Dawn Baylis

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About Dawn Baylis

Dawn is a highly experienced HR professional working at Director level, with vast experience in operational and strategic HR, Organisational Development, Change & Training within top 10 global organisations, nfp's and start-ups. Dawn prides herself in her delivery, communication, solution-solving skills, awareness, drive, and resilience. With a natural flair for continuous improvement, culture and change, Dawn strives in her adaptability to engage and deliver at all levels with ease. Dawn enjoys driving people and culture in silo, as well as part of a team. Dawn is emotionally intelligent, strategic, professional and educated in human resources, psychotherapy and neuro-science. Dawn has repeatedly achieved “outstanding performance” across all her corporate roles, received numerous awards and led high level projects with ease and outstanding results. Dawn has a particular passion and interest in the change space, driving organisational behaviours/values through culture and people initiatives, as well as strategic leadership experience and extensive training design and delivery. Dawn has a particular flair for employment legislation and the ability to interpret current and changing legislation commercially, in a positive, productive, learning-focused way. Dawn thrives in all aspects of people and culture and considers herself to be a well-rounded strategic yet operational professional. She has a solid track record through numerous organisations delivering all aspects of P&C, including large scale re-structures (2-300 h/c), TUPE transfers h/c), redundancies including mutual agreements, floatation’s and people and change projects. She has vast experience developing P&C initiatives from the ground up and thrives on identifying and consulting on needs in this space, utilising a blended commercial P&C approach, as well as psychological and EI theories. Having had experience of employee engagement across numerous roles, she is able to initiate and drive EE in a holistic way across all P&C initiatives, to support greater psychological contract for employees. This supports a high-performing culture (and intrinsic reward) as well as retention of high performers. She enjoys driving people and culture in silo, as well as part of, or leading a team and has developed and grown several HR teams. This led to an increase in customer satisfaction in the P&C space, as well as raising the credentials of P&C/business partnering, leading to greater understanding of the impact of effective people management within businesses.