Kate Mason-Keaney Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Make Waves is a coaching & development company that supports international organisations of all sizes who are ready to turn the tide and see results. We develop leaders. We align and equip teams. We create insights into blind spots to enable significant shifts in behaviour, confidence and performance.Our data-led approach blends insights from four interconnected areas (psychological, emotional, physiological & behavioural) to create wide-angle perspectives on your performance and potential. We support your insights with our expert coaching and facilitation to create a tailored journey for you which is intuitive, pragmatic and gets results again and again.

Executive Coach & Leadership Development Expert

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Integrated wellbeing and performance specialists

London, England, United Kingdom

Strategic Talent Management, Organisation Design & Development, Cultural Change, Leadership Development, Coaching, Facilitation, Diversity & Inclusion, Mental Health & Wellbeing, HR Consultancy

London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Leading over 150 experts at Connor, setting the strategy for our ambitious growth journey. People describe me as an energetic leader and a real people person with a passion for strategy and making the complex simple. My focus is on achieving tangible and meaningful results for customers through understanding what really matters to them. I bring over 15 years of in-house experience that customers relate to, having 'walked in their shoes', and many years in Board and Director level roles enabling profitable growth and performance in the organisations that I work for. I use this experience to connect with people in the challenges they face and shape powerful solutions that really work.

Uk Wide

At Connor we are the people experts. We have been providing practical advice and support to businesses and individuals for 25 years.For businesses, we can help you through the whole employee lifecycle:- talent acquisition and on-boarding- talent and organisational development- people and organisation strategy- HR services- Individual, team and leader development- career transition and outplacementWe lead business and people strategy initiatives, restructuring and change projects , we design and deliver bespoke leadership development programmes for the Board to line managers, we develop the HR function and the Sales function, we provide one to one and team development and coaching services and we deliver operational HR services. We’re flexible, pragmatic and passionate about helping businesses improve performance through their people.We don’t just advise you – we actually do the work for you – delivering results so you can get on with running your business. Some consultants don’t give you a personal service every time. Your partnership with Connor will be different – you will receive individual care and attention.To read what a selection of our clients say or to find out more, please visit connor.co.uk.

United Kingdom

Providing HR Consulting services and specialist solutions, which support organisations to increase people, team, operational and business performance and enable successful transformation and change programmes.Specialising in:Business and people strategyOrganisation design, development and implementationLeadership, team and individual developmentTalent management and succession planningPeople engagement and collaboration Culture and changeExecutive and team coaching

London, United Kingdom

Leading a team of Human Capital and Business Performance experts providing consultancy services across Financial Services, Retail, Telco, Manufacturing/Industry, Media, Oil & Gas, Utilities and Public Sector industries.

A specialist role working across the 3 operating companies at Home Retail Group and with the Group Board.Lead the design and execution of talent management tools and frameworks across the Group, working with Talent Forums, HRBP’s & senior leaders to build a strong talent culture. Designed and implemented bespoke in-house ‘talent tool’ resulting in improved talent management information, insight and streamlining of internal HR processes.Analysed key talent information and trends to produce bi-annual talent review of the Top 80 leaders from across the organisation for the Operating Board to improve group wide talent and succession planning actions.Facilitated leaders and HRBP’s to create career paths that promote across Group development and deployment of talent.Lead the design and implementation of all aspects of the group wide colleague engagement survey to 55,000 colleagues, improving quality of results and cost year on year. Prepared and delivered results to the Executive and Operating Boards. Managed through a team of nine champions results cascade, action planning & change management Internal OD/OE consultant with leadership teams on significant change pieces.Governed and directed talent attraction / selection strategies & frameworks for the Group working with recruitment teams to ensure their operational delivery aligns to the Group Talent Strategy. Governed our model of potential, working with Leadership Development Managers to create and deliver programs that support people in realising their full potential.Designed and delivered master classes to senior HR community on Talent / Succession Planning, Engagement, Resourcing & On-boarding, Performance and Potential Management and OD/OE which drive best practice into the organisation. Coached colleagues from across the organisation as part of their PDP and often as part of a leadership development programme.

Partnering with the Argos Commercial Director, and a team of 14 Trading Directors. Created and lead the people agenda including the creation of the ‘People Team’ to deliver the people strategy.Led a structural review of the commercial function resulting in the creation and implementation of new teams and roles.Facilitated three tiers of leaders through leadership development activities to increase their performance and potential.Redesigned the structure of the buying roles to harmonise with the external market place and aid attraction of new talent and movement of internal talent.Empowered line managers to take full responsibility for managing their people, acting as coach to help them develop line management skills needed to engage and motivate their teams.Worked with the reward team to ensure reward packages were competitive, equitable and met business needs.Led level recruitment and directed and oversaw the quality of all other recruitment into the function.Led the performance review and development planning process across the function, playing an active role in measuring and calibrating performance across the function.

Abbey recruited 3 graduates into HR per year from 6,000 applicantsPlacements: 1. Recruitment Consultant2.Graduate Recruitment Consultant3. HR Development Consultant - Policy Team and Diversity Management 4. HR Consultant, Personnel Operations 5. Project Manager

Ford took 10 undergraduates per year from 10,000 applicants. Co-ordination and management of Manufacturing & Plant Engineering, and Diesel Engineering external recruitment campaigns to deliver increase in headcount of 50 into strategically important roles Employee relations management on a daily basis with site stewards and site convenor and contributor at Joint Works Committee meetings between Trade Union and Managers on colleague and site issuesManagement of the redeployment of staff to Dagenham following restructureProject managed two site wide ‘take your children to work’ eventsSupported disciplinary hearings

Bsc(Hons) Psychology And Management (With A 1 Year Placement In Industry) 2:1, Organizational Leadership

Chartered Institute Of Personnel & Development, Graduate Member