Cara Mccarthy, Msc Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

United Kingdom

I am passionate about helping my clients - whether individual leaders, inter-connected teams or whole organisations - to lead and thrive through change. I partner with my clients, coaching them to increase their individual and collective awareness, alignment and accountability, and to create environments in which everyone is motivated to harness their collective brilliance and realise their shared goals. Clients describe my style as creative, empathetic and practical. I am known for listening deeply, connecting the dots and for challenging clients to go beneath the surface to gain new perspectives, and to find clarity and courage to act. I work collaboratively and honestly to form a supportive yet challenging partnership with leaders and teams in which it is possible to do their best thinking and make meaningful change happen. Specialisms • Coaching focus areas include leadership transition, influencing, presence and stakeholder management, stepping back and up - letting go to empower team performance, identifying leadership vision and ‘brand’, career goals and action planning, confidence, developing high potential individuals, female leadership, and more.• Coaching of newly formed, changing, and established teams to develop their vision, mission, capabilities, strategic business plans, corporate/team values, working relationships with themselves and stakeholders, and culture.• Organisation and culture development, to align strategy with values and behaviours on the ground.• Speaker at conferences, and writer on leadership and personal development topicsClient case studies available on request.

London, United Kingdom

I am passionate about helping my clients - whether individual leaders, inter-connected teams or whole organisations - to lead and thrive through change. I partner with my clients, coaching them to increase their individual and collective awareness, alignment and accountability, and to create environments in which everyone is motivated to harness their collective brilliance and realise their shared goals.Clients describe my style as creative, empathetic and practical. I am known for listening deeply, connecting the dots and for challenging clients to go beneath the surface to gain new perspectives, and to find clarity and courage to act. I work collaboratively and honestly to form a supportive yet challenging partnership with leaders and teams in which it is possible to do their best thinking and make meaningful change happen.Specialisms • Coaching focus areas include leadership transition, influencing, presence and stakeholder management, stepping back and up - letting go to empower team performance, identifying leadership vision and ‘brand’, career goals and action planning, confidence, developing high potential individuals, female leadership, and more.• Coaching of newly formed, changing, and established teams to develop their vision, mission, capabilities, strategic business plans, corporate/team values, working relationships with themselves and stakeholders, and culture.• Organisation and culture development, to align strategy with values and behaviours on the ground.• Speaker at conferences, and writer on leadership and personal development topicsClient case studies available on request.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

With an ambitious book of transformational projects in the pipeline and a dynamic new CEO on board, I set up a separate function to contribute OD expertise to culture, change and transformation projects. Grounded in a sound understanding of the business context I partnered senior leaders in effecting organisational change and effectiveness at group-wide and business unit levels, focusing on strengthening alignment between strategy, cultural values and what colleagues experience during change. Developing change-leadership capability and preparing the change-readiness of the organisation was a crucial deliverable.Strategic programmes included:• Culture, Purpose and Behaviours Programme: Sponsored directly by the CEO and supported by her executive team, I led a comprehensive programme of work to re-align corporate strategy and company culture around a clear, unifying statement of purpose and a call to action through 5 critical behaviours. • Change to Ways of Working and Relocation: Preparation of the London-based organisation to relocate to a state-of-the-art headquarters and of the whole organisation for a complete transformation to ways of working. Partnering with the executive team and senior business and regional leaders across the enterprise I led an 18-month programme of work to ready colleagues for the cultural, practical and technological changes to their everyday experience of working. • Engagement and Adoption: During the implementation of BlackRock’s Aladdin technology solution, I oversaw the people engagement workstream to support transformation of Front Office to Back Office processes and adoption of new behaviours.• Turnarounds and Integrations: Facilitated leadership teams to reconnect, realign and reprioritise, and supported cultural migration of newly merged organisation units, integrating behaviour frameworks and educating through the change curve.

London, United Kingdom

As the pace and scale of change accelerated across the company, I introduced OD methodologies and frameworks to partner senior leaders in effecting organisational change and effectiveness at group-wide, business unit and regional levels. An active member of the HR Leadership team and of the Prudential Global Talent community, I led projects and contributed to the success of talent development and retention initiatives in other Prudential entities, including EastSpring Asset Management (Singapore) and PCA (Head office Hong Kong).Provided team leadership and direction to my team of L&TD professionals with full suite of deliverables. Managing and reporting on budgets and reporting on progress of key initiatives to the Executive and Regional Boards.

London, United Kingdom

Acting as a senior business partner to executives and business leaders I interpreted and responded to changes in the strategic plans of the firm, advised on interventions to position and development talent accordingly, and designed M&G's senior succession planning and talent development strategies to facilitate long-term people and business performance. An active member of the HR Leadership Team and co-leader of a team of Learning & Talent Development professionals responsible for approximately 1800 people in the UK, Northern & Southern Europe and Asia, delivering a full slate of L&D, regulatory, professional, management and leadership development offerings.

London, United Kingdom

L&D partner to individuals, managers and teams on a range of behavioural, professional and soft skills development, team process facilitation, and design of talent development programmes.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing and managing a learning curriculum of investment focused content.

London, United Kingdom

Project Office process manager and responsible for coordinating the rollout of training related to a major change project affecting Investment staff.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for coordinating the two annual intakes of junior talent for the Bank (the Analyst Graduate Programme and the Investment Banking Graduate Programme).

Durban Area, South Africa

My mandate was to successfully manage and grow a major product category for Southern Africa’s leading stationary, gift dressing and social expression company.

Msc In People And Organisational Development, Od

The MSc in P&OD offered me an intensive and innovative approach to masters-level learning with a group of highly professional.

Post Graduate Year, Economics

Invited to undertake a fourth "Economics honours" year to my 3-year degree.

Bcomm Undergraduate Degree, Core Modules Included Micro And Macro Economics, Finance, Marketing, Accounting