Strategic HR Solutions

Navigate Change with Confidence

In today’s complex business environment, organisations need expert support to navigate change, maintain compliance, and foster positive workplace cultures. With over 15 years of experience in strategic HR and employee relations, Ayesha provides comprehensive support across organisational assessments, change management, and employee relations.

Her approach combines strategic insight with practical implementation, ensuring changes are managed effectively while maintaining employee engagement and legal compliance. Whether conducting pre-TUPE investigations, managing organisational change, or handling complex employee relations issues, Ayesha provides clear guidance and practical solutions tailored to your organisation’s needs.

Due Diligence & Strategic Investigations

Complex organisational changes require thorough assessment and careful planning. Ayesha’s comprehensive due diligence services help organisations understand their current position and plan effectively for change.

Pre-TUPE Due Diligence Investigations

Before committing to a formal TUPE transfer, prudent organisations need early insight into the employment landscape they may inherit.

Ayesha conducts focused pre-TUPE investigations that identify potential staffing challenges - from historical employee relations patterns to leadership turnover challenges and undocumented cultural issues and flexible working arrangements - that could impact operational continuity or create unexpected costs.

This preliminary assessment gives leadership teams crucial information for decision-making, allowing them to develop realistic timelines, appropriate budgets, and targeted integration strategies well before the formal transfer process begins.

By highlighting specific areas of concern early, Ayesha helps organisations prepare effectively for consultation processes, develop appropriate communication strategies, and identify where specialist support may be needed.

This proactive approach significantly reduces the risk of post-transfer disruption and helps maintain service quality during periods of significant organisational change.

Cultural Evaluations & Recommendations

When organisations experience persistent staff turnover, repeated grievances, or resistance to change despite best efforts, the root cause often lies in unexamined or unaddressed cultural patterns.

Ayesha conducts thorough, independent cultural evaluations that go beyond standard employee surveys to reveal the unwritten rules, informal power structures, and systemic barriers affecting workplace dynamics.

Through structured interviews, observational assessments, and careful analysis of patterns, she provides leaders with clear insights into disconnects between stated values and lived experience.

This evaluation is particularly valuable when taking on leadership of an inherited team, addressing recurring workplace issues, or preparing for significant organisational change.

Ayesha delivers practical, actionable recommendations focused on genuine cultural improvement rather than surface-level interventions, helping organisations create workplaces where official policies and everyday practices actually align.

Sexual Harassment Preventative Duty Compliance Investigations

The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 introduces a proactive obligation for employers to take "all reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. This significant legal development shifts the focus from reactive complaint handling to proactive prevention.

Organisations must now demonstrate they have implemented comprehensive measures to prevent sexual harassment. Failure to meet this duty can result in:
•Enhanced compensation in tribunal cases
•Enforcement action from the Equality and Human Rights Commission
•Significant reputational damage
•Decreased employee morale and productivity

This investigation offers a systematic, evidence-based methodology to help organisations:
1. Identify Risk Factors: Your organisational structures, power dynamics, reporting mechanisms, and cultural indicators that may contribute to harassment risk are assessed .
2. Evaluate Current Measures: Your organisation's existing policies, training programmes, and response processes are assessed against legal requirements and best practices.
3. Uncover Blind Spots: Through confidential stakeholder engagement, the gaps between formal policies and lived experiences are identified.
4. Develop Tailored Solutions: Bespoke recommendations that balance legal compliance with your organisational values and practical constraints are made.

Why Choose Preventative Investigations?
• Legal Protection: Demonstrate you've taken "reasonable steps" as required under the Worker Protection Act 2023.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify and address issues before they escalate into formal complaints or legal action.
• Cultural Enhancement: Foster a more inclusive, respectful workplace environment where all employees can thrive.
• Cost Efficiency: Prevent potential claims, avoiding associated legal costs, compensation payments, and lost productivity.
• Reputation Management: Protect your organisation's standing with employees, customers, and the wider community.
• Expertise and Independence: Benefit from objective, expert assessment free from internal bias or politics.

Who Should Consider this Service?
•Organisations seeking to comply with the new preventative duty
•Employers who have experienced harassment complaints and want to prevent recurrence
•Organisations undergoing significant change or growth
•Companies in high-risk sectors or with known power imbalances
•Organisations committed to creating truly inclusive workplace cultures

Considering Organisational Change?

Schedule a confidential discussion to explore how a preliminary assessment can help your organisation make informed decisions about potential changes. We’ll discuss your specific situation and how independent evaluation can identify opportunities and challenges early.

TUPE Transfers

TUPE transfers create significant legal obligations and workforce anxieties that require both technical expertise and people-focused management. Drawing from extensive hands-on experience across private, public, and third sectors, Ayesha provides comprehensive support throughout the transfer process:

•Detailed due diligence and measures identification
•Employee and Trade Union consultation planning and management
•Communication strategy development
•Terms and conditions harmonisation
•Post-transfer integration support

Her methodical approach balances legal compliance with practical business needs, ensuring transfers are managed effectively while addressing employee concerns that often derail integration. Ayesha's experience with both acquiring and transferring organisations provides valuable perspective on managing the complex dynamics of workforce transfers.

Restructures & Redundancy Programmes

Organisational restructures and redundancy situations require careful handling to maintain both legal compliance and employee trust. Ayesha combines compliance expertise with compassionate implementation, supporting organisations through:

•Programme planning and risk assessment.
•Consultation process management, including statutory collective consultation.
•Development of fair and objective selection criteria and matrices.
•Individual and collective consultation.
•Redundancy payment calculations and implementation support.
•Redeployment strategy and implementation guidance.

Ayesha's experience includes managing complex restructures involving multiple stakeholders across varied regulatory environments, ensuring defensible processes while supporting organisational objectives. Her pragmatic approach focuses on creating documentation trails that demonstrate fair treatment, reducing both immediate disruption and long-term legal risk.

Succession Planning

Unplanned departures in key positions create significant operational vulnerabilities that many organisations discover too late. Ayesha brings a systematic approach to identifying and developing internal talent, helping organisations:

•Identify key roles and critical skills
•Assess current talent pools
•Develop succession frameworks
•Create development pathways
•Implement monitoring systems

Through structured talent mapping and realistic development planning, Ayesha helps create succession frameworks that connect business continuity with individual career aspirations, reducing recruitment costs while increasing retention of high-potential employees. Her practical approach ensures succession planning becomes an integrated business practice rather than a theoretical exercise.

Policy Review & Implementation

Effective policies bridge the gap between legal requirements and operational realities, requiring both technical knowledge and practical implementation skills. Ayesha helps organisations move beyond compliance-focused documentation to develop frameworks that guide consistent decision-making while reflecting organizational values. Effective policies form the foundation of good employee relations. Ayesha helps organisations:

•Review and update existing policies
•Develop new policies aligned with best practice, in consultation with TU Reps where applicable
•Create implementation strategies
•Advise on manager training

Through collaborative development and implementation, Ayesha ensures policies become useful management tools rather than shelf documents. Her approach focuses on creating clear, accessible guidance that empowers managers to make consistent decisions while reducing the organisation's exposure to claims and complaints.

Change Management

Successfully managing organisational change requires more than just implementing new structures—it demands a thorough understanding of current operations, potential risks, and human impacts. Ayesha brings extensive experience helping organisations navigate complex transitions, from the strategic investigation and due diligence phases through implementation and integration.

Her comprehensive approach begins with thorough baseline assessments that identify existing strengths and vulnerabilities, ensuring change decisions are evidence-based rather than reactive. Through each stage of transformation—whether TUPE transfers, restructuring, succession planning, or policy reform—Ayesha provides clear communication frameworks, practical implementation guidance, and robust documentation that demonstrates both compliance and fairness.

By addressing the human elements of change while maintaining legal rigor, her work helps organisations implement necessary transformations while preserving employee engagement, institutional knowledge, and operational continuity.

Employee Relations

Even the most well-run organisations face challenging employee relations situations that can escalate without proper handling. Ayesha brings extensive experience navigating sensitive cases where legal compliance, employee wellbeing, and organisational reputation intersect, delivering practical solutions that stand up to scrutiny.

Complex Case Management

Ayesha brings extensive experience in managing complex employee relations matters, providing comprehensive support across the full spectrum of cases:

Absence Management and Health-Related Issues

Managing long-term sickness absence cases with potential disability discrimination implications
Supporting reasonable adjustments assessments and implementations
Navigating occupational health referrals and recommendations
Handling mental health-related absences sensitively
Managing return to work processes and adjustment

Performance and Conduct

Supporting capability procedures and performance improvement processes
Managing complex disciplinary cases
Handling professional misconduct allegations
Addressing conduct issues
Supporting line managers through formal processes

High-Risk Terminations

Managing SOSR (Some Other Substantial Reason) dismissals
Handling settlement agreements
Supporting redundancy consultations
Managing exit processes for senior staff
Navigating complex termination scenarios

Discrimination and Harassment

Investigating allegations of discriminatory treatment
Handling harassment complaints
Managing reasonable adjustment requests
Addressing unconscious bias issues
Supporting cultural change initiatives

Line Manager Support

Providing guidance on complex cases
Upskilling managers in handling difficult conversations
Supporting formal process management
Developing management capability
Ensuring consistent approach to employee relations

Ayesha’s methodical approach to complex employee relations matters balances procedural fairness with pragmatic resolution, providing managers with the confidence to address difficult situations effectively. Her experience across multiple sectors and organisational cultures enables her to anticipate potential complications and develop strategies that protect both legal interests and workplace relationships.

Build Stronger Workplace Relationships

Complex employee relations issues need careful handling. Contact Ayesha to discuss how expert support can help your organisation maintain positive employee relations while ensuring legal compliance.

Partner with Experience

Whether you’re planning organisational changes or seeking to enhance your HR frameworks, Ayesha provides the strategic insight and practical support you need. Contact her today for a confidential discussion about your organisation’s specific requirements.

Strategic HR Solutions