Anna Weeks

Anna is a CIPD qualified HR practitioner with an honours law degree. Anna has extensive experience working in both the large and small/medium sized corporate sectors so understands the different dynamics businesses face and therefore the different support required on a day by day, week by week basis.

Anna’s expertise lies in adding value to organisations by assisting managers with employment issues, (such as handling disciplinaries and grievances, dealing with high levels of absence and managing performance), guiding managers through contentious and emotive projects, (such as organisational restructure, relocation and both individual and collective redundancies), and advising and training managers on all areas of HR best practice.

Lisa Saunders

Lisa is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and has been an Employment and HR Professional for over 17 years. Lisa was Global HR Policy Manager for Cable & Wireless, responsible for policy across the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. Lisa initiated and managed the global pay review for 2,000 employees across the UK, Europe, Japan and USA using virtual global and local E-HR teams.

Her specialist expertise includes high performance coaching for individuals and teams. Lisa is an Ashridge accredited coach, which is one of the top coaching qualifications in the UK. She is also a licensed Myers Briggs’ practitioner and has significant industry experience in the manufacturing, engineering, transport and retail sectors.

John Champion

John Champion (DMS Brighton) is a Senior International Professional Manager with significant profit improvement experience in both SMEs and large multinationals.

He was UK and European HR Manager for 15 years for Armstrong World Industries and also spent 10 years as Regional Director, General Manager and Industrial Relations Manager in Grandmet International Site Services (part of Grand Metropolitan, now Diageo). Prior to that, John spent 11 years working in line management roles in the milk industry.

He improves business performance by his experience of change management, team and individual performance improvement. More recently he has been immersed in health and safety risk management covering auditing, performance improvement and compliance management.

John pioneers change through considerable strengths in leading and developing people and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

Sajinder Rai

Sajinder Rai has a BA in Law and Accounting. She has extensive experience working with Employment Law and HR Practices and has subsequently taken on the challenging role of a Senior HR Consultant and Manager within the last five years.

Sajinder has excellent work experience within a diversified Sector, to include working in partnership with SMEs through to Corporate Organisations at both Strategic and Operational Level. Her Project work has included:

• HR Audits
• Introduction of Compliant HR Policies and Procedures
• Handling of complex Disciplinary, Grievance and Appeal Hearings
• Managing Business Change
• TUPE Transfers
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Multiple Redundancies
• Tailor made Training and Workshops on all aspects of Employment Law and implementation within the needs of organisations

As an Employment Consultant, Sajinder’s client work spans one of the largest Hotel Chains, Retail, IT Software, Engineering, Care Industry sectors and Main Stream Professional Services.

Gavin Meikle

Gavin Meikle is a certified NLP Trainer and Consultant and has more than twelve years experience designing and delivering training courses and programmes. Prior to becoming a training consultant Gavin had extensive sales, management and leadership expertise gained in both the private and voluntary sectors.

Gavin has worked with clients in a broad range of industries including: pharmaceutical, publishing, education, marketing, hotel and public relations.

His training interventions have included:

• Presentation and public speaking skills including effective use of PowerPoint
• Sales, influencing and communication skills
• Mind mapping
• Leading and motivating teams
• 1:1 coaching
• Team building
• Facilitation

In addition to running workshops Gavin is also an entertaining conference speaker and has spoken at a number of events on topics including influence, motivation, presentation skills, attitude, and effective interpersonal communication.

Helen Todd

Helen is a senior Human Resources professional with over ten years of experience. She joined Inter Group Insurance Services in 1999 which was sold to Churchill Insurance and then Royal Bank of Scotland purchased the Churchill Insurance Group. During this time she was promoted to join the senior management team for the RBS Insurance Intermediary & Broker Business and then Direct Line creating and leading the HR strategy for each Business. In 2006 Helen became self employed and delivered a 15 month project for Skandia, which involved creation of the Skandia UK Business Unit and integration of Selestia to the Skandia business model. She has vast experience in setting up HR functions to meet operational and efficiency requirements and managing business integration and redundancy programmes.

Rachel Abbott

Rachel is an experienced people and project manager, with excellent interpersonal skills across all levels. Rachel works in close partnership with businesses helping to develop HR plans and policies which add value by supporting business strategy and responding to immediate needs. Rachel previously worked as a Recruitment Executive for Inter Group Insurance Services (Churchill Group Company) where she developed the Company’s Recruitment Strategy and Policy ensuring adherence to employment law, best practice and business objectives. Whilst at Inter Group, Rachel managed and developed a team of HR professionals and was responsible for providing generalist HR advice to all levels of Management. Most recently, Rachel worked as an HR Consultant at the Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance where she resourced and directed HR projects in line with business improvement plans. Rachel adopts an enthusiastic and professional attitude to work and demonstrates integrity and sensitivity in all situations.

Hilary Larkham

Hilary has a wealth of HR Management and Training and Development experience and holds an MSc in Personnel Management. A true Generalist, Hilary has extensive knowledge of providing practical, commercial and customer-focused solutions to organisational HR issues.

Hilary first worked with ARA Services (now ARAMARK) in the role of Regional Training & HR Manager, where she worked in a national capacity for two of the five company divisions. Hilary then became HR Executive for Bateman, Hotel Services for Healthcare (Compass Group), specialising in the provision of support services to clients in both the public and private healthcare market. Hilary then took the role of Head of HR for the Unwins Wine Group Ltd where she was responsible for approximately 2000 employees.

As an HR Consultant at Grant Thornton, Hilary provided an HR management and advisory service to Senior Management of organisations in the SME/OMB sector, and since becoming self-employed, she now focuses on providing and delivering practical and pragmatic HR support to the SME/OMB sector in the form of interim and one-off style assignments.