I am Head of Training and a Director at byrne·dean. In addition to leading our Training team alongside Helen Dallimore, I deliver a range of training sessions for our clients globally.
I am passionate about developing awareness and behaviours which allow employees and organisations to reach their full potential. I have experience running a huge range of sessions from all staff behavioural to leadership workshops for more senior staff and more procedural sessions. I am able to balance my sessions between technical knowledge and real lived experience due to a varied career. As well as experience as a practising Employment Lawyer in top city law firms, I have worked as an In-house Lawyer and in HR within a financial institution. I therefore know what it is like to be a client and someone who has to deliver to clients, I understand the pressures and challenges of these environments and use this to make sessions come to life. I have also worked in HR at the University of Cambridge and taught law at a secondary school both of which honed my ability to answer a difficult question!
I have had my challenges during my working life including a period of post-natal depression and a serious accident which initially left me unable to walk and in need of a number of surgeries. This means I am resilient and understanding and can teach other people how to deal with their own life challenges and how to support team members.
I have always been interested in how human beings interact with each other and am grateful that this is the focus of my career.
2024 - present: Director, Head of Training at byrne·dean
2018 – 2024: Principal Consultant at byrne·dean
HR, University of Cambridge
Trainer in Law, Saffron Walden County High
In-house solicitor, Barclays Bank Plc
Solicitor, Olswang
Trainee and Solicitor, Norton Rose
Law, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
LPC, Nottingham Law School
Blogs & Articles by
Ellie Herriot
Managing people in 2026: why the stakes have never been higher
Not trusting the system
EDI strategy alignment: the FCA, risk and connecting strategies with culture
UK Equal Pay Day 18 November 2021- don’t bake it in!
HR Magazine: Almost half of employees don’t feel safe raising workplace mistakes
Ellie Herriot comments on how to build workplace cultures where people feel safe to speak up.
Training Zone: Are you missing an opportunity to strengthen culture and conduct with SMF training?
Ellie Herriot dives into how this training moment can go further to mitigate people risk.
HR Zone: The BBC’s workplace culture review: An expert’s reaction
Ellie Herriot shares her expert reaction to the BBC's workplace culture review, emphasising the need for everyday accountability to prevent future scandals.
Personnel Today: BBC to ‘act immediately’ on workplace culture review
Ellie Herriot shares her insights with Personnel Today on how tackling everyday poor behaviour is key to preventing workplace scandals.
Helen Dallimore and Ellie Herriot promoted to lead byrne·dean training
Work behaviour and culture specialists byrne·dean are delighted to announce that both Helen Dallimore and Ellie Herriot have been promoted to the role of Director, Head of Training.
Effective immediately, the pair now also join byrne·dean’s wider senior leadership team, and will lead their team of expert facilitators on all aspects of training delivered globally to create kinder, fairer workplaces that help organisations realise their people’s potential. This includes training on conduct & culture, workplace behaviour & respect, speak up, discrimination & harassment, ED&I, mental health & wellbeing, and beyond.
Helen Dallimore joined the company in 2020 as a facilitator, after a career in private practice employment law in large, international and medium sized firms; as well as time spent in house at a global investment bank. Since then, she’s become an essential part of the byrne·dean facilitation team, with deep expertise in workplace respect, inclusion and mitigating people risk, and has recently led on supporting clients with tackling workplace class inequality, and fostering speak up / listen up cultures.
Ellie Herriot joined in 2018, also as a facilitator, after her own career in law and HR that included working in large international law firms and as Legal Counsel at Barclays. Ellie has led on the company’s expertise for FCA regulated firms for many years, and is an expert in helping firms’ senior leaders and wider teams to understand the link between conduct, risk and culture.
Nick McClelland, byrne·dean CEO, commented: “We’ve witnessed the tremendous respective contributions of Helen and Ellie to our training offering, both playing pivotal roles in changing workplace behaviour across the global organisations that we partner with. There are no people better placed to lead this arm of our business, and we’re also delighted to welcome two exceptional women with first hand, in depth knowledge of the wider business into our senior leadership team.”
Helen Dallimore commented: “I am delighted to be taking on the role of Head of Training alongside my fantastic colleague Ellie Herriot. Together, we’ll lead our brilliant facilitation team and enable them to continue to deliver excellence for clients, helping them create the positive workplace cultures that employers are having to focus on now more than ever before."
Ellie Herriot commented: “It's an honour to lead such a dedicated team of experts alongside Helen. Together, we’ll continue to build on the trust our clients place in us, delivering training that supports kinder, fairer workplaces and aligns with our broader strategy and resolution offering.”
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