Chloe Martin

“What stands out is her attitude: she treats unfamiliar territory as something to master rather than avoid”

Part of the Tech Women Celebration 50 – a curated list of some of the most inspirational women working at all levels of tech

Chloe Martin is the driving force behind cyber security education and awareness at Compass Group PLC, a FTSE-100 global business operating in 60,000 locations across 27 countries. As a Cyber Security Analyst in Group Digital & Technology, she has taken sole ownership of the Group's Cyber Culture Roadmap and delivered an impressive portfolio of projects.

Her work is transforming how colleagues across dozens of countries and languages understand, talk about and act on security, moving Compass from generic awareness to a targeted, locally relevant programme that meets people in their own language and role.

What makes Chloe stand out is her combination of enthusiasm and results focus: she has rolled a single, coherent security-culture vision across 27 countries while building the local capability to sustain it. She operates well beyond her job title, influencing senior stakeholders globally and turning strategy into delivered outcomes.

Tell us about the nominee's biggest achievement to date

Chloe led the move to a new global cyber learning and development platform, delivering localised training and administration across 27 markets in their own languages. This replaced a fragmented, inconsistent approach with a single, coherent foundation that still respects local context: markets now administer and tailor their own training while reporting into one global standard.

Achieving this at scale is extremely hard, and the platform is now set up to deliver training to 115,000 colleagues globally! Crucially, Chloe didn't stop at roll-out. She designed a role-based training model that targets people by their risk profile, with general IT users, privileged users, and Cyber & IT teams each receiving training relevant to them, focusing effort where the risk is highest and making the training more credible to each audience.

She also equipped Group and local teams with the knowledge and confidence to run these capabilities themselves, embedding lasting skills rather than dependence. The result is a sustainable, globally consistent security-culture programme delivered by an analyst operating far beyond her formal remit.

What is the most significant challenge the nominee has overcome?

Driving global, enterprise-wide change from an analyst-level role. Leading cross-market programmes well above her formal remit, Chloe has secured senior buy-in and influenced stakeholders across 27 countries without the positional authority that usually accompanies work of this scale, earning credibility through results rather than title.

Layered on top is the sheer scale and diversity of the task: delivering one consistent security culture across 115,000 employees in 27 markets, each with different languages and local requirements.

Underpinning all of it is the hardest challenge in security, behaviour change. Shifting an organisation's habits and mindset on security is slow, persistent work that rarely delivers quick wins.

Chloe has navigated all three at once: building trust upwards, tailoring delivery locally, and steadily moving the culture forward. That she has achieved this as an individual contributor, rather than from a position of formal authority, makes it more notable.

Tell us something about the nominee people would find surprising

What people might find surprising is that this is the first time Chloe has rolled out a solution like this on a global scale. The breadth of the programme, with localised training across 27 markets, a role-based model, and a platform reaching 115,000 colleagues, could easily suggest someone who had done it many times before.

Chloe has learned much of this as she's gone, figuring out how to navigate different markets, languages, stakeholders and systems for the first time and turning each new challenge into capability.

What stands out is her attitude: she treats unfamiliar territory as something to master rather than avoid, asks the right questions, and stays calm and determined when the path isn't obvious. That willingness to step well outside her comfort zone, learn quickly, and still deliver to a high standard is, to me, the most impressive thing about her.

It's a reminder that attitude and curiosity can matter as much as prior experience.