Senior Personnel

Tony Izzard FCIPD
Managing HR Consultant

Tony began work as a motor industry engineering apprentice in the late 1950s. Through the 60s and 70s he gravitated to training and personnel work, also into management with British Leyland. Roles included Personnel Manager at a BL group company in Luton and later, his final BL appointment that of Training Manager at Rover Triumph, a heavily unionised plant with a workforce of around 12,000.

In the late 70s and 80s Tony held top-level training and HR appointments in the paper industry, textiles and engineering. He moved to consultancy work in 1990.

He has found time to be (variously) a Works Convenor, a part-time College of Technology lecturer, an employer's representative on the national body representing the British Paper and Board Industry and a CBI Employers Training Council Representative and a school governor. In his spare time he has served as a school governor since 1988.

Tony has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development since April 1992.

Lindsay Sessions FCIPD
Head of HR Consulting

Lindsay Sessions has been appointed as Head of HR Consulting at Drury. Lindsay joined Drury earlier this year as a Senior HR Consultant, and has taken up this new role following internal reorganisation of the Alcumus Group to enable it to continue its planned growth.

Lindsay is a Chartered FCIPD and brings with her 30 years HR experience gained predominantly within retail. During the last 10 years she has held senior roles initially with a major food retailer where she was head of HR for the North, N Ireland and Scotland and more recently as the HR Director for a furniture manufacturing company.

Lindsay has extensive experience in all aspects of HR including responsibility for major restructuring, organisational design and development and leading the HR teams for a number of major acquisition programmes and new business developments. She has significant experience in delivering major change programmes and leadership training in organisations.

Lindsay is a qualified coach and member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. She has undertaken an experience assessment and been awarded Chartered Fellow CIDP.

Chris Whittam, Director of Drury said "We are delighted that Lindsay has decided to accept the offer of Head of HR Consulting. Her vast knowledge and experience in the HR industry will allow us to significantly further develop and enhance our services".

Susan Barker GCIPD
Employment Law Advisor

Sue's career has always been dedicated to HR. Working her way up through the discipline, she reached senior level in a forward-thinking manufacturing environment, part of an overseas-controlled conglomerate.

Here she was controlling an HR team which covered a unionised multi-site operation with over 1,000 employees, and she encountered at first hand all the most pressing issues facing employers today. This experience qualified her to move into consultancy work - first in 2000, and three years later, reinforced by even more experience, when she joined Drury PSM.

During the 90s Sue spent some part of six consecutive years consolidating and backing up her practical experience with programmes of study and professional qualification. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. 

Jessica Bickers, LLB (Hons)
Senior HR Consultant

After completing her law degree at Newcastle University and Diploma in Legal Practice, Jessica trained as a solicitor at a medium sized commercial law firm in Leeds where she gained experience in various departments of the practice including employment law.  On qualifying as a solicitor in September 2008, she chose to specialise in employment law and moved to a large multi-national law firm to build on her existing knowledge and experience.

Jess then decided to move into consultancy and brought her skills, knowledge and experience of advising large blue-chip companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises to Drury PSM in the summer of 2009.  Her pragmatic approach, coupled with her legal training offers our clients an essential resource on which they can draw.  Her specific experience includes advising on disciplinary and grievance issues, dismissal, TUPE, redundancy, changing terms and conditions of employment, sickness and absenteeism as well as giving guidance on Employment tribunal matters, in essence the key HR issues faced by our clients on a daily basis.

Anil Champaneri, LLB (Hons)
Employment Law Advisor

Anil studied law at Leeds Metropolitan University gaining a 2.1 LLB (Hons) degree and a distinction on the Legal Practice Course.   He then trained as a solicitor at a legal practice in Manchester city centre before returning to Leeds to work for a medium sized commercial law firm in the city.
 
Anil retrained in employment law at a North Leeds law firm where he specialised in acting for employees before moving away from the solicitor role and into his consultancy position at Drury PSM in October 2010.
 
By coupling his years’ of legal experience with his knowledge of employee matters, Anil is able to give our clients a trained and experienced insight into employment issues.  His specific experience includes disciplinaries and grievances, redundancies, dismissals, discrimination claims and giving guidance on Employment Tribunal cases.

Julie Dawson Assoc. CIPD
Senior HR Consultant

Julie is highly qualified professionally, with a CIPD Certificate in Advanced Employment Law to reinforce the hands-on expertise she had developed during her previous role. She joined us at Drury PSM in 2002 after a six-year stint in Human Resources Management, responsible for all employment relations issues, at a Housing Association with a UK staff of around 550.

She is well equipped to advise across a wide range of industry and the professions, having reached HR consultancy as a logical destination after a varied administration and management career, and quickly established herself with clients and the rest of the HR consultancy team.

Julie's range of skills and broad knowledge base are testaments to the regular training regime which she undertakes. She goes out of her way to maintain the most up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation and practice.

Richard Denton MCIPD
Senior HR Consultant

The bulk of Richard's career (pre-Drury) had been spent with two organisations - a major utility, then a publicly quoted financial organisation. But as his career progressed over 20 years he has filled a great many HR roles, and this has fitted him well for consultancy work.

Particularly useful is his experience in such areas as headcount reduction, performance management and flexible working, but his comprehensive knowledge covers all significant aspects of employee relations. Both his previous employers were large organisations but operating in separate, smaller business units. The need was to apply a systematic corporate approach - protecting employer and employee alike - but within a smaller, more informal and dynamic unit.

Richard is specifically trained in various aspects including fair treatment, harassment and stress management. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He joined Drury in spring 2005.

Sally Grundy MCIPD
Senior HR Consultant

Sally is an experienced HR Manager with a background in the service sector and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

She originally joined Drury in March 2005 and rapidly became a respected member of the Drury team before moving to the USA in 2009 when her husband was relocated there. We were pleased to welcome her back to Drury in early 2011 on the family's return to the UK.

Craig Mason
Senior HR Consultant

Craig changed the emphasis of what was already a successful career when he moved into consultancy work in 1990. During two decades, highlighted by senior HR roles in both industrial and commercial organisations, he had obtained a first-class practical grounding in Employment Law, and he made this the basis of his consultancy work.

His time since then has given him an encyclopaedic insight into the problems which employers now face in all aspects of business, and the methodology which they must adopt if they are to protect not only their employees, but also themselves.

Specifically, Craig has experience in tribunal representation, contracts of employment, discrimination, sickness and absence, mentor/mentee appraisals, training, etc, etc. We were delighted to acquire the services of such an experienced consultant when he joined us at Drury in 2006. 

Corinne Lamb DipSM, CMIOSH, RN, OSHCR
Health & Safety Managing Consultant

Corinne already had many years experience as a senior Health & Safety Advisor/Trainer when she brought her expertise to Drury PSM in July 1999.

Her original career choice had been nursing (she is still a Registered Nurse), and she rose to Theatre Charge Nurse before moving into Occupational Health, a move which then allowed her to emphasise her H&S skills, develop them and use them to build a specialist Health & Safety career.

She has consolidated her qualifications by training; risk assessment, manual handling, fire-fighting, water treatment, noise legislation... these are some of the individual courses she has taken. She is the holder of the NEBOSH Diploma, a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and is a registered teacher and marker of students undertaking the NEBOSH certificate. 

Gary Broadley CMIOSH, TIFireE, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Gary had already accumulated 16 years' experience within health and safety as an H&S Manager and for the last three years as a consultant prior to joining Drury PSM in April 2007.

He started his career as a Laboratory Technician within the education sector and later in the refractory industry where he developed the skills which allowed him to progress into a management role as a Health and Safety Manager.

Gary’s health and safety role took him into the light and heavy engineering sectors, designing and implementing health and safety policies, systems and strategies to ensure compliance with relevant legislation.

He has specific training and experience in toxic metals, noise and vibration, harmful dusts, liquids and mists, fire safety and explosives. Gary is also an accredited asbestos surveyor and a member of the Institute of Fire Engineers and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

His experience working for companies such as British Aerospace and training gave him the credentials he needed to enter consultancy work in 2004, since when his experience has extended across the full spectrum of UK industry.

Paul Brown CMIOSH, RMaPS, AIEMA, MIIRSM, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant
 
A Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and Registered CDMc Member of The Association of Project Safety, Paul is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment, and a Full Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management.

He has a broad range of experience in the water & utilities, construction, surveying and civil engineering industries and also in warehousing, transport, and distribution logistics.

Throughout his career Paul has undertaken further training for a range of qualifications including City & Guilds in the Water Industry and a Diploma in Project Management from Leeds University, in addition to a range of NEBOSH & IOSH Health, Safety & Environmental courses.

Before joining Drury PSM in 2011, Paul had worked for variety of employers covering such diverse projects as construction, civil engineering, and pipeline design to warehousing & logistics

Graham Carson MIIRSM, CMIOSH, MIMI, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Graham's initial career path took him to management level in the motor industry aftermarket, which provided an excellent introduction to health and safety.

Graham was able to build on this by becoming Regional Coordinator for a nationwide training organisation, with Health & Safety as a major part of his remit. He moved to specialist consultancy work when he joined Drury PSM in January 1996.

Throughout, he has been keen to broaden his skills and improve his credentials through training and qualification. He holds the NEBOSH Diploma and remains a long-standing corporate Member of the Institute of the Motor Industry, and is now also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health and a Member of the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management.

Additionally, he has been on the lecturing team at Leeds College of Technology.

Tracy Dodds BSc (Hons) DIPSHE Grad IOSH, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Tracy qualified as an Environmental Health Officer in 1996 and spent the next 12 years educating businesses and enforcing health and safety and food hygiene legislation. She has worked for various local authorities across the UK, gaining experience in a wide variety of industries and in her last role was responsible for managing a team of enforcement officers.

More recently Tracy left the local authority sector to move to another consultancy where she honed her health and safety skills and experience further, looking after a range of industrial and commercial clients.

Tracy joined Drury in early 2009 and relishes the opportunity to be able to assist our clients to meet their legal obligations by providing pragmatic advice and guidance through the establishment of strong working relationships. She has completed a post-graduate Diploma in Occupational Safety, Health and Environment, is an IOSH registered trainer and a graduate member.

Aaron Goodridge BSc (Hons) MCIEH, MHCIMA, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Continuing his early career within the public sector, Aaron became an Environmental Health Officer and spent almost 10 years enforcing legislation and advising many hundreds of clients, in a multitude of different business sectors, to comply with Health and Safety and food hygiene legislation. He took the opportunities available for further personal training and development including advanced qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety and Food Hygiene as well as studying for his degree in Environmental Health.

Aaron joined Drury in 2007 and now looks after his own designated clients, guiding them to achieve compliance in a practical, common sense manner. He is an experienced HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) Auditor and regularly carries out training courses accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, of which he is a member, for Drury clients.

Peter Heal IEng, MIPlantE, MBES, CMIOSH, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Peter worked as an associate of Drury for some years prior to joining us as an employed consultant in June 2008. Much of his working life has been spent in the heavy engineering sector and related industries. Since 1990, he has been involved in providing occupational health, hygiene and safety services to industry and commerce. He also has considerable experience in accident and industrial injury investigation and has frequently undertaken the role of expert witness in personal injury litigation cases.

As well as being a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH), Peter is an incorporated engineer (IEng) with the UK Engineering Council, a Member of the Institution of Plant Engineers (MIPlantE) and a Member of the Bureau of Engineer Surveyors (MBES).

Emma Jones, CMIOSH, MIIRSM, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant
 
A Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and full Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management, Emma is also an affiliate member of IEMA, the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. She is an IRCA-qualified lead auditor with long-standing experience in the construction industry and has held significant posts in health, safety and environmental management for construction, mechanical and electrical organisations.
 
Before joining Drury PSM in 2009, Emma worked for a provider of consultancy services, principally in the development of management systems including ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and OHSAS 18001, and through this gained experience across a wide variety of clients.  She was also licensed by Achilles, an international information and supply chain management company, to carry out third party audits in the utility, pharmaceutical and construction sectors, and was directly involved at the trial evaluation stage of their ‘BuildingConfidence’ audit programme.

Keith Rhodes BSc, CFIOSH, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Keith is highly qualified and is a registered consultant in occupational safety. He read for his BSc in Microbiology at the University of Leeds, then enjoyed a 15-year public-sector career, culminating in the college post of Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Occupational Health and Safety. Deciding eventually to specialise in the consultancy side of his work, he joined Drury PSM in September 1998.

Throughout the 90s he extended his knowledge through training for a range of NEBOSH qualifications and with his teaching qualifications he has been able to work as examiner and moderator for NEBOSH.

He is the author of published papers covering a variety of Risk Management and Public Health topics and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

Peter Rowan CMIOSH, OSHCR
Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Peter already had 10 years of consultancy practice when he came to Drury PSM in October 2001. He also has vast working experience within the manufacturing environment, and is professionally qualified in Industrial Management and in Work Study and Training.

Initially apprenticed within the textile industry, he gravitated from shop floor to senior level, and in his last industrial role was Training and Health & Safety Manager, a remit which covered 750 employees of four group companies.

He is the holder of the NEBOSH Diploma, among other relevant qualifications, having taken regular advantage of opportunities to invest in further education and training. As the textile industry contracted, this investment gave him the credentials he needed to enter consultancy work in 1991, since when his experience has extended across the full spectrum of UK industry.