Paula Harris

Transformation Consultant

What people say

"Paula is a master at coaching and making difficult issues vanish".
– CEO Financial Services
“Paula has been a power of strength to me: she makes me see things about myself I don’t see. I did not do myself justice. It was hard to get over my cultural baggage but now that I have shown that I am as good as any other, if not better!”
– Research Fellow, RCOG
“Paula is a superb coach and mentor. Practical and results focused she gently but firmly helped me find my direction and helped me find the confidence to stop procrastinating and to take action".
– New business start up
“Paula is one of the rare people that are great at what they do, whilst being great to work with. Paula's people skills are exceptional making her an ideal choice when working with organisational change or the development of people. It is unusual to find someone who understands the theory well but can also apply it with real life sense and good reason. I can't recommend Paula highly enough.”
– Board Director

About Paula Harris

Paula Harris is a highly experienced HR and People Specialist with 35 years expertise in People and Culture, leadership and organisation design and development, coaching and mentoring, learning and development and generalist HR. Paula has a varied career and has led HR and People Teams over a number of industries including Financial Services Regulation, Retail, Public Sector, Publishing and Manufacturing , Research Institutions and Charities in organisations such as Lexis Nexis, Reed Elsevier, The Zoological Society of London, Ted Baker and Monsoon Accessorise before working in-house in her last role as Director of People and Culture at The Pensions Regulator for 4 years.

In addition to working in-house as a People Professional Paula has, in her career, been the founder of 3 companies – Respond2Change; who were experts in organisational and individual change using employee feedback software solutions and coaching individual employee behavioural change complimented with 360 feedback software; Talent Within which offered Business and Personal Coaching, Communication and Personal Impact and Leadership Development; And ReadySteadyCoach which was dedicated to working with parents, teachers and health professionals to raise awareness and develop emotional intelligence through the use of coaching techniques for children.

In her spare time Paula likes to travel and got to the theatre with her partner, spend time in Cyprus (where she grew up) with her parents and walk her 12-year old miniature schnauzer, Lockie, around and about Brighton and Hove.

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