Senior Consultant
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Being a qualified accountant who has spent 15 years in HR, including a senior role with Grant Thornton, Jane brings a unique blend of experience and expertise to working with professional practices and partnerships.
She qualified as a Chartered Accountant within a professional practice and then spent a number of years in industry as a management accountant to broaden her skills. Subsequently she returned to professional practice and later moved into Human Resources and Development.
Jane is the driving force behind the formation of Emphasis Consulting, which brings together a group of Associate Consultants specialising in providing services to professional practices in the key areas of Personal Development, Executive Coaching and Team-Building.
Her accountancy background assures a deep understanding of commercial pressures and business development that is rare amongst HR professionals. Equally, her twenty years experience working with professional practices has given Jane an in-depth understanding of how partnerships operate, and the associated cultural issues, that is unrivalled in the HR field.
Jane’s HR experience, most recently as HR Director with Grant Thornton, spans the full range of HR disciplines with a particular emphasis on the coaching and development of managers and teams within a partnership environment. Jane has worked with managers and partners in groups and on a one-to-one basis to provide personal and team development based upon the business objectives of the partnership.
Her coaching style is straightforward and open. She sets out to provide an independent and objective perspective by encouraging a frank and honest exchange of ideas. With a strong emphasis on being pragmatic and commercial, she is naturally enthusiastic and gets enormous satisfaction from trying to realise the potential of others.
As well as being a Chartered Accountant, Jane is MCIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) qualified and is registered as Level B qualified with the British Psychological Society.