The HR Headmistress
About the Author
After studying for a business law degree, Kate Russell qualified as a barrister. She moved to industry, gaining several years experience in operations, continued on to human resources and later became a training specialist working in the manufacturing, distribution and service sectors.
She started Russell HR Consulting in 1998 and now divides her time between advising businesses of all sizes on HR issues, and delivering a range of highly practical employment law awareness training to line managers, including a range of public workshops. Her unique combination of legal background, direct line management experience and HR skills, enables Kate to present the stringent requirements of the law balanced against the realities of working life. She is a senior presenter for several companies and a popular public speaker. Kate completed an MA in strategic human resource management in 2004.
Kate is known as The HR Headmistress’ for her combination of a certain briskness and unwillingness to tolerate absurdities, a devastating ability to cut through the mire, and a steely gaze over the reading glasses, all of which tend to make some people quiver. After a while, she stopped trying to pretend to be pink and fluffy and embraced her headmistress’ persona wholeheartedly. Well, “if life hands you a lemon, make lemonade and sell it!”
She is the author of several practical employment handbooks and e-books, and the highly acclaimed audio update service, Law on the Move(TM), as well as a monthly eNewsletter, the latter document neatly combining the useful, the topical and the frivolous.
The Team
Russell HR Consulting delivers HR solutions and practical employment law training across the UK.
We have developed a reputation for being knowledgeable, robust and commercially aware. We are especially well versed in tackling and resolving of tough discipline and grievance matters.
Our team includes a number of experienced HR consultants expert in all aspects of HR and UK Employment law. We are supported by a fantastic central admin team who keep all the wheels turning behind the scenes.
