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HR Consultant

Sharon Smits

With nearly a decade of experience as part of the HR Partner team at SYLO | Beyond HR, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our clients. My career spans international Office Management at KBR, an Oil and Gas Construction Company, where I worked in the UK, Norway, Belgium, Egypt, and Nigeria, providing invaluable insights when working with global teams. I have also contributed to the Metropolitan Police Civil Service in a support role.

I hold a post-graduate degree in HR Management and am CIPD Level 7 qualified. During a career break to raise my two children, I met Sarah and began supporting her and our clients at SYLO | Beyond HR. The diverse range of clients I work with across various sectors keeps my role exciting and dynamic, and I believe my extensive experience is a significant asset in addressing our clients’ challenges.

In addition to my role as an HR Consultant, I am our resident HR Software Breathe Guru and actively contribute to SYLO’s business development. I enjoy networking and am the host of Thame Business Buzz, where I connect with like-minded professionals and foster valuable relationships.

Outside of my HR Role, I also volunteer for a number of charities, which adds a breadth of understanding to the challenges our Charity clients face.

Q. What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?

A. Whilst pregnant I sat on the edge of Pulpit Rock in Stavanger, Norway. I’m glad I don’t suffer from vertigo.

Q. Who or what makes you laugh?

A. My husband and children, every day!!

What our clients are saying

  • “

    As always, SYLO delivered a thoughtful and insightful session and I enjoyed hearing their thoughts on valuing difference in the workplace. It has helped me to be able to think about how I can encourage the people I work with to consider how effective their inclusive policies and practices are.

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    Karen Tate – Employee Relations Lead MPDN

  • “

    The wonderful support from SYLO Beyond HR has enabled us to ensure our foundations are in place to support growth, whilst also maintaining and driving the culture that is important for us to have in place.  They have truly worked in partnership with us and provide consistent support to help us drive priorities forward.

    It’s great to have an HR partner that feels part of our team, is available for whenever something comes up and that continues to work with us as our organisation grows.

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    Carolyn Hicks, Co-founder/CFO COO – Brill Power

  • “

    We have been using Breathe over the last term to track our staff holidays. This is a great system as it highlights different cohorts of staff and when is free for others to book on the calendar. This has supported our ratio requirements and helped us to track holiday entitlements.

    We like the system so much that we have extended it to using the staffing schedules to log staff attendance and hours needed to be processed for payroll. Sharon has been so helpful in helping us set up different employees work patterns and it has been really effective for our nursery needs.

     

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    Phillipa Arnold – Operations Manager. Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries – Cambridge Franchise

  • “

    Sarah allows our business to concentrate on the jobs we set out to do, and not have to worry about the HR input, with a highly professional service that she provides. 

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    Stuart Barr, Director – Barr Group, Thame

  • “

    ​I found working with SYLO incredibly comfortable.  They helped me to define the real issues and then guided me through figuring out a solution. This resulted in a huge shift in the workload I was carrying to manageable levels, greater and welcomed empowerment for the talent in my team, and a manager (mine) who was fully up to speed on what was actually going on.

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    Georgina Carey, Senior Manager – Transport For London

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