HR: Ruth George

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HR: Ruth George

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Overview

Ruth is a Chartered Member of the CIPD with over 25 years’ experience in senior HR roles with household names such as Seiko, Next, Homebase and Fujitsu.

She has led the people function in organisational and cultural change programmes (including mergers, acquisitions and integration work) and has expertise across a broad range of people matters. From strategy, policy and organisational development through to talent and performance management, Ruth’s commercial focus and pragmatic approach is coupled with a natural curiosity and empathy towards people. Ruth enjoys applying her experience across many sectors, including retail, financial services, technology and travel as well as within corporate and SME settings alike.

Ruth is the winner of the Hri awards 2024 – Inspirational Indie. The award recognises Ruth for inspiring and supporting other HR Indies, and making a significant positive difference towards the HR Indies Community.

Ruth is based in Hemel Hempstead.

Key areas of expertise:

People strategy
Organisational design and development
Change management (including TUPE mergers, acquisitions and integration work)
Talent management
Appraisals and performance management
Employee relations
HR audit
Policy drafting
HR toolkits
Consultation and implementation
Absence management
HR training
Generalist support for SMEs

Qualifications include:

‘I have known Ruth for many years through local HR networks and when our organisation needed some additional HR capacity, I immediately turned to her. Ruth helped us during a time of major change to navigate the HR hurdles that come with reorganisation. She was very quick to respond and understand our needs. Her experience, knowledge and professionalism are second to none. I highly recommend Ruth.’

‘Ruth helps the Society for Occupational Medicine on an ongoing basis – providing HR advice, drafting contracts and most recently, facilitating a very effective team building away day. Ruth has excellent skills in HR, is friendly, professional and I would recommend her without hesitation.’

‘I have had the wonderful position of being managed by Ruth as I was up and coming in my HR career and then working with her on some key people projects for InHealth. Ruth has a great style and is so knowledgeable on the different applications possible in a solution. She extracts the right information, setting out a clear way to ensure the right outcomes. An absolute pleasure to work with and a trusted business partner for people projects. I cannot recommend her highly enough!’

‘Every so often you meet someone like Ruth, and the world is instantly a better place. Ruth is a great organiser and doer, she is selfless and humble, an excellent communicator and a great connector. And she is an exceptional HR and OD consultant- she knows her stuff! And if she’s not an expert in a field she knows someone who is. If you need support around tricky people issues, Ruth is your woman to turn to.’

‘Ruth is an excellent trainer, the dynamics of our group worked really well, and delivered a very thought- provoking, interesting, and enjoyable session.’