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SeeaChange is an independent consultancy service specialising in:- Coaching and mentoring;- Mediation and conflict management; and - Leadership in change. Visit our website at: www.seeachange.co.ukFollow us on Twitter: @SeeaChange_LtdFollow us on Linkedin

Development Consultant and Career Coach at Working Transitions providing a range of practical, results-driven and tailored programmes that achieve measurable business objectives. Specialist expertise focuses on designing and delivering Career Transition, Outplacement and Coaching services to individuals and groups across various industries in the UK.

As an experienced senior HR leader in the MOJ HR Team, appointed to lead a six month programme of diagnostic and restorative work on leadership and culture change with the MOJ Chief Digital Officer and his senior leadership team. The programme included a focus on:- building team capability, professional development options and organisational resilience;- introducing more effective and visible leadership and management of change;- enhancing performance and talent management across the 170-strong MOJ Digital team; and - working across the team to address cultural and behavioural issues that threatened the further success of the team.Within six months the programme actions led to:- improved leadership, decision-making and accountability at senior levels; - an effective employee engagement action plan with newly embedded engagement champions across the team to drive progress; - rigorous application of the performance management processes with revised performance standards and a more structured approach to performance management and career development going forward; - a new framework for developing career pathways and professional development across the Digital professions;- instigation of work on team values and behaviours, alongside resolution of some long-standing behavioural issues within the team.Feedback at the end of the programme was extremely positive and the strands are now being taken forward within the team.

Lead for the Ministry of Justice on a portfolio of HR services and complex change programmes, including introduction of the first pan-MOJ strategic workforce strategy/plan; developing effective resourcing services (including senior resourcing, Fast Stream/graduate, apprenticeship and internship programmes). Recent change programmes include: - Introduced a new Competency Framework, Performance Management System and Managing Poor Performance policy across the Ministry of Justice (c75,000 employees) in the face of business resistance and trade union opposition;- Lead a comprehensive programme of well-being and Attendance Management activity across the department to enhance employee attendance and well-being and reduce the average number of working days lost; and- Merging three disparate HR business teams with 180 employees into a single, coherent HR Operations function during a long and difficult outsourcing exercise, integrating the successful Casework Service into the MOJ HR function and increasing employee engagement by 12% in the same period. An experienced, accredited career coach, established and lead the MOJ's national Career Transition Service. Over four years, recruited and lead a national team of coaches providing tailored one-to-one and group coaching and outplacement support to 1,000+ employees in large-scale organisational restructures which avoided business costs of circa £14million; Established a reputation as a highly effective personal and career transition coach to 200+ public sector clients across Government, including a high proportion of senior civil servants with consistently excellent feedback;As a qualified Workplace Mediator, provided professional guidance and leadership to the Civil Service Mediation Service, leading a national team of 250+ mediators and growing the client base by more than 50% in three years. The service provides a cost-effective alternative to formal dispute processes, reducing harm and loss of productivity.

Managed a wide-ranging policy portfolio, including comprehensive and effective programmes to tackle all forms of hate crime, promote fairness and equality across Criminal justice policies and services and tackle discrimination. Also led work on increasing community engagement, working with local criminal justice partnerships and on building public trust and confidence in the Criminal Justice System.

Established and launched the first Victims Fund, working collaboratively with the voluntary and community sector to target grant funding on organisations delivering support services to victims of sexual violence and abuse. Led negotiations for the UK Government on the Council of Europe Convention on Action to Tackle Trafficking in Human Beings, securing changes which enabled the Government to sign and ratify the Convention.

Led the team that embedded the new statutory duty on the Probation Service to keep victims of serious sexual and other violent offences informed about release arrangements for offenders and to have a say about release conditions. Managed a range of policies for offenders with specific needs (eg: women, Mentally Disordered Offenders) and managed the NPS relationship with several large and medium-sized voluntary sector organisations (including NACRO), working with them to delivered offender management services.