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Horsham, Gb

SHL is the leader in talent measurement solutions, driving better business results for clients through superior people intelligence and decisions - from hiring and recruiting, to employee development and succession planning. I work as an associate psychologist on talent management and executive assessment working both within the UK and Internationally

I work as an associate psychologist and Executive Coach for KornFerry, previously part of HayGroup where I used to work. Specialising in Talent assessment and measurement as well as leadership and organisational development including senior level Executive Coaching

I established InspirePerform as a coaching and business psychology led service, specialising in 3 key areas: Coaching, Development & Engagement. I believe passionately that people perform and enjoy life and work when they find inspiration in the workplace. The skill of the coach and business psychologist is to help tap into that - to work with people and organisations identifying barriers or different approaches that lead to greater engagement and fulfillment at work. And... it does work

London Business School is the leading world business school for its full-time and Executive MBA programmes according to the Financial Times and BusinessWeek business education surveys. LBS has been twice awarded the highest research rating - 5* - by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) I work as Executive Coach facilitating Executive Leadership Development as part of LBS' world renowned Executive Education programmes.I also work as lead Executive Coach coaching senior staff across the School and have led on the design and delivery of recent leadership development and assessment programmes for the School.

I have worked on a number of client assignments, primarily assessing candidates for senior roles. As associate psychologist I have advised clients using a range of psychometrics which have inputted into the selection process. A particularly interesting project involved the use of Emotional Intelligence psychometrics in assessing suitability of a senior finance role.

Fairplace Cedar provides talent management solutions to help organisations to identify, attract and retain talent. This encompasses executive coaching, assessment and leadership development at senior executive and high potential levels. Clients, including over 65 of the FTSE 100, range from financial services, major industrial and telecoms companies to leading professional services firms,not-for-profit and public sector. Working as an associate executive coach I work with clients across different managerial and executive levels

I work with OPM as senior consultant psychologist, primarily as an executive and management coach and as lead advisor on leadership and management development and selection. I am lead client relationship manager for a specific client porfolio

I am Co-Convenor of the Science and Practice Group for the Division of Occupational Psychology. This involves leading the implementation of strategy that will enable the effective fertilisation of academic current thinking and research with how practitioner occupational/business psychologists implement this within organisations

Organisational Values DevelopmentI designed and led the development of the Met's corporate Values and Behaviours – I achieved this by involving staff and officers across all levels as well as the Met's key stakeholders and external partners. These Values are now the values every member of staff abides by in the MetEmployee EngagementImplementing real change 'making the Values live'- I successfully introduced and led a change programme that turned upside down the Met's hierarchy. I identified the key factors that lead to successful change: working with the senior team, involving staff in decisions, enabling effective communication and role modelling behaviour. This was achieved via a representative body of staff who were empowered to make decisions on what mattered in terms of performance. The change programme led to significant increases in community satisfaction with local policing and modelling of the Met's Values360 Degree Feedback-I designed a 360 degree feedback tool based on the Met's Values and Behaviours which was then implemented as part of leadership developmentSelection & Assessment-I have run selection and assessment for officers at senior levels – acting as internal verifier and assessor as part of assessment centre design and feedbackSenior Officer Development-I have worked with officers and staff across all levels as part of individual coaching and development – directly as a result of assessment centre feedback or as part of tailored coaching as a result of 360 feedback or psychometric feedback-Senior Team development – working with Senior Management Teams at local policing boroughs I led the delivery of tailored team development using MBTI/other psychometrics and bespoke team development

Relocation ManagementI worked with senior clients as part of a planned move of IT infrastructure from the UK to Prague, Czech RepublicThis included working with section heads as part of restructuring of divisions undertaking job analysis with job holders and job evaluation as required, undertaking career guidance and coaching for senior managers as part of the transition. In addition I advised on selection and assessment methods as part of planned restructure

Graduate Management DevelopmentI designed and led Barnardo's first Graduate Management Placement Scheme - co-ordinating and leading the advertising and recruitment campaign and design of assessment centre. In addition I designed and delivered assessment centres for middle-senior management roles as well as led on the design and delivery of interview training to middle- senior managers.As part of the Graduate Management Placement programme I designed and mplementated a graduate induction and progression scheme and led on the design and delivery of a management development module in effective coaching for all managers. I also acted as internal coach to designated managers, focussing on personal development plans and competency developmentPerformance ManagementI successfully implementd a competency based performance management system (based on the psychological contract) - which included the design and formulation of a competency framework (mapping of all roles against competency framework, for use in recruitment, performance management & succession planning) As part of this I led the delivery of performance management training of all management and staff.I also designed and implementated a 360 developmental feedback tool used as part of personal development and succession planning for managers and staff

Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. Focussing on developing talent, organising people to be more effective and motivating them to perform at their best. As a consultant I worked with clients across all sectors using the world-renowned research of leading psychologist David McLelland, now incorporated as Hay/McBer. This involved working with clients as part of leadership development and developing and implementing cultural change. In addition I advised clients on pay and reward based on the Hay job evaluation methodology.

Post-Graduate Diploma In Coaching Supervision & Certified Supervising Coach, Supervision Of Coaches

This rigorous, nine-month programme is for experienced professionals who wish to have a recognised qualification in Supervision..

Advanced Certificate In Coaching & Mentoring, Coaching & Mentoring, Merit

Accredited at Senior Practitioner level by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council the Advanced Certificate covered all aspects.

Primary Certificate, Redundancy Coaching

Specialist solution focused coaching skills for redundancy counselling and coaching

Msc, Occupational Psychology, Merit

Certificate In Performance Coaching

Ba Joint Honours, English & History