[Revolut People Webinars] HR as a Revenue Engine: Operating with CRO-Level Rigor and Commercial Speed

​Treating HR as an administrative cost center is a fatal operational error that creates massive drag. In high-growth ecosystems, talent is an equity and yield metric: just as a Chief Revenue Officer tracks quota efficiency to the dollar, talent leaders must track talent density, execution speed, and revenue per employee with identical commercial rigor.

​Scaling successfully requires turning talent into a primary revenue driver. How do hyper-scale companies eliminate low-signal annual reviews, link talent unit economics to product iteration speed, and aggressively reward force multipliers without breaking operational cadence? Building high performance demands architecting people infrastructure with the exact same engineering precision as product systems.

​Join us for an exclusive Masterclass with Sally Thomson, Group Head of Talent at Howden and former Global Head of Talent Management at Activision Blizzard. Drawing on more than two decades scaling talent engines across complex international businesses and gaming enterprises, Sally will reveal the executive blueprint to run HR with CRO-level precision and commercial velocity.

​​It will cover:

• ​Commercial yield & talent unit economics: Moving from administrative process compliance to direct commercial impact by aligning workforce allocation, execution speed, and unit economics directly with product release cycles and enterprise revenue.

• ​Continuous calibration & consequence management: Defying outdated annual reviews through real-time goal cascading and calibrated scorecards to swiftly address underperformance, unblock bottlenecks, and protect top-tier performers.

• ​Talent density & exponential rewards: Systematizing an uncompromising bar-raising hiring standard to eliminate bias, paired with meaningful compensation multipliers tied to direct business metrics to retain critical force multipliers.

• ​The 2026 operating blueprint & live Q&A: Centralizing performance, talent, and compensation data with engineering precision to drive real-time decision-making, followed by a 15-minute interactive Q&A.

​​Tailored key takeaways by role:

• ​CEOs & Founders: Learn how to treat talent as an equity and yield metric, linking workforce capability directly to product iteration speed and enterprise revenue.

• ​COOs & Chiefs of Staff: Build mechanisms to eliminate organizational drag, replace outdated review cycles with continuous calibration, and execute swift consequence management.

• ​CHROs & People Leaders: Transition HR from an administrative cost center to a revenue-driving partner by adopting CRO-level metrics and high-leverage compensation models.

​​Meet the speaker:

​Sally Thomson: Group Head of Talent @ Howden | Former Global Head of Talent Management @ Activision Blizzard

​Sally Thomson is an international HR and talent leader with 20+ years of experience driving people strategy, organizational capability, and culture across complex global enterprises. A strategic advisor to Boards on delivering enterprise value through AI-powered workforce transformation, she brings a commercially grounded approach developed through an early career in sales, marketing, and business development across Unilever, Catalent, and Wace Group.

​Currently Group Head of Talent at Howden, Sally oversees global people priorities - spanning performance, succession, learning, and organizational capability - across diverse international businesses. Previously, as Global Head of Talent Management at Activision Blizzard, she established the company’s first enterprise Talent Management Centre of Excellence, driving consistency across talent and performance in multi-business, cross-border environments.