ASPIRING HR - Key Persons
A skilled HR Director, Amanda began her career in Retail Management before specialising in Graduate Recruitment and Management Development. Amanda has held a variety of Senior HR Management roles, before becoming an HR Director within the financial services industry. In this role she built the HR function from the very beginning and helped lead a business turnaround through to successful public flotation. Amanda is a qualified leadership coach with an MBTI and Insights License as well as being psychometric level A and B qualified. Amanda is currently studying for an MA in psychotherapy which underpins and strengthens her coaching abilities.
Job Titles:
- Leadership Consultant and Coach
- Managing Partner of CoSuccess Consulting
In addition to working with Aspiring HR, Anton is the Managing Partner of CoSuccess Consulting in the US. Anton has a wealth of hands-on experience in helping leaders, teams and organisations achieve measurable collaborative success.
Co-author of "Close The Interaction Gap", Anton is a strong communicator who can motivate and align diverse teams to achieve a common purpose.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Coach With CoSuccess Consulting
- Consultant, Team and Executive Coach
In addition to working with Aspiring HR, Bernadette is a Consultant and Coach with CoSuccess Consulting in the US. She works with individuals in large or small organisations who deeply care about creating and living success in all areas of their life, by giving them a clear vision, purposeful direction, and increasing their personal and leadership effectiveness.
Bernadette also has her own coaching and speaking practice that focuses on Women's Empowerment and Leadership.
Job Titles:
- Coach, Facilitator, Trainer
Clare has been coaching and developing successful leaders and teams throughout her career. Following 25 years working for internationally acclaimed customer focused organisations, she now works as an Executive Coach, with a range of board level and senior leadership team clients. Her specialisms include executive and leadership coaching, building resilience and communication and team development.
Debbie has a wealth of experience across many sectors and is known for her practical, yet calm and compassionate approach. Utilising her experience of multiple leadership roles and commercial awareness, Debbie supports our clients with a broad range of issues from recruitment to performance evaluation and people management. Debbie also leads Aspiring's Gold Standard projects, induction programmes, wellbeing calendars and initiatives.
Hayley is a meticulous, task-driven Executive Assistant with more than 10 years of experience in managing office operations. Hayley supports the team with all administrative tasks including scheduling, correspondence, project management, event planning and internal communications. Hayley is a professional problem-solver, incredibly intuitive and equipped with an innate ability to anticipate the needs of the team and our clients. Her ability to remain calm under pressure whilst supporting the day-to-day administrative, financial and operational functions is invaluable.
Julie has worked exclusively in HR for the past eight years in administrative and advisory roles for both the private and public sectors, including Government Agencies and Membership Organisations. As HR Assistant, Julie works in our HR Service Hub specialising in recruitment, new starters, onboarding, contracts, payroll and general enquiries.
Juliette joined Aspiring originally as part of the HR team before moving into Operations, and now as Learning and Development Manager. Juliette's background is diverse having worked with global organisations in both the public and private sector. Juliette supports clients by identifying learning opportunities throughout their organisation, to design and deliver personalised training solutions and development needs. Juliette is a master in bringing an individuals talent to life and helping them reach their full potential.
Kevin began his working career in product and contract management within the travel industry before making the move into the HR. Having worked in a number of multi-site environments within the public and private sectors, Kevin has gained a broad working knowledge of HR functionality and employment legislation practices and methodology. Kevin is also currently studying psychodynamic counselling as part of his own personal self-development.
Laura spent six years working in HR for a UK holiday resort before moving into an Advisor role on completion of her Level 5 CIPD. Laura works with clients across a broad range of issues supporting them with employee relations, employee recruitment and retention. Laura specialises in helping clients create a company culture that reflects its values and is beneficial to both management and employees.
Job Titles:
- Mental Health First Aid and Emotional Resilience, Trainer and Facilitator
Following a corporate career in senior HR and L&D roles, Liz founded Aspiring to bring integration and humanity to the complexities of organisational performance.
As a Leadership consultant and coach, Liz works with clients navigating personal and professional change. She supports individual leaders and leadership teams to harness the power of creating an environment where teams can thrive, be trusted and bring their greatest skills to work.
Liz's portfolio spans a number of industries including pharmaceuticals, retail and manufacturing working extensively with global businesses through periods of significant change. For the past 20 years, she worked internationally with senior leaders and managers on strategic planning, change and transformation projects, leadership development and behavioural and team development.
Liz has a Postgraduate in Human Resources Development, is a Postgraduate Trained Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Master NLP practitioner. Liz is also trained and accredited in MBTI, Belbin, SDI and DISC profiling tools. Liz is a CIPD fellow.
Louise has more than two decades of experience in HR working within a range of organisations, including global recruitment and the technology sector. Louise is a skilled negotiator and confident in developing employee relationships and engagement with diverse people across all levels. Resourceful and quick-thinking, Louise has track record of successful hands-on programme delivery.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Post Graduate Trained Executive Coach
As a Leadership consultant, coach and trainer, Michael works with clients navigating personal and professional change, to help them become confident and empowered in their choices.
Michael's background includes a number of senior & field leadership roles in Retail, Technology, Facilities and Hospitality where he oversaw a number of complex and elusive organisational challenges. His expertise lies in supporting individuals and teams through issues relating to strategy, organisational design and cultural change.
Michael is a Post Graduate Trained Executive Coach and Master NLP practitioner. He also trained and licensed in Insights Discovery and an Accredited MHFA Mental Health First Aid Instructor Trainer.
Job Titles:
- Coach, Facilitator and Trainer
Master in the field of team development, Patrick brings over 20 years of academic and commercial experience to enable teams to release their unique strengths; working to tackle their biggest challenges and achieve their greatest results.
Job Titles:
- Coach, Facilitator and Trainer
- International Trainer
Committed to developing performance since playing professional squash in this teens. Rob is now an international trainer and business and sporting coach.
Rob is a performance psychologist fascinated by the motivators, enablers and structures that facilitate human and team performance and change.
Rosie comes with a vast experience spanning the private and charity sector. With her proactive and business-savvy approach she supports clients with effective and efficient problem-solving solutions. Rosie has an in-depth knowledge of HR processes and procedures and a proven track record of providing support to senior managers. Rosie supports clients with HR operations and employment law, data processing, HR policies and procedures, administration, business and people management, GDPR, confidential data management and relationship management.
Vikki began her career in Travel and Hospitality sector working in strategic and operational management roles. With a passion for people and following the completion of her CIPD qualification, Vikki offers a pragmatic approach to her work and serves as a sounding board for executive management. Vikki is commercially astute and takes the time to listen and observe each client to fully understand their business and people needs.