Meet the team

Andrea Gregory

Founder

Andrea is the founder of People Business and is an experienced HR professional, organisational development consultant, coach and facilitator.

With a background of corporate senior roles and over 25 years of experience, Andrea brings a wealth of expertise and impact to her work with clients.

Graeme Rainbird

Graeme Rainbird

Consulting Director

Helping people and organisations to be the best they can be is Graeme’s passion. With over 25 years consultancy experience in leadership and team development, cultural change, organisational development and conflict management, Graeme has worked with clients across many sectors(including finance, medical, pharmaceutical, retail, public and not for profit).

Lucilla Kearsey

Lucilla Kearsey

Consulting Director – HR

Lucilla is a CIPD qualified HR generalist with experience of delivering results through strong client and senior leadership relationships and sound commercial know-how. Adept at working with all levels of an organisation from a broad range of sectors she thrives in a results-driven environment, her work style combining professionalism with pragmatism and a positive attitude.

Natalie Chotai

Natalie Chotai

Senior HR Consultant

Natalie has over 25 years of generalist HR experience, including ten years at senior management level, most recently as HR Director for an internet security company.  She has diverse experience with organisations of all sizes from SMEs and charities to large blue-chip multi-nationals, and across a range of industries.

Chrissie Saunders

Chrissie Saunders

Senior Learning and Development Consultant

Chrissie is a qualified learning consultant and coach with over 30 years of experience in HR and training. Her diverse experience has been gained in a range of industry sectors such as retail, FMCG, consultancy and professional services in the UK and Middle East.

Daniel Roberts-Green

Daniel Roberts-Green

Senior Talent Consultant

A passionate advocate for people and organisational development, Daniel has worked in learning and talent for the entirety of his career. With considerable experience in FTSE100 organisations and smaller, PE-backed companies, predominantly his experience is in the healthcare and hospitality industries. He has held both global and national roles – most recently as Head of People and Head of Learning and Development.

Jess Bailes

Jess Bailes

HR Consultant

Jess is a CIPD qualified human resources generalist with has over 20 years’ experiencin the field. She and has enjoyed working in HR in a variety of organisations in different sectors  including investment banking, education, healthcare, and conferencing and events. 

Lisa Bolton

Lisa Bolton

HR Consultant

Providing practical HR support in a professional and relaxed way to help her customers and clients deliver the best possible results has been Lisa’s specialism over the last 20 years. Lisa is CIPD qualified and has a wealth of HR and people development experience gained in large blue-chip organisations where she has held HR manager roles.

Julie Ware

Julie Ware

Consulting Support Manager

Sue is a Chartered Member of the CIPD with a strong background in the retail and technology industry sectors partnering with commercial stakeholders and technology leadership to deliver customer solutions and services. She has 30 years of generalist and international HR experience working in global matrixed organisations, most recently as HR Director in a travel technology company.

Katie Skelley

Katie Skelley

Finance Manager

After spending 5 years as a stay-at-home mum looking after her 3 children, Katie joined People Business in 2019.   She ensures the smooth running of the finance department and provides additional office support where needed.

Hannah Bertrand

Hannah Bertrand

PA

Hannah worked for the BBC at TV Centre for ten years. First working as a PA to Deputy Director of Television before working in publicity for four years organising the seasonal press launches.

After having her second child she took a career break and moved to Spain.

Alison van der Hoven

Alison van der Hoven

Marketing Manager

Alison has over 20 years of experience working in B2B service industries – particularly in the technology sector. She is a generalist marketer but particularly enjoys marketing communications – brand, campaigns, content marketing, event management, PR and digital marketing.

Zoe Ware

Zoe Ware

Training Advisor

Zoe has been working for People Business on a freelance ad-hoc basis since 2018 helping to create our eLearning courses and supporting material. In July 2023 she joined us on a permanent basis as a Training Advisor working within the Talent Team.

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Jessica West

Business Operations Manager

Jessica qualified and worked for many years within the Childcare and Education Sector, both in-house and agency side before having her son. She then took a 5-year career break to be a full-time mum, occasionally working part-time within the floral industry and undertaking training courses and setting up her own little beauty business in tanning.