Maria Shinn MCIPD
Employment Relations Consultant
With over 25 years of experience in management and employment relations, I specialise in conflict resolution, policy development, and tailored training solutions for businesses.
My approach is grounded in impartiality and empathy, ensuring that even the most challenging situations are handled with understanding and professionalism.
Services
Business and Human Resources
I partner with businesses to improve and enhance best practice, ensure compliance with employment legislation, and foster high levels of employee engagement and motivation — all to help maximise productivity in the workplace.
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Workplace Mediation
As a Workplace Mediator I facilitate a process designed to improve relationships and resolve conflicts between colleagues or teams. This is particularly useful when disputes are negatively impacting productivity, team morale, employee well-being, attendance and retention.
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Workplace Training
I offer bespoke training solutions (including some accredited courses) that equip your managers and staff with the skills they need to understand their roles and responsibilities and to excel in them. My programmes are tailored to your specific business needs.
What people are saying
"Finding a trainer who can engage with a diverse workforce is not always easy. With her extensive experience of training and facilitation as well as mediation and employee relations, Maria was able to connect well with everyone at all levels. Maria is a ‘people person’ and someone who listens to the client’s needs, offers options and works well with you in order that the end product is effective and everyone’s objectives are reached."
Head of HR Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
"Maria is a particularly skilled and experienced HR Professional and one who is adept at managing a myriad of business challenges whilst liaising with people Company-wide and does so with honesty, integrity and commercial know-how and expertise, whilst ensuring she remains resolution focused. Having worked with Maria many times I fully recommend her without hesitation as together with being incredibly professional, on a personal level she is an exemplary person and it is a genuine pleasure to work with her."
Maria McGettigan Chartered FCIPD
"I worked with Maria on a number of occasions, including a particularly difficult project, (due to very poor relationships), where she took the lead role. She is always honest, always open, and she measures success by the benefits achieved for her clients and their employees, on the basis of working together better.
She is, in effect, a complete “all rounder” when it comes to the so-called “soft” skills, which she has in abundance."
Phil Rimmer