Kate Shepherd
Employment lawyer and trainer
Nationality: British
Language: English
Profile Summary:
Kate Shepherd is a charismatic employment lawyer and delivers both training and consultancy. She trains and advises a diverse set of employers from small and medium sized enterprises to charities, PLCs and international companies, as well as taking board level director roles for clients. Prior to establishing her consultancy, Kate Shepherd Associates in 2005, Kate qualified as a solicitor, and practised employment law at a senior level with a leading firm in the Midlands.
KEY CHARACTERISTICS AND SKILLS:
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- Forward thinker
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Leading employment lawyer
- Proactive approach rather than reactive
- Holistic and facilitative approach
- Effective communicator
- Can explain complex areas of law in a straightforward and practical way
- Able to work with a variety of organisations
Areas of Training:
| · Courses in employment law
· Managing within the law – integrating employment law and management development · A-Z of employment law · Handling discipline and grievances in the workplace · Complete absence management · Skills of appraisals and performance reviews · Effective performance management · Employment law update |
· Managing long term ill health
· Recruitment, selection and retention · Effective dismissal · Managing redundancy · Equality, Diversity and Inclusion · Employment law and people management · Discrimination – the definitive guide – including sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age discrimination · Drafting contracts of employment |
Career Highlights and Key Clients:
- Practised employment law as a Solicitor at a senior level, within a leading practice in the Midlands.
- Visiting lecturer for Pearson Business School, CIPD, BPP Professional Development and MBL Seminars
- Recent projects include
- Design and delivery of CPD training to HR professionals and employment lawyers ranging from trainees and newly qualified solicitors through to 30 years PQE
- Delivering HR and Employment law topics at conferences, face to face workshops, virtual classrooms and through online webinars
- Design and virtual delivery of the employment law module on an LL.B and Masters programme for an international business school. Providing pastoral support and ongoing feedback to students
- Designing and developing online training for a BTEC and EDEXCEL approved employment law programme as well as providing ongoing support and assessment of students
- Providing employment law training as part of an ongoing HR management development programme for a local authority
- Bullying and Harassment training for 2000+ managers for a large international company in the leisure industry
- Training a publicly funded organisation on implementing new policies and procedures on absence management and performance improvement using experiential training techniques
- Module design and delivery of “Managing within the Law” as part of a management development programme for a large PLC which was delivered to 600 leaders
- Writing and publishing “Good Practice” and “how to” guides for Xpert HR a leading online resource for employment law and HR good practice
- Design and interactive delivery of HR and employment law training to organisations including Slimming World, Eurotunnel, National Farmers Union, United Biscuits, the Salvation Army SME’s, PLC’s, public sector, charities and multi national companies. Because of the confidential nature of Kate’s work we are unable to publish a full list of the organisations she has worked with. However, we are happy to arrange for you to talk to these organisations in confidence.
- Chairman of the Board of Directors and HR Champion for the Welland Enterprise Agency
- Feedback from organisations includes:
“An excellent course throughout. I have certainly learnt a lot of valuable information” Stylo Barratt Shoes Ltd
“Kate’s presentation was fantastic – I had expected the course to be dull yet informative. This was certainly not the case. The informal style of teaching/learning was brilliant. Well done!”
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
“Excellent presentation and delivery. Kate obviously has a full and complete knowledge of her subject and has such a great personality. There was never a boring moment”
Sabre Holdings
“Excellent. Fantastic delivery. Well run course. Thank you” Henley Management College
Certification: Qualifications and Credentials:
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- CIPD Certificate in online training design and delivery
- Law Society of England and Wales – Qualified Solicitor (up to 2005)
- Stonebow – Practical Training qualification
- CIPD Certificate in Training Practice
- Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives
- Legal Practice Course – Nottingham Law School
- LLB Hons 2:1 – Nottingham Law School
Affiliations, Activities and Awards:
- Active member of the Employment Lawyers Association
- Institute of Business Advisor
- Business Champion
- Kate was nominated as “Business Woman of the Year” in the Women of Achievement Awards 2007 Awards