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Kate came on board to help Hello ‪Sunday Morning‬ from when we were a team of 15 in order to grow to a team of 30. Her ability to be acupunctural in her focus on the people problems we faced and bring teams together was a godsend and critical in building the foundations of the culture we have today. I couldn’t recommend Kate more highly: as an advisor, a consultant (who actually gets it done) and, most importantly, a person who has impeccable loyalty and integrity towards the needs of the business.

Kate is an exceptional HR leader, with the ability to deliver expert training when it comes to anything related to people and business. She is a rare talent that has expertise across training, executive coaching, HR and business operations. Kate is one of the most sought after mentors for The Remarkable Woman, with her insightful and pragmatic advice to seeing women achieve new heights. Kate just gets people, can move mountains and is always in the know.

We had previously worked with Kate in her last corporate in-house role, so we already knew she was a good operator with all things People. We are a fast growing company without a formal HR lead and we have employed Kate’s consultancy to assist us with creating and actioning our People Plan. Day to day involvement includes employment relations, people advice and company wide salary benchmarking. With People planning, we are working on career development, career frameworks and future people and training needs. Kate / Zest are very much part of our business, demonstrating this with how she cares and conducts herself as a seamless member of our management team. We highly recommend her.

Kate is the most graceful, effortless operator I've ever seen in her field. Her secret power is stealth - her ruthless efficiency is unseen, she is razor sharp, highly competent, tactful, charming, a pleasure to have around and above all, discreet. Kate freed us to focus on our core business, secure that we had unshakable expert advice and is an integral and trusted member of my team. She genuinely cares about people and doing the right thing. It feels like she is a few offices down the hall wherever she may be in the physical world. Kate came from the high-powered corporate HR world; now she delivers the same expertise to mid-size enterprises for a fraction of the cost of an in-house expert at her level. If you want your HR nightmares to end, where everyone is happy, feels respected and well treated, you will thank yourself for getting Kate on your team.