Meet The Craven Team
Behind every piece of advice, every project and every client relationship is a real person who cares about getting it right.
Come and meet the people who make Craven, Craven.
Liz Brewster
Managing Director | Health & Safety Consultant
About Liz
With over 20 years’ experience in Health & Safety, Liz is the founder and Managing Director of Craven Consultancy Services and a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH).
Passionate about helping businesses thrive, Liz has built Craven around a simple philosophy: practical, straightforward advice, genuine relationships and support that makes a real difference.
Liz takes pride in offering clients a joined-up approach to managing their HR, Health & Safety, Environmental and training needs. She particularly enjoys helping businesses turn complex challenges into clear, workable solutions, building safer workplaces, stronger teams and greater confidence along the way.
Outside of Craven, Liz enjoys life on her smallholding in beautiful North Yorkshire, surrounded by her dogs, alpacas, chickens and horse! A keen lover of the outdoors, she enjoys climbing mountains, exploring the countryside, keeping active and making the most of a well-earned holiday. Whether she’s tackling a challenging hike, jetting off on her next adventure or looking after her animals, Liz is rarely one to sit still!
Dee Newton
Operations & Strategy | HR Business Partner
About Dee
With over 25 years’ experience in HR and people management, Dee brings a wealth of knowledge, practical expertise and a refreshingly down-to-earth approach to supporting businesses and their people.
Specialising in complex employee relations, leadership support and organisational change, Dee works closely with business owners and managers to navigate challenging situations, strengthen their people practices and make decisions that are fair, human and commercially sound.
Known for her honest, pragmatic approach and a good sense of humour, Dee believes great HR is about finding practical solutions, building strong relationships and remembering that people are people, not problems to manage.
Having worked across a wide range of sectors, she understands that every business is different and takes pride in helping leaders build confident teams, positive workplace cultures and strong foundations for success.
Outside of Craven, Dee splits her time between North Yorkshire and the Kent coast, enjoying the best of both worlds, from the Yorkshire countryside to life by the sea in Ramsgate. She loves spending time with family, friends and her beloved rescue greyhounds. A big fan of horror films and live music, she’s always up for a good gig! Dee also absolutely loves the snow, with Finland holding a special place in her heart as her favourite destination.
Megan Gray
Health, Safety & Environmental Consultant
About Megan
Megan is a knowledgeable and dedicated Health, Safety & Environmental Consultant with a passion for helping businesses create safer, healthier and more sustainable workplaces.
Known for her calm, approachable and reassuring manner, Megan brings a practical, considered approach to Health & Safety and Environmental challenges. She takes pride in building strong relationships with clients, understanding their individual needs and delivering high-quality, tailored support that makes a genuine difference.
Committed to keeping her professional knowledge up to date, Megan combines technical expertise with a down-to-earth approach, helping businesses navigate compliance, manage risks and develop positive safety cultures without unnecessary complexity.
For Megan, it’s about more than policies and procedures. She genuinely cares about helping people understand their responsibilities, feel confident in their workplaces and, most importantly, return home safely at the end of each day.
Outside of Craven, Megan loves spending quality time with family and friends, enjoying well-earned holidays and keeping active through running. Whether she’s exploring somewhere new, heading out for a run or enjoying time with her loved ones, she makes the most of life outside work!
Emma Spencer
Health & Safety Coordinator
About Emma
Emma is developing her career in Health & Safety, bringing valuable practical experience from both the care and engineering sectors, along with a genuine passion for helping businesses create safer workplaces.
Starting her career in care, Emma progressed into moving and handling training before taking on administrative responsibilities across a group of care homes. She later moved into engineering, where she gained experience preparing Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), supporting compliance and coordinating workplace activities.
Now part of Craven’s Health & Safety team, Emma is continuing to develop her technical knowledge and practical skills, supporting clients with documentation, compliance and everyday Health & Safety matters.
With a friendly, down-to-earth approach, Emma believes Health & Safety should be practical, understandable and proportionate. She’s passionate about helping businesses find sensible solutions that protect people without creating unnecessary paperwork or complications.
Outside of Craven, Emma loves spending time with family, friends and her much-loved rescue cats, as well as enjoying holidays and exploring new places. She also has a creative side and is a published author! Having written humorous books about the trials and tribulations of menopause under the pen name Mona Pause, she’s more recently turned her hand to murder mysteries. There’s certainly more to Emma than Health & Safety paperwork!
Amy Tennant
People & Business Support Coordinator
About Amy
With over 20 years’ experience across business support, customer service, business development and operations, Amy brings a wealth of practical experience, a positive attitude and a hands-on approach to her role at Craven.
Having worked across a variety of industries and spent eight years running her own business, Amy understands the importance of building strong relationships, delivering great service and keeping things running smoothly.
At Craven, no two days are quite the same! From supporting clients to managing systems, communications and the Learning Hub, Amy enjoys getting involved in all aspects of the business. She also brings a creative flair to social media, website content and marketing, alongside supporting business development and opportunities for growth.
Passionate about learning and taking on new challenges, Amy has a growing interest in people management and is looking forward to starting her CIPD studies.
Friendly, approachable and always happy to lend a hand, she enjoys building positive relationships and playing her part in helping Craven and its clients thrive.
Outside of Craven, Amy loves spending time with her partner, two children, two step-children and their dog. With a farmer in the family, there’s rarely a dull moment! A keen fitness enthusiast, she’s a regular at the gym and enjoys getting outdoors for a good walk. She’s also a big food lover and loves making the most of quality time with family and friends. Whether she’s keeping active, enjoying good food or embracing family life, Amy is rarely one to sit still!
People. Safety. Environment. Success.
Professional expertise. Personal approach. People you can trust.
Great businesses are built on people, and great working relationships start with understanding them.
At Craven Consultancy Services, we’re more than a team of specialists. We’re trusted advisers, problem-solvers and people who genuinely enjoy helping businesses thrive.
Bringing together expertise in HR & People, Health & Safety, Environmental Management, Workplace Wellbeing and Training, we provide the knowledge, guidance and reassurance businesses need to move forward with confidence.
We take our work seriously, but we don’t believe consultancy needs to be complicated, intimidating or impersonal.
A Different Kind of Consultancy
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all advice or paperwork for the sake of paperwork.
We get to know your business, understand your challenges and work alongside you to find solutions that make sense in the real world.
Sometimes that means navigating difficult conversations. Sometimes it’s helping you stay ahead of changing responsibilities. And sometimes it’s simply being there when you need a trusted sounding board.
Whatever the challenge, you can expect straight-talking advice, professional judgement and a team that’s firmly in your corner.
Different Expertise. Shared Values. One Team.
Our strength lies in the people behind Craven.
We bring together different backgrounds, experiences and specialist knowledge, but share the same commitment to doing things properly, treating people well and making a positive difference.
We’re collaborative, curious and always learning. We support each other, celebrate our successes and bring that same energy and commitment to the organisations we work with.
Because good consultancy isn’t just about what you know. It’s about how you work with people.
Our Environmental Commitment
Our commitment to People · Safety · Success extends beyond our clients and teams — it includes our responsibility to the environment and the communities we serve.
Craven, we’re driven by purpose: protecting people, empowering workplaces and caring for our planet. We believe true success goes hand in hand with environmental responsibility.
We lead by example through reduced impact, sustainable practices and digital-first operations, and we support our clients to do the same.
Environmental awareness is embedded in everything we do and forms part of our wider Environmental Commitment, guiding our efforts to protect people, respect the planet and create lasting success.
Interested in our full Environmental Services, that’s great please Get in touch!
