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Who are Avalon HR?
- We are People Management professionals, offering advice, skills and consultancy to enable purposeful, ambitious, employers to protect & grow their business.
- We work with all sizes and types of organisations, but typically from 5 to 150 people.
How we work
Essential
We offer documents, retained advisory services, or pay as you go.
Developmental
For projects, we investigate your needs, develop a plan and align the necessary documents, processes and best practice with your needs.
Strategic
Whichever you choose, we add value at every stage, improving your capability to hire, train, lead and get the best from your people. The benefit to you is deeper employee engagement, leading to improved output.
Director & Managing Consultant
Quentin Lillis
Chartered FCIPD
I strongly believe our profession makes a uniquely valuable contribution to creating better organisations and better working lives and was proud to be recognised as a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) in 2005. I particularly enjoy working with leadership teams, to identify, and improve the people, culture, and HR support required to enable or cope with economic, technological or organisational change and transformation.
Since 2014 I have thoroughly enjoyed coaching, HR and training as a freelance with many and varied SME organisations. I cut my management teeth in the hospitality industry and have worked for large organisations in food manufacturing, automotive and retail. I am delighted to have served at HR director level with Greggs, and in various Senior HR & management roles with Unipart, Boots, Samworth Brothers and others.
Associates
Shelley Poole Assoc.CIPD MSc
Managing Director, Wellington HR Ltd.
Shelley is an experienced HR Consultant with skills in a range of areas including resolving tricky employee relations matters, and as a qualified business lecturer, Shelley is also skilled in designing and delivering engaging training sessions. Shelley is currently undertaking doctoral research into employee-owned organisations and employee voice, and provides consultancy services to a number of employee-owned businesses using her specialist knowledge in this sector. Shelley’s company, Wellington HR Ltd, undertakes work for Avalon HR on an associate basis.
Quentin has helped us to develop our Production Team Leaders through working with them to identify their needs and writing and delivering various training interventions. He has followed this up with on job practice and assessment and our Team Leaders have really responded which is now paying dividends in terms of staff motivation and output.
John WyattMD & Owner WH Kemp (Electrical) Ltd 
Quentin’s help in a number of our care homes was instrumental in reducing the potentially negative impact and significant cost of temporary agency Nurses and Carers. As a consequence of his interventions we have now set up our own in-house HR field team. I would thoroughly recommend his no nonsense, sleeves rolled up approach.
Steve OffordTransformation Director, Barchester Healthcare 
Recently we were struggling to find the best way to attract new recruits and needed to make better hiring decisions. Quentin identified some new areas to target and an on line partners which raised our profile and resulted in significantly increasing the number and quality of applicants
Paul HawkinsHead of Operations. WH Kemp (Electrical) Ltd
Quentin worked with our organisation in 2016 and was able to build a working relationship with our managers and simultaneously engage with our investors. His involvement helped to strengthen their confidence and develop our HR responses to some recruitment and retention problems. We found him to be adept at quickly building trust with all stakeholders and his style was practical, flexible and effective
Phil LloydOperations Director Larchwood Care 
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Clients helped
£500k
Staff retention savings direct costs at one location
12.5x
