the heart of both. K2’s Great Place To Work®
certification reflects how
Jo and all the senior leadership team at K2 – an owner- managed company headed by Nick Plummer – approach their own talent strategies – by attracting, retaining and
“ Any company worth its salt must continue to be more flexible about working practices. Companies will not only lose great talent if they don’t, but they will miss out on attracting the talent that is out there.”
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developing the best talent, not only making K2 a great place to work, but also remaining agile in their help and support of clients. Jo’s inspiring story is also one that will surely resonate with other leaders in global mobility working out how to win the war for talent in this fast- evolving sector, as well as people in their early careers working out what global mobility can offer them and people outside of the sector assessing their options.
BEING PRESENT AND PREPARED Being present, setting goals and responding to challenges are clear hallmarks of Jo’s time in global mobility and relocation.“I always loved the fast pace,” says Jo of her first role in the sector as a relocation administrator at Black Horse. “I’ve always been driven by the speed of change and making a difference wherever I can.” As well as an energising place to be, Jo found the industry could offer her a route to achieving her ambitions.“At that time, in the early ‘90s, relocation companies were really
starting to focus on expanding their service
offerings internationally,” says Jo. “That seemed like such an aspiration for me, to be able to work for a global company. It could offer me new experiences and new learnings and teach me things I hadn’t seen before.” The progression to international exposure came a few years later, but Jo used this early part of her career to learn as much as she could about what she and those around her were doing.“I have always had a passion to learn and achieve as much as I could,” says Jo. “So, it was around doing the very best I could at everything and volunteering myself for other projects. Working with a
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