Stephen Leitch Email and Phone Number

Business Links coordinator within a West Lothian secondary school, building relationships with businesses who can support pupils in their transition to employment. In addition, I designed and delivered the curriculum for Social Subjects and Business. This involved understanding teaching practice, designing and face to face delivery of lessons.

Designed and delivered the curriculum for Social Subjects and Business. This involved understanding teaching practice, designing and face to face delivery of lessons.

Having established my own consultancy business in 2006 I spent 5 years working on a variety of projects with a wide range of organisations including some of the UK's largest financial services institutions. These included a variety of Business Change and HR projects.Contracts included: Lloyds, PMO Analyst Mar 2011 – Aug 2011 HBOS, PMO Analyst Jan 2011 – Feb 2011 RBS, Change Analyst July 2008 – Dec 2010 NHS24, Recruitment Coordinator Mar 2008 – May 2008 HBOS, HR Change Consultant Nov 2007 – Feb 2008 Capita, HR Operations Manager Nov 2006 – July 2007 Exel/DHL Recruitment consultant, Sept 2006 – Oct 2006 HR Manager, Wallace Quinn & Co Solicitors Mar 2006 – Sept 2006

HR Services Manager (6 managers, 34 staff) 2003 - 2005• Overhauled structure of HR Services; improving processes, communication and governance to achieve improved customer service • Mentored and developed managers utilising full range of performance management• Managed relationships with senior managers, external suppliers and Staff Representative body • Responsible for creating an HR Brand which clearly identified the value added by HR department and for the communication of all HR related information • Participated in a major project to transform the Group HR function through new technology and job/process redesign including job profilingGroup Training & Development Manager 2000 - 2003• Redesigned the T&D strategy and to promote its value and imbed it in company culture• Directly managed and coached three T&D managers (to provide a blended training service which was cost efficient)• Developed an award winning elearning delivery strategy • Managed the company’s Professional Development Scheme for further education within budget and negotiated contracts with external training providers • Represented T&D on all major company projects• Spoke on behalf of the Company at national and international training conferences. Elearning Manager 1993 – 2000• Lead e-learning team producing Computer Based Training, Print Based Open Learning workbooks and Video• Designed and ran team strategy workshops, aligning e-learning strategy with the business’s objectives• Invested in staff multi-skilling to ensure outputs remained current and relevantElearning Developer 1991 - 1993 • Researched, scripted, authored and evaluated numerous Computer Based Training courses across a range of subjects • Managed the delivery of CBT to a network of branches throughout the UK including personally visiting to oversee the implementation

Two years working on major training projects designing and developing training materials. Three years working on the administration of DSS benefits for the forerunner to the Child Support Agency