Testimonials
Emma is recognised for her calm, collaborative and people-focused approach to supporting businesses and individuals through change. With extensive experience leading complex organisational change, restructures, TUPE transfers, employee relations matters and strategic HR projects, she is known for building trusted relationships quickly and working confidently with stakeholders at all levels. Clients value her ability to combine practical HR expertise with emotional intelligence, coaching and strategic thinking — helping leaders, teams and individuals navigate challenges with clarity, confidence and care.
"I had the immense pleasure to work with Emma who was contracted to lead a significant and complex change activity which involved redundancies, a tupe transfer and the integration of two businesses.
Emma was knowledgeable and passionate with all things ER related and worked with multiple senior stakeholders managing their expectations and the relationships. Emma was a great support during this period of time to me personally and the business and was more than willing to roll up her sleeves and get involved.
I really enjoyed working with Emma for 12 months and she was flexible with her time, dedicated to task and always provided thoughtful documents and insight. Emma was fun to be around and engaged with colleagues at all levels.
I would strongly recommend Emma and her skills to anyone"
Emma was knowledgeable and passionate with all things ER related and worked with multiple senior stakeholders managing their expectations and the relationships. Emma was a great support during this period of time to me personally and the business and was more than willing to roll up her sleeves and get involved.
I really enjoyed working with Emma for 12 months and she was flexible with her time, dedicated to task and always provided thoughtful documents and insight. Emma was fun to be around and engaged with colleagues at all levels.
I would strongly recommend Emma and her skills to anyone"
David Gisborne
HR Director
Emma landed in the business at a particularly complex and high pressured time due to the delay in awarding supply chain contracts on this multi-billion pound programme.
Emma’s ability to quickly build strong, trusting relationships, bringing a calm and pragmatic approach to supporting her customers was invaluable for both our HR function and her business areas.
Working directly with her Executive team member and their senior leadership team, she quickly built a strong understanding of the business challenges and proactively worked to find solutions to complex problems. Emma has an ability to quickly develop rapport with senior leaders, so that she’s able to simultaneously coach and provide strategic support across a number of complex areas. In her role of Head of HR, Emma was able to act as a senior, strategic partner to her customer group and develop strong relationships with her colleagues in the HR function.
Emma supported me personally during a difficult period of change for the programme and her professionalism and expertise added credibility to the team and is greatly missed.
Emma’s ability to quickly build strong, trusting relationships, bringing a calm and pragmatic approach to supporting her customers was invaluable for both our HR function and her business areas.
Working directly with her Executive team member and their senior leadership team, she quickly built a strong understanding of the business challenges and proactively worked to find solutions to complex problems. Emma has an ability to quickly develop rapport with senior leaders, so that she’s able to simultaneously coach and provide strategic support across a number of complex areas. In her role of Head of HR, Emma was able to act as a senior, strategic partner to her customer group and develop strong relationships with her colleagues in the HR function.
Emma supported me personally during a difficult period of change for the programme and her professionalism and expertise added credibility to the team and is greatly missed.
Martyn Lewis
Organisational Development & HR Operations Director
Emma and I worked together for over 6 years in a variety of different roles, mostly whilst I was Director of Human Resources, UK. It was a challenging time period, involving extensive change, as we grew our UK footprint and transformed organisational structures and employee experience. Notable within this period was restructuring, site openings/closures and multiple TUPE transfers, alongside two major HR systems implementations.
Within this period of change, Emma worked as Head of HR Operations and sometimes as HR Business Partner. Her contributions were behind the successful completion of many of the change programmes that we operated. I was able to handover complex projects, trusting her to project manage them effectively, leading stakeholder engagement, co-ordinating multiple business streams and coaching both leaders and managers through the change. Her calm, collaborative approach combined with a both depth of knowledge and completion focus. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her and would not hesitate to co recommend her.
Within this period of change, Emma worked as Head of HR Operations and sometimes as HR Business Partner. Her contributions were behind the successful completion of many of the change programmes that we operated. I was able to handover complex projects, trusting her to project manage them effectively, leading stakeholder engagement, co-ordinating multiple business streams and coaching both leaders and managers through the change. Her calm, collaborative approach combined with a both depth of knowledge and completion focus. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her and would not hesitate to co recommend her.
Vanessa Wheldon
Director HR UK
I think it’s safe to say I didn’t know what to expect and was probably a bit sceptical on how coaching would help me but now I’ve seen the results, I thoroughly recommend everyone to get a coach and it’s safe to say, I’m a big advocate for it. For me, the most important takeaway was having a dedicated forum (and time!) to think about my life as a whole or dissect a specific conflict/situation which ultimately helped to free up my thinking space and keep me accountable on my own direction.
Emma was absolutely fantastic in helping me navigate through all the topics I bought to the session. She quickly identified that I was a visual person and needed to see the words or build a picture to understand what was going on in my mind and how to tackle / channel my thinking. I admired how Emma made the sessions a completely safe space to say anything I was thinking (however wild) and always remembered little things I’d said off the cuff from previous sessions and related it all back to what I was exploring
Emma was absolutely fantastic in helping me navigate through all the topics I bought to the session. She quickly identified that I was a visual person and needed to see the words or build a picture to understand what was going on in my mind and how to tackle / channel my thinking. I admired how Emma made the sessions a completely safe space to say anything I was thinking (however wild) and always remembered little things I’d said off the cuff from previous sessions and related it all back to what I was exploring
Senior Manager
Transformation Consulting (2022)
I had no prior experience of working with a business coach but after working with Emma over the course of 4 months, I would highly recommend this to EVERYONE, regardless of your level of experience.
At the time, I was going through a lot of change in my professional life and Emma was fantastic in helping me tackle the topics I brought to each session. These ranged in size (some of them came up most weeks!) but Emma was great in creating a safe space and most importantly, helping me identify a number of actions I could take forward off the back of each session which made each one feel like a success.
Emma showed great patience and flexibility and I would strongly recommend having a conversation with her regardless of your situation, but especially if you’re going through change in your personal/professional life
At the time, I was going through a lot of change in my professional life and Emma was fantastic in helping me tackle the topics I brought to each session. These ranged in size (some of them came up most weeks!) but Emma was great in creating a safe space and most importantly, helping me identify a number of actions I could take forward off the back of each session which made each one feel like a success.
Emma showed great patience and flexibility and I would strongly recommend having a conversation with her regardless of your situation, but especially if you’re going through change in your personal/professional life
Senior Manager
Operational Sales
Emma has substantive experience in HR but more importantly she is talented at adapting her approach for the situation or individual, leveraging well-developed EQ, maintaining balance and patience in the most challenging of situations and actively listening to others. These core skills enable Emma to quickly build successful relationships and maintain them through turbulence
Director International Human Resources