Allison Long

Executive HR Director, Board member, OD&D Consultant and Coach

Base
Cambridgeshire

Specialisms
Organisation Design and Development. Executive team review, Board Development, HR Team Optimisation, Complex  Employee Relations, Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership Development


  • A highly experienced HR leader and coach. Allison has over 25 years’ experience across private, public and third sectors, including successful delivery at executive HR leadership level.

  • Allison has managed, coached and mentored leaders at all levels, including at Board and executive level. She has experience in leading culture and leadership change programmes, enabling transformation through people, process improvement and digitalisation.

  • She is an expert in commercial performance enhancement

  • Allison has extensive experience of leading and transforming HR functions in regulated environments, including Housing, Adult Social Care and Education.

  • She had led numerous organisational design projects developing performance led target Operating Models and delivering commercial efficiencies

  • Allison is an expert in change, culture and transformation.

Allison is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership.

Recent projects include:

  • Executive performance coaching of Boards, Senior Leadership teams and managers across different organisations and disciplines.

  • Re-structuring HR functions as well as providing gap analysis and solutions relating to regulatory compliance, governance and commercial optimisation.

  • Complex employee relations, including safeguarding and neurodiversity, as well as TU relationship management.

  • Culture, change and transformation project within business growth – Private Social Care

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