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As Co-Founder and People Director at Ambito Partners, along with being a Coach & Facilitator, I draw on my expertise to help individuals, teams and organisations perform at their best. Formed through the merger of Fields of Learning and TrafalgarPD, Ambito Partners is dedicated to building genuine partnerships based on trust, compassion, understanding and.

I work with Trafalgar to design and deliver management & leadership programmes. I am the Programme Director on the NATO Management Development programme, designing and delivering a blended learning programme with core training modules, online content and coaching for a range of managers based in Europe and North America.

In February 2020, I took the decision to be brave and set up my own business, focusing back on my passion for developing Managers and Leaders within organisations, to be the best they can be in order to influence the broader organisational culture. I therefore stepped away from my permanent role with Connor and moved on to their associate consultant team..

During my maternity leave, I continued to use my KIT days for developing the future organisational strategy, organisation design and business planning. It was recognised during this time that my "Head of" Role was actually operating at a Director level and I was offered this promotion whilst on leave. On my return, I stepped up in to the Director role as.

Henley-on-Thames

Promoted to Head of People Development in 2018, it was my role to lead the People Development Expertise at Connor in order to reach it's stretching growth targets. This role had two core elements:- Internal focus- Developing the strategy for the people development practice, enabling growth to £1m revenue target- Understanding the market, using insight to.

Having worked in large corporate organisations for over 8 years, I made the move across to consulting in 2016 to best use my skill set to support other organisations with behavioural change. My role as Senior Consultant involved practice management, programme management and delivery to clients. I am an accredited Voiceprint practitioner.

Having worked on a strategic project since April 2015 to deliver an aligned set of Home Retail Group values, I was offered this role on a permanent basis. I was accountable for driving a behavioural change across Home Retail Group, to ultimately change the culture, by identifying key levers and interventions. Key projects:-- Internal and external research.

Milton Keynes

Moving from Retail Business Partner in October 2013 to work with the Digital management team to lead the Digital HR agenda. Accountable for all areas of generalist HR with a specific focus on performance, talent, retention and specialist projects. The Argos Digital function is new and growing and this HR role represented an opportunity to work with the.

Central And West London

• In this role I enabled the performance of 62 stores (circa 200 management) by effective partnership with two Area Managers. The main focus was to build and deliver a people plan and strategy that drove and delivered.
• National HR lead for Peak. This involved planning and implementing a project to ensure the store network was set up for our peak season including the recruitment, training and development of 9000 temporary colleagues.
• Facilitate key meetings and processes with the AMs and area teams e.g. performance calibration, engagement action planning, talent and succession reviews.
• Develop managers’ overall skills to be able to develop themselves and their teams.
• Ensure all activities are focused on our customers and that all activities are aligned with delivering great service.
• Analyse operational and HR information to understand areas of focus.

Business Partnering with our Commercial Operations function (clearance, eBay, returns) with sole HR accountability. Supporting the Argos Commercial functions on key focus HR areas:-- Functional Development, design & delivery of training sessions to meet development needs.- Leadership Development, ensuring all leaders were aligned to the same leadership.

Leading a Team of 10 HR Assistants to deliver on lifecycle administration across the business. - Implemented a new payroll system, migrating 50,000 employees. - Maintaining a fast paced, efficient team, overachieving all KPIs.- Improving processes. - Development and performance management. - Maintaining engagement of the team and embedding a positive.

- Administration of employee lifecycle.- Leading on key projects. - Improving and implementing processes.

- Employee lifecylce administration.- Ownership of all benefits such as cycle to work scheme, holiday buy/sell, pension & company cars.

Post Graduate Certificate In Personal & Business Coaching, Coaching

Through Barefoot Coaching, completed 12 days worth of coaching training combining various methods such as psychology, neuroscience, NLP.

Cipd, Post Graduate Diploma In Human Resource Management, Passed

Whilst working full time I took up a part time course with BPP University, completing 3 Core Modules and 4 Electives over two years. In.