Sean Bowes (Silver Swan Consulting) offers a comprehensive range of HR consulting services that keeps your business legally compliant, out of trouble and out of court. Labour disputes can be costly, time-consuming and easily spin out of control if not managed correctly. Rather let the professionals handle it for you, while you focus on running your business. I assist line managers in truly connecting with their employees, and so creating an employee experience. Sean is an award-winning HR practitioner with more than 35 years of generalist HR experience at senior management level in both the public and private sector. His specialist skills include talent management, labour/employee relations, disciplinary hearings, CCMA representation, employment equity, skills development, and equal opportunity awareness training, among a host of others. Sean believes that HR has the potential to make or break a business and is fundamental to developing a positive business culture and enhancing employee engagement and productivity. The costliest mistake a business can make is to not invest in comprehensive HR. Without it there can be no business success. Sean holds a bachelor’s degree in human resources and is registered as a Chartered HR Professional with the South African Board of People Practice.