About Grassroots Consulting

I’m Caroline Patten and I’m a People Consultant. I provide planning, training, coaching and consultancy services to help businesses to grow their workforce.

I’m MCIPD qualified and have over 15 years’ experience working with small and large companies from owner-managed and family-run businesses to stand-alone HR managers and talent acquisition teams.

Whatever the company size or ambition, I love getting to know about how businesses work and helping them take the next step in their growth journey.

How I help businesses like yours

I’m an expert in solving people-related problems with a passion for good employment and a commitment to recruitment best practice. My focus is to help my clients become great employers and achieve more through effective people management.

Recruitment can often be a stumbling block to growth, but by sharing my expertise I help business leaders and HR professionals take control of their hiring strategy, reduce costs and feel confident about people planning for growth.

What people say about working with me…

Our experience working with Grassroots has been excellent. Caroline takes time to understand our business really well and ensure she has absolute clarity on [our] requirements… She asks great questions to further her understanding too, which in turn helped us to understand our own requirements even better. She is really open and receptive to feedback.

Nicola, Director of Colleague Support

Caroline is true professional. She prepares well and is very thorough in her work. She is a good speaker and presenter and is clear in getting her message across… Reliable and hard-working and can be thoroughly trusted to get results.

Ann, HR & Operations Manager

Thank you for a great session, really informative & well delivered. Looking forward to putting the learning into practice!

Jennifer, Recruitment Coordinator

Caroline’s approach is very much appreciated – highly supported, professional and highly motivated in her work – thank you for everything you have done Caroline!

John, Managing Director

Really engaging trainer and a wide range of topics covered. Challenged to think about the why, not just the how. Caroline facilitated discussions really well and made us challenge our own ideas.

Karen, HR Resourcing Lead

Caroline had excellent knowledge on the subject content, and gave appropriate challenge during discussions. Would highly recommend… the only downside was not having more time!

Gemma, Recruitment and Resourcing Service Manager

Sharing our people expertise and growth ambitions

In 2008, I co-founded Grassroots – a Stockport-based IT & Sales recruitment agency that’s grown to a £3M turnover recruitment business and consultancy partner delivering scalable resource solutions to clients across the UK. We’re proud to be ISO-Certified, APSCO-accredited, a certified GM Good Employer and winners of local and national awards.

In 2021, GR Consultancy was formed to deliver strategic planning, training and coaching to businesses with more complex people-related problems. Over the past 3 years, we’ve supported large public and private sector organisations with wide-ranging projects (from organisational design to people-centred transformation initiatives), as well as working closely with relentlessly ambitious businesses like ours.

Read about our recent people projects…

Social Recruiting Strategy & Channel Launch for Local Authority

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Launching an Apprenticeship Scheme | Employee Handbook and Onboarding Support

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Becoming an Employer | Training, Coaching and HR Set-Up for Social Enterprise

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