HR Sector: HR retention strategies you need to know to enhance your client offering

Stuart Brown

Service Delivery Manager , Grant Thornton UK LLP

Stuart advises clients to optimise the Apprenticeship Levy with development programmes that provide cost effective solutions to their skills agenda. He supports his clients to recruit, develop and retain their brightest talent, and deliver against diversity, social mobility and sustainability objectives. 

Laurie Eggleston

Employee Benefits Consultant , Grant Thornton UK LLP

Laurie advises employers on their benefits packages ensuring they are cost effective, comply with relevant legislation, valued by staff, and help the business to achieve its objectives.

Laurie is focused on recruitment and retention, supporting employers to ensure benefits contribute to a wider culture that supports employees. Communication is key, and ensuring that employees are aware of benefits, understand them and can appreciate them is crucial. Only then can employees properly value their benefits and engage with them fully.

He can discuss the full range of benefit areas with employers, such as flexible benefits, pensions, healthcare, reward & recognition and voluntary benefits. He also puts benefits in a wider context, encouraging employers to consider aspects such as flexible and agile working, training and skills, and workplace wellbeing.

Laurie has extensive presentation experience, delivering in-person employee financial education presentations for audiences of varying sizes.

Simon Juffs

Employee Benefit Consultancy Manager, Grant Thornton

Experience

Simon is an employee benefit consultancy manager with over 20 years’ experience on all aspects of corporate pensions and employee benefits.

He advises employers on their benefits packages ensuring they are suitable and aligned to their employee value proposition, valued by staff, cost efficient, tax efficient, comply with relevant legislation and help the business to achieve its objectives. He is passionate about employee engagement and GT’s benefits platform, helping employers in turn to motivate, recruit and retain the best people.

Professional qualifications and memberships

Simon is a member of The London Institute of Banking and Finance and holds the Level 4 Diploma for Financial Advisors.  

In addition, he holds the Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice, enabling him to give a rounded view of financial planning needs when speaking to employees.

He has a BSc (Hons) degree in Land Management.

Maddie Wollerton Banks

Director - People Consulting , Grant Thornton

Maddie works with senior HR leaders to shape, review or deliver their People Strategies. Maddie has over 10 years experience supporting clients with the following areas: OD and HR Function transformation and optimisation; culture and engagement, change management and she has a particular focus at present with supporting clients around their Inclusion and Diversity agendas.

Maddie started her career as an accountant so has a keen interest in aligning the people and commercial agendas, and in measuring and celebrating the value which People can bring to a business.

Outside of work Maddie is a keen sports fan and mum to a toddler.