Our experienced consulting team includes dedicated HR consultants, Health and Safety experts and training specialists.

Gill Craik MCIPD
Director of the Black Dog Human Resource Consultancy Ltd

Biography

Gill Craik is the Director of Black Dog Human Resource Consultancy Ltd, offering advice and support to businesses on all staff and employment related issues.

She has a wealth of experience in both operational and commercial business delivery, which was initially gained within the catering industry.  She worked as an Area Manager in the Restaurants and Private Health Care sectors, being responsible for business development within Gardner Merchant (largest Contract Caterers in the UK, owned by Trust House Forte), negotiating business renewal, being responsible for all aspects of employment for 200 employees and managing a budget of £6 million.

Gill returned to full time education and graduated from University in 1996 with her CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development). She has since worked within the Public and Private sectors of various industries and gained her full membership status (MCIPD). Gill has worked with the Thames Valley Police, along with a number of privately owned companies at Regional and National level before deciding to set up as a consultant and establish Black Dog HR Consultancy Ltd in 2006.

Her commercial and operational experience has provided her with an appreciation of the direct effects that advice given by Black Dog HR can have on a business.

Specialities
Outside of work Gill has been involved in several fund raising initiatives for the NCT and childrens’ charities and has set up and led a 10 strong committee to raise £16k in a year to build a childrens’ play area. She is a member of a number of local committees and supports local initiatives.

She is a competitive badminton player and plays for local leagues.  She also enjoys spending time socialising with her friends.

Deborah Rowett

Biography

As the HR Advisor for Black Dog HR Consultancy Ltd, Deborah provides our clients with advice and support on a variety of HR related topics. Deborah is a Law graduate, with strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Deborah has worked in several part time jobs to enable her to fund herself through further education. After obtaining a Scholarship to study at the University of Buckingham she took a break from work with her young family and to spend the time with her studies. She achieved a 2:1 LLB Hons Law Degree and sought a career in HR. Deborah is now planning to start her CIPD qualifications shortly.

In her spare time Deborah enjoys reading, and spending time taking her children to participate in their hobbies.

Carole Moxon FCIPD
Human Resources Consultant

Biography

Specialities
She is a trained psychometric tester and possesses the British Psychological Society Level A (Ability) and Level B Intermediate (Personality) Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing. She is also an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds membership of a number of business organisations.

For the past 2 years, Carole has been a voluntary Business Advisor for the Young Enterprise Programmes and has participated in other educational training programmes for students and young people.

Lynne Baker

Biography

Lynne is passionate about developing people and enabling teams and organisations to work more effectively to achieve business aims.

With over 10 years management experience, mainly in the public sector, she has gained experience in all aspects of employing people including recruitment & selection, employee relations, performance management, training and organisation development.

Lynne has a proven track record of delivering initiatives with enthusiasm and drive, delivering them on time and within the resources available. She has led the people aspects of significant change programmes where NHS organisations have merged resulting in changes in structure. In addition when Lynne was working in the NHS she led a range of culture change programmes designed to improve performance and quality of service delivery.

She is accredited by the British Psychological Society to use a range of psychometric instruments including personality tools such as OPQ32 and MBTI (Myers Briggs) for use in team and personal development.

Lynne is a highly qualified HR Professional (FCIPD) with a methodical and realistic approach to her work. She has a facilitative approach with an inclusive personal management style which together with her experience of change management and working in a challenging, competitive business environment enables her to form working relationships quickly with a wide range of people.

Lynne has had a varied working life with careers in education as a lecturer and teacher, several years as a research scientist and also a period of living in West Africa.

Richard Alton

CMIOSH MIIRSM Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner

Biography

Richards experience (initially as a Marine Engineer in the Merchant Navy, then later as a Safety Officer) has varied from ships engine rooms through offices, manufacturing workshops, warehousing, building facilities (inc security and fire) and colleges to mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and data installations and civil site works.

He has worked on numerous construction sites ranging from very large projects (e.g. Landrover – Solihull; BMW – Cowley etc) to smaller more specific installations (e.g. Gatwick Airport; Tower Bridge; Harrods).

His qualifications include; NEBOSH Diploma (Occupational Health and Safety) and he is a registered consultant wioth the OSHCR

Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner (to maintain this, continuous professional development and assessment is required ensuring chartered status is only held by professionals with current knowledge).

Specialities
Provision of Health & Safety Policies and Systems; Risk Assessments; Display Screen Assessments; CoSHH Assessments; Work Equipment Assessments; Fire Risk Assessments; Training, CDM Advisor (Principal Contractor), Safety Audits, Advice on Legislation and various other services specific to particular industries.

Geoff Langston
Training and
Development consultant

Biography

Geoff works with all levels of staff in the businesses from team members to senior directors.

He has delivered training interventions to a diverse range of private and public sector organisations including a Blue Chip energy provider; a FTSE 100 pharma company; and a private medical healthcare group.

Specialities
Geoff is a member of the Institute of Customer Service, a published author of articles on customer service, a qualified coach and an MBTI Step 1 and Step 2 Practitioner. He is also an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner, hypnotherapist and an Assessor for Investors in People.

Alix Dees
Learning Consultant

Biography

Alix holds a first degree in Design for Learning and a Masters in Business Administration from Cranfield University.
Alix has worked as an independent learning consultant and content developer for the last 6 years. She creates or improves existing 'blended' training solutions including face-to-face training, print material, audio/video/podcast material and e-learning.
In the web environment, people also refer to the role as 'instructional design' and it encompasses usability and information architecture and an editorial function.

Her previous experience of commissioning learning materials as a client at DaimlerChrysler UK gives her an insight into the needs and priorities from the client side. Before moving into corporate training, Alix worked for 10 years in educational publishing with Heinemann, Open University and BBC Enterprises Schools Division.

Specialities
Web writing for an information or learning context. Information architecture. Writing for internal communications. Training programme design, content development, instructional design and storyboard writing, voice-over/podcast script writing. Technical subjects for non-technical people.