Our purpose at Markovits Consulting is to continuously improve our clients’ abilities to maximise performance through leadership, coaching and people development. Creative, driven and passionate, we are experienced in delivering innovative learning solutions. When working with clients we become your trusted advisor to support you on your development journey. We work collaboratively to enable your organisation to implement small-scale through to organisational-wide solutions that produce positive results. We’re passionate about working with teams to help people develop and reach their full potential.

GivingTime supports young people to make the transition from education into the workplace by provide free professional coaching in return for student volunteering hours.

Clients include AstraZeneca, Tate & Lyle, Coats and Ofgem, among others

Available to civil service departments to coach senior civil servants and to facilitate training and events via the CSL database.

Lead the MHRA's Learning & Development Function, to provide challenging and successful development solutions for 1200 managers and employees.• Designed, developed and launched Talent Management strategy, working with senior teams and Executive Directors to ensure buy-in and understanding of how to manage and develop talent.• Developed Management & Leadership programme with external partner to improve leadership and management capability across the organisation. • Introduced an Annual Management & Leadership conference, designed to provide managers and leaders with an annual CPD opportunity to further develop leadership skills and hear key leadership messages from the CEO and Executive Directors.• Introduced a Peer Coaching Network, to provide professional business coaching to all employees at no direct cost. • Introduced Corporate Behaviours across the organisation, linked to performance management system and wider development initiatives.• Led the organisation to ensure that all L&D and HR interventions were aligned to the national Investors in People Standard to prepare for the IiP assessment. This resulted in MHRA achieving Bronze level IiP accreditation for the last two assessments.• Provided an internal consultancy service to Executive Directors and senior managers to identify development needs in different business areas, resulting in organisational development initiatives including bespoke team development programmes, management seminars/events, lunch and learn events and staff survey action plans being successfully delivered.• Facilitated team events for senior management teams across the business, incorporating tools including MBTI, FIRO-B and Lencioni, designed to build strong and emotionally intelligent teams.• Represented MHRA on a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine working party as an L&D expert, which focused on the introduction of Revalidation of Doctors and how this should be undertaken in line with current performance management system.

My core role was to manage the day to day L&D activity and provision for approx. 900 staff in the MHRA. I was responsible for a team of staff and a member of the HR management team. • Acted as an independent consultant to client groups to help them identify their development needs and design appropriate interventions and solutions.• Undertook an in-depth evaluation study of the organisation’s Management & Leadership Development Programme, which demonstrated benefits at individual, team and organisational levels and showed a 200% Return on Investment.• Provided 1:1 coaching and support to both managers and employees.• Managed the rollout of a new performance management system.• Re-designed and delivered Corporate Induction Programme, to include a small group Q&A discussion with the CEO. This resulted in excellent feedback from new employees. • Introduced new evaluation process up to Kirkpatrick level 4 to improve evaluation of L&D interventions, and provided data on a bi-annual basis to the Executive Directors. This enabled better informed, planned and successful development interventions.• Designed and implemented the Annual Learning Calendar, involving learning needs analysis for 900 employees and resulting in over 50 courses being made available internally to employees through the MHRA Learning Academy.• Designed and delivered a range of corporate training programmes, including Appraisals and Performance Management, First Steps for New Managers, Train the Trainer, Recruitment & Selection, Managing and Developing Staff, Presentation Skills, Successful 1:1 Meetings.

• Training design, delivery and marketing.• Developed e-learning programmes to support various HR policies, including performance management and managing sickness/absence.• Managed the change to electronic working and use of Oracle Learning Management System from a paper-based system.