Meet the team...
The more your business grows, the more employees you need. But the more employees you have, the more headaches you get. And the more time you spend resolving employee issues, the less time you spend nurturing your business. And so you stop growing – and then you wonder why you went into business in the first place!
Familiar story? No need to worry – help is at hand. Our team at Crispin Rhodes will point you in the right direction and keep you on track...
Angela Rhodes, Managing Director
With over 23 years’ experience in HR management, Angela is one of the most respected and widely-referred professional HR consultants in the UK. Founder of Crispin Rhodes, she uses her expert know-how to advise a wide range of business clients throughout England and Wales. Her skills lie predominantly in grievance issues, disciplinary cases, redundancy procedures, performance and absence management and recruitment. Her clients also include a number of major UK celebrities. Angela has two sons and lives in Milton Keynes with her husband, Mike, and springer spaniel, Zorro. She enjoys watching rugby.
With over 23 years’ experience in HR management, Angela is one of the most respected and widely-referred professional HR consultants in the UK. Founder of Crispin Rhodes, she uses her expert know-how to advise a wide range of business clients throughout England and Wales. Her skills lie predominantly in grievance issues, disciplinary cases, redundancy procedures, performance and absence management and recruitment. Her clients also include a number of major UK celebrities. Angela has two sons and lives in Milton Keynes with her husband, Mike, and springer spaniel, Zorro. She enjoys watching rugby.
Melissa Ritchie, HR Associate Consultant
A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), Melissa has over 10 years’ experience in HR management in the service, retail and manufacturing industries. While she believes that prevention is much better than cure, she has a 100% success rate for the tribunals she has defended on behalf of employers. Melissa has many years’ experience helping small businesses with HR policies and procedures and also with staff development. In contrast, she has also managed international development programs for a FTSE 100 company. Melissa is based in Northampton and enjoys sailing and skiing.
A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), Melissa has over 10 years’ experience in HR management in the service, retail and manufacturing industries. While she believes that prevention is much better than cure, she has a 100% success rate for the tribunals she has defended on behalf of employers. Melissa has many years’ experience helping small businesses with HR policies and procedures and also with staff development. In contrast, she has also managed international development programs for a FTSE 100 company. Melissa is based in Northampton and enjoys sailing and skiing.
Julia Coggins, HR Associate Consultant
Julia is a Chartered MCIPD qualified graduate with over 16 years in-depth experience of advising and guiding both small and large organisations on a wide variety of human resources and learning and development issues. Julia is a positive and self motivated individual whose strengths include planning, organisation and a close attention to detail. After a productive corporate career, Julia has been a highly sought after Consultant for the last seven years. During her career she has effectively worked on: HR project work; change management programmes; employee relations projects; trade union consultation and negotiation; team development; policy and procedure review work; interim HR management; coaching; complex case work investigations; design and delivery of learning and development solutions; and recruitment and selection issues. Julia is based in Bedfordshire and enjoys travel and spending time with family and friends.
Julia is a Chartered MCIPD qualified graduate with over 16 years in-depth experience of advising and guiding both small and large organisations on a wide variety of human resources and learning and development issues. Julia is a positive and self motivated individual whose strengths include planning, organisation and a close attention to detail. After a productive corporate career, Julia has been a highly sought after Consultant for the last seven years. During her career she has effectively worked on: HR project work; change management programmes; employee relations projects; trade union consultation and negotiation; team development; policy and procedure review work; interim HR management; coaching; complex case work investigations; design and delivery of learning and development solutions; and recruitment and selection issues. Julia is based in Bedfordshire and enjoys travel and spending time with family and friends.
Katie Eastwell, Occupational Health and Safety Practitioner
As an occupational health specialist, Katie works with employers to protect the health of their employees and to ensure that they meet all statutory health and safety obligations. She offers a wide range of assessment services, including, fitness for work, pre-employment health, sickness absence management, night worker health and workplace risk (including display screen equipment and manual handling). She also helps clients develop their occupational health and safety policies, plus she offers services in training, health surveillance, first aid and general health advice and can help companies access counselling services, as needed.
As an occupational health specialist, Katie works with employers to protect the health of their employees and to ensure that they meet all statutory health and safety obligations. She offers a wide range of assessment services, including, fitness for work, pre-employment health, sickness absence management, night worker health and workplace risk (including display screen equipment and manual handling). She also helps clients develop their occupational health and safety policies, plus she offers services in training, health surveillance, first aid and general health advice and can help companies access counselling services, as needed.
Call Crispin Rhodes today on 01908 230969 or email us now to find out more about how we can help you.
