Meet The Team

The Team

Jim | CEO & Founder

Jim established the business back in 2002.
He's an HR Director with over 40 years of Board level strategic and hands-on operational HR experience - both as an HR Director and as a Chief Operating Officer - and who has worked extensively within the public, private and charity sectors. Prior to launching The Performance Group Limited in 2002, he led a large multi-disciplined HR team of a £billion UK retailer and had HR accountability for more than 1600 retail outlets and over 16,000 employees. Jim is also an Advanced Learning Facilitator with numerous teaching and training qualifications.

The Team

Ben | Director of HR Operations

Ben joined the business in 2020.
He's an operational leader of multi-disciplined teams - with 10 years of senior management experience behind him already, leading teams up to 100 employees. As General Manager for a group of superstores he had operational HR responsibility for his teams and was responsible for the regions training and development. Ben joined TPGL at the beginning of 2020 and over the coming 10 years will be working towards taking over the family business and continuing its success far into the future!

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Cathie | Safeguarding Manager

Cathie joined the business in 2012.
She's an incredibly experienced line manager - having worked at a senior level of the Royal Bank of Scotland for more than 15 years - leading a team of 30 staff. For the past 12 years, Cathie's been working with the Local Authority's Safeguarding Team - supporting families who are at risk of having their children taken into care. Since 2012 Cathie has been managing the office and using her safeguarding expertise to assist the development of our Gold Standard Safeguarding Policies, Procedures, Resources and Toolkits.