As the Chief Operations Officer of the Peninsula Group and Chief Executive Officer of BrightHR, I am a subject matter expert in employment law , human capital management, HR and business transformation.
The Peninsula Group provides people support namely HR, employment law and health & safety transformation to over 75,000 businesses in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. I am responsible for the leadership of the Group’s operations strategy, presiding over 125,000 client monthly service interactions and client experience engagements. I also hold a number of non-executive positions across the 11 Group companies, while maintaining a Group operational overview and Group HR responsibilities.
My current project is overseeing the global roll out of our #hrtech and #safetytech business brighthr a SME HCM SAS proposition supporting over 39,000 organisations and over 500,000 users worldwide.
I am proud to be a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with 18 years’ experience in employee relations, a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the CMI, a certified practitioner and Fellow of the AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute), and a professional member of SHRM, Canadian Human Resource Professional Association and British Columbia & Chartered Professionals in Human Resources.
Having demonstrated a significant contribution to business and society, I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
In 2003, I was appointed to her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service in the UK and was one of the youngest judicial appointments to the Employment Tribunal Service, which I continue to hold.
For the last four years, I served as a charity trustee and Non-Executive Director for the worlds second largest HR professional body, the CIPD, which represents over 140,000 HR professionals worldwide.
As an industry leader in HR and business management, my expertise is sought after regularly. My authoritative commentary on SME and people management issues has been featured in media outlets such as The Telegraph, BBC Five Live, The Guardian and Sky News.