Our Team

The Recrion Team is experienced in:

  • Career Coaching, HR, Recruitment & Selection, Training & Development, Change Management, NLP

Katherine Wiid – Founder & Director of Recrion, NLP Practioner

Katherine founded Recrion in 2001.  She first became involved in the HR sector upon completion of her Bachelors Degree in Humanities gained from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Following a varied early career in recruitment, marketing and public relations she came to the UK in 1995. Katherine managed the flagship commercial branch of the Meridian Business Support Group before joining Humana International (MRI), one of the largest headhunting firms in the world. As a senior consultant, she identified and recruited executive level personnel for multi-national telecoms providers whilst continuing to improve and develop new interviewing and assessment skills.

  • Specialist areas: Career Coaching, Interview Strategy, Job Search Coaching, Career Planning, CV Writing, Personal Branding, Recruitment Process Management, Recruitment and Selection
  • Business Personality of the Year 2008 finalist in the Mercury Business Awards

Jo Birznieks – MCIPD, ILM Internal Verifier and Tutor, Job Analyst HERA scheme

Since graduating from Nottingham University in 1978, Jo has worked in a variety of operational and HR roles within blue chip organisations and large manufacturing companies.

  • Specialist areas: Competency Based Resourcing, Employee Relations, Employee Development including Coaching and Leadership Assessment and Team Development.

Lindsey Reed – LCH dip, MP-NLP, Fellow of ILM

A professional licensed Career Coach and Master NLP Practitioner, Lindsey is passionate about people discovering careers that fit with their unique abilities. She has over 20 years experience in the corporate world, including 12 years at a senior management level. Using her excellent people skills, Lindsey has developed teams and managed multi £m projects within the Financial Industry.

  • Specialist area: identifying people's unique abilities and working with them to ensure a successful career transition.

David Wedderkop BSc (Hons) in Psychology, Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP

Over 25 years experience in consulting, training, development and coaching in the realms of Government, Financial Services, FMCG/Manufacturing/Distribution and IT with global companies.  David has provided consultancy, design and implementation of psychologically based development in leadership, leading and management of change, client engagement and facilitation skills development.

  • Specialist areas:  modelling excellence in client organisations,  facilitation skills development, fast track team development, change management and leadership

Alice Jordan – MCIPD, Diploma in Business Coaching

With 20 years experience in HR, Alice has a track record of assisting business teams to focus on ways to improve the performance of their teams.   This has involved many projects leading others through change ranging from the introduction of new systems to the development of new competence frameworks.

  • Specialist area:  the strategic analysis, design and delivery of people processes to aid business performance.

Des McHugh – MCIPD

Des has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, including 12 years at HR Director level within FMCG (food industry) environments. He currently supports Companies in handling sensitive issues particularly around major change involving restructuring and redundancy programmes. In corporate life, he operated as a main Board Director and led management teams through Trade Union negotiations and major re-organisation programmes.

  • Specialist areas: Change Management, Trade Union Negotiations, Redundancy & TUPE

Gerry Kitchingman – ILM and CIPD accredited trainer

Gerry's background is in the R&D pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Originally working as a scientist, she changed career course and took a degree in Business Studies at Nottingham Trent University. From there she went on to gain further qualifications in Training and Development and Psychometrics. In addition, Gerry is a volunteer Mentor with Nottinghamshire Business Link where she helps start-up companies to establish themselves.

  • Specialist areas: facilitating, designing and implementing training and team development programmes and competency based, performance appraisal processes; and assisting companies in change management.

Johanna Ricketts – FCIPD

Johanna graduated in 1997 with BA (Hons) in Business Studies with an HR specialism. She has also received extensive vocational training to deliver specialist psychometric testing services, and is accredited to deliver and administer these. Johanna has held HR advisory roles in leisure, banking, engineering, the NHS and other public bodies. She has also worked in Recruitment Consultancy.

  • Specialist Areas: Job Analysis, Competency Based Interviewing, Design and Facilitation of Assessment Centres, Psychometric Testing, Graduate & Postgraduate Recruitment & Selection, Career Development and Research.

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