What’s our story?

Anne Best Consulting Ltd was established in 2018 following over thirty years of working as a Human Resources professional. During this time Anne’s experience and expertise covered a broad range of geographic areas and specialist HR disciplines, including strategic HR ‘Business Partnering’, Reward Management, Talent Management, Performance Management, Organizational Design and Development, Change Management & Transformation and Employee Engagement and Recognition. Anne is at her best when supporting change and growth, both acquisitive and organic.  She has worked in different sectors of International and Global organizations – Retail, Hospitality, Waste Management, Logistics and Freight Management and for the last eleven years in Information and Data Management.

HER STYLE

Her style has been described as a blend of working in a very hands-on pragmatic way, resolving issues whilst retaining the ability and experience to move into a strategic debate, inspiring, facilitating and contributing as appropriate. Her approach to leading an HR function is highly commercial, seeking ways to reduce the HR spend to revenue ratio whilst constantly raising the bar and improving leadership capability, diversity, retention and engagement.

HER STYLE

Anne’s passion

Anne’s passion is for driving high performance through building and developing talented teams. For example, between 2014 – 2017 she was part of a leadership team that achieved profitable revenue growth across highly diverse markets, adding a further twenty countries to the existing seventeen, consolidating a market leadership position in most countries. The revenue performance percentage improvement was in the high single digits and we delivered double-digit profit percentage performance (EBITDA).  This performance was enabled by our strategic approach to our leadership and talent acquisition and development over this period.

Anne’s passion

OUTSIDE OF WORK

Outside of work, she is a keen runner, having come ‘late’ to running about ten years ago and proud to have completed two marathons so far.  She enjoys yoga, gardening, travelling to obscure places and food – both cooking and eating!

OUTSIDE OF WORK

Her Professional Qualifications

BA in History from Kings College London

Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Thames Valley University

Masters Degree in Human Resource Management from Kingston University Business School

Currently studying for a Professional Certificate in Coaching at Henley Business School

Photographer Pennie Withers www.photosbypennie.co.uk