About Me

Jacky Beesley is a highly experienced and qualified HR professional (MA, Fellow CIPD). She gets great satisfaction from helping SMEs navigate employment legislation and achieve their business objectives whilst ensuring they protect their business and maximise opportunities to improve both organisation and individual performance.

Background

Jacky’s commercial background reflects her time in Sales and Marketing before developing her career supporting blue chip and private equity financed organisations maximise business opportunities.  As this was achieved through the challenging alignment of business strategy and effective people management solutions this experience has benefitted the SMEs she has specialised in working alongside since 2004.  Much of Jacky’s work in developing solutions for SMEs has taken place during a period of economic stagnation and has enabled clients to ride the storm when competitors, particularly in manufacturing, were closing down.  This, along with refining outdated HR planning and costly resourcing models has supported her clients in remaining agile and ready to successfully compete in their market.

SME clients include organisations in the Service, Pharma/Bio, Retail and Manufacturing industries as well as the not for profit/charities sector.

Professionally, Jacky has been actively involved in the local branches of her governing body, the CIPD, holding roles of Chair and Treasurer and an active member of the events organising committees providing monthly CPD events and the annual Employment Law Masterclass for HR professionals and line management.  She has contributed to the book ‘People in Charge’  by author Robert Rhem and Lectured in H R Management for under/post graduate and International Master level students as well as  mentoring dissertation students researching topics aimed at creating highly performing organisations.

In addition to volunteering her support on professional committees, Jacky has spent considerable time helping to develop a local community project to provide a sustainable local ‘social hub’ for a village without shops or cafe.