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Worcester, United Kingdom

Provider of a full range of HR, Change and Organisational Development services through interim and fixed contracts. Currently supporting global, European and national clients across the technology, healthcare, construction, regulatory services and logistics sectors. Live projects include design and delivery of online global, national and in-house.

Only Licensed Practitioner For UK & Europe

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London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Six month contract to cover Head of OD role during a team restructure and leading on capability development as part of the organisation's transformation programme

Sydney, London, Cork, Philadelphia, Washington, San Francisco

Short term contract to support Global Head of People & Culture including design and delivery of two global conferences.

Returned to Commercial Services for short term contract to support delivery of elements of the 5 year people plan.

London, United Kingdom

Six month contract in private equity owned business, working with HRD-Global to introduce global leadership framework, a senior leader succession planning process and the associated assessment/development tools. Supported a project on organisation structure reviews as well as providing HR support for teams going through their transformation process.

Kent

Ten month contract supporting Exec team and HRD including the creation of a five year people plan, supporting the Exec team on developing their vision, mission and BHAG, developing the HR team, design and delivery of a suite of new management development programmes, performance management system, coaching programme and new approach to on boarding.

Sydney, Australia

Secured second sponsored working visa with the Woolworths Group Ltd. One of the largest employers in Australasia, Woolworths Ltd is a multi-brand retail group with over 200,000 employees in over 2500 sites in Australia and New Zealand. Brands include Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown supermarkets (NZ), Dan Murphy's Liquor, BWS Liquor, The Wine Quarter.

Brisbane, Australia

Moved to Australia under the 457 sponsored working visa. Secured fixed term project with government-owned Energex to implement new performance management programme as part of a project to develop a performance focussed culture within the business. Lead the key follow-up project to develop people leadership capability within company's frontline leader group.

Following a successful corporate career, I set up and developed my own limited company specialising in HR consulting, interim management and leadership development. The organisation achieved year on year growth over an 8 year period, prior to me leaving the UK to take on a new challenge in Australia. Key clients included AS Watson, The Nuance Travel Retail.

Delivered leadership development programmes and 1-1 coaching to senior management groups in client organisations

Built and lead a professional team of seven to develop and implement a programme of work building leadership and management capability to support a business wide transformation programme. Key projects included the transformation of the performance management system, introduction of a capability based assessment and development programme for leaders.

Supported the CEO and entrepreneurial owner through to the sale of his company to private investor. Supported the development of leadership and performance coaching services to key clients and developed performance management process for investor's employee team.

Head of People Development at AS Watson (UK) operating under the Superdrug and Savers brands, with over 19,000 employees across 1185 stores. Lead the transformation of the training function to become a profit centre for the organisation, introducing an internal NVQ assessment programme and developing the supplier funded training calendar. Implemented the.

Requested by CEO to cover HR Director role during recruitment of new HRD and lead national team of 17 through the interim period.

Lead Avis UK's Training and Development team to deliver the annual training strategy and support the development of leaders and employees across the UK network. Supported development of new company values and behaviour framework and the successful entry for Avis UK into Sunday Times 'Best Place To Work' Top 100 companies, in recognition of excellent.

Interim project through own company covering regional HR and projects role.

Fixed term project through own company to design and deliver Levi Strauss's new European Appraisal Training programme.

Fixed term project through own company working for HR Director. Provided regional HR support and took lead on a high risk investigation within one of the distribution centres.

Fixed term project through own company to investigate and improve productivity across outlets operating under the Costa Coffee brand.

Global specialist retailer operating duty free, own brand and branded specialist shops in airport, ferry and downtown locations. Member of executive management team with full HR responsibility for multi-site European HR team of 23 and 5400 employees across our operations, distribution centres and support offices in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the.

Managed operational HR for the UK business of Tricon Restaurants International (demerged PepsiCo company now operating internationally as YUM! brands). Lead an HR team of 5 and supported company and franchise operations.

Managed regional HR operations and regional team of five for Somerfield and Kwik-Save supermarkets. Designed and implemented a company-wide leadership competency assessment programme to assess Kwik-Save operational leadership group following the merger of the two companies.

Regional HR and Training role with full HR responsibility for four company districts. Designed and delivered supervisory and leadership training programmes and managed industrial relations disputes within area of responsibility.

Completed graduate programme and achieved successive promotions through health and safety, training and industrial relations roles across multi-site steel finishing operations. Managed annual apprentice intake and implemented competency based multi-skilling programme, union negotiations, industrial relations issues and redundancy programme.

Ma (Hons), Geography

Achieved Masters degree with Honours

Post Graduate Diploma, Human Resource Management

Completed post-graduate diploma in HR Management giving entry to professional (now Chartered) Institute of Personnel and Development