Linda Ashdown is an Assessment Manager at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an HRM consultant through her own company Ashdown-Jones HR Ltd. She is also an Associate Lecturer at Portsmouth University Business School, specialising in performance management and employee engagement, and previously lectured at MOL and Hampshire Business School at Farnborough College of Technology. Prior to this, she was on the board of a multinational advertising company as HR Director.