Meet the team

Gemma Murphy
Solicitor and Workplace Mediator | Director

Gemma is an experienced HR and employment solicitor and HR Consultant. She has extensive experience in dealing with both day-to-day HR matters through to complex employment issues, within a broad range of organisations. Gemma’s legal experience together with her practical on the ground experience brings an extra dynamic to her delivery and methodology in advising clients and guiding them through HR mazes whilst balancing commercial needs of an employer.

Whilst being passionate about what she does, Gemma understands the importance of listening to the needs of her clients and providing simple, commercial and realistic advice! Her clients regularly commend her for her calming and pragmatic approach.

Gemma is a qualified workplace mediator and member of the Employment Law Association.

Sarah King
Senior HR Consultant and Insights Practitioner | Director

Sarah is a seasoned HR professional with extensive senior-level experience in both the private and public sectors, spanning various industry sectors. She is highly experienced in handling contentious employment investigations, where her knowledge of employment law coupled with an open-minded approach provide a fair and balanced outcome for client cases.

Sarah is known for her approachable yet professional demeanor, which allows her to handle investigations with both ease and confidence and ensure all parties feel heard and respected.

Beyond her investigative expertise, Sarah is passionate about employee engagement, organisational change, and enhancing both individual and team performance. She leverages her accreditation as an Insights Discovery trainer to drive impactful training programs and boost workplace morale.

Heidi Roper
Senior HR Consultant, Insights Practitioner and Workplace Mediator | Director

Heidi is a proven strategic senior HR professional who supports both leaders and management teams in delivering exceptional performance through the effective engagement of their teams. Heidi implements organisational design practices to align people’s architecture and company objectives, driving sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Heidi’s natural and engaging communication style enables her to build relationships quickly, and her dynamic yet compassionate nature means that she quickly becomes a trusted and critical friend to the businesses she supports.

With first-hand experience of the challenges faced by large corporate organisations, SMEs, and developing and established businesses across a wide variety of sectors, Heidi is a truly commercial HR professional. Whilst an experienced HR generalist, Heidi specialises in Mediation, Insights Discovery personality profiling, Training, People and HR strategy.

Paul Burton
Employment Law Solicitor

Paul has been an employment solicitor for nearly 20 years and is known for his in-depth knowledge and expertise in the areas of employment law and human resources. He was a partner at a sizeable South Coast law firm before coming to ViewHR and has often been asked to be a guest speaker at HR events, including lectures for CIPD.  He regularly provides training to clients in relation to their human resources, for example, performance management and tackling sickness absence.

Paul is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has been recognised for many years in the Legal 500, a leading independent legal directory. He specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, disability discrimination, TUPE, settlement agreements, contracts and policies.

Get in touch with Paul: 02031 618959 | paul@viewhr.co.uk

Beth Young
Senior HR Consultant

Fellow CIPD qualified, Beth is a Senior HR Professional who is passionate about driving business performance through pragmatic, commercially focussed and professional HR. Extensive experience in all aspects of Strategic and Operational HR for businesses of all shapes and sizes across multiple sectors including financial and other professional services, engineering, care, manufacturing, service & sales, IT and hi-tech start-ups, agriculture and hospitality.

Since her transition from HR Director to a consulting role several years ago, Beth has worked with a number of different clients on both a retained and adhoc basis, all with their own unique requirements, but has always built strong trusted relationships and received great feedback and commendations.

Beth’s experience covers all aspects of HR but has particular experience in employee relations and disputes, long term sickness and capability, TUPE, redundancy, reorganisations, employee engagement, employee benefits, compensation and remuneration and HRIS implementations.

Jondelle Bartlett
HR Consultant

Jondelle is an experienced CIPD Level 3 qualified HR professional. Her great people skills and organisation enable her to support various clients and our business. She is interested in employee engagement and enjoys the benefits that technology and automation in HR can bring to organisations. She has in depth experience of workplace investigations and human resources information systems (HRIS).

Jondelle enjoys building strong relationships with her clients and developing policies, processes, and a positive culture. She is always keen to develop and is currently studying for CIPD Level 5. In addition, she is learning about Artificial intelligence (AI) in HR to understand how AI can complement the human role in HR and help drive decisions about hiring, retention, and employee development, as well as automate tasks and help create policies, contracts, job descriptions, and interview questions.

Laura Campbell
HR Consultant

Laura is a highly skilled HR Manager with a degree in Business Management and a CIPD Level 5 qualification. She has extensive experience in a diverse range of industries, providing her with broad knowledge of employee relations and business needs.

Laura’s expertise covers multiple HR aspects, including managing day to day employee relations matters to developing and implementing strategies aligned with organisational goals. She has the ability to balance the commercial needs of her clients alongside their employee’s well-being. Laura is also dedicated to supporting line managers in enhancing their leadership skills to effectively manage their teams. Laura takes a comprehensive approach to HR, addressing both strategic and operational aspects.

She is particularly interested in employee engagement and is committed to creating a work environment where employees feel valued and motivated. Laura proactively identifies opportunities to improve employee satisfaction and retention, working closely with managers to empower them with the necessary skills and tools to achieve results within their teams.

With her diverse industry experience, Laura has a unique perspective on managing HR challenges. She is skilled at handling all employee relations matters, ranging from, conflict resolution, performance management, capability assessment, sickness absence management, and grievance investigations.

Cat Lowe
Accounts and Business Manager

Cat joined ViewHR to support the continued growth of the business, bringing with her a wealth of business and finance support experience. She is responsible for managing our Accounts, Operations and Compliance functions and team and helping to ensure that our back office runs seamlessly for our team and clients, from onboarding through to service requirements.

Cat enjoys getting into the details, being organised and providing timely guidance to our clients, partners and team. 

Shelley Poole
Associate Senior HR Consultant

Shelley Poole is an established HR Consultant who works with View HR on an associate basis.  She has broad ranging HR experience gained from positions in a range of sectors. Shelley’s skills include managing employee relations matters (such as disciplinary and grievance cases), developing successful HR strategy and leading organisational change projects, such as restructuring.  Shelley’s area of specialism is working with employee-owned organisations, and she is undertaking doctoral research in this field.

Shelley also has substantial experience as a lecturer specialising in teaching management and HR, and is Chair of the West of England branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Anna Rosseter
Associate HR Consultant

Anna is a highly skilled HR Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the HR industry, within a wide range of sectors. She has a wealth of experience supporting SMEs and larger organisations with their HR needs, specialising in employment law compliance, employee relations and performance management.

Anna enjoys empowering managers through the delivery of management training and she is passionate about the power and impact of the Insights Discovery tool.

Gemma Bromfield
Associate Senior HR Consultant | Workplace Mediator

Gemma is an experienced HR professional specialising in conflict resolution, workplace mediation, and complex workplace investigations. With a background in a large corporate organisation, Gemma brings a wealth of knowledge to help resolve disputes and HR concerns effectively. Her commitment to fostering positive workplace relationships ensures mutually beneficial outcomes for all parties involved. Additionally, Gemma is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and holds a level 5 accreditation. As an accredited mental health first aider, she is dedicated to promoting well-being and supporting colleagues during challenging times. Furthermore, Gemma is an accredited workplace mediator, equipped to facilitate constructive dialogue and find collaborative solutions.

Anna Dalziel
Associate Senior HR Consultant

Anna is an experienced HR professional with 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors and has held a variety of senior roles. Anna holds a Master’s degree in Personnel and development, is an ACAS accredited mediator and is a Chartered member of the CIPD. She also has a business degree and a high level of commercial acumen in supporting clients.

Anna has experience in all areas of HR but also specialises in Employee Investigations and is experienced at dealing with complex and sensitive situations. She uses her strong organisational development and employee well-being experience to help clients develop a comprehensive employee offer. Her approach is friendly and pragmatic. Anna is also a CIPD assessor.

Karon Keymist-Folkes
Associate Senior HR Consultant

With over 25 years of experience as a Senior HR professional working in large organisations, Karon brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to every project.

Karon’s passion for HR and her unwavering commitment to supporting businesses of all sizes have driven her career. She is now focused on helping businesses thrive. As a Member of the CIPD and having recently completed the Certificate in Workplace Mediation, Karon is well-equipped to handle a variety of HR challenges.

Karon is a versatile HR generalist adept at managing both day-to-day and complex employee relations cases, as well as organisational change and restructuring projects. Her diligent, focused, and people-centred approach ensures that she delivers solutions that align with business goals.

Julie Harding
Career Consultant | Outplacement Consultant | Employer Branding & Talent Acquisition Consultant and Trainer

Julie supports senior leaders with the delivery of large and small outplacement programmes (career transition support) within commercial and not-for-profit organisations. She helps employees find roles quicker if they are at risk of redundancy or are reaching a settlement agreement.  This leads to better results for everyone (happier exits, quicker job search, stronger employer brand).  Her background in Executive Search and Recruitment combined with her MBA qualification means that she has a strategic view of both hiring and job searching, and is in an excellent position to advise and support end to end on employer branding and talent acquisition through to internal mobility and outplacement.

Training and support includes design & delivery of outplacement programmes, masterclasses in personal branding, CV writing, LinkedIn, interview technique, networking and job searching, 1:1 career coaching and support (entry level to CEO), consultancy in employer branding, and training for hiring mangers in talent acquisition and planning recruitment; bringing consistency in their hiring processes.