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Mhairi Holway

Mhairi Holway

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The HR Dept Northern Beaches Sydney provides employment law and human resources support to small and medium sized businesses just like yours. By choosing to work with us, you’ll have access to expert HR advice and support from Director Mhairi Holway, an HR professional with over 25 years’ experience across a wide range of industries.

What makes The HR Dept different? We’re not a call centre, we’re a small business based on the Northern Beaches, passionate about helping SME’s thrive through offering pragmatic and personal advice to you and your business.

How can we help? Our services cover everything to do with employing people and will help you prevent people problems or resolve problems when they do occur:

HR Consultancy

Employment law

Contracts of employment

Recruitment

Disciplinary and grievance

Performance management

Training and development

Appraisals process

Redundancy management

Mergers and acquisitions

Employee engagement surveys

So, do you like to feel confident that you’re doing all your HR correctly and in the best interests of your business? Get in touch today, and make sure you request your free HR health check!

Call us for a discussion today on 0423 909 101 or 02 8052 3700

Email us: mhairi.holway@hrdept.com.au

Mhairi from The HR Dept Northern Beaches was fantastic to work with. Her professionalism, experience and attention to detail in updating our company contracts was exemplary. We'll definitely be working with Mhairi again.
Sean Rooney
As a member of Pandora's Australian leadership team, Mhairi successfully steered the people agenda through unprecedented growth and change. She has been a true legend in the Pandora organisation. Her passion for people goes above and beyond.
Mikael Kruse Jensen, Managing Director, Pandora Jewelry
Mhairi is the HR professional you need to have in your organisation. She brings the knowledge you would expect from a very experienced HR practitioner that helps protect the organisation from inadvertently breaching employment laws.

Mhairi also brings an innate ability to connect to people and sense when there is a problem. Without making mountains out of molehills, Mhairi is able to bring a sense of calm to people issues, deal with them and ensure people can continue to work in a harmonious environment.

And Mhairi is a “Values” champion. She understands a great work place culture is underpinned by the values that the company articulates and lives, every day. Mhairi makes sure that the values are not simply words stuck on a wall, but are part of day to day language and actions.
Brien Winther, MACB Retail
I had the privilege of working with Mhairi for around 5 years at Pandora Jewelry. She held the role of VP HR, and I reported directly to her. During that time we worked very closely, and I learnt so much from Mhairi. Mhairi is a visionary HR professional and she was a big part of the reason that Pandora was such a unique workplace (and one which won a number of accolades and industry awards during her time there). Mhairi was consistently considered, composed, discrete and confidential. I trusted her implicitly. She is fun and smart and creative and just a genuinely decent person.

Any organisation opting to use Mhairi for HR guidance and support via the HR Department is in great hands.
Rachel Guest, Head of Human Resources, Fossil Group Australia New Zealand
Mhairi has proactively supported Pandora's vast franchise network, many of them small businesses, ensuring their access to employment advice and training. I have no hesitation in recommending Mhairi to any business seeking professional HR expertise
Russell Zimmerman, Executive Director, Australian Retailer’s Association
Mhairi has helped our organisation grow through her support as a corporate partner leading a large youth mentor cohort on the Northern Beaches over a number of years. Mhairi has a warmth and honesty that has made all the difference to our organisation
Vicki Condon, Founder and CEO, RAISE, the Youth Mentoring Foundation
Working with Mhairi over many years as an external consultant in career transition, I was struck by her empathy and balance between looking after her employees whilst supporting the changing needs of the business. Over several corporate restructures and then further tweaks to the business model, Mhairi was always a step ahead of the business, planning well in advance and making things easier for her employees, external consultants and the business. Her strong business acumen and appetite for resolving challenging situations make her an ideal HR professional for any business where change, restructure, realignment or rapid growth are present and where employee branding is paramount for future business success. Mhairi has a cool head in a crisis, a genuine care for people and is probably one of the most business savvy HR professionals I know in the marketplace.
Di Burns, Director, Di Burns Executive Coaching
I worked with Mhairi for several at a senior management level. Her professionalism and trustworthiness make her the ideal HR partner in all areas of business. Mhairi is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in all aspects of human resource management and employment compliance. She possesses outstanding expertise in staff training, team and leadership development. Her exceptional communication skills make it even possible for her to deliver compliance material in a fun and engaging manner. If you are looking for HR support, you will make the perfect choice with Mhairi. She is an invaluable asset to any type of business.
Kerstin Sillmann, Supply Chain and Operations Manager, Duraflex Group Australia
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