Our
amazing team

Richard is an experienced senior HR professional and service lead with a broad range of skills acquired in complex national organisations. He has led large and small teams, managed significant budgets and commissioned and managed projects to ensure organisations thrive in tightly funded arenas.

Recently Richard has allied 30+ years of experience in senior HR roles with frontline delivery of programmes in children’s services and project management in public health environments.

Serving as HR Director for YMCA Training from 2002 to October 2014, he operated in a senior leadership role, leading his HR team and supporting managers and directors across the country.

Richard has a good understanding of the opportunities and threats facing public sector and third sector organisations. Prior to working at YMCA Training and The Children’s Society, both large National Charities operating in highly challenging circumstances, he worked for the NHS – from 1989 to 1996 at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.

Richard has cultivated an array of business skills and can manage projects in any area achieving positive outcomes, enhancing the reputation of the businesses in which he operates

Away from work Richard is Vice Chair of Governors at a local primary school and chairs the Pupil Experience Committee. A highlight of his governorship was leading the Trustees in their search for a new Headteacher. Richard is also a longstanding Independent Member of Trafford Local Authority’s Standards Committee, another voluntary role that focuses on governance within the Authority and standards of conduct in public life.

Lucy’s HR career began in 2003, with a passion to help employees thrive in the workplace and a set of unwavering core values; fairness, respect and integrity. Having since garnered valuable BP and SLT experience across various sectors including Manufacturing, Scientific, Service & Energy, Lucy thrives on building trusted working relationships and strives to get into the heart of a business, as she believes this enables her to be a true business partner.

As a pragmatic and effective HR professional, Lucy has focused on providing sound generalist advice to people across all levels of business, flexing her style of communication accordingly whilst ensuring messages are delivered in a clear & consistent manner. She has managed large-scale redundancy, relocation & recruitment projects and complex employee relations cases. Lucy is also an NLP Practitioner, a qualification which adds great value to her approach in handling challenging circumstances.

Away from business, family is Lucy’s passion. She spends her time keeping her two beautiful children entertained, from crafting to country walks, dance offs to movie nights on the sofa. She also has a 1-year-old Cockapoo called Rosie, who thinks she is a human & loves to dance. Lucy is also a massive Meat Loaf, Queen & Billy Joel fan & is very at home in a swimming pool as a former synchronised swimmer.

She is also an active member of the PTA at her children’s school, having been both Treasurer & Deputy Chair, driving change and offering time, support & ideas for the betterment of the children’s school experience. Lucy is a Dementia Friend & also attends a monthly Dementia Friendly Communities action group to help make her local area a more accommodating, understanding place for those living with Alzheimers & Dementia.

I passionately believe that having the right people-focused approach adds immense value to businesses and that organisations who create a culture of value, respect and continuous development will in turn reap the benefits of a proud and committed workforce, strong performance, profitability and sustainability.

I can support your business to achieve this using my skills and experience gained over a thirty year career as an MCIPD qualified HR professional, operational manager, trainer and coach. I have worked successfully for a number of award-winning companies including Manchester United, Jobcentre Plus, Great Places Housing Group, Trafford Council, Probation Service and Calico Group in a variety of roles including HR Manager, HR Business Partner, Management Trainer, Regional Employee Relations Manager and Operational Manager.

I am experienced in building management skill capacity and resilience, complex casework, restructures, large scale redundancies, recruitment, outplacement and TUPE. I have a special interest in conflict resolution and am a TCM Accredited Mediator and an accredited trainer for Mental Health First Aid.

In my spare time, I am a yoga teacher and a counsellor for Child Line. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, especially my two-year-old Grandson who reminds me to look at the world with new eyes in his journey of learning and discovery.

Over 10 years of experience in top-level management has given me extensive commercial knowledge and a rounded approach to an array of situations.

As a Chartered Member of the CIPD, I am an experienced people manager having supported others to embrace growth and change.

Having previously been a Head of Business in the motor industry, I have strong operational skills and a great understanding of specific stakeholder needs.

My Employment law knowledge means I can enable practical change, balanced with empathy to improve working relationships effectively.

Debbie is a highly experienced, MCIPD-accredited, Senior HR Manager with significant operational and strategic generalist HR experience.

During her career, Debbie has worked closely with all levels of management in a range of industry sectors including Manufacturing, Medical & Industrial Sales & Technical Services, Corporate Services, Further Education and Property Management.

Debbie prides herself on building excellent relationships with all stakeholders and supporting them to deliver HR programmes which result in business improvements and efficiencies. These projects have covered a range of activities from major business-wide restructuring, mergers & acquisitions, and TUPE to Employee Engagement, Salary Benchmarking and HR Policy Development. Debbie adopts a practical hands-on consultative approach, enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, always adopts high personal standards of professionalism and, perhaps most importantly, is able to make a valued contribution.

Outside of work, Debbie enjoys spending time with her family, long country walks, and travelling and has recently become a governor at a local Primary School.

With over 10 years of generalist HR experience, mainly in the automotive components sector, and following a recent break in the profession, diversifying into sales, Davina is enthusiastic to further her career within the field of HR and is excited to become involved in new challenges.  

Previously Davina was heavily involved in absence management and managed several redundancy programmes, but her keen interest is in recruitment, employee relations and training development.  

Davina’s spare time is taken up looking after her son and daughter, spending time with family and friends and also her 1-year-old dog Coco keeps her nice and active with all the long walks. 

I have more than 20 years’ experience in the field of HR, working with SMEs, consultancy services and, more recently, the charity sector, with particular focus on social housing, children’s services and social enterprise.

My experience covers establishing HR policies, systems and processes to support the employee life cycle through to supporting senior leaders to maximise employees’ potential and deliver business objectives.

I have managed several mergers and acquisitions plus TUPE and restructure processes.  In addition, I have worked on numerous, and sometimes complex, employee relations issues.  As well as ensuring that processes are completed correctly, I work closely with managers to ensure that the person is not forgotten in the process.

Outside of work, I am happiest spending time with family (I have two teenage boys) and friends. I enjoy horse riding, running and walking and am very interested in health and wellbeing.   I am also a big sports fan, particularly F1, athletics and tennis.

I have over 15 years within HR, starting in more generalist in-house roles supporting Sales and Operations teams, and the last 8 partnering with SMEs in a range of sectors to support them in achieving their business objectives.  I have a Masters in HR Management and Business and hold MCIPD membership. 

By building meaningful relationships with organisations and responding to their changing needs within the workplace, I hope to empower them by providing the tools required across all HR disciplines to support business functions to exceed their objectives and manage employees more effectively and efficiently.

I believe that any workplace challenges can be addressed if the right approach is taken and have helped SMEs to navigate through the many obstacles, they have faced during recent years by offering guidance on matters including complicated employee relations cases, restructuring, mental health, data protection and compliance, to name a few.

In my personal time, I have 3 young children who keep me well-grounded and busy with their various clubs! I love to cook, improvise with allergy-friendly recipes, spend time at the gym and cheer on my home football team, the Wolves.

Claudine is a CIPD-qualified HR professional with over 15 years of HR experience across various sectors including charities, creative, design and media, manufacturing, FinTech and professional services. In recent years she has acted in Senior HR roles within the digital sector. As a true HR Generalist Claudine has applied her expertise in areas such as learning and development, performance management, redundancies, grievances and disciplinaries, pay and reward, wellbeing and talent management.

Through her experience in partnering with Founders and Senior Teams, Claudine is an HR professional who brings a commercial focus to HR practice, policies and processes, analytical thinking to key people decisions and a sensitive approach to challenging people issues. Her key strength lies in her personable approach and her ability to build positive relationships with colleagues at all levels.

Outside of work, Claudine is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and Yoga instructor who volunteers in her local community as a Health Champion. She enjoys cooking, hiking and travelling.

I have always had a passion for people and helping them to not only feel good about themselves but achieve their full potential. 

After working my way up in retail I found that I enjoyed the recruitment side of running my store. 

This leads me to join Clover HR’s recruitment team where I look forward to expanding my knowledge and helping to find people their dream job. 

When I’m not working I enjoy spending time with my young daughter Mila & my partner.

With a career spanning nearly twenty years across the not-for-profit and private sectors, Gareth is an accomplished executive HR practitioner who has gained a wealth of experience in national and international settings, working with organisations whose staff teams range from five to five hundred people, and volunteer teams of up to two-hundred thousand people. He has also served as a trustee for an international Arts and Community Charity.

Now an independent HR Consultant, his approach is one of candour and pragmatism, keeping people at the heart of decision making in organisations and using engagement and values to grow culture and affect change in a positive way. Gareth is professional, friendly, and highly creative.

After graduating with a degree in psychology in 1999, I spent twenty-one years working in a large corporation gaining a wealth of knowledge, qualifications and experience in business, management, leadership, training/development, and people.

During my final ten years within the corporate world, I worked as a senior operations manager. This involved managing business processes, the management team, and their direct reports. The business operation involved multiple workstreams and had both call centre and administration functions. Due to voluntary redundancy, and a massive leap of faith, I made a choice to leave the corporate world. For the last year, I have been completing a post-grad diploma in Human Resource Management, studying full time. I am now in my final year of study and by November 2022 I will have obtained an MSc in Human Resource Management. During this time I have also been working as an HR consultant for a variety of small businesses and charities.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my son which usually involves something related to football, whether he is playing it or watching it. I also spend my spare time providing support to a fantastic charity that I have the pleasure of being a part of.

Mary has over 15 years of experience at different levels of generalist HR and recruitment and has a passion for people development and empowerment. Since achieving her CIPD level 7 in 2017, she has built on this with continued professional development and a keen interest in employment law.

Having worked across many different sectors, logistics in particular has helped her to gain a robust, personable yet professional approach through all aspects of the employee lifecycle.

Outside of work, she has a young son and a keen interest in fitness, particularly kettlebells and combat.

I have worked as a HR professional for over 30 years in various roles through to HR Director level.  I have a strong HR generalist background covering all aspects of the employee lifecycle having worked in various industry sectors, largely manufacturing during my career.

I enjoy working directly with clients, delivering a day to day hands on HR service to the business, building relationships at all levels through strong interpersonal skills and delivering results.  Over the last 18 years I have had extensive  experience in advising and supporting business transformation projects.

Outside of work, my passion is my family as well as being a keen runner and a regular ‘spin class’ attendee.

Claire is a vastly experienced MSc and CIPD qualified HR professional with significant operational, strategic, and L&D experience.

During her career, Claire has worked alongside all levels including Senior Management across a range of sectors from Manufacturing, Tech to Hospitality to name but a few.

Claire drives herself on her ability to deliver efficiency whilst developing excellent relationships with all stakeholders, providing business enhancing strategies and insights.

Claire has worked on a plethora of projects during her career, including but not limited to developing and implementing E learning systems, designing leadership training, wellness systems and redesigning and restructuring HR policies, EDI procedures and strategies, supporting with redundancies, TUPE and employee engagement.

Whilst Claire enjoys and can deliver across all areas of HR her greatest passion is within EDI objectives and learning and Development, Claire is passionate about equality and about developing individuals to the best of their ability to enhance organisations from the inside out.

Claire takes a holistic approach to her practices whilst delivering a practical and hands on service. Claire thrives within a fast-paced environment and is an excellent muti tasker.

Away from work Claire is committed to her family life and enjoys writing, podcasting and amateur dramatics.