Expertise
- Board & Leadership Advisory
- Talent Management
- Succession Planning
- Leadership development
- Coaching Executive Coaching
- Coaching & Mentoring Coaching
- Learning & Development
- Strategy planning
- Workforce Planning
- Organisation Design
- Organisation Development
- Organisation Strategy
- Change & Transformation
- Due Diligence
- Restructuring
- organisational efficiency
- reward strategy
- Compensation & Benefits Expert
- Diversity & Inclusion
- AI Literacy
- HR Analytics
- Employee Relations
- Risk Management
- HR Governance & Compliance
- Employer Branding
- Employee Engagement/Retention
- cross-cultural leadership
- Leadership coaching
- Leadership Consultancy
- Global HR Leadership
- board director
- People & Culture Strategy
- Team Management
- Employee Value Proposition
- Employee Wellbeing
- Talent acquisition
- Capability & Skills Building
- Performance Management
- Matrix Management
- Culture transformation
Summary
I'm accomplished People & Culture leader in Professional Services with extensive international experience in developed and emerging markets. I drive organizational transformation through strategic commercial alignment and innovative solutions. I have strong experience of operating at Board level and am literate in generative AI.
I own and run Cold Spring, a CHRO / People & Culture Director service, providing Board and Executive level HR & People support to organisations and their Leadership on a fractional, interim or contract basis. Primarily operating within Professional Services sectors (Consulting, Finance, Legal etc.), engagement can be on an external consultant or internal fractional or interim resource basis.
I founded Cold Spring on the principle that a key success factor in devising an effective HR & People Strategy is the knowledge gained via the ‘social capital’ of working across several companies, seeing what works and what doesn’t for them. It’s this dynamic knowledge transfer that helps create bespoke solutions that benefit the business and support employees, something which is considerably more difficult to foster within an in-house permanent role.
Experience
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Cold Spring HQ
Founder and Lead Consultant
1 - 5 Employees 2026 - Current
Cold Spring is a CHRO / People & Culture Director service, providing Board and Executive level HR & People support to organisations and their Leadership on a fractional, interim or contract basis. Primarily operating within Professional Services sectors (Consulting, Finance, Legal etc.), engagement can be on an external consultant or internal resource basis. I founded Cold Spring on the principle that a key success factor in devising an effective HR & People Strategy is the knowledge gained via the ‘social capital’ of working across several companies, seeing what works and what doesn’t for them. It’s this dynamic knowledge transfer that helps create bespoke solutions that benefit the business and support employees, something which is considerably more difficult to foster within an in-house permanent role. You can view my whole CV on the 'about me' section on the website https://www.coldspringhq.com/about-me
Education History
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BSc (Hons) Chemistry
University of Dundee
1995 -
PhD Surface Chemistry of Semiconductors
University of Dundee / CSIC Madrid
1998 -
PGCert International Business
Mountbatten Foundation
1999 -
MSc HR Development & Consultancy
University of London, Birkbeck
2013
Qualifications
MCIPD - Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
SHRM - National Member of the Society for Human Resource Management
ABP - Member of the Association of Business Psychologists
MyGWork - Ambassador, global business community for LGBTQ+ professionals and inclusive employers
Clubs and Associations
CIPD
SHRM
Association of Business Psychologists
HR Senior Leaders Connection Group
Carbon Professionals Networking Group
Sustainability Career Group
HR & Talent Management Executives
Human Resource Summit
Leaders Connect HR
Interests and Hobbies
Gym, walking & hiking, cooking, travel. My guilty pleasures are reading cosy crime and watching trashy zombie movies.
