Liz Needham Chartered Mcipd, Acc, Ma Hrm Email & Phone Number

Manchester, United Kingdom

I have established a thriving business doing the work I love with leaders across geographies and industries, helping them to get the best from themselves, their teams and their organisations. I provide a variety of services in the Organisational Development (OD) space (in it's broadest sense) having enjoyed successful careers in different disciplines. I effectively blend my unique mix of skills and experience to bring a holistic and pragmatic approach to my work. I have developed broad and trusting professional networks and I collaborate closely with a few organisations and individuals who share my values. I work with my clients: - as a 'Thinking Partner' to help them to problem solve, learn from best practice and embed change; - as a 'Coach' to help leaders and their teams to understand themselves and the systems they operate in better and to experiment with changes that increase their impact;- as a 'Consultant' when they need an experienced and trusted pair of hands to design and deliver change in ways that respect your culture and values.Over the last 4 years I have built a reputation for delivering quality for my clients in businesses large and small and working with leaders at all levels. My repeat business and pipeline of referrals speak for themselves. I would love to start a conversation about the changes you want to make, no matter how ambitious they may seem. If not now, when?Warm wishes, LizTel: 07799 581265yourgoals@lizneedham.com

Cheshire West And Chester, England, United Kingdom

As part of the vibrant Co-Creation Group Community of coaches and development specialists, I support the organisation to design and deliver strengths-based interventions for a variety of clients.As a member of the Strategy Group I work closely with the Strategy Team to support Co-Creation's growth, brand development and engagement with organisations who share our values and passion for recognising everyone's unique strengths

Senior member of the Transformation Team which is responsible for managing the delivery of large-scale change and investment programmes which impact globally. I worked with the business at every stage of investment, from identification, through Business Case development to implementation and evaluation to ensure sustainability and return on investment.Achievements include:• Leading consultation, design and implementation of an organisation wide change toolkit to support leaders, individuals and project managers to manage the people side of change, working with an external consultant. This is now in use globally• With a peer, co-designed and delivered a number of Change Management Practitioner workshops to global change leaders with great feedback• Led the change management strategy and approach for the integration of 9 global Programmes across corporate service areas (HR, IS, Estates, Procurement, Finance, Transformation etc.) Shaped a consistent engagement strategy and collaboration across Programmes, led on benefits identification and planning for the portfolio• Led Target Operating Model finalisation, role design and evaluation for the new Transformation Team to ensure appropriate integration and alignment with other corporate teams• Coached individual leaders and managers across the organisation in career transitions, career planning, leadership, professional confidence and change with excellent feedback on the impact on their performance • Worked with senior leaders to: develop the Business Case and gain support for global roll-out of Salesforce CRM; recruit and induct the team; deliver innovative and highly successful change management approach which delivered on an ambitious programme of simultaneous change across 14 countries and over 300 users; led the development and embedding of change templates, guidance and learning reviews that helped the Programme to continuously improve; coached individuals across different disciplines

Uk

Provided advice and guidance to support newly formed Leadership Team, Director (Board Member) and senior managers to develop, implement and lead successful change in a Strategic Business Unit (900 staff globally) undergoing significant transformation whilst seeking to grow its £300m portfolio.Included design and delivery of new operating model to support realisation of 2020 strategy working with inputs from external consultants and the business to shape the approach and ensure business ownership. Lead on programme management, organisational design and engagement and interface with other global change programmes in the organisation. Provided strategic direction and advice across all workstreams including communications; systems; process design and HR changes covering all UK based staff (300+). A key outcome was increased staff engagement scores through bi-annual staff survey 12 months after the transition to the new model.Member of the bid team who won the 940 million euro Erasmus+ contract (EC/BIS), supporting the Managing Director to tender for the 7 year contract with a new delivery model designed to realise savings whilst significantly increasing the quality and quantity of activities.

HR Partner for new Managing Director and Senior Management Team in newly established business unit seeking to double its income and impact targets whilst reducing its UK footprint by a third. Led on engagement strategy for staff after period of transformational change; supported MD to establish new Senior Management Team; built fit for purpose HR Team and Organisational Development strategy; helped the business to embed the new business model.Led on developing capability and capacity to build a more skilled business. Identified and planned interventions to support key business goals and the move to a more specialist business model including increased commercialisation, more effective business leadership and management, growing technical capability and moving UK-based work overseas. Helped develop a Project Management Centre of Excellence.Led the strategy to embed effective performance management in the new functional matrix, resulting in increased managerial ownership, significantly fewer grievances and appeals and reduced management time. Led the HR team providing operational HR support to 350 UK staff (recruitment, induction, performance management, case work, grievances, TUPE, redundancies) and managed relationship with Trade Union Side.

Member of core team responsible for design and delivery of the ‘Scale and Ambition’ change programme, bringing together five existing departments into one fit for purpose business unit. Core aims included: protection and substantial growth of the current £160m annual portfolio; increasing success in an evolving competitive market; reduction in UK staffing from over 500 to 250; assessing a number of operating model options (including option of establishing a separate business entity) working with an external consultancy. Worked with Board members and senior leaders to understand their agendas and perspective, provide them with information about progress and challenges, and secure sign-off for the new operating model and structure.Led the planning and managed a number of work streams as an integrated programme of work. Designed and led all people related work streams including culture and engagement. Designed and negotiated with senior stakeholders a process for matching current capability with new roles to a demanding timeline within a redundancy avoidance context. This was crucial for getting the best fit between people and roles.Led the Voluntary Early Redundancy and Compulsory Redundancy programmes, and coached senior managers. Managed risk effectively across a substantial programme of work.

Head of Learning and Development for largest UK department (370 staff in 5 UK locations plus global teams). Developed and drove L&D strategy: led work to professionalise the organisation’s programme and project management capability; designed and rolled-out innovative development programmes on positioning for and securing externally funded donor work, proposal management of competitive tenders, contract management and monitoring and evaluation (through the largest development event of its kind at the time); supported the Senior Management Team to lead the new business unit and embed the change. Worked with an external OD consultant and internal stakeholders to research, develop and roll-out a Staff Performance and Development model. Led roll-out which resulted in a pragmatic development framework for line managers and staff, better understanding at the business level of where to invest scarce resource, succession planning and career planning discussions.

United Kingdom

Number of roles including Business Manager for Africa contracts portfolio (£10m); Programme Manager for ADB Textbooks Programme in Uzbekistan; Project Manager for number of DFID European projects in Poland, Czech Republic and Romania. Responsible for both winning new work from donor clients and delivering with globally dispersed teams.