Rebel HR are not just your normal box ticking HR consultants. Kate really understands our brand and culture, and has been amazing over the years with support and guidance from covid policy, coaching leaders, to how to drive a better internal business culture. As well as being a really good sounding a board for a key business decision.
Joe Phillips
Wayland's YardWorking with Kate was so refreshing. Getting help and advice as a small business can be really daunting, but Kate was great and I feel very supported. Thank you!
Lizzie
The Plant ShedRebel HR, brought a fantastic pirate approach to assisting us to develop our work place culture for our staff. Rebel HR were keen to move past the shackles of traditional HR policy, to create something far more person centred and dynamic. She comes strongly recommended.
Mark Kingston
Community Foster CareIf you're looking for a great HR consultant who knows how to support you, provide ideas and insights that will help your company culture then Kate is your 1st port of call. She has a wealth of experience, innovative in her approach and is also great fun. A postive force and addtion to any business.
Henry Sanford
AB-UKKate is great and extremely passionate about what she does. I would recommend her without hesitation to any business that wants to build a great team, empower and develop it. Plus, she is an absolute pleasure to work with!
Esther Lopez
YumelloI've known Kate for many years, firstly during our time working together at Azzurri and Gondola and most recently whilst she was People Director at Boston Tea Party. Kate is an exceptional leader and has the rare combination of commercial acumen combined with an absolute expertise within People Development and Human Resources. She has a deep understanding of the hospitality industry as well as wider experience within other commercial sectors and she is always a joy to work and collaborate with. Her focus is always developing talent and finding creative and empowering solutions to business and HR challenges. Kate is a creative, passionate and dedicated strategic HR partner and approaches her work with a commitment to do an exceptional job for those she works with and alongside. I would always want to find opportunities to work with her again and would not hesitate to engage her services at anytime and would highly recommend her to others looking for an expert, creative HR leader and practitioner.
Tamsyn Hawkins
People Director at St Austell BreweryI was luckily enough to have worked with Kate at ASK Italian that was very important time in my career. Whilst Kate was Head of HR during a few important time during the transformation period she very much led the business from the front with People in mind. Kate led her team to be market leaders in engaging, motivating and driving the teams. This started with ensuring the team within the business progressed through the family and we boasted an excellent promotion rate. I was also luckily involved in the AVANTI course that was geared up to support GMs that were looking to stepping into the field of Operations or Head Office Functions. Without this stepping stone, I would not be where I am today.
Dan Maimone
Associate Director at Harri Customer SuccessKate is one of the most genuine and honest professionals I have had the pleasure to work with. She is an expert in her field and delivers a professional output whilst always staying true to her beliefs and keeps the values at the forefront of all decision making. Her passion for people and to do the right thing always gets the right result even through times of ambiguity. I would love the opportunity to be inspired by Kate again someday and would recommend for anyone to spend some time with Kate to be motivated to achieve. A true People Professional.
Nikki Timms
Resourcing Project Manager at Costa CoffeeI had the pleasure of working with Kate during her time at Ask Italian and Whitbread. I always found Kate to be extremely personable, a clear communicator and very professional in how she partnered with external specialist organisations. Together, we focused on the areas of attraction and employer branding where she was able to connect the business need, people strategy and personality of the business together to enable an exceptional output. Kate is also fun and engaging, which makes it very easy to maintain a long term relationship.
Sarah Sturgess
Agency Director at SMRSKate was a pillar of culture within our business! She consistently showed her love for the role and was passionate about how she went about her work. She was the example of professional integrity to the business and most importantly she showed her desire to build a great team- finding talent, empowering it, engaging it, and developing it. Great fun to work with!
Adam Lindop
Senior Operations Manager at ASK ItalianI have worked alongside Kate as part of an Senior HR network. Energetic and enthusiastic , with a clear business minded voice and commercial expertise. I would recommend Kate to any business that requires a real people 'injection' - certainly NOT your average HR practitioner, but who ever settles for average! I'd be happy to use Kate in any of my businesses.
James Atherton FCIPD
Group HR Director at Boparan Private OfficeI worked closely with Kate and the Leadership Team over the period of 2 years whilst designing & implementing a fully integrated Talent Management Programme. Kate's involvement in the design & ongoing management was top drawer. She had an extremely clear understanding of the organisations challenges and was very open to different approaches and solutions. Her goals were clear and well aligned to the organisations commercial and operational strategy . It was also a pleasure on a personal level as she was professional, creative, challenging and supportive at every stage. I hope to be able to partner with Kate in the future.
Marcus Lorenzo
Managing Director at Atticus Partnership
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You can view all of my recommendations on LinkedIn. All testimonials refer to the work, character and personal opinions from others of Kate Ashmore.