The Association of Human Resource Management Professionals in Saint Lucia (AHRMP) will join the global HR community in commemorating International HR Day on Wednesday, May 20, recognising the essential role HR professionals play in strengthening organisations, developing people and driving workplace transformation.
Observed annually worldwide, International HR Day highlights the contributions of HR professionals in building productive, resilient and people-centred workplaces. It also acknowledges the profession’s expanding strategic importance in shaping how organisations adapt and grow in a changing business environment.
This year’s global theme, “Empower People to Lead Change”, highlights the responsibility of organisations and leaders to create environments where individuals are equipped, supported and inspired to drive meaningful transformation. It emphasises adaptability, inclusive leadership, employee empowerment and intentional people practices as key tools for navigating complex workplace realities.
In observance, AHRMP will host a virtual webinar on the local discussion theme: “Empowering People to Lead Change: The HR Imperative in Today’s Workplace.”
The session will take place on Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. It will bring together HR professionals, business leaders, organisational development practitioners and emerging professionals. The discussion will explore leadership, workplace transformation and the evolving role of HR in modern organisations while reflecting the profession’s diversity and strategic value.
AHRMP said International HR Day provides an important opportunity not only to celebrate HR professionals but also to strengthen national dialogue around leadership, organisational culture, workforce readiness and sustainable workplace practices.
Speaking on the significance of the profession in today’s environment, AHRMP President Goretti Paul emphasised the central role of people in organisational success.
“Organisations cannot successfully navigate change, build resilience, or sustain growth without placing people at the centre of their strategy,” Paul said. “HR is no longer operating at the sidelines of business decision-making; it is increasingly at the core of how organisations adapt, lead, and remain future-ready.”
AHRMP is encouraging HR professionals, managers, business leaders, students and members of the wider professional community to participate in the webinar and engage in ongoing discussions on leadership, people development and the future of work.
Pre-registration is currently open at www.ahrmp-slu.org/hrday2026. Additional details, including speaker announcements and the full agenda, will be released via AHRMP’s social media platforms.
For further information, contact AHRMP at 758-520-1671 or info@ahrmp-slu.org, or visit www.ahrmp-slu.org.
The greatest stumbling block to people empowerment in the workplace have been Human Management Professionals all over the capitalist world & in St. Lucia, who have only been hired by upper management to be gatekeepers against workers’ struggle to exert their real power as the only wealth generating agents (inputs) in the capitalist system!
If the St. Lucia AHRMP is so focused on “building productive, resilient and people-centred workplaces,” what are they doing to implement democracy in the workplace? We are supposed to be living in a democratic society, so why do non-democratic workplaces still exist today, where a few at the top dictate the future possibilities for masses of workers at the bottom?
In St. Lucia, conditions in the workplace have not changed in centuries: There was slavery, where the master controlled the conditions for the slaves based the outcome he sought, without any input from the slaves who were force to endure them. Then there was colonialism, where the newly-freed workers took their work & life orders from administrators who wielded the same power and control as slave masters before them.
Eventually, even before so-called independence, the conditions in the workplace remained the same, with a tiny group of “managers” & owners retaining complete control over the lives of the masses of workers they had hired; to generate profits for them, while they continues to live lives of luxury, lording over their workers.
For all three “workplace” formats described above, the masters, administrators, and bosses have insulated themselves against the desires of the workers by hiring house negroes, civil servants, and now HR teams. With workers coming to the understanding that the fruits of their labour has always been siphoned upwards, HR professionals are impelled to gaslight workers into believing that HR departments exist for their benefit, and not for the bosses who hired them in the first place.
Don’t be fooled by these “snakes in the grass!”