Building Stronger Workforces in Complex Environments

“You're not a leader until you've grown other people into leadership.”

~Phoebe Jamaa Lodiong

Phoebe Lodiong brings more than two decades of international People & Culture experience to organizations facing demanding workforce, talent and organizational challenges. From workforce strategy and complex recruitment to organizational development and senior leadership advisory, her work is grounded in experience across humanitarian, international and high-pressure operating environments.

Organizational Development

Workforce Planning

Complex-Emergency Recruitment

Identify the structural, cultural and capability problems holding teams back, then develop practical interventions around them.

Move beyond immediate vacancies and understand the capabilities, talent gaps and succession needs that determine whether the organization can deliver tomorrow.

Design and manage recruitment for urgent, sensitive or difficult environments without abandoning quality, fairness or compliance.

HR Operations

Senior Leardership Advisory

Improve workflows, processes and service delivery so HR becomes easier to work with and more reliable as an organizational function.

Help leadership teams make better decisions around talent, organizational structure, workforce change and difficult people matters.

Built Through Years Inside Complex Environments

Phoebe's career developed from operational HR and administration into international strategic HR business partnering, emergency response and People & Culture leadership.

Her experience includes assignments with UNICEF in South Sudan, Somalia, Lesotho, Venezuela, Syria and Afghanistan, alongside work from Kenya.

During that journey she has managed recruitment, advised senior leadership, supported organizational reviews, built talent pipelines, improved HR processes, coached teams and taken Officer-in-Charge responsibility for People & Culture functions.

Previous experience

UNICEF Afghanistan

People & Culture Specialist — HRBP Team Lead

UNICEF Syria

HR Specialist — Emergency Response

UNICEF Venezuela

Strategic HR Business Partner / Officer In Charge HR Manager

UNICEF South Sudan

HR leadership, workforce planning and organizational development

UNICEF Somalia

Recruitment, workforce data and HR operations

If your organization is reviewing its workforce, strengthening its HR systems or dealing with a significant people challenge, start with a conversation about the situation and what needs to change.