Leadership development, management development, high performance team development, operational management, outplacement.

Competency frameworks, assessment centre design, recruitment and selection, performance management, training and development.

Project Management, planning, and performance improvement; risk management; project problem solving and decision making; stakeholder management; forming and leading project teams; individual coaching for project managers.

Liz Carrighan

Liz is an executive coach and consultant in leadership development. Outcomes of her work result in sustainable behavioural change leading to enhanced performance. Clients include ITV, Unilever, Royal Bank of Scotland, Defra, BAA, Dairy Crest and GlaxoSmithKline.

She worked for an HR Consultancy for several years as a consultant and their Director of HR. Prior to this her career alternated between corporate roles in sales, marketing and HR, and independent consultancy.

She has an MBA from Henley Management College where she is now a visiting tutor. She is accredited in MBTI, Emotional Intelligence Inventory and is a Master Practitioner in NLP.

Web site: www.realization-ltd.com

Nick Coombe has 30 years experience in leadership and management, first with a successful career in the Army, then as a Director in the not for profit sector and for the last 12 years as a management development consultant.  Nick's experience includes four years as a senior consultant with the Centre for High Performance Development working with large corporations, financial institutions and a number of smaller companies, focused on team leading and leadership skills.  He also spent a year working with an outplacement consultancy. As Operations Director with Inspiring Performance, Nick was involved in development programmes for both teams and individuals and in a groundbreaking piece of research into the impact of Emotional Intelligence on performance, based on the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race. After a short period working as the Chief Operating Officer for a UK based charity, Nick established his own consultancy in 2004 to pursue his ambition of delivering high quality personal and team development.

Web site: under construction, please call +44 7968 171004

Doug Crawford

Doug Crawford has been a management consultant for over 20 years, following a successful career as a line manager with both Unilever and Rank Xerox. Prior to founding Cerus Consulting he was a Director of a global specialist HR consultancy where he was responsible for retail sector leadership as well as managing the relationships with a number of major national and international client accounts. Doug has worked with numerous national and multi-national organisations, in the UK, Europe and Africa, and has extensive experience of working with public, private and not for profit organisations. He is an accredited NLP Business Practitioner and an experienced coach.  He has a BSc in Electronics from Cardiff University, an MBA from Durham Business School and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Web site: www.cerusconsulting.co.uk

Michèle Dennison

Michèle Dennison, MD Management Development is a highly respected HR management and development consultant who works with organisations to improve business performance through quality leadership and people management. Her approach is rooted in the belief that by putting people at the heart of the matter the talent and passion that exists within an organisation can be harnessed to achieve amazing results for business performance.

Michèle has over a decade of experience gained in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. She spent six years as International HR Manager at Oxfam where she travelled extensively and worked on a number of global projects to improve management and organisational impact. Her operational background gives her first hand experience of the challenges that managers grapple with day to day.

A Chartered Member of the CIPD and accredited consultant by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations Michèle has written publications on people management issues including reward, career transition, and a trainer’s handbook. Her approach is inclusive, participative and lively and she draws on a variety of methods to tailor solutions to clients’ needs.

Web site: www.mdmd.co.uk

Rachel Jackson

Rachel has been a consultant for 6 years and is recognised for her work with often very challenging clients in both public and private sector, helping them to define what outstanding performance looks like, to understand what work itself looks like and to develop their people to be the best that they can within the context of their work.

Rachel began her career in procurement, business development and contract management in the utility sector.  Her consulting experience includes building client solutions around reward and organisation design, skills development (such as training managers how to conduct focussed interviews for recruitment and progression purposes); to personal growth (using emotional intelligence, coaching, cognitive approaches and Neuro Linguistic Programming).   Rachel also provides one to one coaching – assisting individuals to change the way they approach communication and leadership and to achieve sustainable results in their life and work.  Rachel has delivered programmes across Europe and in the US.  Clients include Corus, Caterpillar, ABN Amro, AIB, EDF Energy and Northern Ireland Police Force.

Web site: under construction, please call +44 7786 736308 or email racheljackson@changingdialogues.com

Web site: www.chiswickconsulting.com

Foster Murphy founded Charitable Futures in 2002. He has held senior management and governance roles in the voluntary sector for more than 30 years. Most recently he was Chief Executive of the Abbeyfield Society and the (then) Volunteer Centre UK. He has extensive committee experience and high-level strategic and networking skills. The Charitable Futures consultancy offers vision and scenario development, strategic thinking (including fundraising) and planning, capacity building, governance and performance improvement.

Web site: www.charitablefutures.co.uk

Jane Parslow

Jane Parslow has been supporting project managers, through consultancy, training and coaching, for 25 years.  She has worked in a wide range of industries, including oil and petrochemicals, defence and aerospace, construction, IT, and pharmaceuticals, as well as the charitable sector and central and local government. 

Jane established her own consultancy in 1990 and uses a coaching approach to develop project managers’ skills.  Examples of her work include: coaching project managers to communicate more effectively with their stakeholders, to manage expectations, or to resolve conflicts within the team; facilitating planning meetings and risk workshops; reviewing and assessing projects.  Jane can also provide training on specific project management techniques.

Web site: under construction, please call +44 7973 226629 or email JParslow@blueyonder.co.uk

Nicola Strong

Nicola has been working in the field of consultancy and training for over 20 years specialising in remote team management.

As an implementation consultant, she has delivered projects in the assessment of work flows, capacity planning, communication systems and re-engineering organisational structures in a range of industries across the World including: financial services, food retail, distribution and telecommunications.

Her most recent work has been in developing people through the design and delivery of experiential programmes in leadership, coaching and remote team management.  Other work includes supporting collaboration and partnership across the public, private and voluntary sectors and collaborative research in remote team management.

Nicola has a degree in Information systems and currently completing a MSc in change management. She is a mentor for the Princes Trust, Member of the British Computer Society, the International Stress Management Association, the Royal Geographical Society and the Thinking Environment Inc.

Web site: www.strong-enterprises.com