Our Team

Our consultants are known and trusted as experts in their fields.  We help match the appropriate consultant to suit our client's needs or when clients have multiple requirements.

Anderson Hirst

 

ANDERSON has a passionate interest in everything related to sales and sales effectiveness.

Learning sales through practical experience working with highly professional organisational such as ICI and Unilever, he then worked at the legendary sales training consultancy Krauthammer International for 10 years, developing and delivering sales training for major blue chips such as Johnson & Johnson, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Black & Decker and Boston Scientific.

 

After delivering around 500 days of training in 16 countries, he then studied an MBA with Warwick Business School, focusing on sales effectiveness, resulting in a training consultant with academic insight & rigour coupled with practical hands on sales realism. 

 

Experience

Worked with and trained in 16 countries, especially Spain, Denmark, Belgium & Germany

 

 

Education & Professional Membership

 

MBA Warwick Business School

Fellow of the Strategy Academy

BSC (Hons) Biochemistry

 

 

Approach

 

Create the right balance between analysis and action, thinking clearly, act practically, learn and re-work.

 

 

 

 

Jackie Smith

 

Executive Coaching, line management, consulting, training and facilitation. Her breadth of business and industry experience, coupled with the flexibility to operate strategically and tactically, have enabled her to work successfully with clients to align business and individual goals, needs and values.

 

Her interventions have a powerful and sustaining impact on her clients, and feedback often infers her coaching has been the catalyst to ensuring key and critical next steps.

 

Working both in Europe and internationally her industry experience ranges through a broad range of consulting assignments is extensive.

 

With a passion to make a difference, an understanding of organisation challenges and wide ranging tool-kit of models and approaches, she is able to catalyse and motivate individuals and teams to achieve sustainable results.

 

Experience

 

Worked in Australia, USA, Brazil, 7 European countries, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Bahrain, India. Lived in  Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji, France. Fluent in French and Russian.

 

Key clients include

 HSBC, Lloyds/TSB, Bank of England, Cisco, Compaq, Oracle, Black & Decker, Mothercare, Iceland, ICI, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Glaxo Wellcome, ITN, Marconi, GEC, Siemens Plessey

 

 

Education

 

Corporate & ICF Executive Coach

Coach in High Impact Communication

NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer

BA Psychology

MBus HR Management

 

 

Approach

 

·         Builds strong client relationships based on trust, openness and fun

·         Provides incisive and highly perceptive feedback to make a real difference

·         Uses a flexible approach to deal with different styles and needs, using techniques which lead to radical/fast change

·         Works at a deeper level to surface underlying issues and identify a solution which leads to sustainable results

Dave Griffiths

 

 

 

Highly focused on the company culture, working both at a strategic and operational level, Dave works seamlessly to provide the rigour that is needed to make sustained and effective change happen. Dave specialises as a consultant, areas including onboarding for graduates, mid and senior level management development centres as well as offering advice and managing solutions to businesses large and small, in the public and private sectors.

 

Dave has an infectious and highly positive energy, subtly bringing people to a point of understanding what is important. He has a natural and welcome ability to pull out key information and results often overlooked in face paced businesses focussed on progressive targets.

Experience

Designing, running and measuring incremental change, as well as equipping key people such as line managers and HR to ensure positive change happens, sustained results and performance is increased.

 

Specialties: Competency-based assessment, psychometric testing, personality profiling, development activities, recruitment process design and management, competency design, recruitment training, outplacement support, Potentia, StrengthScope (C)

 

Companies include.... GlaxoSmithKline, Black and Decker,  Audit Commission, and other large organisations

 

Education

 

Being SHL trained and using OPQ his one on one work has been second to none in terms of moving teams forward in both management practice and exceeding KPI’s.

 

Trevor Cousins

 

 

Following an MA in European Management at Cranfield, Trevor’s career focused on marketing and communications, primarily in senior account direction roles in advertising agencies. He led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver impactful campaigns against challenging client targets and agency profitability measures.

 

Trevor has always, unconsciously, brought a coaching style to his work as has been described as having a coaching style which is genuine, inspiring and supportive. Trevor likes to engender loyalty and commitment, retaining powerful, long-term client relationships through a combination of delivering results, generating trust and engaging others through his passion and commitment for the work that he does.

Experience

Trevor has worked with a wide range of organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors. His clients have included Nationwide Building Society, NHS Manchester, Vodafone, National Trust, University of Sussex and Alzheimer’s Society as well as smaller concerns.

 

Education and Professional Memberships

  • BA Hons in Modern Languages (French and German)
  • MA in European Management, Cranfield University School of Management
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Various coaching qualifications including ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
  • Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC)
  • Various management tools including Myers Briggs,  Belbin etc.

Dee Cano

 

 

Dee is a highly motivated consultant and facilitator having extensive experience of change management, having an excellent and critical eye for detail critical which compliments others when making decisions that to impact key business issues. Strong record with working at all levels of the business and with multiple audiences, both nationally and internationally.

 

Proven success in analysis and training initiatives, with a solid reputation for achieving the right results.

Dee’s passion is helping people maximise their potential by enhancing their skills, qualities and attributes.

 

Her strengths lie in driving organisational change by bespoke solutions, which respond to business needs. Additionally design and implementation of assessment centres for both recruiting and talent management purposes.

Dee is known within the industry in working as the panel within the Awards and Investor in People specialist.

 

Zoe Creighton

 

ZOE’s extensive business experience ensures her approach to coaching is realistic and action oriented. She has coached a wide variety of individuals and teams, including directors and VP’s, to achieve their challenging goals and address their development needs. She delivers positive changes in behaviour and builds confidence.

 

Using insightful questions, listening beyond and behind responses Zoe moves her clients forward. By providing an appropriate balance between support and challenge, she creates a safe environment to accelerate development and growth. Clients describe her as calm, intelligent, empowering, and creative and an excellent listener.

 

Prior to coaching her experience spans 20+ years in marketing and general management with a variety of blue chip organisations, leading multi-national and multi-functional teams across Europe and globally. She has also lived and worked in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

Experience

 

Unilever

Kimberly-Clark: - Europe & US

Diageo: Global product harmonisation.

Pimms,  Archers - Europe & Globally

 

 

Approach: ‘draw out’ rather than ‘pour in’

 

1.     Facilitate self-awareness, challenge assumptions, overcome self-limiting beliefs, break out of closed loop thinking

2.     Clarify goals, create action plans

3.     Support implementation and establish positive new behaviours and habits

Hilary Grealis

 

An experienced, commercial and highly practical HR Professional, A track record of delivering significant organisational change management activities covering mergers and acquisitions, TUPE transfers, off-shoring, business restructuring, employee engagement and cultural change.

Hilary’s success is underpinned by high energy, a down to earth and highly inspirational approach, taking a strategic & commercial view, helping others to execute the best approach to bring results.
Hilary has a strong background in B2B, Consumer and Voluntary sectors having worked in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Charitable organisations. 

 

Specialities: change management, employee engagement and developing HR strategies. Implementing plans and mergers and acquisition organisation re-structuring, off shoring, outsourcing, talent management, performance management, recruitment and selection, reward and recognition, leadership development.

 


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