PEOPLE PUZZLES - Key Persons
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- Commercial Business Leader
- People Director
- People Director View Bio
A results-oriented, entrepreneurial HR leader that thrives on partnering with organisations to achieve their strategic goals by developing an inspiring vision, creating a cohesive leadership team, recruiting great talent and creating a culture and structure that allows people to achieve their full potential.
Adrian is a commercial business leader who understands business models, financials, external markets and customers. Partnering with boards and executive teams in fast paced organisations, Adrian has a track record of shaping and influencing business strategy to move businesses forward. This is combined with being a functional HR leader with a future-focused approach.
In the first part of his career, Adrian worked primarily in FTSE 100 or Fortune 500 companies, including: PepsiCo, GEC, Shell, Prudential, Smiths Group, Cable and Wireless and Rank Xerox, in HR Director roles.
Following on from his successful corporate career, for the past 14 years, Adrian has worked as an Executive HR interim in privately and publicly owned, and PE backed high growth businesses. Adrian has focused on creating the talent strategy, driving culture and purpose, being a change leader and trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Team. Recent assignments have included supporting a crypto currency start up in the UAE and a recruitment start up in the UK, rolling up his sleeves to achieve results.
Adrian has supported businesses to improve engagement and retention through redesign of organisation structure, clarification of accountabilities, salary and benefits structure design and structured training programmes. He is confident establishing new HR functions as well as streamlining existing operations to increase productivity and profit.
Looking back on his career to date, Adrian would consider some of his key achievements as the design of business strategy and aligning people strategy to achieve fourfold growth and 25% improvement margin over a three year period, as well as improving leadership capability through training, coaching, mentoring and succession planning leading to a 29% increase in performance.
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- Marketing and PR Account Manager, Intandem Communications Ltd
I found the personal development coaching I received from Lynn to be very beneficial. Lynn helped me to work on some very clear objectives with a good balance of supportiveness and knowing when to challenge and push me out of my comfort zone!
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- Managing Director
- Smith Managing Director
Alex Kinchin- Smith Managing Director 07842 325 010 alex.kinchin-smith@peoplepuzzles.co.
Alex has a depth of experience leading commercial operations, business transformation and complex programmes in the private and public sectors. His approach is to build the right team and to support them to focus on delivering the core objectives of the organisation.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Alison is passionate about helping businesses meet objectives and drive performance through engaged people and high performing teams.
Alison Folwell Head of Marketing 0203 011 2884 alison.folwell@peoplepuzzles.co.
An experienced marketer with a passion for people, words and inclusive culture, Alison brings over 25 years' experience in marketing, communications and coaching to her role as Head of Marketing with People Puzzles.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Alison's expertise is in leading business transformation and change programmes, with a focus on leadership, culture and employee engagement.
Ally Maughan founded People Puzzles in 2010 because early in her career she recognised that people problems were often the biggest, single factor holding a company back from growth.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Ana is committed to supporting business growth through pragmatic people practices. With a wealth of international experience across industries and business models, central to Ana's approach is valuing talent to enable business success.
Ana Hay, MBA, brings the philosophy that - "a champion team will defeat a team of champions". With over 15 years' global HR experience, Ana has worked in the UK and United States in HR Director level roles for banking, pharma, education and tech businesses.
With a knack for building great morale, a sense of belonging and a cohesive team spirit, Ana has an impressive track record in enabling teams to thrive. She is a firm believer that highly collaborative teams can achieve greater productivity and better customer relations. She champions this by focusing on individual and team strengths, supported by rigorous data analysis to lead change.
Ana is confident driving the people agenda at Board level, whilst providing leadership teams with the support needed to build, grow, engage, and retain diverse teams. Ana brings expertise in culture and change management, with an emphasis on talent development.
Ana has an international background, reinforcing her global outlook. She grew up in Bogota and Santiago de Chile, earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Georgetown University, Washington, DC and an MBA from London Business School in the UK.
Ana is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational French.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Andrea has over 25 years' experience in HR across multiple sectors and geographies. Having held leadership roles with iconic consumer brands such as Sky and the John Lewis Partnership, she loves to see businesses perform and grow through her work with leaders to create great people solutions.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Andrew is passionate about releasing the magic in people and teams in order to maximise a business's performance. He has over 20 years' experience supporting SMEs and Family Businesses.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Andy is a creative change agent, who takes a collaborative, organised and strategic approach to HR Management with a focus on delivering first class operational results.
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- People Director - Scotland
- People Director - Scotland View Bio
Angela is a commercially focussed, pragmatic senior HR professional, with experience of all aspects of HR in various industries within the UK and Ireland. She is results orientated, creatively thinking of ways to support business growth, while considering how to provide an agile employee experience, encouraging colleagues to manage work-life balance, foster a growth mindset culture and create opportunities for development.
With over 20 years commercial experience in large complex corporate companies in FMCG, Logistics, Retail and Energy industries, Angela has extensive experience in HR Transformation, providing strategic advice, coaching, feedback and respectful challenge to executive leadership teams to ensure the people strategy enables commercial growth in a progressive culture.
She has an ability to cultivate high performing teams and create, encourage and grow diverse and inclusive growth-minded cultures. She is passionate about people feeling confident to bring their whole selves to work, to connect with business strategy and consistently deliver key objectives within complex matrix organisations within a range of different industries.
She is most proud of designing and delivering strategic frameworks in different organisations which fundamentally shifted the world of work for those companies and led to sustained growth and success!
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
A Human Resources Director with an excellent track record of achievements with over 25 years' experience, having the ability to influence and to build trusted high-level relationships.
As a pragmatic, results oriented leader and HR Director with over 25 years generalist HR experience in both SME and large international PLC operations, Barbara has considerable expertise in leading and managing change to support high performance work environments and a strong commitment to delivering business success through people. She is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.
Barbara has worked in the manufacturing, wholesale, distribution and logistics, retail and services sectors, specifically in the food and drink industry and, most recently in veterinary services and pharmaceuticals.
Barbara has a great ability to influence and quickly build trusted relationships, (usually involving her practical approach and enthusiasm to get stuck in, mixed with a healthy dose of good humour). Her focus in supporting the business leader's growth ambitions is often centred around engagement and proactive employment relations management to develop their businesses to the next success milestone.
As an ex-servicewoman with a ten year military career, Barbara has succeeded in joining together her first and second professional occupations through her appointment in 2017 as a Trustee of the Women's Royal Army Corps Association, a military charity.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Ben is a clear-thinking HR professional who has over 20 years' experience across large corporations and in SMEs developing and delivering people strategies which engage the workforce to achieve their organisation's vision.
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- Managing Director, Lindum Packaging
Working with Gill from People Puzzles has helped us develop a People Plan which goes beyond compliance - it has helped us as a team to achieve greater alignment and engagement with the business strategy and goals.
I found the personal development coaching I received from Lynn to be very beneficial.
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- Managing Director, Albany Associates Ltd
Vee started with a baseline study of where we were. She then presented a work plan to deliver over the coming months, and while some priorities have changed it is impressive to look back and see how much has been achieved. She has become a trusted member of the senior team, providing advice and guidance on difficult topics, and is regularly consulted by the staff for her input.
Alison joined Valleys to Coast in March 2019 on an interim basis and 18 months later is still with us!!
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- People Director - South Central
- People Director - South Central View Bio
Beverley is a commercially focused, pragmatic HR Director interested in sharing her experience and expertise to help organisations achieve their business vision via great leadership and people management.
With over 25 years business experience delivering strategic and operational HR in Corporate and growing SME organisations across a range of sectors, Beverley's work is based on the ethos that good people management facilitates great business performance.
In her corporate career she initially worked domestically with the leading international pharmaceutical organisation, Abbott Laboratories where she had early experience in sales, training and sales management before changing direction to HR. Having successfully lead sales and HR teams at Abbott she moved to the pharma/biotech organisation, Serono, initially as UK HR & Development Director and then expanded her responsibility to Northern Europe.
Having built up considerable HR and business experience Beverley has set up and run her own HR consultancy and delivered a range of projects for large companies including Mace Group, MTC Novo, Chubb Electronic Security, CBRE (UK & EMEA), Access Storage, Alfred McAlpine, Mace Group. She also worked with mid and small companies including Basilea Pharma, Trammell Crow, Generate UK, Gedeon Richter UK, providing regular part-time and ad hoc HR consultancy support.
Throughout her career Beverley has worked with a variety of business leaders; Owner managers, CEO's, Boards and Senior leadership teams and has had responsibility for internal communication, ESG, payroll, facilities, as well as responsibility for the more typical people functions. She has helped organisations change, restructure and transform successfully.
Getting to understand businesses and their people quickly is a strength and Beverley is passionate about helping companies to engage with their employees and enable them to enjoy their work and deliver their best performance.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Carole is passionate about helping businesses to thrive by fostering engagement, developing talent, and building positive, performance focused cultures.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Caroline is a strong, supportive, results driven People Director with over 20 years' experience. Her passion lies in getting under the skin of clients businesses to understand their objectives and supporting them to develop their own unique strategy and plan to tackle both business and people challenges
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Enthusiastic, confident, flexible and responsive, Catherine has proven experience in senior HR roles across the logistics, distribution/warehousing, pharmaceutical supply chain, telecommunications and healthcare industries.
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- HR Leader
- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Charlotte is an experienced global HR leader who specialises in company transformation. Working as a true business partner and focusing on key objectives, Charlotte enables companies to reach their goals, whilst building a firm foundation for an engaged and confident workforce who will continue to flourish and grow.
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- Founder & CEO, Money.Co.Uk
It's been brilliant to have such knowledgeable consultants help us to empower our people. Stuart and Sophie were incredibly flexible, adapting their services to our business and existing culture. I'd highly recommend People Puzzles.
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- Managing Director, Trendsetter
Working with People Puzzles has enabled me and the team of Directors to step out of the day to day running of the business and concentrate on our future strategic direction. Sarah has helped us focus on how we develop our future leaders, develop cross team collaboration, and enhance overall business performance, as well as supporting the achievement of B Corp status. She is a trusted advisor and sounding board to both me and my team.
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- Fellow of the CIPD
- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Clare is a highly experienced and results focused People Director. With a pragmatic and down to earth approach, she thrives on creating and supporting workplaces that enable people to fulfil their full potential and feel a sense of belonging.
Claudia Gunter Head of Resourcing 0203 0112 883 claudia.gunter@peoplepuzzles.co.
Prior to joining the People Puzzles team as Operations Manager, Claudia had a successful career in IT Software as a Finance Manager and then as an Operations Manager for a global wealth management firm with its base in Mayfair, London. Claudia has worked and lived in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the Isle of Man.
Claudia's role is all about recruiting our amazing People Directors. People Puzzles receives thousands of applications every year from some wonderfully talented HR executives but unfortunately, we cannot recruit them all. Claudia is tasked with finding and hiring only the best commercial HR Directors for our rapidly expanding teams. She runs the whole process from cradle to grave and thoroughly enjoys meeting some marvellous characters and watching their transformation into successful portfolio People Directors. When she has any spare time, she dips into the many on going projects such as new technologies and finding innovative ways to support an agile working environment.
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- People Director - Scotland
- People Director - Scotland View Bio
Clyde is a commercial, people centric and values driven international Executive HR and Communications professional who has worked across a wide range of sectors and geographies with owner/founder led businesses and their executive boards.
Clyde is a strong believer in operating as a "critical friend" to key stakeholders by leading a purposeful, commercial, and agile people strategy that gets results and keeps people engaged along the way.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Seasoned professional who transforms your organisations ability to be competitive and profitable using pragmatic people solutions. Adding value to business leaders and their teams by removing the headaches that people issues create allowing you to get on with what you are good at.
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- CEO, Sigma Group
- Chief Executive Officer, Sigma
I can't thank Paula Woods enough for all her support and guidance over the last 3 years. Her time with us turned out to be a much longer assignment than any of us expected but I guess this reflects the extra ordinary events and circumstances we've encountered since 2019. The achievements of the People Strategy over this period have made a measurable difference to colleague engagement and has helped Sigma transition our people policies from that of an SME into market leading large corporate. Thank you.
Paula developed a clear People plan and road map, which has significantly moved us on. She has developed the existing HR team, and has ensured that we have progressed quickly on all the strategic initiatives that we identified. I'm confident that based on the last 6 months, with Paula's input and contribution, we are now in a strong position from a people perspective, to leverage the next 6 months and beyond.
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- Managing Director, Hawk Training
Our workforce and people planning strategy needed developing, there was a clear need to better articulate our strategy. Doing the People Puzzles Discovery, allowed us to gain an objective view of where we were as a business in terms of our people and where we needed to develop in order to meet our goals. The output highlighted we needed to better define our vision, mission, values and strategy to enable our people to live and breathe them. Kerry worked closely with us to provide solutions and a plan to support implementation. I would certainly recommend a Discovery from People Puzzles if you want to gain a clear insight as to where you need to develop your strategy, or to implement one if it's something you don't have already.
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- Regional Director - South East
- Regional Director - South East 07825 501002
- Regional Director for the South East
A seasoned sales and business development professional with over 25 years' experience, Daniel is highly skilled in helping businesses to scale, grow and thrive across multiple sectors. He has helped guide businesses from start-up to global enterprise, with experience in international market expansion, strategic growth planning and team leadership.
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- Group CEO, Direct Voice and Data
Janet spent time understanding our business needs and aspirations, then developed a people management strategy which she continues to oversee and deliver. Janet also provides 1-2-1 coaching to the SMT- she is professional, proactive and friendly and we are extremely pleased with the support and advice we have received. Janet is always available and quick to respond, the guidance and assistance given allows us to feel confident we're approaching any HR matters the right way. I would happily recommend Janet to any business who needs HR support.
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- Regional Director - North West
- Regional Director - North West 0776 6821 522
Debra Lee is a commercially focused, can-do HR and Business specialist. She has over 20 years HR and operational experience, gained working within the dynamic, fast paced environment of corporate retailing.
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- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Having enjoyed an exciting and highly progressive career to date, Divya has become very passionate about helping individuals, teams and highly ambitious businesses be the best they can be.
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- Interim CEO, Valleys to Coast
Alison was always a sound, reliable and expert source of practical advice and made things happen. She has a good sense of humour and was very easy to work with. She acted as the sounding board that every Chief Executive needs, supporting the Board to deal with some difficult HR issues. She was a vital source of calm at the outbreak of the COVID pandemic as we grappled with the impact on the organisation and our team. I would strongly recommend her as a strategic HR advisor as she would be an asset to any Executive team, providing effective support and expert advice.
Lynn's approach is refreshing and ensures you get where you want to be much quicker than we would otherwise.
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- Coach
- People Director
- People Director View Bio
A commercially astute and strategic HR practioner and business partner focused on improving and growing business performance. Culturally dexterous having been a member of, and worked with, Board and Executive Committees and wider management teams globally.
Emma aims to improve and grow business performance by ensuring the business has the skills it needs, and its people work well together, pragmatically resolving people issues along the way.
An inclusive leader, with over 13 years working for Standard Chartered Bank in a variety of roles and countries. Emma specialised in large-scale changes including corporate restructures, acquisitions, setting global people strategies and risk management, has also led large operational customer focused service teams.
Emma is a results based coach focusing on Board, Executive and legacy coaching and a qualified civil and commercial mediator working with individuals and teams on workplace and employment disputes.
Emma sits on the Board of the Together Initiative, is a Fellow of the CIPD, has her Masters in HR Management and her Bachelors in Humanities from the University of West London
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- Managing Director, Liquidline
I used to think that HR was all about employment law compliance and managing the administration basics. I didn't get the hugely positive impact strategic HR could make to the business - I do now!'
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- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel
- People Director
- People Director View Bio
Gill is an effective, energetic and approachable HR professional who has over 25 years experience delivering strategic and operational HR as well as leading change management projects.
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- People Director - Midlands View Bio
Helen Stenhouse Director 07958 227 215 helen.stenhouse@peoplepuzzles.co.
Jack Reynolds Finance Apprentice 0203 326 1307 jack.reynolds@peoplepuzzles.co.
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- Managing Director, Laxtons
I have only been working with Lynn for 6 months but the impact she has already had on the challenges we gave her are beyond my expectations and those of my senior leadership team. She has engaged with all our staff and her people approach is a breath of fresh air for the business. The HR support she has given me has made some very difficult issues appear straight forward and she has given me a new lease of life in the business. We would not have been able to get to where we are now without her wealth of experience and hands on people approach and I am excited to see what the future brings working with Lynn.
Jenny Huckstep Management Accountant 0203 8662 872 jenny.huckstep@peoplepuzzles.co.
Jessica Berry Talent Partner 0203 866 2874 jessica.berry@peoplepuzzles.co.
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- Chief Executive Officer, Valleys to Coast Housing
Alison has been instrumental working with me to recruit to a permanent role. Alison's approach has been one of partnership, contributing as part of the strategic leadership team, which has been critically important given the turbulence the organisation has been through. Alison is always available, responsive and I would highly recommend her from expert HR support to
Over the last 3 years, People Puzzles has helped build a very strong people culture at the RVT Group
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- Managing Director, Carrs Pasties
This is an inspiring story and it's all true. I can't believe it's about us! We've accomplished a lot over the last 18 months.
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- Regional Director - Scotland
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- Head of Engagement 0203 0112 881
Katy Stenhouse Head of Engagement 0203 0112 881 katy.stenhouse@peoplepuzzles.co.
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- Director, S & K Berry Associates LLP
Lynn has been a fantastic support to us and an ongoing fountain of knowledge. If you have a business and/or staff you need to take care of, you need a Lynn on your team!
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- Digital Marketing Executive View Bio
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- Regional Director - London
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- Regional Director - Midlands 07792 170122
I have the distinct pleasure of working with Lynn at People Puzzles. Her work over the last few years as our trusted HR consultant and my mentor has been absolutely invaluable. Lynn is an expert in her field, she is very knowledgeable, encourageing, supportive, and an effective leader. She is also really funny and a pleasure to be around! I learned a lot from Lynn and I would strongly recommend her.
We now have a clear Vision for the Companies 5 Pillars, In-house manager, leadership ‘Power 90' Training and a rhythm of key meetings throughout each year. This has had a direct contribution to the significant growth of the company in the last 3 years… With this support from People Puzzles continuing, the company continues to grow both financially and culturally for the benefit of all.
Prior to joining the People Puzzles team as Operations Manager, Claudia had a successful career in IT Software as a Finance Manager and then as an Operations Manager for a global wealth management firm with its base in Mayfair, London. Claudia has worked and lived in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the Isle of Man.
Claudia's role is all about recruiting our amazing People Directors. People Puzzles receives thousands of applications every year from some wonderfully talented HR executives but unfortunately, we cannot recruit them all. Claudia is tasked with finding and hiring only the best commercial HR Directors for our rapidly expanding teams. She runs the whole process from cradle to grave and thoroughly enjoys meeting some marvellous characters and watching their transformation into successful portfolio People Directors. When she has any spare time, she dips into the many on going projects such as new technologies and finding innovative ways to support an agile working environment.
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- People Director - East View Bio
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- Digital Marketing Executive
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- Contracts and Compliance Officer
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- Managing Director, GreenBlue Urban
I used to have the view that HR was managing difficult cases and moving people on with occasional recruitment support. But what People Puzzles does is so much more than that. It's about the development of the business and its people as a whole which has been the biggest eye opener for me.
Sally Reynolds Marketing Executive 0203 866 2873 sally.reynolds@peoplepuzzles.co.
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- Senior Marketing Executive
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- Management Accountant, Wirtgen Group
I could not recommend Lynn more, she guided me out of my comfort zone to help me achieve my goals and to think about things from an alternative perspective. I have also had a few people comment on the positive changes they can see in me which is a result of our sessions.
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- Regional Director - East of England 07534 009176
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- Regional Director - London and Bucks. 0790 1917 878
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- People Director - Midlands View Bio
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- People Director - Scotland View Bio
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- Regional Director - West 0779 9414 200
Carole has helped me and the business massively and added real value while helping us shape the business.
Vee has now been Albany's HR Director for a year, and has delivered a huge amount for the company
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- Director, Bridge Case Management
Lynn ran a detailed process and I wasn't allowed to get away with anything - All relevant issues were included and dealt with objectively.
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- People Director - West View Bio
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- Regional Director - South Central
Lynn has worked as our HR consultant for the last year and has helped us bring structure to our HR systems & processes - she has reviewed all our procedures as well creating new ones and for sure the Company and it's people have benefited. Her matter of fact approach is refreshing and ensures you get where you want to be much quicker than we would otherwise. She is a hands on ‘do-er' who gets things done and I recommend her to anyone who needs some real expertise in their HR.
Working with Gill has helped us develop a People Plan which goes beyond compliance