I’m Melanie Grandfield, a freelance HR professional with more than 20 years of experience, working in both the private and public sectors.

I established High Tide HR in 2022 to focus primarily on my absolute passion - creating authentic people policies (sometimes called HR policies) and supporting documents. Having clear, well-written and easy to understand people policies and procedures can help your business in several ways:

  • shape and change organisational culture

  • contribute to the delivery of your people strategy

  • enhance the employee experience and positively impact working lives

  • contribute to well-being initiatives

  • communicate expectations in your organisation

  • enable employees to be treated fairly, consistently and free from bias

  • ensure employment law, discrimination law and regulatory compliance

  • mitigate the risk, reputational and financial, of tribunal claims

  • support you with the three pillars of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), particularly Social.

I have worked in HR for more than two decades and I know that HR colleagues rarely find quiet, quality time to research and develop their people policies, more often than not we draft them on ‘the side of the desk’ alongside strategic priorities and business as usual. So let me prepare them for you.