Kristina Lamb

Results-driven HR Business Partner with 8 years’ HR & Recruitment experience, a CIPD Level 5 qualification in Human Resources Management, and currently advancing my expertise through a Level 7 CIPD Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management. Recently, I also obtained a qualification in UAE labour law, enhancing my ability to navigate UAE legal frameworks. I am dedicated to driving performance and engagement, working collaboratively to foster a culture that supports and develops all employees.

I excel in coaching and developing managers and leaders, focusing on achieving individual, team, and departmental performance objectives while nurturing internal talent to reach their full potential. With confidence in my ability to engage with senior leaders and managers, I ensure their goals and outputs align with the overarching business strategy, contributing to a dynamic and productive work environment. Additionally, I have a proven track record of managing a team of HR professionals to create a high-performing HR team.

• Develops a team of HR professionals, including a HR Assistant and HR Adviser, aligning their efforts with strategic HR initiatives and fostering their professional growth.
• Collaborates with senior leaders to create business plans, facilitated team strategy days and culture reviews, ensuring alignment of people objectives with firm priorities and redefining team mission and goals.
• Delivers high-level employee relations support to management and employees, resolving complex ER issues and facilitates conflict resolution.
• Leverage people analytics to deliver actionable recommendation reports to leadership, driving the implementation of strategies to enhance employee engagement.
• Designed and implemented the firmwide L&D schedule based on a skill gap analysis, aligning training programs with the identified development needs
• Led the annual bonus and salary review committee for the firm, ensuring equitable and performance-based outcomes.
• Conducts bi-yearly employee assessment reviews and 9-box grid assessments to support performance management, talent development, succession planning and compensation proposals.
• Partners with the Finance Business Partner to conduct bi-yearly productivity reviews of fee-earning departments, analysing financial and client metrics to identify underperformance and optimize profitability through redundancies, job redesign and performance management.
• Provides support to leadership development programs and coaches senior managers to build high performing teams.
• Spearheaded internal associate promotions by introducing competency-based interviews for fair and transparent candidate evaluations.
• Supports on the recruitment for fee-earning roles, applying competency-based interviewing and leading recruitment assessment days.
• Led DEI initiatives to address gender imbalance, producing and implementing the 'Gender Imbalance Report' resulting in a women’s network, coaching, sponsorship, mentorship and leadership development programs.

Achievements at Montagu Evans:

• Developed and implemented a performance management which facilitated ongoing feedback, goal alignment, and professional development discussions, leading to improved performance outcomes and enhanced employee engagement.
• Restructured the firms reward strategy and implemented a scoring matrix to ensure equitable outcomes, resulting in a more transparent and inclusive approach to compensation decisions.
• Introduced 360 feedback which positively impacted on team culture and engagement.
• Introduced “Culture Change Strategies” for disengaged teams which increased engagement between 10-20% the following year. 

• Level 7 CIPD Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management (ICS Learn) – March 2024 to Current
• UAE Labour Law Qualification (The knowledge academy) – October 2024
• MHFA England (Mental Health First Aider) – July 2021
• CIPD Level 5 Diploma Human Resource Management (Acacia Learning) – July 2020 to April 2021
• Bachelor of Arts (hons) Sociology (University of Brighton) - First Class Honours – 2014 to 2017