Expertise
- Employment & HR
- People Management/Development
- Policy writing/implementation
- Full audit and Review
- Investigations
- disciplinary and grievance
- Bullying and Harrassment
- Creator of workplace harmony
Summary
I am corporate trained with 30 years of experience within professional service firms. I have extensive experience within US/UK firms and SMEs. I started my career at the very beginning and worked my way up to international director level
There is no area of HR I have not covered during my long career. I am fully compliant and have up to date employment law knowledge (LLM qualified) and best practices within the human resources remit I can provide a full HR service to any organisation, essentially the whole life cycle of the employee/employer relationship
I specialise in wellbeing in the workplace and have been a pioneer within this very important area long before it was high on agenda. Welfare and a humanistic approach is essential to any successful organisation
My strengths are working with people to maximise results. I am solutions driven and will take away the time consuming people issues to help you focus on your strengths of building your business I am known to create a harmonious workplace.
My rates are highly competitive as I am locally based whilst providing a bespoke commercial service
Experience
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freebirdhrconsulting
Director
2025 - Current
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Baker Botts LLP
Director of International Office Administration
101 - 500 Employees 2012 - 2025 -
Fulbright & Jaworski. LLP
Director of Office Administration
101 - 500 Employees 2008 - 2012 -
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
European Director of Administration
101 - 500 Employees 2000 - 2008
Education History
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UK/EU employment law
Robert Gordon University
2007 - 2010Fully qualified in UK / EU employment law and a solid working knowledge of middle east, far east and US employment legislation
Qualifications
Masters Employment Law (LLM)
Post Grad Diploma HR Management
GCSE A level Law.
GCSE A level Sociology.
Clubs and Associations
HR Inner Circle. CIPD. Professionals UK
Interests and Hobbies
Learning. Understanding. Recovering fixer. Rock music. Ballet. Gardening and flowers. Reading. Oil painting. Reformer pilates. Wannabe baker
