People
We offer a range of management consultancy and coaching services, providing practical solutions for organisational, team and individual development. We bring experience from the commercial and public sectors coupled with a strong track record in, and a passion for, the voluntary sector and wider civil society. We also connect people with similar issues and interests to promote sharing and learning across the sectors. Below are details of some of the people we work with.
Whatever you’re looking for, get in touch. If we can’t help you directly, we’re likely to know someone who can!
Jacqueline Hill
Jacqueline Hill
Jacqueline has spent the past 6 years focusing on helping organisations who are working to make the world a better place both in the UK and internationally.
Prior to establishing J Hill Associates, Jacqueline was a management consultant in the commercial sector. During her eight years with the Hay Group she carried out projects in strategy clarification, performance management, organisational development, leadership development and project and change management. Clients included Unilever, Reuters, Yell Group, Anglo American, Centrica, FE Colleges and The British Council. She was also a member of the Hay Group team that carried out research into teacher and head teacher effectiveness for the UK government's education department.
Jacqueline has significant direct management experience, in particular leading Hay Group's Information Services division through significant change, taking it from a business that was in decline to one that was increasingly profitable and a great place to work. She also established a centre of excellence for project management in the consultancy and led the review and re-launch of Hay Group's UK executive coaching practice.
Jacqueline is an ACEVO recommended consultant, a Fellow of the RSA, an accredited member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), and a ‘Mangroves in the Communities’ CIC Community Coach.
Known as ‘the hub’ by colleagues, she delights in bringing together people to explore common interests and challenges.
Jacqueline founded J Hill Associates in 2004 and the clients she has worked with along with case studies can be found on this website. Click here for Clients and Case Studies.
Expertise areas: Strategic planning and related governance, operational and project planning, change management, culture change, structure and role design, managing performance and people, leadership and management development, cross-cultural working and diversity awareness, team building and team effectiveness, distance management, and coaching and mentoring.
Chris Allen
Chris has 30 years of sales and marketing experience in worldwide operations at Senior Vice President level for major international software companies such as Thorn EMI, Comshare, Pilot and Allshare. Since 1991 Chris has run his own sales training and coaching company Clientfocus, which provides in-house, business-to-business sales improvement programmes for medium and large organisations around the world. His success is founded on the premise that “Selling is just a conversation (Sijac)”, implying that sales should be neither intimidating nor stressful for the seller or buyer and should enable the seller to operate in line with their own values and personality. In addition to many less well-known organisations he has delivered programmes to companies such as London Stock Exchange, Microsoft and Panasonic.
Keen to share his skills with other sectors, Chris has developed a programme with J Hill Associates aimed at increasing the skills and confidence of people who need to persuade others to contribute to what they do, such as fundraisers and those engaged in attracting clients from referral organisations. (See this website’s case study on the programme that Chris ran with employment advisors at the Papworth Trust).
Chris is also a trustee of the UKSA, a charity whose objectives are to advance the education and physical, mental and spiritual development of young persons under the age of 25 by providing facilities and training in sailing and seamanship. In addition Chris’s concern for the environment has led him to be a founding investor and chairman of Gaia Active Ltd., a company that supports businesses to reduce their energy consumption through behaviour change.
Expertise areas: Training, facilitation and coaching in sales, marketing and networking skills.
Website: www.sijac.com
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.
Expertise Areas: Executive coaching, leadership development
Website: www.realization-ltd.com
Jennifer Clark
Jennifer has more than 15 years of consultancy experience in business change and in Human Resource consulting. She has worked in both the private and public sectors with leading UK and global businesses and with government bodies. Jennifer enjoys operating at both the individual and team level to improve leadership and team performance. In addition to coaching, Jennifer has recently been involved in designing high potential selection events, running talent development centres for a UK retail organisation and in designing and facilitating leadership development programmes for top teams within a media organisation.
Jennifer set up her own consultancy practice in 2002. She also volunteered at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital to conduct psychological research in to children with Tourettes Syndrome. Her prior experience includes 5 years with the Hay Group where Jennifer’s assignments included the design and application of competency models, coaching, leadership development and managing succession with a strong emphasis on Emotional Intelligence and 360 degree feedback. She also spent 5 years with Accenture in its Change Management Division.
Jennifer is an accredited coach through the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring. She is also accredited to use Myers Briggs’ MBTI model, and Hay Group’s Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Styles, Climate and Structured Interviewing techniques.
Expertise Areas: business and life coaching, leadership capability and organisational effectiveness.
Doug Crawford
Doug 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.
Expertise Areas: Employee commitment, work measurement, role profiling & organisation design, reward, performance management, leadership, coaching.
Website: www.cerusconsulting.co.uk
Claire D'Aboville
Claire has experienced 7 international moves during her adult life and speaks 3 languages fluently. She is very attuned to the challenges and opportunities offered by expatriation. Through one-to-one and group programmes she helps expatriates and their spouses prepare for and “survive” a critical time in their personal and professional life. She pulls from her own experiences and her corporate HR background to design and deliver tailored programmes. She has been an HR professional and consultant for 17 years working in Paris, Frankfurt, London and New-York for blue chip organisations (Cadbury-Schweppes, Dresdner-Kleinwort-Benson, Unisys) and as a consultant with the Hay Group. Having supported multinationals as well as public and not for profit organisations, she has a strong understanding of organisations and the individuals within them. She has been a school governor for 10 years and volunteered with, amongst others, Save the Children. Claire studied business in Paris and New-York (Dauphine, Baruch College), is an ICF accredited coach, and a member of the Association for Coaching and the CIPD. She raises her family tri-lingually.
Expertise Areas: Coaching and support for expatriates and their spouses (pre and post expatriation), business and life coaching, process and team facilitation, change management.
Website: www.partnersincoaching.com
Cornelia Decher
Cornelia, Decher Learning & Development, is an experienced management and personal development consultant with a focus on helping managers and their teams work more effectively and thereby improve business performance. Cornelia uses her knowledge of Solutions Focus techniques to engage people and ensure her work has a very practical and results-orientated outcome.
Cornelia has worked as a Facilitator, Consultant, Trainer and Coach across the private, charitable NGO and public sectors since 1998. Prior to establishing her own consultancy in 2004, Cornelia worked in the Finance and IT sector in Team Leader, Trainer and Training & Development consultant roles; primarily for the Global Investment Bank, Credit Swiss First Boston. In addition to working in the UK she has worked in her native Germany and in Slovenia, giving her valuable international and cross-cultural work experience. Cornelia has an MA in Business Studies, is CIPD qualified with the Advanced Diploma in Training and Development and has the certified coaching qualification - Solutions Focus Professional.
Expertise areas: Management Development, Remotivating & Lifting Team Morale, Virtual Teams – Distance Management, Teambuilding, Change Management, Personal Development, Coaching.
Website: www.decherlearning.com
Michèle Dennison
Michèle, 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.
Expertise Areas: Leadership development and performance management, learning and development, reward and motivation, international management, people management business partnering.
Website: 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.
Expertise Areas: Process Facilitation, coaching, leadership and talent development, building Emotional Intelligence, resilience and NLP, team facilitation and development.
Website: www.changingdialogues.co.uk
Pam Kennett
Pam has more than 20 years experience working in industry and management consulting. She held a number of leadership positions in marketing and management development before working with the market leader in people based consulting, the Hay Group, for approximately 8 years. In 2001 she set up her own consultancy, Chiswick Consulting. Chiswick Consulting works with a range of organisations in the public and private sectors including Woolworths, British Council, Safeway, Lloyds TSB, Opra, OGC and the Learning and Skills Council. She has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. She has an MBA from City University, is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is a Registered Member of the British Institute of Psychology.
Expertise Areas: Competency frameworks, assessment centre design, recruitment and selection, performance management, training and development.
Website: www.chiswickconsulting.com
Jonathan Louw
Jonathan brings 30 years of teaching, training and management experience across the public and non profit sectors to his consultancy and training work. He currently combines management teaching and training at the Business School of Oxford Brookes University with training and consultancy projects for a range of clients. Previous roles have included deputy head teacher, NHS trainer, and manager of HIV and Drugs services for a social service department, various HR roles, senior roles in non profit marketing and fundraising, and capacity development across an international NGO. Jonathan is also well-versed in non profit governance, having founded and chaired a charity in the east end of London and served as a school governor. Jonathan currently acts as Vice Chair (and Chair of the Personnel Committee) of the family support charity Home-Start in Oxford, the city where he is based.
Jonathan is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and of the Institute of
Fundraising. Qualifications include a first degree from the University of Cape Town, a Masters in Education from London University and an MBA from Durham University. His style of working is both rigorous and inclusive and his training approach is practical, energising and sensitive to group and individual learning needs.
Expertise Areas: Management training, team development and facilitation, performance management, HR and general strategy review or development for small to medium size non profit organisations, and creative approaches to people resourcing needs, including employer branding strategies.
Janice McNamara
Janice’s background is in the arts where she has worked strategically with local authorities in their development of arts policies and strategies; engaged with artists and arts organisations in building sustainable networks and alliances; and displayed strong project and event management skills.
For the past ten years Janice has been working as a freelance facilitator and developing training materials for a wide variety of clients. Her engaging and participative training style develops the confidence and creativity of participants. She has worked with Members of Parliament through to college students and is able to engage and motivate participants. She is qualified through CIPD [Chartered Institute of Personnel Development] and has worked in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Janice is Co-Director of ‘Summerhouses: People and Development’ which has been operating since 2006, devising and facilitating bespoke development packages to increase organisational success through employee engagement and facilitating organisation change which is positive and solution focused.
Expertise Areas: Event facilitation and participatory training techniques for teams through to large scale events: Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, and World Café. Action Learning Sets. Mediation. Executive coaching.
Website: www.summer-houses.eu
Foster Murphy
Foster 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.
Expertise Areas: Vision and scenario development, strategic thinking and planning, capacity building, governance and performance improvement.
Website: www.charitablefutures.co.uk
Jane Parslow
Jane 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.
Jane is a member of the Project Management Institute, holding its PMP® (Project Management Professional) qualification, and is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is an NLP Practitioner and a Qualified Practitioner in the AMSP motivational profiling tool.
Expertise Areas: 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 and team members.
Web site: www.janeparslow.co.uk
Julietta Schoenmann
Julietta has worked in the field of training and development for over ten years, predominantly in the education sector on donor-funded and international NGO overseas projects. She has provided short-term inputs in a number of countries to participants ranging from primary school teachers to government personnel. Her understanding of how adults learn together with her excellent interpersonal skills enable her to deliver training courses that are based on clients’ needs and specific to their roles in the workplace. Whether working one-to-one or facilitating large groups she believes that training should start where the client is ‘at’ and build on their current knowledge and skills. In this way learning is supported and previous experience valued so that training empowers rather than undermines those involved.
She delivers training regularly to VSO volunteers and is a volunteer mentor with Right Track (The Children’s Society) working with excluded black and minority ethnic young people.
Expertise Areas: training course design and delivery, learning and development, capacity building, inter-cultural awareness.
Website: www.ajinternational.net
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 has recently completed 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.
Expertise Areas: Remote team management, management leadership, change, creativity and stress management. Executive and business coaching.
Website: www.strong-enterprises.com
