Carol Brooks
Joint Managing Director
MSc Organisational Psychology
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Carol co-founded ODS with Donna Bradshaw in 2006. Prior to founding ODS Carol worked in a number of senior operational and strategic roles in the NHS over a period of 13 years, before spending 4 years in an academic role at the University of Manchester.
Carol is a skilled and experienced facilitator and organisation development practitioner. She has designed and delivered a range of interventions at organisation, team and individual level, often involving a range of partners and stakeholders within politically sensitive situations.
Carol spent 4 years as a Non-executive Director on the Board of a large Acute Hospital Trust, and three years as a School Governor. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and the Division of Occupational Psychology, and is currently working towards chartership status as an Occupational Psychologist. Carol retains a Visiting Fellow role at Manchester Business School.
Carol and Donna were awarded the prestigious Manchester Evening News Young Business of the Year Award in 2007.
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HR departments can find themselves overstretched dealing with the additional activity required, or nervous and unsure exactly how to meet the requirements; from consultation, people transition policies, equality impact assessments, function and people mapping and associated ring fencing and selection criteria.
ODS can provide practical, strategic help and support ranging from template policies and people and mapping frameworks, to reviewing and adding to the overall strategy, or working on specific areas. ODS’s commitment to skills transfers allows the organisation to build skills for future transfers.
If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, please look here to find out how we can support you or your organisation, alternatively contact ODS Ltd and ask to speak to one of our consultants.
- Struggling to meet the many requirements of the HR transition framework?
- Don’t have the capacity to write a people transition policy?
- Nervous about people mapping frameworks or selection criteria?
- Don’t know when you’ll address the equality impact assessment of changes?