Staff Profiles

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.

Andrea believes that enabling people is not a ‘soft option’ simply for those that have the time and resources to do so, but rather it is the most effective way of improving the performance of organisations so that they consistently deliver business objectives. “Inspired people with a clear sense of what must be done can deliver extraordinary results.”

Andrea’s professional strengths are many and varied, but her core skills include:

• Coaching CEOs and other C-suite members
• Leadership team and board development
• Supporting the development of HR leadership and professionals
• Executive assessment of key individuals and leadership teams
• Working with private equity (PE) organisations and portfolio companies
• Reviewing and overhauling people strategies, particularly in portfolio companies to enable growth
• Advising newly developed organisations to ensure they are starting off with the right people practices and preparing themselves for growth
• Working with both global companies of 10,000s of employees and smaller ambitious organisations

For nearly 20 years Andrea has worked extensively within the Private Equity (PE) space carrying out projects with both PE firms and their portfolio companies. She uses her PE knowledge and experience to accelerate the pace of change, implementing practices that work.

She achieves a healthy mix of innovation and pragmatism (with a little humour for good measure) and is always focused on delivering results.

David has over 40 years’ experience working in the Financial Sector. He holds Directorship with ten companies in the UK/USA.

During his career, he has worked for IDV, Longman Group, Hunter Group, Pearson and many more. On top of that, he also has experience setting up a number of companies in different industry sectors.

He specialises in corporate and personal tax.

David also acts as a consultant to small and medium sized companies who cannot afford a full time financial director.

David is a huge family man, with a lovely wife and many children and grandchildren, who he spoils immensely!

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).

Graeme has been privileged to work around the world and his experience working across Africa, Scandinavia and Europe, Asia and the USA has taught him that it is more useful to look for the similarities that drive people than the cultural differences.

Graeme’s starting point is a profound belief in people and an unfailing sense of possibility in what they can achieve.  “We are all driven by our passions and peculiarities, striving to make a difference, in our own deeply personal and endlessly fascinating ways!”

Graeme holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Ergonomics, and was a registered Member of the Ergonomics Society (M. Erg. S.) for over 20 years. Graeme adds value by helping organisations deliver results in different ways and, in his own words, this is how Graeme describes his core expertise:

• Individual coaching: ‘When people question their assumptions they can rapidly transform their ways of working. I help people understand the changes that will make the most significant difference and turn the spotlight on moments of success to drive improvement.’
• Executive team building: ‘The magic happens when teams of leaders support and challenge each other to deliver more than the sum of their parts. I facilitate team development with a focus on clarity of vision, priorities for team development, stakeholder engagement and feedback.’
• Leadership development: ‘Healthy organisations see everyone as a leader. I help people feel confident, show their passion and take the lead. I bring tools and concepts in a way that makes ‘common sense’ and can be rapidly integrated into day to day tasks. I love to work with groups of all levels of seniority to establish new networks of leadership.’
• Culture change: ‘As culture is simply “how we do things around here”, I encourage leaders to personally role model the culture they want to see. For example if you want a culture of accountability you need to give freedom to people to take decisions and work it out for themselves.’
• Conflict management: ‘Introducing new technology, partnerships, or ways of working often creates conflict. As a trained mediator I am skilled at helping people see the common ground and take ownership to achieve a successful outcome in situations of debilitating conflict.’
• Facilitation and design: ‘I am a highly skilled communicator and facilitator with the ability to engage small groups or moderate large-scale conferences. By involving people in the dialogue, creating thinking time and including activities that challenge people to relate differently – I hold the ‘red thread’ to deliver clarity, ownership and action.’

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.

Most recently as the HR Director for a global marketing services company, she is experienced in dealing with all aspects of generalist HR, resource and talent planning and organisational change programmes.

Lucilla’s specific skills and experience include:

• Change Management – MBO, integration, communication, redundancy and redeployment
• Leading HR transition when being acquired, managing TUPE and ensuring post-merger integration
• Performance management and coaching, raising standards and promoting high performance.
• Design and delivery of management training programmes and outsourced workshops
• Employee relations and employment law
• Building and integrating updated HR policies, practices and procedures
• Challenging people and the status quo to inspire others and improve outcomes

Lucilla’s key personal qualities include energy, optimism and resilience with a determination to achieve the best possible outcomes.

When not working she has three kids to keep her busy and enjoys running and losing herself in a good book (preferably abroad).

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 & Development.

This breadth of roles and experience has given Daniel the ability to vary his approach to suit the specific needs of the teams he is working with. Recent experience in a diverse range of sectors has highlighted the critical importance of valuing employees and the dial has definitely shifted; he believes that a robust organisation’s talent strategy no longer focuses solely on the ‘Top 10%’ and that an all-encompassing approach to succession planning is vital.

Through Daniel’s work and study, he has acquired expertise in:

• Organisational change
• Leadership and management development & coaching
• Mediation
• Development of organisational purpose, values and culture
• People strategy and vision
• Succession planning
• Assessment and psychometrics

Daniel is Occupational Ability and Personality BPS Level A&B; Hogan HPI, HDS and MVPI qualified and most recently, he qualified as an CMC-accredited mediator to supplement his repertoire. Since Daniel has a young family, there isn’t all that much free time for hobbies, but when he can he enjoys cooking and touring on his motorbike.

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.

She is a trusted advisor, excellent at building client relationships, who quickly gets to the heart of issues and provides sound, practical solutions to people-related matters.  She provides a healthy mix of pragmatism, proactivity and a sense of humour, and she is passionate about providing a professional service and delivering results.

With a degree in Psychology and Sociology, and MCIPD and Chartered Membership of the CIPD, Natalie is also a qualified Mental Health First Aider and leads on wellbeing for People Business.

With experience across the generalist remit, Natalie has particular expertise in:

• Employee engagement and retention
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Employee relations including redundancy, absence management and performance management
• Design and delivery of management development programmes
• Coaching, mentoring and advising at all levels
• Employment law guidance and HR compliance
• Diversity, equality and inclusion
• Building HR functions from the ground up including strategy and foundations
• Integration and change management

When not working for People Business Natalie enjoys spending time with her family, socialising with friends, photography and travel.

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.

Chrissie has a passion for people and their development and provides practical, client-focused solutions which help achieve personal and business growth.

Partnering with executive level and operational management teams to design and implement meaningful people development outcomes has enabled Chrissie to develop expertise in:

• Coaching leaders and teams to engage better together
• Talent development and promotion programme design
• Competency-based assessment centre design
• Facilitation of team workshops and learning team audits

She specialises in coaching after redundancy, coaching women and newly promoted leaders who are in transition to new roles including:

• Building confidence and self-esteem and coping with changes associated with promotion to a more senior role
• Managing in a multicultural environment
• Conflict resolution
• Leading change and preparation for key meetings/presentations

Chrissie is a certified coach, a chartered member of the CIPD, a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and has also completed a diploma in business leadership.

Besides spending time with her family, in her spare time she enjoys training to compete in triathlons and is currently studying to become a personal trainer.

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.

After holding positions within utility, retail, travel and construction sectors, Lisa joined People Business originally in March 2004.  She worked here for nine years supporting the expansion of the business before returning to work for a PLC.

She boomeranged back to the People Business team in October 2020 and has since provided consultancy support to a wide range of PLCs and SMEs across both public and private sector companies.

Lisa’s key strengths and areas of expertise include:

• Managing and reducing absence
• Managing performance issues
• Disciplinary and grievance advice
• Recruitment and selection
• Handbook and policy development
• Managing redundancies
• Organisational change
• Employee relations
• Psychometrics

Lisa has a keen interest in swimming, eating out, travelling and enjoys going to the theatre at every opportunity.

Jess is a CIPD qualified human resources generalist with has over 20 years’ Human Resources experience in 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. 

Her roles have given her valuable insight into the following key areas of expertise: 

• Compensation and benefits 
• Reward management 
• Talent acquisition 
• Employee relations including union interaction 
• Change management and restructuring 
• Expatriate compensation and management 
• Performance management 
• Policy review and development 

Jess always tailors her advice according to her clients’ needs and aims to delivers high quality, concise solutions in a user–friendly format.  She enjoys building strong relationships with clients who often feed back that she is approachable and easy to work with. 

Outside work Jess enjoys looking after her two lively spaniels, socialising and open water swimming. 

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.

With wide-reaching experience across the generalist HR remit, Sue has particular expertise in:

• Employee relations including, management of absence, disciplinaries and grievances. Leading investigations, redundancy programmes and enabling performance management
• Talent management including competency-based assessment and development planning
• Creation of job families and frameworks enabling career pathing and resource planning
• Delivery of management training workshops and facilitation of blended learning forums
• Coaching, mentoring and advising at all levels and across functions
• Advising on HR handbooks, policy and process development
• Employee communications, change management, employee engagement and retention
• Project work across the generalist remit including outsourcing and TUPE case management

Sue has a particular passion for talent diversity and inclusion, closely following the development of this subject area through the lens of an HR professional. And in her free time she enjoys horse riding when the weather.

Tracy has worked with People Business since 2015 following a 15-year career in HR roles. With a diversity of experience ranging from multinational FTSE 250 companies to high profile SMEs, Tracy has worked across a variety of industries including professional and business services, construction, engineering and infrastructure, recruitment, technology and creative.

With a style described as personable and level-headed, Tracy is able to quickly navigate through complexity to develop solutions.

Partnering with board level and operational management teams to develop and implement effective people practices has enabled Tracy to develop expertise in:

• Leadership and management development
• Organisational change and culture
• Employee engagement and relations
• Business growth, acquisition, restructure and redundancy
• Performance management
• Recruitment and resourcing

Tracy is an experienced trainer and facilitator, much of her work with People Business involves enabling managers to lead and develop their teams.

As an accredited coach Tracy works with leaders and managers to support their professional and personal goals. By drawing on both first-hand experience and the thousands of hours spent working through people issues, Tracy is especially passionate about working with coachees who want to thrive in the art of people management and helping them to enjoy the challenge along the way.

To complement her professional experience Tracy has achieved NLP Practitioner Status, is accredited to the ICF coaching standards and is experienced in psychometric assessments.

Julie has been with People Business since 2006 (including four years working remotely from Canada), starting as Andrea’s PA and evolving her role to Consultancy Support Manager.

With her long service history, Julie is our all-rounder and a veritable People Business historian!  She’s heavily involved in all areas of the business, but her focus is on providing support to the consultants, whether this takes the form of research, analysis, project management or anything else needed.

A qualified Mental Health First Aider, Julie has a particular interest in wellbeing and mental health, co-writing our in-house wellbeing programme, WorkWell.  She is also our resident Good Boss guru providing advice and guidance to users as well developing the tool.

As People Business’s all-rounder, Julie has experience and expertise in many areas including:

• Wellbeing and mental health
• Project management and coordination
• Research and analysis
• Creating bespoke e-learning
• Content creation
• Good Boss Questionnaire

In her spare time, Julie has a wide range of hobbies varying from aerial yoga to crafting.  She is a keen walker and volunteers as a Path Warden in her local area of Alton.  She also loves organising events which has proved very useful when it comes to our team get togethers!

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

On the odd occasion Katie has some down time she enjoys yoga and a spot of crochet.

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 organising the Seasonal Press Launches for four years.

After having her second child she took a career break and moved to Spain to experience different culture and lifestyle. She decided to stay and lived there for 14 years, managing an apartment rental company for ten years in Marbella.

Hannah has now returned to the UK and  supports Andrea as her PA.

In her spare time Hannah loves football and walks on the beach.

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.

Having started working at People Business midway through 2022, she is set to grow the People Business brand and support the team in all things marketing.

Outside of work Alison enjoys spending time with family and friends, practising yoga, cycling and travelling.

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.

She joined People Business in October 2021 in the support team as our Office Assistant and in the summer of 2022, she was promoted to Administration Manager.

When she is not busy supporting the People Business team, Jessica is out tanning her beauty clients and spending quality time with her young son.

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

She now helps to provide a blended learning experience for our clients by assisting with:

• The creation of training
• The creation of e-learning
• The management of our LMS

Zoe also supports our internal marketing team.

When not busy at People Business Zoe can be found working on her hand embroidered clothing business.