Interim HR Projects
As an experienced interim HR Professional I can help businesses engage their people and develop an organisation geared to delivering business goals.
I can help:
- Develop resilient, (intelligently) optimistic Leaders who thrive in ambiguity, & instil confidence & commitment to deliver what the business needs
- Align HR activity to enable the business to deliver to its strategy
- Ensure individual Employees, Managers, & Leaders are capable of constantly embracing & orchestrating change
- Structure the organisation & build the capabilities required to succeed, long-term
- Manage restructures & redundancies in a professional, personal manner that protects the organisation’s reputation & future capacity
- Develop managers’ ability to coach & develop their people ‘on the job’ or through stretching responsibilities/projects
- Develop a pipeline of Talent
- Ensure employees focus on delivering what customers want
- Ensure employees know what they’re expected to do & deliver; have the skills & knowledge required to do their jobs; are equipped to keep learning & changing; & care about doing what the company needs to succeed
- Proactively manage poor performers
- Encourage innovation & entrepreneurship
- Engage employees – encouraging individuals to take personal responsibility for increasing revenue, improving productivity, delighting customers, &/or reducing costs
I have a proven track record in helping companies develop cultures that inspire people to care about business results, and give their best. I have helped a number of managers and leaders create organisations such as Haagen-Dazs, where their people deliver quality service standards and profits, whilst also having fun, and growing. I have enjoyed helping managers recruit, develop, and retain Talent; and develop strong sales, support, and leadership teams in a number of business sectors. I was instrumental in building Prêt a Manger’s award winning culture, and I helped itsu create the people foundations for their brand.
Throughout my career I’ve been instrumental in bringing about change within organisations – both in developing entrepreneurial start-up operations and large, established businesses instigating significant change programmes. Following a successful permanent career covering the depth and breadth of HR, I successfully completed interim projects with FremantleMedia, TK Maxx, Starbucks, and the Financial Times, and was asked to manage additional assignments or consider permanent roles, with all of my clients.
I bring 20 years commercial experience backed up by an honours degree in Social Psychology, graduating from the Institute of Personnel Management, gaining accreditation in a variety of personality profiling tools, training in Coaching for Organisation Consultants with Ashridge Business School, and attending the HR Strategy in Transforming Organisations programme at London Business School.
I have developed expertise in the way individuals and organisations learn and change, and I’m keen to take on challenging interim HR assignments where I can help an organisation achieve its goals through its people.
Please do get in touch if there are opportunities to improve the way your people contribute to your success. I’ll gladly spend some time discussing how I might help you achieve your goals.
“Amanda was a HR professional in the true sense of the word.
She had a first class attitude to work, was creative, and had a strong leadership
style. She operated confidently with senior Board Directors and was able
to operate both tactically and strategically. Amanda was a great team player
within the both the HR team and the wider senior management team, and she
played a huge role in the massive change programme undertaken at the time.
Amanda was ahead of her time in understanding the holistic role the HR function
was to become and was able to heavily influence the HR agenda across the
company. Amanda was a great networker internally, in the wider parent group
and also externally. A real pleasure to work with and learn from.”
Ged Tinley, Regional HR Manager, Superdrug