About

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Vicky has worked in corporate senior leadership roles within HR over the last 30 years.

She has lead teams and influenced around the employee lifecycle from recruitment, learning and development, talent management to diversity and inclusion.

She has created strategy aligned to the business priorities and delivered effective solutions that enable people to perform and make a positive impact.

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By providing refreshingly personal and tailored support, Vicky utilises her extensive toolbox, built to guide their business, whilst navigating the challenges that HR teams experience with having to juggle multiple priorities and constantly changing business demands.

She works with those businesses to provide bespoke people solutions so that they become a destination business, where the best people want to work and stay, without slowing down business growth.

At the core of her offer is working with them to design solutions where they grow their business through their incredible people. Ensuring leaders, managers and team deliver the success they want for the business, while protecting everyone. And all measurable to ensure their investment delivers results.

A collection of logos showing the accreditations of Empowered Change Ltd
  • GC Ologist including Young People Index Assessment

  • Mental Health First Aider

  • Menopause Champion Henpicked

  • Chartered Master CIPD

  • Mental Health First Aider

  • Insights Practitioner

  • ILM 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring

  • Myers Briggs Practitioner

  • TAP L& D Consultancy July 2013, L&D Management December 2012, Delivery February 2011

  • SHL Practitioner February 2013

  • NLP Practitioner October 2007

  • Burnout Awareness Coach

Vicky has successfully developed over 200 Leaders through her Leadership development programme, and delivered over 1000 coaching hours to embed learning and realise tangible business impact. She has developed over 300 Managers with core management skills. She has designed and delivered many impactful soft skills programmes like innovation and agility, preventing burnout and wellbeing, resilience, talent development and gender balance development to name a few.

She provides the foundations the businesses need to remain up to date with legal, regulatory and current HR and people trends and best practices. All whilst ensuring they effectively manage the employee lifecycle from attraction to exiting the business, so they are an employer of choice.

At a delivery level, Vicky is very experienced in creating strategic vision and roadmaps, through to managing work priorities, leading teams, influencing key stakeholders as well as coaching senior leaders.

At a business inclusivity level, she knows how to show you to create an inclusive culture supporting less represented employees, some key areas include helping women to progress their career, supporting employees experiencing menopause symptoms , and reduce mental health and increase wellbeing.

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My Philosophy

As a people development consultant, I believe that I understand your challenges as an HR Leader having been there myself.

I can help you to achieve more impactful outcomes where your people want to work and stay with you, without slowing down your business growth.

I do this by steering you through your people and legal changes providing refreshingly personal and tailored support.

Get in Touch to discuss your needs in more detail

  • "Working with Vicky I gained clarity, took action and uncovered what is really important to me"

    Rachel McAvoy, Marketing Executive

  • "Vicky has a really calming presence which makes it easy to share ... I highly recommend Vicky if you are thinking of taking on any coaching support"

    Tanya Gamble

  • "Vicky possesses excellent communication skills, empathy and genuine commitment to professional development. She is selfless in the time and support she invests in others."

    Claire Moore, COO Lendable