2B People Consultancy is a leading edge Human Resources and people development business with over 25 years’ experience of providing excellence. We believe that people are capable of making a significant contribution to improve their lives as well as the lives of others. We work in partnership with clients across a broad agenda, including:• Leadership• Coaching• Human Resources• Organisational Delivery & Design• Career Development

Restart Diagnostics enables business leaders to rapidly acquire the crucial insightneeded to tackle major transition and disruption events, such as the Covid-19pandemic.Our digital toolkit enables organisations to assess businesses performance fromstrategic, operational and organisational perspectives to ramp up new ways ofworking. Thereby gaining immediate insight into their challenges and navigating asure path forward with increased confidence.

As a Career Transition Coach, I work with individuals and help them to manage their career, identify appropriate options and ultimately secure their next role. This often involves working in partnership to build confidence, develop strong and positive CV / Linked In profiles, plan / prepare / develop skills designed to ensure individuals perform very effectively in interviews.Extensive experience in working with companies going through significant organizational change and this can include delivering workshops for leaders and colleagues at all levels, e.g. Resilience, Managing Yourself and Your Team Through Change, Career Focus, CV Writing, Interview Preparation and Practice. Clients include BAES, GlaxoSmithKline, Sellafield, UKAR, Carlsberg.

Career Transition coach helping clients to find their next job or to reconsider their next steps and look to follow different paths, including Interim Management, setting up your own business or to consider a Portfolio Career

Managing Director – Forefront Leadership Development Limited, West Yorkshire (February 2013 – Present)Supporting businesses develop and deliver their people agenda, covering a broad range of areas, including:Leadership – working in partnership with clients, I have developed and delivered a broad range of solutions to improve the leadership capability at all levels within organisationsCoaching – significant experience in working with leaders to improve their own performance as leaders, and understand what they need to do to inspire, motivate and lead othersCareer Development – supporting individuals and teams experiencing organizational change and uncertainty take personal responsibility and proactively manage their careersTeam Development – I am passionate about working with teams from helping them to create their vision / strategy, right through to making this a reality. I have led many leadership programmes that have resulted in teams developing and becoming truly high performingChange Management – I have a broad range of experience working with clients undertaking major organizational change. Leaders and colleagues at all levels are often faced with lots of ambiguity and uncertainty and, working in partnership, ensure everyone is equipped to manage themselves and others effectively at such times of changeTalent & Succession Planning – highly skilled in working with senior management to fully assess the knowledge / skills/expertise required for a business to be successful – both now and in the future. Critically challenge senior leaders to identify, nurture and develop the talent within organisations, thereby securing a successful futureForefront Leadership Development Clients include: BP (both in the UK and Norway), AMEC, Cisco, Macmillan Cancer, SMBC Aviation (Dublin), West Bromwich Building Society, UCP Engineering

At Leading Lights, we work in partnership with clients to transform leadership capability,exploit the full potential of the workforce and enhance business performance. Experiential learning provides the cornerstone for how we challenge our clients and enable them to develop, change and perform. Improvements are re-enforced and accelerated through our coaching and partnering programmes delivered inside the business environment

Led Training and Communications for major regulatory change programme (SMR) within Co-op Bank. Built significant stakeholder relationships with management across all levels of leadership – particularly at Board and Executive levels. Additional key achievements included:• Developed and delivered wide range of training solutions for all impacted leaders / colleagues to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for launch of SMR on 7th March 2016, e.g. 121 coaching, Business Leadership team meetings, group sessions for up to 90 Mortgage Advisors / Leaders• Assessed impact of new regulatory requirements on HR policies / processes and supported their re-design – then developed and delivered necessary training and communications, including CBT• Worked closely with other key experts, e.g. Legal, Regulatory Risk, - as well as partnering with third parties, including PwC, to develop and deliver high quality solutions, e.g. introduction of SMR / Conduct Rules, leader Readiness, SMR Embedding for Senior Managers (aimed at top tier of leaders in the bank, including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Director of Internal Audit)• Developed a dedicated SMR Intranet site to support ongoing training and communications in the medium tom longer term, e.g. to accommodate the inclusion of approximately 5,500 Bank-wide colleagues who will be bound by the Conduct Rules in March 2017

Focus on managing and driving the delivery of divisional leadership and management development strategy by working in partnership with business executive and senior management population, as well as the broader HR executive team.

Delivery of company-wide senior manager/executive development; reporting to Head of corporate university. Focus was on the top 3,500 senior manager/executive population.

Led a learning team over 3 sites, servicing the leadership and management development needs of 5,500 colleagues - managing a training budget of £1.2m.

Developed and delivered whole suite of leadership and management development interventions, as well as designed and implemented a new performance management approach for the Insurance business.

Responsibility to drive Talent Management on a company-wide basis from a development and career management perspective.In addition, helped to identify, develop and retain top 300 in the Insurance business.

Developed and delivered a range of solutions to senior leaders across the whole of the company. Coached senior leaders/executives identified as being 'talent'.