Hello and Welcome!
I am Julie Doel-Jones, the Managing Director of Appleton HR Limited.
I formed Appleton HR Limited in 2025 to work with people like you. People that have challenging HR problems to solve without the fluffy stuff.
We offer HR and Employment Relations services, specialising in:
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Workplace Mediation
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Grievance and Disciplinary Investigations
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Exit Interviews
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Organisational Change and large scale HR Projects
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Training
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Pay As You Go HR Advice
We love working with businesses face to face in: Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset, Wiltshire and parts of south London. We also work with a wide variety of clients on-line. Workplace mediation and training works well in this context.
My Story
Work wise, the important stuff is that I am an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). I'm also a Civil Mediation Council qualified workplace mediator, and hold a MBA from the University of Surrey.
As an untrained and relatively inexperienced line manager, I used to lie awake at night and worry about that disciplinary I needed to do in the morning, how I was going to manage that team member on long term sickness, or just how to have a difficult conversation with that person who constant challenge is starting to become challenging. This wasn't even my day job, I really didn't know where to start. Having some distant HR Department that outsourced it's services made me feel even more alone, and e-learning isn't going to cut it.
So I decided to try and change all that and give people a better, more business centric and helpful HR.
I have worked in a wide range of industries, from Rail and Maritime, through to crime prevention, Space, engineering, manufacturing and heritage tourism. I bring with me a wide range of experience gained from being a Special Constable, Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Manager, Heritage Railway General Manager and a microbrewer before venturing into HR.
So I know what it feels like to be at the sharp end of operations with more people problems than I could deal with!
If I had to describe what it would be like to work with me... I shall take my inspiration from two quotes from people I have worked with and cherish the most.
"You are alright for an HR dude"
"She is the right person for a task, for which you need someone who deeply engages with your managerial problems, look at it them from different angles, strive to solve them and then voice a well-grounded opinion and defend it. In her you will find person that will be fully committed, honest and effective. If you are looking for a yea-sayer fulfilling orders, she is probably not the one, but who would want to work with a yea-sayer?!"
Connect!
I would love to hear all about you and connect via LinkedIn.
