25 years experience in the areas of Selection, Talent Management and Learning & Development, partnering with businesses to create new assessment and learning methodology with a focus on practical application and evaluation of business benefit. Experience working in all business sectors with a particular emphasis on Financial Services, public sector and businesses looking to use assessments or leadership facilitation to add commercial value. Experience of working in both F2F and VAC environments in the latter using various platforms such as Hirevue, Tazio, Apollo, SOVA and Launchpad. Have worked as an Independent Consultant since January 08. Areas of specialism (Selection, Talent Development and Assessment): concept creation and design, working with business partners to devise assessment and development approaches to drive business transformation, assessment process design, recruitment/development campaign project management, business partnering and stakeholder management, writing of assessment materials at various levels, psychometric assessments from volume, graduate /apprenticeship to executive level, leading assessment & development centres, operational recruitment, project/account management, selection and assessor training for managers. Qualified to use a range of psychometric tools.Areas of specialism (Training and Coaching): Behavioural skills training such as Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Safety, Leadership, culture change, Coaching skills for Managers/Leaders and Maximising your Impact, individual and team development, individual career and business coaching. Performance project management. Qualified development coachHonours degree in Human Resource Management (University of Strathclyde), CIPD member. BPS Level A and B qualified, Certificate of Professional development in Coaching. SHL Associate (assessments and training) and qualified to provide feedback on SHL Level A and B courses. Accredited to use the Insights Discovery personality tool, Saville Consulting Wave, NEO, OPQ, Talent Q, BeTalent Resilience, Strengths and Psychological Safety and Peoplemapper psychometric tools.Please feel free to contact me should you wish to learn more!