Managing Consultant & Coach

Martin is the Co-founder & Director of ProAction HR. He has 15 years’ experience working with senior management teams and a wide variety of commercial clients, in the UK and internationally.

Martin has a strong desire to place people at the forefront of a business’s success which enables him to focus on the people agenda and realize opportunities for efficiency and better practice.

A Prince 2 practitioner and qualified performance coach, Martin brings rigour and challenge to any client’s business to enable them to achieve their goals. Specialities: Values/Vision, Senior objectives and strategic goal alignment, Performance Coach, Change facilitator.

Learning and Development Consultant & Coach

Joanne is Co-founder and Director of ProAction HR. She is a MSc qualified Occupational Psychologist who works to optimise; leadership and management skills, employee wellbeing, and individual differences. She is a licensed practitioner for Insights Discovery, DiSC and Myers Briggs Personality Type Inventory.

Joanne uses a variety of tools through training and coaching to help people reach their aspirations. She has a commercial focus on the bottom line and a proven ability to deliver customer needs at required costs.

After starting her career in psychology research for University College London & the British Psychological Society, Joanne applied these skills in financial services managing insurance products at The AA and ING banking. Specialities: individual differences, wellbeing, return to work, coaching, resilience, motivation & leadership development, imposter syndrome and neurodiversity.

Associate Director & Coach

Andy began his 30 year career with over 15 years’ retail management at Marks & Spencer & the John Lewis Partnership. Putting his customer service and commercial experience to good use he moved into HR, partnering with senior leaders in the Private, Public & Not for Profit sectors, helping to create and implementing their People strategies.

An accredited mediator, coach and counsellor, Andy has a passion for helping people achieve more, both in their professional and personal lives. Specialities include: Individual & Team Leadership & Management Development, 1-2-1 Executive Coaching, Group Coaching, Employee Engagement, Health & Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity and Learning strategy creation & implementation.

Office Manager

Jo has over 30 years' experience in a variety of roles in industries including telecoms, publishing, video games and aviation.

Having worked as a Trainer, Documentation Manager, Bookkeeper and Office Manager, she brings a broad knowledge and the ability to adapt to deliver the required results. Bringing a customer-service focus to a diverse range of jobs throughout her career, Jo is always looking to deliver a professional and efficient service to ensure that things run smoothly for both our clients and the ProAction HR team.

HR Consultant

Camilla is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with a breadth of experience across various business sectors ranging from small start-ups to large global organisations.

With over 14 years’ HR experience, she enjoys coaching, guiding and supporting both new and experienced managers on best practice.

A Certified Professional Behaviour (DISC) Analyst, Camilla has a real passion for recruitment and utilises her instinctive aptitude and knowledge to assist businesses in effectively hiring their most valuable asset, their people.

HR Coordinator

Colleen has over 16 years’ experience gained across Co-ordinator roles in HR and Management roles within Payroll.

Her career started off working for Medirest (a major food supplier for the NHS) and then directly for the NHS before working within various well known accountancy firms. In her most recent role she took the business from start up and built it to a successful bureau company with over 50 clients within a year.

Colleen is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She understands how important the role of HR is in a business and works with each client to achieve their vision.

HR Consultant

Myfanwy is an HR generalist with over 20 years’ experience working within both the public and private sectors. She has Chartered membership status of the CIPD and is passionate about everyone's wellbeing!

As a mental health first aider and member of a great HR team, Myfanwy focus is on supporting clients to successfully manage their HR issues during our challenging times. Myfanwy is also a volunteer with a local charity supporting people with learning disabilities to lead independent, happy lives.

HR Consultant

Ria has over 20 years’ broad and extensive HR related experience, working with a variety of large and small businesses, start-up and global.

Commercially astute with strong business partnering skills and an understanding of what a business needs coupled with a ‘can do’ approach.

HR Consultant

Sara is a generalist with over 20 years’ experience working with large and SME private and public sector clients. Sara’s recent experience involves supporting small IT/Software startups, as well as providing a full generalist service to larger software houses, to support them as they grow through talent acquisition and TUPE. Sara possess a good understanding of the challenges often faced by this sector, as well as a passion for supporting and coaching line managers to achieve successful outcomes with their employees.

Talent Attraction Consultant

Diane is a recruitment professional with 20 years’ experience helping shape the way organisations attract, hire and onboard their workforce. Her experience focusses on designing and implementing resourcing solutions for large and small organisations spanning the globe.

Diane has implemented resourcing solutions, at times with a blank canvas, in a number of organisations to improve overall efficiency and improve employer brand. Innovation & streamlined operating procedures have always been at the forefront of her planning and she has experience influencing key stakeholders, as well as designing & delivering the solution.

With an appetite for continuous professional development, Diane graduated in 2008 with a Masters in Business Administration specialising in developing business and is also a qualified Change Management Practitioner.

Training Consultant & Coach

Richard has over 16 years’ experience training others in leadership and management, in both the UK and internationally, as well as over 30 years’ experience in education and training. He moved from head of department for computing training in a university, where he also lectured in leadership for six years, to a corporate training position in Dubai. He has a strong focus on developing and expanding managers’ leadership competencies through knowledge, understanding and practice.

Over the past 10 years he has had the privilege of training and coaching several thousand managers in the UK and abroad to improve and develop their leadership and management knowledge and skills. He is now based in the UK. Specialities include: Developing Leadership and Management Skills, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Managing Change, Planning and Organising and Train the Trainer.

Training Consultant & Coach

Julie is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and since graduating in Business Studies, has had a 20 year career within global Financial Services. Her roles included Learning & Development, HR Consultancy, Business Management, Internal Communications, Cultural Change & Event Management, many of which were with global teams across different cultures.

Julie also spent 2 years working in Hong Kong where she delivered the people strategy across Asia Pacific for a global bank. After having her children, she joined another global bank, responsible for the design, delivery & evaluation of personal, management & leadership development workshops. She also delivered a company wide client service & cultural values programme to over 500 employees as well as a Senior Management Development Programme. Her passion is design & delivery of development programmes that help grow the confidence of employees and equip them with the skills to be successful.

Training Consultant & Coach

Chris’s focus with ProAction HR is on training, particularly in intercultural management, team building, and coaching.

After 25 years in banking, covering Operations and IT, Chris moved into Financial Services before setting up SMART UK in 2006, which he grew to a financial services consulting unit of 35. When the business was sold to Grant Thornton in 2011, Chris became their Head of Financial Services Business Consulting. He then moved to their Global Financial Services, helping grow the capability of the organisation in key global financial centres before becoming their Global Leader, Industries, with responsibility for implementing the strategy of the entire global organisation, as well as growing the financial services business globally.

From early 2017, Chris has taken his wealth of international commercial, financial, management and consultancy experience and worked as a senior advisor, director, coach and trainer to a range of organisations, ranging from professional services firms to start-ups and charities.

Training Consultant & Coach

Jane is a learning and development professional with 19 years’ industry experience. Specialising in leadership and management development she became a consultant in 2016 and has worked in 16 different countries across 4 continents, working with healthcare, finance, life sciences, IT, waste management and facilities management.

Jane has been a coach for over 10 years and has coached at all levels, from first-time supervisors to director and C-suit level executives. Whilst she is passionate and very serious about learning, she doesn’t take herself too seriously and likes to create a relaxed and informal setting where learners can truly be themselves and feel safe.

Coach

Claire is a Member of the ICF (International Coaching Federation) with a Diploma in Transformational coaching with Animas Centre. With over 20 years’ experience in Australia and the UK, Claire has lead & managed teams, delivering projects & worked at all levels of organisations, in corporate and higher education. She is driven by helping people discover their strengths, gain clarity on goals and increase their confidence.

Employee Engagement Consultant

Andrew has a career spanning 30+ years including sales, sales management & training, and his passion has always been personal development.

He focuses on developing & delivering improvement in employee experience and engagement. His ‘hands-on’ approach covers data collection, analysis, strategy, implementation of initiatives, data collection & measurement. Many organisations claim people are their greatest asset, yet there seems to be a gap between what organisations say, and what they do, so Andrew helps you close this gap. He collaborates to build a more positive, productive & enjoyable place to work. His planning & implementation deploys skills from HR specialists, change facilitators, coaches, trainers, facilitators, psychologists, and many more. His approach is a blend of ‘do it for you and do it with you’.

Client Engagement Lead

Mark has over 30 years' experience in the retail sector in various roles for national and more local organisations.

With a strong focus on exceptional customer service for internal and external customers, Mark has helped create products and services that encourage excellence in both the workplace and the customer offering.

Mark is passionate about people, how they thrive as individuals and the value they can bring to any business. Using his experiences and learnings Mark has had the privilege to build new teams, providing complete strategic solutions for individual and business growth.