On December 9, Teresa Gallastegui attended the University of Navarra to give talks on "My experience managing people."

Teresa is currently the Director of People and Organization at Ecoembes, a business dedicated to promoting a waste-free future throughmanager and the promotion of recycling, generating a positive impact on both the environment and people's lives. During the session, she contextualized the reality of Ecoembes as an organization that operates in an environment strongly marked by regulation and the arrival of new skill the sector, factors that condition its strategy and the role of People.

Throughout her career, Teresa has worked in different sectors, including the pharmaceutical sector, consultancy service recycling, which has allowed her to compare very diverse organizational realities.

One of the milestones he highlighted was that one of the things that made him join ECOEMBES when it was still in its infancy was the idea of creating a department from scratch, taking on the challenge building the People function in an organization that did not yet have defined Structures processes in this area.

Among the lessons she shared, she emphasized that it is not possible to apply the same HR theories, models, or practices uniformly across very different sectors: what worked and was well understood in the pharmaceutical sector, for example, was not always valid or understandable in other contexts. According to Teresa, this reinforces the need to adapt people policies to the culture, business, and specific reality of each organization.

In her speech, she emphasized the importance of management in human relations within business the impact that any change in strategy has on people. For her, managing people involves, on the one hand, having a clear commitment to serving both the business and the people, and on the other, developing a vision that allows you to "see things before they happen": anticipating the effects of strategic decisions on teams, foreseeing resistance, and preparing the organization for change.

Finally, Teresa emphasized that for the People function to deliver real value, it is essential to have a thorough understanding of the business: understanding how it works, what its challenges are, its core topic metrics core topic its competitive context. Only with this knowledge is it possible to design Human Resources policies and practices that support the strategy, promote performance, and, at the same time, take care of the people who make up the organization.