Tell Jane is a UK leading HR and ED&I consultancy that partners with your organisation to build knowledge and empower people to have positive interactions and enhance your company culture.
Together, we protect your business and your people from harassment, discrimination and bullying. The result: improved productivity and increased employee loyalty.
What we do
Tell Jane helps you build a better workplace culture through training, consultancy and practical support. We do this by upskilling your HR and management teams, providing training at all levels of your organisation, and supporting you to create a better working environment for your people.
What we believe
We believe that diverse, inclusive workplaces make for stronger, more successful businesses.
We believe that prevention is better than cure, and empower people to identify and speak out when they see issues.
We believe that employee wellbeing is crucial to a thriving organisation.
We believe in communication, empathy, and shared responsibility.
We believe that a healthy workplace culture is made up of its people, and everyone plays a part in maintaining it.
Who we are
Get to know our qualified HR practitioners
Lisa Bell brings over two decades of HR experience and is the founder and lead consultant of Tell Jane, specialising in workplace investigations, culture reviews, and employee relations. She combines practical, outcome-focused solutions with trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches to help organisations identify systemic weaknesses and implement sustainable cultural change.
Lisa works closely with senior leadership teams to navigate sensitive or high-stakes issues, delivering recommendations that are actionable, proportionate, and aligned with organisational priorities. Her consultancy helps organisations prevent recurrence of misconduct, improve reporting and disclosure mechanisms, and strengthen leadership behaviours, all with a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach.
As an Associate Member of the CIPD and with over 10 years of experience in HR, Alethea brings a dynamic, solutions-oriented approach to ED&I consultancy and leadership development. She works closely with organisations to foster cultures of communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring that inclusivity becomes a core driver of success.
Alethea is deeply committed to creating inclusive workplace cultures where employees feel empowered to share their experiences authentically.
With a strong focus on psychological safety, she is skilled at facilitating important conversations around sensitive issues, enabling people to discuss matters of bias, race, and gender in the workplace with confidence and trust.
Alethea’s experience spans both standalone roles and leadership within high-performing teams across complex, matrixed environments. Regardless of the organisation, she takes a highly adaptable, outcome-focused approach to driving sustainable ED&I transformation, ensuring lasting, impactful change.
Katie has over 13 years experience as a HR generalist and specialises in employee engagement, culture transformation and employee relations.
Having completed her Masters degree in HR Management, she has worked in various senior leadership positions across businesses ranging from SMEs to global corporations - spanning both private and public sector.
Employee relations has always been a big part of Katie’s roles and having worked in heavily unionised environments her focus is always taking a people-centric approach, fully understanding clients’ commercial pressures.
Katie has experience in a range of sectors including Rail, Medical Devices, Construction, Aviation, Intent Data/Marketing, Pharmaceuticals.
Katie’s true passion lies in supporting businesses to create great places to work, whether that’s through a complete culture transformation or smaller focussed engagement initiatives.
Roanna is a Chartered CIPD Member with a Master’s in HRM and 20 years’ experience leading HR across fast-paced, commercially driven sales environments.
She’s known for cutting through the noise - getting to the heart of workplace issues quickly, fairly and without the jargon. Calm, pragmatic and impartial, she’s led everything from complex grievance investigations to large-scale cultural reviews. Most recently in a Chief People Officer role, Roanna is well-versed in navigating boardrooms, tackling tough business challenges and getting EDI the attention it deserves at the top table.
She’s also a skilled and engaging workshop facilitator, delivering sessions that give managers the confidence to lead well, handle people matters properly and build inclusive teams. She’s equally passionate about equipping employees to navigate the workplace, support colleagues and to speak up when something’s not right. Roanna is especially passionate about our confidential reporting hotline which she sees as a vital bridge between employees and leadership.
Nipa has 16 years HR experience, is an Associate Member of the CIPD and holds an MA in Human Resource management.
Prior to this, Nipa worked in a number of HR roles in industries such as Higher Education, Finance, Legal and Private Healthcare. While the majority of Nipa’s experience has been in generalist roles, approximately four years ago, she made the move to employee relations, specifically investigations and mediation as she enjoys the complexity and challenge each case brings. Nipa also has a passion for workplace culture and employee engagement believing that this can only be achieved by creating a diverse culture of openness and honesty.
In her spare time, Nipa enjoys spending her time cooking, reading and with her children.
Liz has over 30 years’ experience in HR and Leadership. She is a Fellow of the CIPD, a qualified coach, trained mediator and is endorsed by ILM as an accredited professional workplace investigator.
Liz started her career in the hospitality industry and has held HR Director positions at Planet Hollywood, Regus and TMP Worldwide, where she was a member of the Leadership Team and a Board Director. She has owned her own HR consultancy and coaching practice since 2018.
Liz has extensive experience in conducting complex and sensitive investigations including investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and bullying at a senior level as well as conducting case reviews. She has also carried out mediation for all levels of employee including at Leadership and Board level. Liz is also skilled at coaching managers and teams to manage conflict.
During her free time, Liz can be found practicing yoga, or in her kitchen, baking award winning Victoria sandwich cakes and other delicious homemade treats – move over Mary Berry!
Alison is a skilled HR professional with 18 years’ experience in both the public and private sector and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD. Alison is also an ACAS trained and qualified mediator, and is always actively seeking informal resolution or alternative solutions to minimise negative impact on the business those involved.
Alison works collaboratively to deliver results and positive outcomes, with integrity being at the heart of her ways of working.
Alison works closely with Directors and Area Managers to help achieve consistent and fair outcomes for all. Allison’s experience includes managing bullying and sexual harassment complaints, serious conduct matters, grievances, including Employment Tribunals/Settlement Agreements.
Alison’s previous casework includes managing collective grievances, grievances with a mental health element, racial harassment and serious misconduct claims, sensitive sexual harassment cases and senior management mediation.
Paula is an experienced HR professional, an Associate Member of the CIPD and has an MA in Human Resource Management. Paula is also an accredited mediator and investigator. Paula also holds a degree in Psychology.
During her HR career, Paula's focus has been on helping companies to grow by supporting them with their HR function. Business owners can follow their passion safely in the knowledge they have an efficient, HR professional with their best interests at heart. She is passionate about helping employers stand out from their competitors by supporting them to be more people focussed while providing a collaborative environment for growth.
Paula’s experience in complex high seniority investigations has also enabled her to get involved with business strategy and change. Her mediations have all been successful and reached amicable agreement.
Paula is especially fond of process and has experience of managing TUPE transfers and redundancy and restructuring programmes with efficiency and empathy.
In her spare time, you will find Paula planning her next travelling destination, at the theatre or a concert.
Niru is an HR and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) specialist with extensive experience in consulting and leadership roles across various industries. She has a breadth of HR knowledge in operational and strategic capacity, having worked in a number of HR roles including an HR Director position at a global software company.
With a background in law and an MBA, Niru has a strong foundation in HR and business management.
Niru has developed and implemented DEI strategies, provided coaching to underrepresented groups, and assisted executive teams in achieving positive change outcomes.
Additionally, she is an approved International Coach Federation (ICF) Coach, working to empower people to achieve their version of success, and leaders to create inclusive cultures.
Laura has over 20 years’ experience in HR, People Development/L&D and Operational Leadership. As a Chartered Member of the CIPD, Laura holds a Postgraduate Diploma in HR Management, and is an ILM qualified business coach and an accredited facilitator with Leading Energy Profile.
Having held senior HR and leadership roles in a range of diverse organisations and sectors including manufacturing/distribution, recruitment, financial services, pharmaceuticals and a major national charity, in 2016 Laura took the plunge and set up her own successful HR and people development consultancy, primarily supporting small-medium sized businesses across the full spectrum of HR.
Having had extensive employee relations experience throughout her career, Laura has managed complex workplace investigations and chaired disciplinary and grievance meetings and appeals at all levels within client organisations, always working with sensitivity, empathy and pragmatism.
Laura takes a practical approach to supporting business leaders with their ‘people puzzles’ and has a passion for helping businesses grow through developing positive workplace cultures and relationships. As a skilled trainer/facilitator, Laura delivers people management and team development workshops that enable clients to invest in their people with impact.
Outside of work Laura is a keen (but steady paced!) marathon runner.
Joshua Karl is an Associate Member of the CIPD and a trained mediator. With 15 years’ combined HR and ED&I experience, Josh has supported a number of public, private and third sector organisations with workplace culture reviews through listening sessions and creating psychologically safe spaces.
Joshua is passionate about supporting organisations to create cultures where the voices of under-represented groups are heard and shape forward-thinking, sustainable inclusion strategies. He specialises in understanding how organisations operate in order to design and deliver ED&I policies, training and wellbeing programmes that create cultures of belonging, while also aligning ED&I aspirations and strategies to an organisation’s wider operational objectives to ensure real change.
Finally, through Joshua's own lived experience and expertise in employee relations, he has provided both proactive and reactive solutions for organisations, particularly with regards to microaggressions, anti-racism and race discrimination.
Meike is an award-winning Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) consultant with over eight years of international experience driving organisational transformation and embedding inclusive, sustainable change. Throughout her career, she developed a deep passion for driving cultural change while focussing on inclusion and diversity.
Her expertise spans the full employee lifecycle, inclusive leadership development, employer branding, cross-functional I&D initiatives, and external partnerships across both public and private sectors.
Her experiences as Organisational Transformation and Change Management Consultant equip her with market-leading tools to support clients on their journey of becoming a fully inclusive employer. Supporting organisations to become a thriving workplace for both - current and future talent, is what gets Meike up in the morning.
And whether conducting maturity assessments, advising on embedding I&D into HR processes, developing an I&D strategy or inclusive leadership programmes, she is always passionate about ensuring that every initiative is measurable, sustainable, and aligned with organisational objectives.
Get to know our Tell Jane Team
Faith has over 18 years of experience in client services, business development, and creative solutions. Her career has seen her work across a range of industries, including advertising, broadcast media, influencer publishing, and more recently, HR solutions.
For the past two years, Faith has been a part of the team at Tell Jane, where she is passionate about the meaningful, purpose-driven work the company does for both businesses and their employees. Faith is known for her consultative approach with our clients, taking the time to understand our client’s needs, and ensuring a great training experience, with HR solutions that are tailored uniquely to each organisation and situation.
Ewelina has over 17 years of experience in logistics and operations, including running event teams and delivering media events across EMEA at Bloomberg.
She’s passionate about keeping things organised and running smoothly. With a knack for strategic planning and project management, she loves finding ways to simplify processes and improve efficiency — always aiming to get the best results.
Lucy handles all account-related matters at Tell Jane, ensuring our financial operations run smoothly.
Lucy keeps the company’s numbers in check, reconciles the accounts, and has streamlined processes to help deliver the best outcomes to support the entire Tell Jane team.
After a few years as a print journalist, Matt made the move into the digital world of content, ecommerce and marketing. Before starting with Tell Jane in 2023 he ran marketing and content teams and was Head of Content at international eyewear company MyOptique Group.
Copy and content marketing has always been his passion, bringing together words, ideas and strategy and he has more than 18 years of experience in creating and planning marketing and content strategies across a range of industries.
Who we are
Get to know our trained HR practitioners
Lisa has 17 years’ experience in HR and holds an MA in Human Resource Management.Lisa specialises in SME businesses with her HR consultancy, which is now in its fourth year.
Prior to this, Lisa was an HR director for a media business and has worked in Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Hospitality and at Chelsea FC – despite being a Liverpool fan!
Lisa is an HR generalist but particularly enjoys employee relations, and learning and development. She is committed to coaching people, and highly motivated by seeing them grow and develop through their careers.
Lisa has a no-nonsense approach to business, injecting high levels of energy and is at her best-creating order from chaos.
At the weekend you will find Lisa in a coffee shop, running around after her toddler or spending time with her cat.
As an Associate Member of the CIPD and with over 10 years of experience in HR, Alethea brings a dynamic, solutions-oriented approach to ED&I consultancy and leadership development. She works closely with organisations to foster cultures of communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring that inclusivity becomes a core driver of success.
Alethea is deeply committed to creating inclusive workplace cultures where employees feel empowered to share their experiences authentically.
With a strong focus on psychological safety, she is skilled at facilitating important conversations around sensitive issues, enabling people to discuss matters of bias, race, and gender in the workplace with confidence and trust.
Alethea’s experience spans both standalone roles and leadership within high-performing teams across complex, matrixed environments. Regardless of the organisation, she takes a highly adaptable, outcome-focused approach to driving sustainable ED&I transformation, ensuring lasting, impactful change.
Katie has over 13 years experience as a HR generalist and specialises in employee engagement, culture transformation and employee relations.
Having completed her Masters degree in HR Management, she has worked in various senior leadership positions across businesses ranging from SMEs to global corporations - spanning both private and public sector.
Employee relations has always been a big part of Katie’s roles and having worked in heavily unionised environments her focus is always taking a people-centric approach, fully understanding clients’ commercial pressures.
Katie has experience in a range of sectors including Rail, Medical Devices, Construction, Aviation, Intent Data/Marketing, Pharmaceuticals.
Katie’s true passion lies in supporting businesses to create great places to work, whether that’s through a complete culture transformation or smaller focussed engagement initiatives.
Roanna is a Chartered CIPD Member with a Master’s in HRM and 20 years’ experience leading HR across fast-paced, commercially driven sales environments.
She’s known for cutting through the noise - getting to the heart of workplace issues quickly, fairly and without the jargon. Calm, pragmatic and impartial, she’s led everything from complex grievance investigations to large-scale cultural reviews. Most recently in a Chief People Officer role, Roanna is well-versed in navigating boardrooms, tackling tough business challenges and getting EDI the attention it deserves at the top table.
She’s also a skilled and engaging workshop facilitator, delivering sessions that give managers the confidence to lead well, handle people matters properly and build inclusive teams. She’s equally passionate about equipping employees to navigate the workplace, support colleagues and to speak up when something’s not right. Roanna is especially passionate about our confidential reporting hotline which she sees as a vital bridge between employees and leadership.
Nipa has 16 years HR experience, is an Associate Member of the CIPD and holds an MA in Human Resource management.
Prior to this, Nipa worked in a number of HR roles in industries such as Higher Education, Finance, Legal and Private Healthcare. While the majority of Nipa’s experience has been in generalist roles, approximately four years ago, she made the move to employee relations, specifically investigations and mediation as she enjoys the complexity and challenge each case brings. Nipa also has a passion for workplace culture and employee engagement believing that this can only be achieved by creating a diverse culture of openness and honesty.
In her spare time, Nipa enjoys spending her time cooking, reading and with her children.
Liz has over 30 years’ experience in HR and Leadership. She is a Fellow of the CIPD, a qualified coach, trained mediator and is endorsed by ILM as an accredited professional workplace investigator.
Liz started her career in the hospitality industry and has held HR Director positions at Planet Hollywood, Regus and TMP Worldwide, where she was a member of the Leadership Team and a Board Director. She has owned her own HR consultancy and coaching practice since 2018.
Liz has extensive experience in conducting complex and sensitive investigations including investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and bullying at a senior level as well as conducting case reviews. She has also carried out mediation for all levels of employee including at Leadership and Board level. Liz is also skilled at coaching managers and teams to manage conflict.
During her free time, Liz can be found practicing yoga, or in her kitchen, baking award winning Victoria sandwich cakes and other delicious homemade treats – move over Mary Berry.
Alison is a skilled HR professional with 18 years’ experience in both the public and private sector and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD. Alison is also an ACAS trained and qualified mediator, and is always actively seeking informal resolution or alternative solutions to minimise negative impact on the business those involved.
Alison works collaboratively to deliver results and positive outcomes, with integrity being at the heart of her ways of working.
Alison works closely with Directors and Area Managers to help achieve consistent and fair outcomes for all. Allison’s experience includes managing bullying and sexual harassment complaints, serious conduct matters, grievances, including Employment Tribunals/Settlement Agreements.
Alison’s previous casework includes managing collective grievances, grievances with a mental health element, racial harassment and serious misconduct claims, sensitive sexual harassment cases and senior management mediation.
Paula is an experienced HR professional, an Associate Member of the CIPD and has an MA in Human Resource Management. Paula is also an accredited mediator and investigator. Paula also holds a degree in Psychology.
During her HR career, Paula's focus has been on helping companies to grow by supporting them with their HR function. Business owners can follow their passion safely in the knowledge they have an efficient, HR professional with their best interests at heart. She is passionate about helping employers stand out from their competitors by supporting them to be more people focussed while providing a collaborative environment for growth.
Paula’s experience in complex high seniority investigations has also enabled her to get involved with business strategy and change. Her mediations have all been successful and reached amicable agreement.
Paula is especially fond of process and has experience of managing TUPE transfers and redundancy and restructuring programmes with efficiency and empathy.
In her spare time, you will find Paula planning her next travelling destination, at the theatre or a concert.
Laura has over 20 years’ experience in HR, People Development/L&D and Operational Leadership. As a Chartered Member of the CIPD, Laura holds a Postgraduate Diploma in HR Management, and is an ILM qualified business coach and an accredited facilitator with Leading Energy Profile.
Having held senior HR and leadership roles in a range of diverse organisations and sectors including manufacturing/distribution, recruitment, financial services, pharmaceuticals and a major national charity, in 2016 Laura took the plunge and set up her own successful HR and people development consultancy, primarily supporting small-medium sized businesses across the full spectrum of HR.
Having had extensive employee relations experience throughout her career, Laura has managed complex workplace investigations and chaired disciplinary and grievance meetings and appeals at all levels within client organisations, always working with sensitivity, empathy and pragmatism.
Laura takes a practical approach to supporting business leaders with their ‘people puzzles’ and has a passion for helping businesses grow through developing positive workplace cultures and relationships. As a skilled trainer/facilitator, Laura delivers people management and team development workshops that enable clients to invest in their people with impact.
Outside of work Laura is a keen (but steady paced!) marathon runner.
Joshua has 14 years’ HR experience. He is an Associate Member of the CIPD and a trained mediator.
Joshua has worked as an HR professional in more than 17 organisations – from start-ups to multinationals across a number of sectors including retail, professional services, transport, education and housing – where he has specialised in change management, restructuring and TUPE transfers, employee relations, dispute resolution and policy writing.
Joshua has worked as an HR professional in more than 17 organisations – from start-ups to multinationals across a number of sectors including retail, professional services, transport, education and housing – where he has specialised in change management, restructuring and TUPE transfers, employee relations, dispute resolution and policy writing.
Joshua loves empowering people to resolve their problems and witnessing their subsequent transformation in confidence and self-esteem.
He also has a passion for helping companies to find the easiest, fastest and cheapest solutions to achieving business objectives through their people strategies without compromising the integrity and values of the business or the fundamental human relationship.
Outside of work, Joshua can be found wrapped up in bed reading or trawling Instagram for good food and cocktail bars in London. He also has a particular interest in women in antiquity, most notably warrior queens.
Get to know our Tell Jane Team
Faith has over 18 years of experience in client services, business development, and creative solutions. Her career has seen her work across a range of industries, including advertising, broadcast media, influencer publishing, and more recently, HR solutions.
For the past two years, Faith has been a part of the team at Tell Jane, where she is passionate about the meaningful, purpose-driven work the company does for both businesses and their employees. Faith is known for her consultative approach with our clients, taking the time to understand our client’s needs, and ensuring a great training experience, with HR solutions that are tailored uniquely to each organisation and situation.
Ewelina has over 17 years of experience in logistics and operations, including running event teams and delivering media events across EMEA at Bloomberg.
She’s passionate about keeping things organised and running smoothly. With a knack for strategic planning and project management, she loves finding ways to simplify processes and improve efficiency — always aiming to get the best results.
Lucy handles all account-related matters at Tell Jane, ensuring our financial operations run smoothly.
Lucy keeps the company’s numbers in check, reconciles the accounts, and has streamlined processes to help deliver the best outcomes to support the entire Tell Jane team.
After a few years as a print journalist, Matt made the move into the digital world of content, ecommerce and marketing. Before starting with Tell Jane in 2023 he ran marketing and content teams and was Head of Content at international eyewear company MyOptique Group.
Copy and content marketing has always been his passion, bringing together words, ideas and strategy and he has more than 18 years of experience in creating and planning marketing and content strategies across a range of industries.