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Gary Hoyte Consulting's network of associate consultants represents a broad range of specialist knowledge and professional experience. The benefit of this network is that it allows us to create unique project teams, custom-made to suit the assignment. This means that we can operate flexibly and cost effectively.

Our associates include professionals who specialise in organisation development, corporate governance, health service management, public finance, cost improvement and performance reviews, personnel management and the development of healthy workplace strategies.

Profiles of our principal associates follow.

Rachel Crafts, Fellow CIPD, is a senior reward consultant, with considerable experience across different industry sectors. She has run the Reward, Performance & Recognition Practice of an HR Consultancy and been a senior internal HR projects consultant with a FTSE 100 insurance company. The list of projects Rachel has led is extensive and runs across all facets of Reward. This includes:

• Development of new compensation & benefits strategies;

• Development & implementation of new pay and grading structures;

• Creation of new benefits systems, including flexible benefits;

• Market pay reviews and recommendation of competitive salary packages.

She is an acknowledged expert on job evaluation and equal pay issues and is a member of the ACAS Panel of Independent Experts providing advice to Employment Tribunals.

Rachel has also written extensively with Incomes Data Services on a wide range of HR and Reward issues.

Contact Rachel@ghconsulting.co.uk.

Jacky has an extensive HR/OD background in the retail sector gained in blue chip and private equity financed companies. During this time she has contributed as a senior HR business partner/consultant to deliver effective organisational change and development initiatives. These include culture change programmes, the introduction of collaborative working across all business functions and supporting ongoing business growth and development through its many TUPE acquisition and integration phases.

Jacky has introduced competency based performance management frameworks; leadership development programmes and delivered management development training, equivalent to the MCI Level 4, aimed particularly at graduates or managers on their first appointment. With a full generalist HR background, she regularly reviews employment policies and procedures to ensure alignment to the needs of the organisation and their Business Plans.

In 1988, Jacky achieved her Masters Degree in Strategic HR Management & Development plus an elective in Change Management. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.

Contact Jacky@ghconsulting.co.uk.

Mary is an occupational therapist with over 25 years experience in the NHS in England and in Scotland. She has worked for much of this time in mental health services as a practitioner, a manager of an extensive range of professional groups and as a commissioner.

She has worked independently for over six years. Her portfolio includes an interim Director’s post in a PCT, service reviews and development in mental health and rehabilitation services and work focused on the integration of NHS and SSD services. Mary is a member of the Department of Health Joint Unit Expert Group of the Change Agent team and has done extensive work on hospital discharge for them. She has facilitated workshops for a range of organisations.

Contact Mary@ghconsulting.co.uk.

Joy's passion is in enabling leaders to excel at work, helping them make major breakthroughs in achieving change and the powerful resolution of issues. She uses her extensive coaching skills, understanding of business dynamics and psychological depth to help senior people extend their capability, unleashing personal and organisational success.

With an extensive blue-chip business background, Joy's continuing success as a Coach spans 15 years in many contexts. Having gained a Masters degree in Counselling, Joy is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and an NLP Master practitioner and has recently conducted research into 'Conflict at work'.

Outcomes from typical assignments include, a smoother transition to a more senior role, managing crippling workloads, enhanced leadership capability, managing challenging relationships, achieving greater impact and influence, handling personal crisis, increased confidence and energy, and balancing work/life priorities.

Joy takes a pragmatic, collaborative and challenging approach, working with the enormous potential of each individual. Clients appreciate her ability to quickly develop trusting relationships, the quality and focus of conversations together with the relevance and longevity of results.

Contact Joy@ghconsulting.co.uk or visit www.joyferguson.com.

Craig Gaunt is a management accountant with 18 years experience. He held senior management roles with KPMG and Andersen Consulting before launching his own company - Kensington Business Advisors - in 1994. He spent five years as a director with PA Consultancy Group where he led major projects across the public and private sectors.

Craig qualified with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting in 1976 and has a BA and an MBA. He is a former lecturer with the Open University Business School.

Craig has worked in the UK, the Middle East, Europe and North America.

Contact Craig@ghconsulting.co.uk.

Rob Lane is a full member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and has been involved in health and safety for 20 years.

He provides our health and safety management advisory service and related training programmes. Rob is able to draw on his own network of other specialised consultants all of whom are highly experienced and qualified members of IOSH.

To read more about the health and safety services that Rob offers, please visit our services section.

Contact Rob@ghconsulting.co.uk.