Robert Burden
Managing ConsultantRob is a Senior HR Consultant and member of our senior leadership team with a wealth of experience advising businesses and senior executives with commercial solutions to navigate HR related issues.
With a history of supporting businesses in the hospitality and leisure sector, start-ups, fintech and manufacturing, as well as companies in the logistics and technology sectors, Rob is accomplished at providing commercial and pragmatic advice to leading organisations in their field.
Rob is commercially astute, with an aptitude for problem solving. He takes pride in helping clients achieve their goals, however challenging they may be from an HR perspective! In doing so he will always take care to ensure he understands his client’s aims and potential risk areas at the outset so that strategies can be developed to obtain the best outcome possible.
As an experienced HR professional, Rob’s expertise ranges from advising on large scale changes to terms and conditions of employment, discrimination and harassment allegations, termination of contracts and dismissals, the enforcement of post-termination obligations, transfer of undertakings on acquisition and disposal of businesses, as well as restructuring and redundancies.
Rob also has an astute practice for working with clients on both a domestic and intentional level, collaborating with senior executives from across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Most recently, Rob has guided clients through large-scale restructures to deliver in-year cost savings and will frequently lead on high-level casework including disciplinaries, grievances and appeals to provide a cost-effective resolution for clients.
In 2017, Rob was recognised as a “HR Rising Star” in the Hospitality Industry. Later, in 2018, Rob was inaugurated into the prestigious Acorn alumni and awarded by the Institute of Hospitality “Aspiring Manager of the year.”
Rob is a qualified Thomas International practitioner and is able to facilitate feedback for both Personality Profile Analytics (PPA) and Trait Emotional Intelligence (TEIQue) psychometric assessments.
Rob is a member of a number of professional associations, including the Institute of Hospitality and HR in Hospitality Forum, serving as a committee member since 2017.