Being Human at

We are an independent HR Consultancy, delivering HR services, and specialising in Leadership and Team Development tailored specifically for SMEs.

Established in the North-West by co-founders Paul Porter & Carolyn Hobdey, ‘Being Human at’ is dedicated to encouraging the human side of leaders to enhance their teams' experiences, performance, and well-being. We believe that individuals produce their best work when the right environment is created for their mental, physical and emotional health.

We partner with founders and SME business leaders to create teams that perform by delivering customised people and development approaches, and bespoke HR solutions. These enable employees to propel growth and cultivate a prosperous work environment for everyone to flourish.

We are passionate about working collaboratively to unleash your businesses potential, through nurturing your individual humans, and developing teams that will drive success. 

People. Performance. Partners.

Co-Founder & Human 

Porter HR

HR consultancy dedicated to high growth SME's - Providing bespoke and sustainable solutions to young, growing, and established businesses. Experience in organisational design. International/ multi-country HR change management in fast-paced environments including Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and Production, Logistics & Supply Chain.

Building strong, successful partnerships with clients, I immerse myself within your business and develop strategies and services to suit your specific requirements. Some of the areas I commonly help clients with are;

Building "ground up" HR functions, with an even approach to recruitment, training and ER.
Developing high potential employees; both individually and at scale
Strong learning and development background, with a passion for blended learning in the workplace
Able to define, track and improve company-wide people KPIs
Able to deliver substantial return on investment on people led initiatives
A warm, personable approach, used to communicating with all levels of the business
A knack for defining and scaling key operational skill sets
A flexible, agile and fast approach to general work, projects, and task management.
Takes an ask forgiveness not permission approach.

Managing Director & Co-Founder

Thrive Law

Head of People and Partnerships 

tHRive Club puts you at the heart of the matter and works to create possibilities that may not currently exist for you, supporting the development of your people leadership, mind-set and skills in best practice HR. You can ask the group questions that you may be too frightened to say out load. 
 
Are you a HR professional or have people responsibilities? 

Working alone with no one around to support your development and share ideas with? 

tHRive club is the place for you. 
 
Feel free to ask questions without having to worry?        
 
Develop your skills and knowledge but not sure where to start?
 
Reach out to others with your thinking and start focusing on the right things?
 
The tHRive Club are a community of friendly, like-minded Non HR and HR Professionals who support people, learning and development of everyone so we all tHRive.

Co-Founder tHRive Club

North West Apprenticeship Ambassador Network

The North West Apprenticeship Ambassador Network (NWAAN) is a group of employers whose main aim is to spearhead the drive to engage new employers to commit to apprenticeship opportunities and delivery in the UK

Ambassador

Totus Environmental Limited

Totus Environmental is one of the UK’s leading providers of innovative international waste management solutions. Working with clients across the commercial, municipal, and hazardous waste sectors we have developed an unrivaled network of recycling and recovery outlets.

My main focus is to drive the development and implementation of our multifaceted people strategy that will support the business in achieving its vision and realising growth plans both in the UK and Europe. 

Our people mission is to create a safe and supportive culture, one of teamwork, where our people feel empowered, inspired and enabled to achieve their potential. 

Our People strategy is simple; develop, attract and recruit the very best talent.  

We want everyone to have the chance to enjoy working at Totus and to have pride in what they do and who they work for; to enjoy working with their colleagues in an environment where they feel trusted and valued, and where they are encouraged to develop personally and professionally.

Head of People and Strategic Development 

Macdonald Hotels

Opening New Build Hotel in North West England recruiting full team including successful opening and management.

Operations Manager

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®)

De Vere Group

Overall business management and strategic people development

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