Rick Williams CFCIPD
Rick is a Director of Freeney Williams Limited who has a strong and proven combination of skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and an Associate of the Employers' Forum on Disability. Rick spent over 25 years in the Public Sector in both local and national Government. During this time he worked in a range of high profile posts in HR and senior management.
Rick now specialises in the field of disability equality and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Brighton University in this field. He has worked in the public, private, Higher Education and charity sectors. Rick is blind and the combination of being a disabled person and experienced as an HR professional and senior manager, gives him a high level of expertise in organisational policies and attitudes towards disabled people and associated diversity policies and practice
Freeney Williams enables organisations to successfully:
- employ and retain a diverse range of people as effective members of the workforce
- develop and sell products or services that are accessible to all customers
- meet their duties under the Disability Discrimination Act and other anti-discrimination legislation, including the Human Rights Act
- develop inclusive cultures which facilitate good practice and which can embrace, and profit from, diversity
- meet and harness the needs of an ageing population.
Everything we do is designed to help organisations answer three fundamental questions:
- “How do we make it easier for more people to work more effectively within our organisation?”
- “How do we make it easier for more people to access our goods or services, more often?”
- “How can we enhance organisational reputation and business opportunities?”
Whilst our Head Office is based in Brighton, the company operates throughout the United Kingdom, with several consultants regularly working overseas.
We are used to recognising, understanding and meeting the needs of clients in a wide variety of settings with different commercial, economic or political constraints.
