Our Team

We are proud of our amazing and award winning team.

Each member of the MAD-HR team has the experience and expertise to make a positive difference to your business. Individually we are unique in our experiences and knowledge, together we are MAD-HR. Whatever challenge you are facing, we have what it takes to fix it.

We are passionate, accountable and get results for your business.

Carole Burman

Carole Burman, FCIPD

Managing Director

Managing Director and Founder of MAD-HR, Carole has over 30 years of experience working in the world of HR. She prides herself on her ability to help clients grow their business and attract, retain and engage talent by building a positive employer brand.

Charlotte Bate, FCIPD

Director

Charlotte has worked as an HR Professional, Trainer and Coach for over 20 years and has a wealth of experience in delivering transformational HR support to businesses of all shapes and sizes, whilst always working with honesty and integrity.

Rachel Mattia

Head of Learning & Development

Rachel has over 20 years experience helping senior teams and their CEOs build capability by driving engagement, fostering collaboration and inspiring people to achieve their full potential. Providing a tailored mix of strategic planning, expert advice, 121 coaching or hands on training and support, she loves working alongside teams to enable them to map clear paths in talent by including apprentices, graduate schemes, mentoring, coaching or digital learning and CPD.

Michelle Stott

Head of Client Engagement & Marketing

Michelle has worked in client engagement and marketing roles for over 20 years. She has a wealth of experience delivering strategic business and marketing support to SMEs, global local, and international companies. A highly driven, results-oriented, and creatively minded individual, She is passionate about delivering on objectives and creating longstanding, strong client relationships. Her collaborative and inquisitive nature further enhances her ability to understand client needs and develop strategies that drive success.

Tina Moseley, MCIPD

HR Consultant

Tina is an experienced HR Professional; she brings 30 plus years of operational experience working in small to medium size organisations. She is passionate in providing an exceptional HR service, with a focused and structured approach. A champion of DE&I and ESG, who will ask difficult questions, provide strategic oversight to ensure accountability to unite organisations under a shared vision and elevate business and people growth.

Lucy Proctor, HR Consultant at MAD-HR

Lucy Proctor, Assoc CIPD

HR Consultant

With over two decades of HR experience, Lucy specialises in strategic planning, employee relations, and organisational change management, while still enjoying operational aspects of HR work and providing leadership to address complex people challenges, aligning HR strategies with business goals. Lucy is passionate about driving initiatives that enhance employee engagement and cultivate a supportive workplace culture with a collaborative approach.

Lucy Pakes, MCIPD HR Consultant

Lucy Pakes, MCIPD

HR Consultant

Lucy is a highly experienced HR professional, having worked in both the public and private sectors. As well as HR Consultancy, she has worked in manufacturing, local government, financial services and the newspaper industry. Lucy has a wealth of experience in supporting managers with employee relations issues, delivering HR-related training and developing HR policies and procedures. She is passionate about client service and taking a pragmatic, commercially focused approach. She enjoys building collaborative relationships with clients, working together to deliver successful outcomes for the business.

Amanda Redwin, MCIPD HR Consultant

Amanda Redwin, MCIPD

HR Consultant

Amanda has over 25 years of HR and business experience. She is particularly experienced in the employee relations arena but has worked across the full range of HR activities, challenging the status quo and developing and delivering initiatives to improve employee engagement, profitability and growth. Her approach is to establish strong relationships with clients and having run her own business she is particularly sensitive to the challenges faced by SME’s.

Jo Button

HR Consultant

Joanne is a diligent and conscientious HR professional with 15 years in-house experience within the Financial Services, Retail and the Transport sectors, delivering best practice in all areas of HR including development of policies and procedures. Her strengths lie in establishing and developing HR operations and experience in implementation of HR information systems to drive operational efficiencies.

Sophie Hughes

Sophie Hughes, Assoc CIPD

HR Consultant

Sophie is a pragmatic and conscientious HR professional, with a wealth of experience in the private healthcare sector delivering best practice HR in areas such as recruitment, onboarding, performance management, offboarding and delivering efficiencies through effective HR systems. Sophie is passionate about employee engagement and building meaningful relationships with clients, enabling her to provide a first-class HR support service to deliver the goals of the business.

Robyn Fraser, HR Consultant at MAD-HR

Robyn Fraser, Assoc CIPD

HR Consultant

Robyn is a HR Professional who has almost 10 years’ experience working in generalist HR roles within various sectors including Construction Education, Community Services and Social Housing. She is level 5 CIPD qualified, has a passion for empowering workplace wellbeing and is committed to delivering the best HR service possible by ensuring she understands the needs of her stakeholders, encouraging best practice and also ensuring she is continuously developing her own knowledge and skills.

Shelley Measures, Client Engagement Manager at MAD-HR

Shelley Measures

Client Engagement Manager

As client Engagement Manager, Shelley has been working with businesses to get the best out of their people for over 10 years. Results driven and passionate about making a difference, her aim is building truly collaborative, trusted relationships focused on shared values of accountability and integrity delivering value driven authentic services for our clients.

Jenny Murdoch

Executive Assistant

Jenny is committed to providing exceptional administrative and project support, she is proud to be an Executive Assistant at MAD-HR. Driven by her strong desire to cultivate excellence and continuous growth within businesses - this coincides perfectly with our purpose at MAD: to Make A Difference.

Jo Lewry, Office Manager

Jo Lewry

Office Manager

Jo is our Office Manager with over 16 years’ experience working in administration. She works behind the scenes to ensure everything runs smoothly so the team can provide the best service possible for our clients.

Deborah Watson

PR Associate

A former journalist and global PR manager, Deborah is an award winning communications professional who works with business leaders to help them enhance their media engagement and hone their brand voice.

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