Mandi Garforth
Consultant
Midlands and South West
Mandi joined Mentor in 2004 before which she worked in various
human resources roles for 16 years in different sectors including
manufacturing, rail services, call centres and transport &
distribution. Mandi has had a great deal of experience in dealing
with high volume HR issues including discipline and grievance,
absence management, and implementation and development of HR
policies and procedures. Mandi has developed and delivered a number
of training events for clients based on these topics. She also
holds a postgraduate diploma in Personnel & Development.
Steve Houghton
Employment Law Consultant
Steve has over 10 years experience operating in senior HR
management and training practitioner roles within the services
sector and retail. Prior to joining Mentor his previous roles
included Training & Development Manager for Forte Posthouse
Hotels which involved developing strategy and design and delivery
of a wide range of training courses. He has also worked as a
regional and divisional HR manager in large and medium sized
organisations.
H. Sanghera MCIPD BA (Hons)
Employment Law Consultant
'H' has worked in Human Resources since 1995 with experience in all
aspects of Employment Law. 'H' has developed his career in both the
Manufacturing and the Service sector dealing with issues such as
large scale redundancies, implementing EU directives, Harassment
and Bullying cases. He has developed and delivered training on all
aspects of Human Resources and has a particular interest in
equalities and diversity issues.
Rhona Ulyett
Qualifications: LLB (hons) DHRM
Rhona joined Mentor in 2001 before which she worked for 11 years in
Human Resources for the motor manufacturing and food industries and
latterly for the call centre arm of a major retail chain. She has
run in house training on discipline and grievance, absence
management and appraisal skills for a wide range of employees from
Directors to shop floor supervisors.
Yvonne Johnstone
Yvonne Johnstone joined Mentor in 2003 as an Employment Consultant
in the South West. She has spent over 30 years in Human Resource
Management roles in both the private and public sectors which
included some roles in a Housing Association. She has experience in
all aspects of training from training needs analysis, preparation
of tailored training packages to delivery of individual courses.
After gaining her B.A. at Exeter University she continued with her
professional qualifications through the CIPD and later at the
University of Portsmouth.
Yvonne Banks LLB ( Hons)
Employment Law Consultant
Yvonne has worked in HR since 1991 gaining experience in a variety
of roles within the HR function. Prior to Mentor she worked with
various blue chip companies where latterly she managed teams of HR
Advisors specialising in integrated Absence Management/Occupational
Health as well as managing a national team of Consultants who case
managed Grievance and Discipline cases. Yvonne has designed and
delivered a wide variety of training material across the whole
spectrum of managerial spans of control from induction of first
line managers to senior strategists across different functions in
the companies.