About Ali
The world of AI can be a great place but it misses those human nuances and signals when having difficult conversations with people and that is what I specialise in. With over 25 years of experience in HR, coaching and business leadership I bring a deep understanding of personal and professional challenges in business, especially in times of change. With a pragmatic approach, I have a passion for developing people through coaching, management training and development, change management and wellbeing. I am CIPD qualified with over 25 years post qualification experience. A trained MBTi and Insights Practitioner as well as a level 4 Psychotherapeutic Counsellor to assist in all wellbeing situations.
I love the day to day HR conundrums and can provide advice and support in all employee lifecycle matters, help you through change management projects or help deliver and facilitate training sessions. Whatever your people issue I am likely able to help! My linked in profile shows many recommendations particularly around change management.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Manchester (up to 50km)
Experience
- Becton DickinsonBusiness Partner/HR Manager UK/I - Sales & MarketingJanuary 2015 - March 2025 (10 years and 2 months)Wokingham, England, United Kingdom• Partnering with Leaders and HR colleagues based across the EMEA region to deliver people plans and projects (Organisational design and various M&A integration projects, onboarding, commercial excellence strategy (including introduction of inside sales team, marketing competencies, territory review and ongoing change management).• Member of the Business Unit Management teams I support, Sales Leadership team and leading the Staff forum to maintain communication and employee relations links.• Day to day responsibility for all HR related issues with a strong focus on talent management and develop ment, leading substantial acquisitions and change process, payroll system integration, benefit harmonisa tion and all day-to-day HR issues, together with keeping on top of employment law changes and policy re view and modernisation.
- ELSEVIER LTD (OXFORD)DIRECTOR, PERFORMANCE & DEVELOPMENTHUMAN RESOURCESJanuary 2012 - January 2014 (2 years)Oxford, United Kingdom• Leading a Learning and Development team based in UK/I, APAC, Netherlands and USA to deliver a consistent plan.• Through consultation with directors, managers, HR colleagues and employees, established one team glob ally working towards a coordinated training strategy to provide a more consistent training provision and to effectively contribute to the business strategy.• Created, developed and embedded a performance development culture through the creation of a PDP training programme and significant communication plans which reduced employee relations case load by 8% in 12 months and achieved a 7% increase over 2.5 years in the PDP question in the EOS.• Improved the performance management capability for managers and global HRBPs. Led to a 23% in crease in the number of managers that carried out meaningful PDPs globally over 2 years.• Improved communication skills through an internal communication working group which delivered training, devised tools and techniques and ran monthly webinars with over 200 global attendees each month.• Through consultation with global managers and directors and working with external consultants established a global management model based on a competency framework which provided the basis for a consistent approach to management development programme globally.• Worked with external providers and co-delivered internal management development programmes for over 500 managers and improved the 'Manager as Coach' question on EOS by 5% over 2.5 years.• Developed a coordinated approach to employee engagement to increase employees' understanding of survey outcomes and implementations and their impact on the business.• Established a globally consistent training evaluation programme• Promoted and developed the use of the Learning Management System with the Global Application Man ager through increasing relevance and application to individual learning and roles, enabled an increase in online usage by 25% globally.
- Elsevier LtdHR DIRECTOR/GLOBAL FINANCE HR BUSINESS PARTNERJanuary 2010 - January 2012 (2 years)UK & Ireland, Altrincham, England, United Kingdom• Led improved team ((10 generalists) effectiveness through establishing agreed ways of working and coached the team and individuals to effectively work together. Survey feedback demonstrated an increase in the attitude to team working by 4%.• Partnered the CFO to deliver on the HR plan for a team based across EMEA, APAC and the U.S. Worked with HR Business partners in each country to deliver the required plans.• Achieved various cost saving initiatives through the initial review of policies and benefits, the development of the staff council relationship, improvement of reps' skills and updated constitution to achieve savings of £1.3 m.• Successfully managed the implementation of initiatives from the EOS which included the development of a competency framework to ensure improved career development for all in a finance role and an internal training site though consultation with the CFO and Global finance team.• Oversaw the management of performance management process, international assignments and global change management projects. Effectively relocated 2 Senior Finance Directors to positions in Philadelphia and New York.
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Education
- Professional Certificate in Executive CoachingHenley Business School2022Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching
- Insights discovery facilitatorInsights2021Insights discovery facilitator