About Sarah-Jane O'Brien:
A senior HR practitioner
- With a strong generalist, international background. I am an accomplished, professional, and commercial-minded practitioner, with the proven ability to think strategically and transform strategy into delivery.
- With comprehensive strategic, developmental, and operational experience in the private and third sectors, to include experience working in Europe, the Nordics, US, and West Africa.
- With significant experience of leading change, supporting growth, and delivering sustainable enhanced performance at all levels of business. I can demonstrate the successful implementation of a range of HR initiatives in support of business plan objectives, to include culture change, organic growth and reorganization, expansion and downsizing, mergers, acquisition, and disposals.
- A competent project manager. End-to-end delivery of a range a HR projects working to budget and agreed timescales, including stakeholder management, internal communication, and relevant skills training.
- An experienced people manager – supportive and knowledgeable HR leader; HR mentor; demonstrable experience of influencing, guiding, and advising business owners, senior managers, and other stakeholders.
Experience
Core competencies / areas of expertise
- With extensive experience of all areas of HRM; core competencies include resourcing and retention, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, employee & industrial relations (national level Trade Union negotiations UK and West Africa), employee engagement, organizational development, and change management, learning and development, talent management and succession planning, redundancies and TUPE, director / senior management development, strategic HR and business management.
Education
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD)
- BSc (Honours) in Psychology with Counselling (2:1); dissertation Workplace Bullying
- Graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) / Division of Occupational Psychology (MBPsS)
- BPS Certificate in Competence in Occupational Testing (Level A)
- BPS Certificate in Competence in Personality Questionnaires (Level B)
- Certificate of Competence MBTI (Stages 1 and 2)
- Diploma in Coaching Practice / Qualified Coach (Ch Dip)
- Level 1 Transactional Analysis
- Level 2 Introduction to Counselling Skills
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Level 5 Professional Diploma Therapeutic Counselling (ongoing study)
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