JO FOSTER

Jo is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, with experience across a range of HR issues from management development to disciplinaries and dismissals.

She has had 12 years working as an HR generalist and has proven capabilities of influencing senior executives and making HR credible within organisations.

She joined Bass’ Graduate Training Scheme in 1994 working through a range of the organisations’ businesses and their associated cultures -  from betting to bingo ending up after 4 years at their Head office working with the Chairman and other Directors.

Following that, she moved into the public sector working as a Project Manager for the BBC on the challenges of moving the UK from Analogue to Digital working across the various Regions on behalf of BBC Broadcast.

She returned to an operational role within the media heading up Planet 24’s HR department looking after staff on The Big Breakfast and other television programmes.

Her most recent operational role was in the Professional Services Industry for one of the Magic Circle Law firms working alongside the lawyers and responsible for the HR needs of the Business Services half of the firm.

Her experience includes

• Disciplinaries, dismissals and tribunals
• Reducing numbers in effective and respectful redundancy programmes
• Coaching senior executives to improve their impact
• Outplacement counseling
• Writing employee handbooks and developing policies
• Designing bespoke training
• Running and designing Assessment and/ or Development centres based on tailored competencies specific to organisation
• Implementing job evaluation schemes, comparing and ‘weighting’ different roles for pay and developmental purposes
• Qualified to use British Psychological Society Level A and B Instruments.
• Licensed to use the OPQ (S&H) and the RPQ (PSL)

An Architectural graduate she also has her Certificate in Management and Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming.