About Us
Emiria Ways of Working
- Professional and approachable - expert insight and experience with pragmatic outcome focus
- Direct and honest - straightforward communication that doesn't avoid difficult truths
- Energetic and inspiring - bringing enthusiasm and insight, always focussed on meaningful outcomes
- Resilient - adaptable and persistent
- Solutions-focussed - practical and implementation-oriented
- Accountable - taking ownership of advice and outcomes
Victoria Lee
Director and Founder
Victoria is passionate about the value people bring to their work when organisation systems are working at their best, aligned to the purpose of the business, and the ultimate needs of the customers it serves.
Victoria brings
- Senior, strategic HR and OD leadership experience
- Extensive experience in public sector leadership and strategy development
- HR and OD expertise based on a broad generalist foundation of 30 years experience
- Proven track record in organisation transformation and culture change
- Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD)
- Qualified Coach and Mentor
Memberships
- CIPD Hereford and Worcester Branch Committee
- Extended Board member of the PPMA (Public Sector People Management Association)
- Hereford and Worcester Chamber of Commerce
Examples of work
Organisation development and culture
- Introduced new culture values and behaviours framework to Sandwell council; instrumental contribution to the organisation's successful exit from government intervention.
- Introduced new values and leadership behaviour behaviour framework to Wychavon and Malvern Hills councils - key driver of OD and talent development strategy and intrinsic to shared service delivery through workforce harmonisation
- Delivered successful agile, flexible and hybrid working programmes
Organisation design and change management
- Leadership oversight and hands-on delivery of multiple organisation restructures affecting small groups up to several hundred employees, and delivering £100m's savings
- Experienced in outsourcing, insourcing, creation and dismantling of shared services, and service commissioning reviews
- Extensive experience in managing structural change across the local government sector and schools
HR Service leadership
- Head of profession, Director-level for nine years, managing teams of up to 100 and supporting total workforce of hundreds through to several thousand employees.
- Leadership of wide ranging HR and OD function - HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations (casework and trade union relations), Recruitment, Learning and Development, HR Analytics, EDI, HR Systems, and including in-house Occupational Health and Wellbeing, Health and Safety, and Payroll
- Led the development and delivery of People Strategy aligned to corporate business plans, underpinned by comprehensive People/HR metrics
- Redesigned HR functions and professionally developed team members into HR leadership roles