Tracey Spiller-Burnett
HR Expert & Business Consultant
Tracey is a dynamic and dedicated HR professional with over 30 years of experience, providing expert guidance to businesses across numerous industries/sectors. As the founder of ThriveHRM Limited,
Tracey combines her extensive HR knowledge with a passion for people and talent management to help businesses unlock their true potential.
Her career includes significant roles at the C-suite level, where she has developed a proven ability to seamlessly balance strategic and operational needs, adapting to both big-picture planning and hands-on implementation. This experience gives her a unique advantage in supporting startups and SMEs, where agility and vision are essential.
Tracey is passionate about working with companies that understand and appreciate compliance, profitability, and employee well-being. From talent management and succession planning to coaching leaders and building robust career frameworks, her approach combines expertise with empathy. Tracey’s volunteer work and commitment to lifelong learning reflect her belief that growth and connection are essential, both personally and professionally.
Her empathetic approach to HR consulting ensures that businesses not only meet their goals but also encourages environments that are supportive and sustainable.
Known for her approachable and professional demeanour, Tracey’s clients appreciate her ability to listen and connect, a skill enhanced by her many qualifications and certifications, and her belief in lifelong learning – she already has mediation and workplace investigation courses booked for the coming months.
Tracey’s commitment to promoting a positive and productive workplace makes her a trusted partner to organisations and employees alike, whilst balancing a personable approach and a professional drive to achieve results.
Dedicated to empowering businesses and enhancing their potential, Tracey brings warmth, professionalism, and insight to every client partnership.
Outside of ThriveHRM, Tracey enjoys the outdoors, whether walking, cycling, or volunteering, reflecting her belief that nature and connection with others are essential to well-being. Family-oriented and community-driven, Tracey balances her professional expertise with a strong commitment to empathy, trust, and growth.
Tracey and Adrian are available to work with you and your organisation as a collective bringing together a wealth of experience, with the capability to deliver the full people process to your business.
Nisar Ahmed
CGMA MSC ACMA
Ridgell & Guildway Accountants Ltd are led by principal Nisar Ahmed, CIMA member with over 30 years of experience in the business environment.
More than just ‘accountants’, we have partnerships with aligned services such as pensions, financial advisors, mortgage brokers, solicitors and asset finance. Ridgell & Guildway Accountants Ltd offer both forward-looking accountancy services along with traditional compliance-led accountancy services. Not just accountants, our combined experience gives us insight and understanding to the pressure’s businesses and their owners face.
We are also pleased to be working with New Winds, an operating arm of Don’t Break 345 Limited as accountants and monetary advisors.
Stephen Bates
Behaviour Change Communications Expert
Stephen began to support UK local authorities in the early 00s as they started to introduce new kerbside recycling services. He went on to provide campaigns, communication programmes and outreach initiatives for over 160 Local Authorities, many of which being amongst the most effective ever deployed going on to win awards including the prestigious CIWM Best Communication Campaign. His scope has since expanded to wider fields of societal reform including Biodiversity, Sustainable Transport, Adult Social Care and Regional Economic Development.
Globally, Stephen works in emerging and transitional economic regions supporting donor-funded and internationally financed environmental sector reform. He has worked in over 32 countries having developed regional and national communication strategies including many in some of the most demanding places on earth.
He has recently developed the Communication Strategy for the UN Plastic Waste Partnership and Albania’s first ever national waste awareness strategy which has since been absorbed into national policy.
Although strategically focused, Stephen retains capacity in creative development in the fields of graphic design, photography (he is an accredited member of the Association of Professional Photographers) and film-making enabling him the unique capacity to visually articulate the strategies he develops.
Stephen is the Chair of the Strategic Experts Group for Behaviour Change at the Chartered Institute of Waste Management, Lead Author of The Behaviour Change Hierarchy[1] and contributing Author for the World Bank Publication ‘Bridging the Gap[2]’. Described as dynamic, creative, ambassadorial he is truly a leading expert in his field.
Awards:
- Winner: European Agency Awards: Best Not-for-Profit Campaign
- Winner: CIWM Best Communications Campaign
- Runner Up: LARAC Best Communication Campaign
- Shortlisted: The Drum Awards: Media: Government/Public Sector
- Shortlisted: BIMA Awards: Use of Digital Media
- Shortlisted: UK Search Awards: Best Use of Search Third Sector/Not for Profit + Best Local Campaign
When it comes to legal representation, our solicitor of choice is always Greene & Greene.
Established for many years they are both an expert and respected law firm who provide constructive and practical advice, expertise and care every step of the way.
