PEOPLE
CANDY REDFERN
Candy has worked in business and industry for over 20 years starting her career at Alliance & Leicester in Lincoln. She developed through a management programme to successfully run her first branch aged 20 and her first regional team of Mortgage Advisors aged 23. Candy is an experienced and successful leader herself but found a passion for developing people and was able to pivot to the head office where she led management development programmes for the retail and business networks. She then spent time at Capita where she worked as a Management Development Consultant, delivering ILM accredited programmes to multiple businesses.
Candy has more recently worked for Bidfood where she has run organisation development initiatives, multiple management development and sales programmes and spent the last 7 years of her career leading the Learning and Talent Development provision and team for the organisation where she was part of a team who won multiple internal and external awards.
Candy is passionate about the development of leaders and people managers at all levels and likes to work with businesses that have a genuine desire to make positive changes for their people through more capable and confident people managers, leaders and exec teams. She also loves to champion entry-level employees-especially Apprentices. Candy has a genuine interest in supporting women in business and is currently completing the final year of her MBA at Sheffield Hallam University, where she is writing a thesis on the impact of COVID-19 on women in the workplace. Candy is also a governor at a local school and acts as a mentor to entry-level women looking to find their first HR / L&D role.
Qualifications
DiSC Accredited Practitioner
Master of Business (MBA)
Sheffield Hallam – year 3
Insights Accredited Practitioner
Diploma in Sales Management
Institute of Sales Management
Distinction – 2005
IFS CeMAP
2001 – 2003
Our
MISSION
We’re here to work collaboratively with you to deliver solutions which fit your culture and help engage, motivate and develop your people.
Sojourner was founded through the period of COVID-19 as a direct response to the reduction in learning and development availability to employers and their people. Our aim is to help clients pick up where they left off to show their employees that they are engaged with their personal development and to help businesses grow.
Our
VALUES
Straight-talking: We like to have honest and genuine conversations with you and your people, we know your time is precious.
Originality: We bring original and creative solutions to your business, making sure that what is implemented feels just right.
Join In: We work collaboratively with you to find the right solutions and like to feel part of the team. We love to understand what makes your people tick and get to the heart of understanding your business, culture, values and people.
Results focused: We’re here to add value to you, so we focus on results for your people, teams and the wider organisation. Everything we offer adds value through demonstrable results.
Nurture: Our relationships are important to us, so we invest in and nurture our client relationships – both with our immediate stakeholders and their employees.
Our
GOALS
- Support clients with the implementation and development of Apprenticeships for school leavers, and ensure programmes offer ongoing vocational support and training.
- Work with schools on a not-for-profit basis to support the development of their people leaders.
- Work with clients to continue to support remote learning to those on unusual shift patterns to ensure development for all.
- Work with entry level women and champion them with clients.
- Challenge working practices where gender discrimination is evident, such as pay, terms, rights or culture.
- Ensure Sojourner policies and technology support women at work with dual caring roles through flexible working practises and approaches.
- Support clients with the creation of meaningful jobs.
- Create development programmes which future proof individual’s skills if required to find a new role.
- Support those not in education, employment or training through the focusing of Apprenticeship recruitment referrals.
- Switch to electric company cars.
- Reduce business consumption and waste through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
- Reduce non-essential travel using technology for meetings and training.