Meet the Empower Team

Hannah is a Kent graduate and Canterbury local, passionate about encouraging others to bring their whole selves to work through confidence building and skills development. Hannah is also Co-Chair of the Staff Disability Network, and specialises in supporting and advocating for disabled people, as well as other underrepresented groups. A crazy cat person, Hannah is never happier than when she is looking at/talking about/thinking about cats. Please show her photos of your pets! Hannah is a massive geek and enjoys tabletop and video games, live music (from the comfort of home, on YouTube – my muscles don’t let me go in person these days!) and laughter.   

Melissa is a Kent native, but graduated from King’s College London. Melissa is driven by the desire to help others and to help students with their confidence and building their employability skills. With nearly two decades of experience in recruitment, development, and talent management within large corporations, Melissa's expertise also spans engineering, energy, telecommunications, and the legal sector. She has designed Graduate Schemes at Vodafone and EDF Energy, including assessment processes and coaching young professionals. Aside from that Melissa loves a laugh – and needs it! Melissa has two young sons, chickens, guinea pigs and a crazy dog, not forgetting her husband, too!