Meet the team

As Partner and Managing Director at Beamans, Trudy works with a range of clients across the public, private and third sectors. As an experienced HR professional and Project Manager she is skilled in organisation design and job evaluation and well versed in delivering organisational reviews of staffing, reviewing job design, developing new pay and grading structures, and developing new frameworks and processes.

Since joining Beamans she has managed a number of projects several of which have involved the development of job classification frameworks and new grading and pay structures. She also leads our training function and is involved in both the design and delivery of training.

Trudy’s experience spans a variety of organisations in the public, private and third sectors. Prior to joining Beamans she worked predominantly in the higher education sector both in a University and latterly as a consultant to a consortium of universities and colleges.

She is well versed in overcoming cultural, bureaucratic and financial obstacles and creating innovative solutions when initiating, leading or supporting organisational change. Crucially she is able to work at a strategic level without losing sight of the operational detail.

As a Partner and Director at Beamans, Richard works with organisations across the public, private and third sectors to solve complex issues in reward, job evaluation, organisational design and workforce strategy.   Richard joined Beamans in 2017 and is an accomplished HR, OD and Equal Pay specialist with a track record of successful delivery of large cultural transformation and change management projects in complex, changing environments.  

As a former Civil Service Deputy Director, he led the Workplace Strategy Programme at Highways England during the company’s transformation into a government owned limited company.

With accountability for a £45M annual budget, his role was to create and shape a modern, high-performing work environment by integrating four key pillars: Workplace Environment, Technology & Tools, People & Processes and Culture & Behaviours.  As a member of the Highways England (now National Highways)  Senior Leadership Team, he contributed to corporate governance as a member of the Executive Board’s Health & Safety and Resourcing & Reward Sub-Committees.

As Programme Director, of a three year Workforce Strategy transformation he overhauled reward structures to address critical equal and specialist pay issues, enhancing leadership capability through new performance management pathways, and executing major organisational redesign. This redesign successfully flattened hierarchies and delivered a major reduction in line managers from 1,000 to 300. He also helped shape best practice across government as a member of the Civil Service HR Leaders Council’s Organisational Development Group.

Utilising his experience as a Senior Conciliator at ACAS, Richard is committed to delivering fair and equitable solutions to key workplace challenges. Richard is skilled in maximising performance at organisational, team and individual level.  and is also an accredited programme and project manager, a Chartered Member of the Association of Project Management and a Gateway Review Team Leader and Reviewer. 

Prior to joining Beamans in 2016 David had a long  career in the Isle of Man civil service, in various government departments. This included time as Head of External Relations and, later, Secretary to the Council of Ministers, the Manx Cabinet, before spending the concluding 11 years of his career as Chief Executive of the Department of Health, also having responsibility for social care. David regularly trained with the UK civil service and shadowed NHS CEOs as well as ‘graduating’ from the Top Management Programme and fulfilling advanced leadership training at Harvard University.

David’s projects with Beamans include major organisations from each of the countries within the UK, with these providing various national and specialist services, together with advisory and regulatory functions. This sits alongside David’s work tailored to the needs of smaller organisations, often requiring ‘bespoke’ solutions. David advises on job evaluation, organisational structure, leadership, function and process.

Clare is an HR professional with a range of experience in the public sector developing and delivering HR strategy and policy; supporting business strategy through people initiatives; and delivering hands-on operational HR services. 
 
Clare has largely operated in Senior HR Business Partnering roles which has seen her working across senior leadership teams on all elements of people delivery. Having undertaken various roles across government working on change programmes, she brings organisational design and delivery and culture change experience. Latterly Clare has specialised in delivering workplace investigation services into misconduct, bullying, harassment, discrimination and victimisation complaints. 

Since joining Beamans Clare has been involved with a number of job evaluation related projects across a number of different organisations.

Meera  a highly experienced HR professional with a long career in the public sector, is known for her strong track record in both operational delivery and corporate strategy. 

She played a pivotal leadership role during the Covid-19 pandemic, guiding the HR response across major government departments, providing clear direction at all levels.

As a senior HR Business Partner, Meera developed and implemented strategic people plans, led workforce planning, and successfully managed organisational transformation projects – embedding new ways of working and cultivating inclusive workplace cultures. 

Her expertise spans job evaluation, workplace engagement, team leadership, and delivering organisational change. 

Passionate about developing future talent, Meera volunteers with the CIPD Leicestershire branch and mentors HRM students at three universities.

Harun is an HR professional and Fellow of the CIPD with experience spanning the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. At Beamans, he specialises in job evaluation, pay and grading design, role analysis and training delivery , working with organisations such as B Lab UK, ACAS, the Procurator Fiscal Service, SEPA, Social Care Wales and departments of the Northern Ireland Civil Service.

Prior to joining Beamans, Harun held senior HR and change management roles at the House of Commons, where he delivered transformational change programmes, led successful employee engagement initiatives, and supported major projects including the ongoing Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster. He has also worked, mostly in HR, at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, HM Customs & Excise, and in the catering industry.

Harun combines strategic HR insight with hands-on experience of troubleshooting complex issues, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement to deliver practical and lasting solutions.