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The HRi Indie Fee Survey Big Reveal
2021-09-30 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
The HRi Indie Fee Survey Big Reveal

About this event

We know from talking to our members that many independent HR and People professionals agonise over what to charge where to pitch their pricing. So HRi, in collaboration with one of our accredited and Platinum members, Charles Goodman, have recently surveyed the independent HR community to gather data to provide a guide to help others ensure they are setting competitive prices that reflect their knowledge, experience and the value they are adding.

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. We’ve been working hard over the last few months and are now excited to finally be in a position to share the results.

As always, we’ll ensure that this will be an engaging and interactive session with the opportunity to discuss, share observations and ask questions.

Sign up now to secure your place and be one of the first to hear the results.

Setting up a profitable and sustainable HR consultancy business
2021-09-29 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Practical tips on how to set up a profitable and sustainable HR consultancy business

About this event

Are you new to consultancy or thinking about going out on your own? Come and learn more about how to effectively set up your own consultancy, and how to ensure it is profitable and sustainable. We will give you practical tips on setting up and running your HR consultancy.

For this special session we are delighted to be joined by expert Paul Barlow.
Paul Barlow is an international CFO who has spent most of his career in transport/infrastructure at some of the sector’s most recognisable names. He has worked in all sizes of companies right across the range of funding models: from FTSE listed companies, to flagship public sector projects, to private equity backed organisations, and to owner-managed SMEs and start-ups. He has worked all over the world and lived and operated in Spain and Germany, speaking both languages fluently.
Paul has been involved with Amelore, a company set-up by one of HRi’s founders, for many years and has supported HRi in the background since its inception.
Outside of work, Paul likes nothing better than to go camping with his wife and children or surfing with friends.

The hidden dynamics of team performance
2021-09-16 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Leadership author Jude Jennison reveals the 12 hidden dynamics that occur in every team, explores the common problems that occur in teams and explains how to lead change more effectively.

About this event

How do you align your senior leadership team for fast-paced change?

In today’s hybrid workplaces, keeping a team aligned and connected requires new ways of leading and communicating. Teams have become more disconnected and fragmented thanks to remote working and stress caused by the uncertainty of the pandemic. Teams are made up of brilliant individuals but the quality of the relationships and communication within the team can accelerate or hinder commercial success.
In this webinar, leadership and team performance author and coach, Jude Jennison, draws on a decade of exploring non-verbal behaviour in senior leaders and teams to reveal the hidden dynamics that occur in every team and sabotage performance.

This webinar will cover:
• Understand how non-verbal behaviour influences relationships and results
• Discover the critical problems that derail even the best of teams and how to overcome them
• Explore 12 hidden dynamics of team performance, including:
o The Organisation model – 3 team roles that are critical to align a team
o The Pillars of vitality – 3 ways to create vitality in the team under pressure
o The Understanding approach – 3 levels of non-verbal awareness that increase understanding of different approaches
o The Stories blueprint – 3 unconscious stories that everyone tells themselves that impact relationships and cause division

Autumn Employment Law Update- Freeths
2021-09-09 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
On 9th September we will be joined by our legal partner, Freeths LLP for a roundup of changes to employment law and a look ahead to the future developments HRi’s should be aware of.
Amanda Trewhella and Lynne Ingram will provide an overview of some of the most important developments and cases that have taken place in recent months with a particular focus on the cases now coming through the employment tribunals relating to COVID.
They will also discuss employment law changes on the horizon and current hot topics including managing the return to the workplace and monitoring employee’s vaccination status
Will have time for a Q&A at the end of the session and if you would like to submit a question in advance feel free to do so by emailing: hello@hrindependents.co.uk
Please note, by registering you agree to share your details with our legal partner, Freeths. To opt out, please let us know by emailing: hello@hrindependents.co.uk

Developing Your Mental Fitness
2021-09-07 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Professional Development Programme

About this event

Mental Fitness is the X-Factor

If you’re not physically fit, you’d feel physical stress as you climb a steep hill.
If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration, or unhappiness, as you handle work and relationship challenges.
Recent events such as the Pandemic, disruption in our working environments, social unrest, and political changes have over-stretched us all, and some greater than others.
Duncan Battishill is going to share some examples of how we can all benefit from a new upgrade in your mental operating system to not just survive but thrive in these tumultuous times.

Learn how to boost your Mental Fitness(PQ)
PQ (your Positive Intelligence Quotient) is the measure of your Mental Fitness. It’s the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.
And the good news is you can boost your PQ significantly with practice.
PQ is a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

Want to Learn More?
On 07 September 10.00-11.00am Duncan Battishill is going to share ideas on how YOU can boost your own Mental Fitness.
Duncan will provide answers to 3 Questions: What is Mental Fitness, Why this is important in our professional work NOW, and finally What you can do to strengthen your own Mental Fitness?
He will answer questions and provide options on how you could participate in the Positive Intelligence six week programme.

Breakthrough Results
Within 6-8 weeks of mental fitness training, you’d be able to see the results in MRI imaging:
• Increased grey matter in the PQ Brain region, home to your positive mental muscles
• Decreased grey matter in the Survivor Brain region, home to your Saboteurs(negative mental muscles)
Improvements in these competencies lead to substantial results:
• Motorola recorded improved productivity in 93% of trained employees
• At a UK advanced Technology reseller, the average salesperson with improved competency sold £39,428 more per month
• 37% More Sales reported from a Technical Sales Team
• 31% Better Performance reported by a Professional Service group

As part of my Coaching practice, I have partnered with Positive Intelligence to share a 6-week programme offered by the CEO and Founder, Shirzad Chamine. Shirzad is the author of the New York Times best-selling book, Positive Intelligence, and a Stanford lecturer. He has taken his breakthrough research in neuroscience and the data he’s collected from over 500,000 people to create a 6-week programme

What clients are saying…
“Over the last 2 years I have worked with Duncan, he has really helped me re-boot my thinking, I am happier, enjoying my work, not getting stressed out nearly as often AND despite the pandemic where many in our industry have had a difficult sales year, I have had my best year in history”
Global Account Manager
“I would not have completed this negotiation with the outcomes we have achieved, without exposure to my own PQ practices”
Commercial Leader
“There is a noticeable difference in our group as a result of the 6-week PQ programme. Personally, I find it very helpful”
Founder of Europe’s Leading Veterinary Training Company

HRi Big Fee Survey- Roundtable on setting fees for Retained Clients
2021-07-29 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Following several queries on the HRi Facebook Group and as part of our report for the HRi Big Fee Survey, we will be discussing retainer fees in an informal and collaborative lunchtime chat.

We will look at 3 questions, giving everyone a minute or two to speak:

Introduction to your business and how you approach retainer fees.
What are the benefits and challenges of your approach?
If you were fully confident clients wouldn’t mind, how would you change your approach?

There will be a limit of 18 spaces to allow everyone a chance to get involved in the conversation so book quickly.

Kickstarter scheme for HR Consultants
2021-07-27 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Everything you need to know about the kickstart scheme.

About this event

This event is for either HR consultants looking to get a kickstarter of their own, or for HR Indies/standalones to learn more about the scheme so they can advise their employers/clients.

About the presenter
Aime Armstrong is a member of HR Independents and runs an HR consultancy company called Ninja HR. Since December 2020 Ninja HR have been an approved kickstart gateway and have helped more than 80 companies get £1,766,872 in grant funding to create 231 kickstart vacancies (100 of which have already started).
From this session you will get an overview of how the scheme works in practice (not just what you can read on the website), and an opportunity to ask any questions from someone who has spent the last 6 months living the kickstart scheme!

Testimonials: all our customers come via referrals or social media, and we are currently processing a kickstart application for your very own HR Independents!

Shareholder Agreements- Freeths
2021-07-15 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
We are delighted to be joined by our legal partners, Freeths on 15 July where they will take us through the essentials of shareholders agreements, including:

What is a shareholders’ agreement?
Why have one?
What does it typically cover?
Common mistakes & pitfalls
Q&A

Please note, by registering you agree to share your details with our legal partner, Freeths. To opt out, please let us know by emailing: hello@hrindependents.co.uk

Setting up a profitable and sustainable HR consultancy business
2021-07-13 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Are you new to consultancy or thinking about going out on your own? Come and learn more about how to effectively set up your own consultancy, and how to ensure it is profitable and sustainable. We will give you practical tips on setting up and running your HR consultancy.

Building your Sales Pipeline for HR Consultants
2021-06-29 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
About this event

Duncan Battishill, has specialised for 15 years in working with small and medium sized organisations. His reputation for coaching technical experts to grow their own businesses has lead to him being a regular Panel member on numerous UK & Internationally focussed entrepreneurial programmes.
Duncan has designed and facilitated numerous sales & business development programmes across a number of market sectors including technology, consulting and professional services. Duncan has a passion for mentoring and helping purpose driven leaders.
Join us for this 1 hour session where Duncan will provide HR Consultants with practical ideas on:

Why a Sales Pipleline is critical for your business to thrive?
What should my Sales Pipeline look like?
How can I build a healthier sales pipeline in 2021?

About the presenter
Over the last 20 years I have co-founded a Training & Development Consultancy and Sales Development Consultancy, working with both privately owned businesses and global businesses across a range of market sectors, including Engineering, Technology, Information Technology, Education & Consulting organisations too.
I have a track record in training & coaching consultants, scientists, engineers, technologists, medics and non-sales people who are wanting to develop their own businesses. My particular areas of specialism & interest are working with innovative & technical experts who are passionate about their Product & service offering.
Problems I have helped leaders & teams overcome are:

Quickly assessing the strengths of their sales capability & providing corrective action
How to get engage & connect with different types of decision makers
How to increase the number of meetings with decisions makers
How to qualify early sales conversations into real opportunities
How to implement a repeatable sales process for your business

Productising your HR offering
2021-06-25 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
If you’re making a living as a HR consultant or freelancer, and you’re trapped in the cycle of trading your hours for £’s, you may have already begun to wonder, “Is this it?… Can my consulting ever scale without me having to do all the work myself?” And what happens if I get ill or run out of energy?
Or, perhaps you’re running a thriving HR consultancy business with a team, still very dependent on project-to-project revenue to keep the lights on. If only your business model allowed for more predictable, more scalable growth…
Productised services have become the go-to business model for replacing the more traditional billable hours model for client services.
This webinar will cover the key things to think about when deciding to productise your HR consultancy business offering.
Join Ruth Cornish and Katy McMinn, Co-founders of HR Independents and successful HR Consultancy owners themselves on this webinar that might change your business model forever!

Intellectual Property - Freeths
2021-06-16 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
IP for HR professionals

About this Event

HR Independents are delighted to be joined by our legal partner, Freeths LLP where they will be taking us through the essentials of intellectual property law for HR indies, including:

· Back to basics – what is IP?
· Employees & IP – what IP do employees and employers own?
· Consultants & IP – what IP do consultants own?
· Licensing IP – how can you safely let others use your IP?

Reward/Resourcing: EXTERNAL HR & PEOPLE CAREER PATHS AND FEE SURVEY
2021-06-15 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
HRi Focus Group

From HR Independent to Financial Independence
2021-06-10 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
From HR Independent to Financial Independence: Understanding more about your personal money and financial plans.
Session hosted by Charlie Goodman.

About this event

You’re working hard to build a successful HR business, but when was the last time you looked at your own finances?
Over the lunch hour I’m going to help you find some answers to your personal money and pension questions, in a jargon light and judgement free environment.
I will be talking through:

Getting your finances organised
Figuring out how much you should be saving
How to determine where to save
Making the most of tax benefits
Understanding investments and investment returns
When and where to get financial advice and guidance

If you have a particular question you want me to tackle, please feel free to get in touch.

About the presenter
I run my own Employee Benefits Consultancy and am an accredited HRi member. Before I switched to HR a decade ago, I worked as a Financial Adviser, and I have recently qualified as a Certified Financial Coach. As part of my service, I run financial workshops for employees helping them understand the pension schemes and benefits I set up and manage for their employers. I’m happy to help my fellow indies understand more about their money.

Masterclass on Health and Safety for HR Consultancy Businesses
2021-06-09 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Health and Safety is often a separate discipline yet there are many crossovers with HR. When you provide HR consultancy services, your clients will seek your advice across a range of areas. Getting H&S wrong is a serious matter for any organisation and your clients will expect you to guide them about key areas to get right.
Attend this session to learn more about:

Minimum legal requirements for H&S
First aid and support in workplace
Reporting requirements to HSE
DSE and eye tests
Your role in risk assessments
Addressing concerns about employee safety – your role
Covid-19 – H&S obligations for employers

Incorporating Payroll into your HR Consultancy
2021-05-26 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
About the presenter/business:
Katie Sharpe – Head of UK Payroll
Katie is Head of UK Payroll for Mazars leading our national teams. Katie has a degree in payroll management and in 2019 was elected as a Board Director for the chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals.
She is passionate about the development and recognition of the payroll Industry, and is a frequent speaker at Industry events. Katie personally Specialises in process improvement and gender pay gap reporting.

Sarah Aves – Senior Client Advisor
Sarah is Payroll Alliance qualified in UK payroll Management. Sarah Joined Mazars in 2014, having previously worked in other payroll bureaus since 2009.
She has extensive expertise in all payroll matters including Shares through payroll, benefits in kind, expatriate employees, termination payments and redundancy together with a knowledge of Auto enrolment. Recent work includes processing of payrolls for the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, undertaking payroll health checks, Payroll implementations including large TUPE transfers. Exceeding client expectations and delivering exceptional client service is paramount to Sarah and her team.

What you will get from the session:
Overview of the payroll service that Mazars can provide for your clients

OD & L&D: EXTERNAL HR & PEOPLE CAREER PATHS AND FEE SURVEY
2021-05-21 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom

Referencing and Background Checks - Verifile
2021-05-13 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
How can you as an Indie ensure that your clients run the required background checks and referencing to confirm that new hires are who they say they are?
Verifile, our partner will be running an interactive session on how you can empower your clients in verifying the background of new hires.

Brexit and Immigration - Freeths
2021-05-11 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
HRi are delighted to be joined by our legal partner, Freeths LLP for an update on immigration law in the light of Brexit.

About this Event

With the clock ticking towards the deadline for the EU Settlement Scheme, Emma Brooksbank of Freeths LLP will bring you up to speed with the latest position and key developments. Join us to discuss:

Employing European nationals now and beyond the end of the grace period
Right to work check update
Business travel from the UK to Europe and Europe to the UK
Sponsoring recruitment under the immigration system

How to set up and run your HR consultancy
2021-05-05 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
Practical tips on how to effectively set up and run your own HR consultancy.

Are you new to consultancy or thinking about going out on your own? Come and learn more about how to effectively set up and run your own consultancy. We will give you practical tips on setting up and running your HR consultancy.

Financial well-being for HR consultants
2021-04-30 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
Financial well-being for HR consultants – become informed and in control of your financial future.

About this Event
This session is aimed at busy HR Consultants who have no time for Financial planning. Come along to find out more and ask questions relevant to you and your business.

We will cover:

Covid 19 and what’s changed with our personal finances
Budgeting and the need to take control of income / expenditure
Starting the savings journey and building an ‘emergency’ fund
Watching out for scams and frauds, what to look out for during Covid 19

About the presenters
Jody Downes is a business development director based in the London Mayfair office. He joined Mattioli Woods at the start of 2015 after a successful career in investment banking. Jody has been involved with Mattioli Woods from the outside since 2005, having been a key part of the Williams de Broe IPO advisory team. Several of the shareholders he introduced remain shareholders today.
Jody’s background is in equity capital markets, having helped fund numerous public listed and private companies, and he brings an extensive industry knowledge as well as a network of directors, corporates, private equity, and venture capital.
Outside of work, Jody is a keen sportsman playing hockey regularly for Spencer HC, and has coached rugby at Rosslyn Park FC and cricket at Spencer CC. When not on a sports field, Jody spends as much time as possible with his wife and three teenage sons- often near water in Norfolk and Cornwall, and sometimes attempting to surf!

Adrian Firth joined Mattioli Woods in 2015 as an Employee Benefits Consultant. Prior to joining Mattioli Woods, Adrian held various positions in the financial services industry managing corporate clients on behalf of HBOS (Lloyds Banking Group), Santander, and Yorkshire Building Society.
Adrian has also spent a significant part of his career with the industry regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority. While at the FCA, he helped to develop and deliver the regulator’s objectives for financial education (which later became the Money Advice Service) and was actively involved in the Retail Distribution Review.
Adrian lives in Huddersfield with his wife and three children, and when not working, is an active Yorkshire Masters swimmer.

Using PR to build visibility of your HR brand - Rachael Dines
2021-04-28 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Who is it for?
This online event is aimed at HR business owners that want to get media coverage but don’t know how.
About the presenter/business:
Rachael Dines is the founder of Shake It Up Creative, an award-winning, growing marketing agency in West Sussex. A Chartered Marketer and approved Enterprise Nation Adviser, her marketing career has spanned over 20 years across the B2B, B2C and Charity sectors, both in-house and agency-side. She is currently an adviser on regional funded support programmes including South East Business Boost and the High Streets of Winchester Retail Support Club. Rachael has featured on BBC Radio Sussex, Radio Reverb and as an expert guest on the LBC Radio Clive Bull Business Show. Passionate about sharing her knowledge and working collaboratively, Rachael is pleased to be a speaker for the HRi webinar series.
What you will get from the session:
Getting in the paper or on the radio isn’t as easy as it used to be. Journalists are inundated with press releases every day and media outlets work with skeleton staff. Learn the details about what makes the best stories and how to confidently pitch them to the local media.
You will leave this session knowing:
• What PR is and how it can benefit your company
• The different types of media target
• What makes a good news story
• What journalists are looking for
• How to approach a journalist/media title
Testimonials/recommendations:
“Working with Shake it up Creative was a key reason we were successful in winning the People’s Projects, with Rachael securing a lot of exposure in local press and being the driving force behind a new support group for invisible disabilities on Facebook. They are open to new ideas and I would definitely recommend them for a creative company.”
Jessica Cheetham, Producer, Root Experience
“My session with Rachael was really helpful, and packed with very informative advice. She provided me with loads of actionable steps to take, and plenty of great ideas I hadn’t thought about.”
Tim Hanley, Go Tiger!
“My business was a little up and down due to my own health and Rachael was sympathetic and gave me some very helpful strategies to help my business be visible digitally when I was concentrating on my health.
The suggestions were really a light bulb moment and they have reduced a lot of stress and I am able to focus on other areas as I am now so organised with my digital marketing.”
Kayla, Safety Mode

Incorporating Payroll into your HR consultancy
2021-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Paris)
About this Event

About the presenter/business:
Katie Sharpe – Head of UK Payroll
Katie is Head of UK Payroll for Mazars leading our national teams. Katie has a degree in payroll management and in 2019 was elected as a Board Director for the chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals. She is passionate about the development and recognition of the payroll Industry, and is a frequent speaker at Industry events. Katie personally Specialises in process improvement and gender pay gap reporting.

Sarah Aves – Senior Client Advisor
Sarah is Payroll Alliance qualified in UK payroll Management. Sarah Joined Mazars in 2014, having previously worked in other payroll bureaus since 2009. She has extensive expertise in all payroll matters including Shares through payroll, benefits in kind, expatriate employees, termination payments and redundancy together with a knowledge of Auto enrolment. Recent work includes processing of payrolls for the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, undertaking payroll health checks, Payroll implementations including large TUPE transfers. Exceeding client expectations and delivering exceptional client service is paramount to Sarah and her team.

What you will get from the session:
Overview of the payroll service that Mazars can provide for your clients

Discrimination and Gender Identity - Freeths
2021-04-21 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
HRi is delighted to be joined by our legal partner Freeths LLP for an update on recent changes to discrimination law.

The Equality Act 2010 protects individuals from being discriminated against in the workplace due to protected characteristics such as; race, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender, pregnancy, disability and gender reassignment. The recent landmark decision in Ms R Taylor v Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, found that complex gender identities also fall within the definition of gender reassignment and is therefore a protected characteristic.

Lynne Ingram and Amanda Trewhella of Freeths LLP will discuss how gender fluid & non-binary individuals are protected from discrimination in the workplace, and provide guidance on how to best manage complex gender identities including terminology. They will also provide a helpful recap and update of discrimination law in the workplace including a reminder of the differing types of discrimination, recent cases and awards.

Inspirational Indies
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
We are running our popular event, Inspirational Indies again on Tuesday 20th April.
Last year, we had a panel of inspirational Indies sharing their journey and top tips on how they grew their business. We are putting together another set of amazing inspirational Indies to share their experiences again with you. Every Indie has a unique journey and a beautiful story to tell.
Join us on Tuesday 20th April at 12:00pm for an enlightening discussion with our panel.
Meet our amazing panel:
Peter Colby

Pete is the founder of Pragmatism (UK) Ltd who specialise in dispute resolution mainly through mediation. He helps organisations to not only resolve workplace disputes, but to prevent them in the first place. Other than workplace and employment, Pete also mediates civil and commercial disputes whether that be issues between neighbours, landlords and tenants or high value commercial contract claims.
Alongside being a professional member of the Civil Mediation Council, Pete is also a Fellow of CIPD and has held a number of executive level HR positions in organisations ranging from small businesses through to blue chip companies such as Rolls-Royce and British Steel.
During his 35 year career Pete also spent a number of years as a Factory Manager running two high-volume food manufacturing plants, being directly responsible for around 850 employees, and demanding customers such as Tesco and Sainsbury’s. He therefore understands first-hand the significant challenges faced by line managers in balancing customer demands, product quality, and the safety and health of employees.
Pete’s real passion lies with preventing what he sees as wasted time in grievances, helping organisations and employees to have proper conversations, working through issues together pragmatically – hence the name of his company.

Sue Bradnock

After graduating with a BSc from University of Edinburgh, Sue studied a post-graduate diploma in Personnel Management at the University of Strathclyde, also giving her CIPD qualifications and she is now FCIPD.
After graduation, she moved South to take up a graduate Personnel Office role with ICL. The first project was assisting with a massive redundancy exercise – very much thrown in the deep end! Sue gained a lot of exposure throughout the corporation and was involved in several projects at HQ. From here she joined Harris Systems Ltd, an American IT Company; after two years, she was promoted to European HR Director with responsibility for seven countries. When asked to relocate to Belgium, Sue declined and joined Toshiba as Head for HR where she stayed for nearly 7 years.
Having met her now-husband, Sue decided to set up her own company – SVB Solutions – and has never looked back! As a member of IT HR groups, Sue had numerous contacts in the industry and specialised in the IT sector until the first recession hit and that was decimated. Sue now has clients across different sectors e.g., hospitality, financial services, legal, manufacturing, construction.
Sue is a member of TEAM, UK’s largest network of independent recruiters, that collaborate to share ideas and business. It has proved successful being able to call upon specialist recruiters to assist with assignments.

Nicole James

Nicole is an HR Consultant and coach with over 16 years’ experience across a number of industries. Nicole started Bamboo People Solutions in 2019 with a focus on supporting SME’s to become more productive and profitable through improving employee commitment and dealing with people management frustrations. Nicole’s focus is on improving leadership style and the employee experience to maximise the value that HR can add to a business.
Nicole provides support to clients from both an operational and strategic perspective. She creates close partnerships with leaders to ensure that they benefit from the value that HR and a focus on people can add.
Providing a balance between risk management and the commercial realities of life, Nicole provides pragmatic support that is tailored to the business. She enjoys supporting leaders with complex problems and ensuring that solutions are delivered with respect and kindness.

Rebecca Woolmington

Rebecca launched HRCentral in 2006. Prior to starting this reputable generalist HR consultancy business, Rebecca spent many years rapidly progressing and developing in the HR world.
A highly qualified and accomplished HR Consultant with over 25 years’ experience, Rebecca has successfully managed and grown HRCentral. Her experienced and talented team of Associates fully support HRCentral’s SME clients – most of whom have been with her for many years – with all their HR related issues.
Before establishing HRCentral, Rebecca’s last employed position was as Senior HR Manager/Business Partner in a large Engineering contractor based in Reading, with 3500 employees this was a busy role encompassing operational and strategic initiatives in the industrial relations and learning development arena. Responsible for a large team of HR professionals her roles have always encompassed recruitment and generalist advice.
Rebecca invests considerable time and effort into ensuring that HRCentral’s clients receive the best service. Clients benefit from pragmatic and current HR advice, ensuring that their HR processes are both right for their business and legally compliant. Using large corporate style processes scaled for SME.
The focus on expert customer support has earnt HRCentral the reputation of trusted provider of HR generalist advice.

Emma Del Torto

Originally from London, Emma went to law school at Cardiff University in 1993 before qualifying as a solicitor in 1998, specialising in employment law. She also holds a Master’s degree in employment law.
With over 20 years’ experience in employment law and HR, Emma established EffectiveHRM in 2011 with a mission of becoming the UK’s most cost-effective, personable and valuable HR service. Ten years on and she still feels passionately about her vision of creating a nation full of positive, proactive and empowered employers.
The expert team at EffectiveHRM provide a full service HR department to their small to medium sized clients and provide bolt on change management projects to support their larger clients. Emma is particularly proud of the full service HR and H&S team at EffectiveHRM and the comprehensive and expert service and problem solving that they bring to their 200+ clients.
Straight talking, pragmatic and a great team player, Emma focusses on delivering expert legal advice, combined with the preventative good practice of HR management and commercial realism. She’s particularly talented at getting to grips with complex issues quickly and resolving problems with a collaborative and solution focussed approach.
June Hogan– Host of the event

June has enjoyed a variety of roles during her 20 year HR career including HR Business Partnering, Reward and Policy, and Learning and Development. Having managed organisational change programmes and been made redundant herself, in 2019 June decided to bring together her personal and professional experience, and her coaching skills, to offer outplacement support services.
June is now the owner and Director of Wildwood Coaching Limited, a business which provides a variety of outplacement support services to values led organisations wanting to do the right and help their leavers with advice, guidance and support in preparing for a future after redundancy.

Setting up and running your HR Consultancy
2021-03-26 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Are you new to consultancy or thinking about going out on your own? Come and learn more about how to effectively set up and run your own HR consultancy. We will give you practical tips on setting up and running your consultancy.

How to build resilience through creativity - Preethi Nair
2021-03-25 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
About the presenter/business:

Preethi Nair left her job as a management consultant to publish her first novel Gypsy Masala. Not having the resources to rent an office, she established an ‘international PR agency’ in her bedroom and appointed feisty director ‘Pru Menon’ (an alter ego) to energetically hype her book. Nobody else knew of her plan. Working as several different people and with a frenetic double life, Preethi gained substantial press coverage. After two years and an amazing journey, she signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins.
Preethi went on to set up Kiss the Frog, a company that takes storytelling to organisations and is a professor at various business schools, promoting creativity as a key skill for leadership.

What you will get from the session:

Storytelling, creativity and resilience
Preethi will share her remarkable story and you will understand:
– How the stories we tell ourselves shape who we become
– How rejection is often redirection
Preethi will also share a creative writing exercise to build creativity, resilience and wellbeing.

Testimonials

“When Preethi is hired to share her unique insight into story creation she does so by opening a window into her own amazing life. Within an event that boasted other speakers such as Sir Bob Geldof, she was the one most were impressed by and wanted to follow up with. If your brand or business has a story that customers should value go talk to her”
Head of Customer Excellence, What If! – The Innovation Company
“In the search for things to inspire or ignite the creative process, you’ll be pretty hard pressed to find a more compelling and inspiring adventure and storyteller than Preethi Nair. Hire her!”
Head of ITV Imagine
“An amazing speaker.”
Deutsche Bank

Incorporating Payroll into your HR consultancy
2021-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom

Overview of Actus Edge the Performance Management Platform for SME businesses
2021-03-23 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Who is it for?
This event is for independent HR Consultants running their own business and for standalone HR professionals who work with end clients.
About this Event
Actus Software empowers organisations to have more engaging performance and talent management conversations in a simple and effective way. In addition to the core performance management functionality, they also offer HRIS, 360 surveys. They have designed an “off the shelf” product Actus Edge for HRi members which enable you to offer a cost effective end to end solution for your clients.
The system is highly effective at encouraging greater engagement with remote workers supporting wellbeing and engagement in a hybrid working environment. Actus also offers a host of value added services including the HR Uprising Podcast and the “How to be a Change Superhero” book and aligned resources.
What you will get from the session:
o An introduction to Actus
o An overview of the Actus Edge product and the options available
o A demonstration of the system
o Next steps and the support tools available to enable you to introduce the system to your clients
Future Webinar dates:
12.30 – 13.30pm 22nd April 2021 Overview of Actus Edge the performance Management Platform for SME businesses

How to use LinkedIn to grow your network and obtain leads - Jonathan Pollinger
2021-03-19 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Via Zoom, United Kingdom
Who is it for?
This event is for both independent HR Consultants running their own business and for stand alone HR professionals.
About the presenter/business:
• 11 years as a Social Media Trainer
• Over 100 recommendations on LinkedIn
• Mainly small business clients but also PR Agencies, Government and non-profit
• Regular commentator on BBC radio
What you will get from the session:
• How to attract attention with your profile
• How to use your Page
• How to connect
• How to message
• How to obtain leads with yours posts, articles and Stories
Testimonials/recommendations:
“One of the best trainers I’ve come across in terms of delivery, professionalism and knowledge’.
“Jonathan was extremely knowledgeable and helpful and is a great communicator, extremely helpful and knowledgeable and well prepared to answer queries. I would highly recommend Jonathan.”
