Dean Morley

Dean Morley is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Director of People Capital Ltd, with more than 26 years' senior HR leadership experience across Higher Education and the Civil Service.  He now specialises in reward and strategic workforce planning projects. 

Dean's reward expertise includes leading major reward transformations across multiple HE institutions, including progression and promotion frameworks, senior pay systems and benefit redesigns. He effectively blends practitioner realism with market-based design, affordability modelling and practical approaches to address structural challenges, such as bottom-end wage compression. His work has been recognised in sector case studies and CIPD awards, and Dean is a regular speaker at HE sector masterclasses on reward, pay progression and senior pay governance.