Alexandra Elvin

With a focus on strategic People leadership, I offer consultancy services that span the full spectrum of human resources. My work involves developing tailored people strategies, dealing with employee relations, enhancing leadership capabilities, and implementing effective change management processes across diverse sectors, including professional services, healthcare, not-for-profit, charity, finance, retail and hospitality. I am available for fractional and/or interim work. My core specialist areas include: - People strategy development - Leadership and Board development - Full life cycle of HR policies, procedures and processes - Transformation/ Change management - Recruitment and retention including culture and engagement - Performance management, measurement and analytics - Learning and Development strategies - Culture development focused on equity, inclusion and belonging - Employee relations I am an MBTI certified practitioner and an accredited civil mediator.

Through expert consultancy and tailored training, Sense Progress helps organisations make commercial sense of hearing-loss inclusion. I offer learning and consultancy services to help organisations drive performance through inclusive working, starting with hearing loss. Our core services are: Audit and Transformation, Training (bespoke and off-the-shelf) and Executive Coaching for senior leaders with hearing loss.

Board Trustee and member of the People and Pay committee. SignHealth is a deaf-led charity who's mission is to attain equity in accessing health and social care for people who are Deaf.

Attain is the largest independent health advisory and delivery organisation in the UK with a reputation for delivering meaningful impact in partnership with the NHS and care economy. Over the past ten years we have built a strong reputation as a market leader in providing end to end services to transform care – this includes strategic insights on how to integrate care at system and place level, innovative commissioning models, commercial support and hands-on clinical service re-design to improve care and service user experience and realise resource efficiencies. Our team brings together the best of the public and private sector, including experts with front-line clinical and operational experience – all underpinned by a commitment to our values which include making tangible impact, promoting wellbeing, and delivering with rigour and transparency. We look forward to continuing our support to the NHS and its partners across the country and making a real difference to people’s lives.

Elvin & Elvin is a specialist transformation, change and improvement company. We focus on charity, not for profit and small businesses or divisions of larger corporations. We have a proven track record of transforming the performance of organisations within a year - moving from loss to profit and driving success and impact. Alexandra's recent engagements include by way of examples investigating a complex grievance hearing in the primary care sector, Interim HRD in the private healthcare sector and designing and delivering skills training for soon-to-be-promoted headteachers in the midlands. Alexandra is a qualified civil mediator specialising in workplace mediation. "It has been an absolute pleasure working with you. You took on a really tough role with gusto, warmth and discipline, always displaying a high level of professionalism sprinkled with good humour". Jim, CEO

I lead the HR team providing strategic and operational advice on all aspects of HR, L&D, OD and H&S to the organisation which is based in Oxford, London, Edinburgh with satellite offices in Beijing and Singapore. I was also responsible for internal communications and the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and implementation. Some example highlights are: Regularly attended board meetings and set out HR (including remuneration), L&D and CSR strategies in line with organisational direction and focus. Set up a skeleton office in Singapore remotely including sourcing office space, sourcing potential staff, and navigating through the legal requirements of setting up offices and paying staff there. Led the consultation for the closure of the DB pension scheme and the introduction of auto enrolment. Sourced and rolled out a new intranet to include online personal profiles and absence management Managed complex ER issues mitigating risk and limiting costs "Alex is a unique HR professional; she brings expert knowledge, insight and leadership with a true compassion for the teams that she works with. She supported me and my team confidently, with professionalism and humour. I hope that we have the opportunity to work together again" - Memoria Lewis, Membership Director "It's been great working with you". Derek, CEO "...thank you for being such a great listener and all of your good advice". Head of Education "...thanks again for all your help and advice last year. It was much appreciated - you really helped make a difficult situation as easy as possible". Stephen, Manager

Provide strategic, operational and tactical advice in Human Resources, Organisational Change/ Development and Learning and Development Examples of previous clients: • An NHS Foundation Trust; Worked with the HR, Workforce planning and Education departments to align their mandated strategic plans and help the Trust effectively measure organisation and individual performance • SSAFA; Provided HR expertise on a panel for a complex disciplinary case • Deddington Village Nursery and Partnership Foundation Stage Unit (pre-school); Voluntary Treasurer and pro-bono organisational strategy and general HR activity including recruitment, performance management, restructure • Brula Bistrot; Advice on people strategy and operational people management issues; • A local engineering company; provided coaching and performance management advice and course design • Great Ormond Street Hospital International and Private Patients Division; Provided analysis and strategic advice on retention and skills mix successfully reducing absence and turnover levels "I've worked with Alex on a number of projects most recently with a project that successfully helped us reduce staff turnover and high sickness levels. Alex quickly gains trust with staff of all levels, openly discusses real issues and isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. I would recommend Alex to anyone looking for an HR professional of high integrity, dedication and sound knowledge". Trevor Clarke, Director International Division, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

• On the Management Board reporting to the Trustees and Executive Director with a clear focus to raise £50million p.a • Created HR and L&D strategy in line with the overall Charity strategy to raise £50 million p.a • Lead a change programme moving the Charity towards a performance culture which included creating and implementing: o New employment terms and conditions agreed and signed by 98% staff within 8 months o All HR policies and procedures to support the organisation within the confines of the law o A performance management process with performance related pay o Departmental restructures to support leaner and more efficient productivity o Supplier Agreements for training, recruitment, payroll and Occupational Health o L&D analysis, strategy and implementation o An Employee representative forum o Staff survey • with a focus to give as much of every £1 donated directly to the cause, reduced costs of internal running of organisation whilst maintaining top quartile compensation and benefits e.g: o Cut training budget by 20% whilst still providing all staff with opportunity to develop; o Cut recruitment agency costs by 10% o Reduced Maternity costs by approx £2000 per maternity leaver with minimal impact to the mother o Reduced cost of potential future redundancies by offering statutory o Cut legal fees budget by 40% through contract negotiation and working more effectively with the lawyers "With her dedication and her pragmatic and open approach to work, Alex quickly became a confidante and someone from whom all her peers on the Board and senior managers alike sought people advice. Commercially minded she ensured all HR and L&D operations were directly linked to business strategy enabling our staff to successfully achieve the £50m annual fundraising target. I would happily recommend Alex for any HR or L&D project". Tim Johnson, Executive Director, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

The course led to CIPD accreditation

BA (Hons) French and Business Information Studies