| Introducing develop
uk
Judith Strange
| Shirley Dalziel
Mike Walters | Annette
Perry | Gwynneth Rees-Kenny | Martin
Carver
Greg Hunt | Ann Astell |
Robin Field | Dale Cox
| Mary McCrae
Gill Gray | Jan Brause |
Heidi Edgar | Alison Morley
Elaine Bradley | Kate Donne
| Jonathan Lewis
Karen Morrison | Helen Kerr
| Elaine Baxter
Consultancy and training are delivered by a team of
highly qualified and experienced consultants led by develop
uk directors, Judith Strange and Shirley
Dalziel. Our knowledge and experience of Business Partnering
comes from:
- our extensive body of research
- hands on experience of operating as Business Partners
and Head of Specialist Functions in Partnering models
- working with many organisations of various shapes
and sizes across different sectors
- delivering successful Partnering projects
- developing HR strategy - as consultants, senior
HR professionals and academics
- delivering large scale change and transformation
projects
- establishing, managing and developing consultancy
teams
- creating effective HR models
We are regularly asked to share our knowledge and
experience at conferences as well as contributing to articles in the
press.We also provide open and in-house workshops for the CIPD's clients.
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Judith
Strange -
Director
Judith has extensive senior corporate experience in HR, Development
and OD. She has run large-scale strategic change projects in-house,
as a consultant and as an interim Learning and Development Director
at Energis and Head of Operational Training at BskyB. She has
extensive knowledge of the Financial Sector having worked for
Friends Provident, Scottish Amicable and Prudential. At Prudential
she was one of the original HR Business Partner team when they
implemented a Business Partner model in 2000. Starting
off in Sales and having had a period in Corporate Projects
– Judith brings a highly commercial focus to partnering
and is passionate about developing HR teams to increase their
credibility with the business areas and be a truly influential
Business Partner.
Judith has been involved in HR Business Partnering
for over 10 years and many organisations have found her insights
and support invaluable when implementing Partnering, reviewing
their HR strategy and developing their Partnering teams.
She has spearheaded develop uk's work in developing Partners'
influencing ability, bringing in key skills from her sales
background.
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Shirley Dalziel
- Director
Shirley has over 25 years of experience in helping individuals
and organisations to evolve, and has worked for a wide range
of companies ranging from small to multinational, across most
business sectors Over the past few years she has focussed on
strategic HR and working with organisations to implement and
develop HR Partnering. Shirley is an
expert in strategic HR and has extensively researched Partnering
and how HR models work in practice. As a result she has produced
leading edge approaches to developing HR teams. She has pioneered
our development programmes that provide the very specific
skills required to enable partners to operate at a more strategic
level.
She is an MBA, a member of the CIPD and a Chartered Business
Psychologist and combines her knowledge of both business and
individual development in her Partnering work.
She is in demand as a speaker and has presented
on Partnering at conferences both in the UK and Internationally.
Her overseas consultancy work has taken her to Australia,
India, Bangladesh, USA, Malawi and Saudi Arabia.
Both Shirley and Judith have published widely in HR in the
UK and overseas. They also wrote the CIPD HR Business Partnering
Toolkit.
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Annette Perry
Annette has more than 10 years of experience as a Senior HR
Business Partner, primarily in the financial services sector.
During that time she has worked in partnership with a range
of business units including IT, Sales and Corporate Development
to design and deliver the HR elements of business strategy.
In addition to the operational management of performance, reward,
development and talent frameworks, Annette has worked in project
teams with business managers to deliver significant organisational
change in response to customer, cost or wider business challenges.
Examples have included the launch of a health insurance company
in response to a new market opportunity, the establishment of
an overseas customer services centre that met cost and quality
needs and the sale of a European subsidiary following a change
in global strategy. The key challenges in all instances included
ensuring that HR strategy was directly aligned with commercial
needs, stakeholder management within both the business and HR,
employee communications and organisational design. Annette
is enthusiastic about the HR Business Partner role having
been through the transition to this model herself and more
recently, having worked operationally with HR teams to support
and facilitate their own transition.
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Gwynneth Rees-Kenny
Gwynneth has over 20 years HR experience working both with management
and leadership teams and individuals. Until recently Head of
Leadership, Talent and People Change with a leading financial
services provider, she brings significant organisational development
/ learning and development experience gained in a range of management
and consultancy roles founded on a sound generalist HR management
background. Leveraging this experience has allowed her to partner
successfully with HR Business Partners and HR professionals
over a number of years on topics such as talent management and
development, performance management systems, and organisational
capability, for example, while working from within a specialist
HR function. Gwynneth has worked across
a variety of different sectors – private and public,
manufacturing, retail and manufacturing – and internationally
in the USA and Holland.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute
for Personnel and Development, and a Certified Professional
Coactive Coach, and Coach Supervisor.
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Martin
Carver
Martin started his career in Finance before moving into HR and
focusing on Training and Leadership development. As an HR Consultant
he has worked in the UK, Asia and South Africa and is currently
working in talent management, executive coaching and in delivering
highly successful consultancy and stakeholder relationship workshops
for professional services within blue chip companies. He is
passionate about supporting individuals and teams to maximise
their potential and create personal impact and fulfilment.
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Greg Hunt
Greg spent 25 years working in Ford, Grand Met, Guinness and
Diageo. This followed his first degree at Durham University
and Post Graduate study at the London School of Economics.
He played leading roles in major Organisation
Changes. The most significant of these were the Merger of
Grand Met and Guinness, the Acquisition of Seagram, the Integration
of Guinness and UDV and an organisation development strategy
to redesign the operating model of the business. Core components
of that work were: Business and HR strategy development, Business
and HR Operating model redesign, Senior Team development,
International Executive Selection, Recruitment & Talent
Development and Partnership Development with Trades Unions.
Since leaving Diageo at the end of 2003,
Greg has worked with a number of major companies in their
strategic change and development work. Clients have included
several Major UK and International Businesses from the FTSE
Top 100.
Greg’s work has included: Creation of Business and HR
Strategy and follow-through imperatives, Creation of Organisation
Capabilities, Leadership Development, Senior Team Development,
Organisation Redesign for Global Functional Organisation and
the creation of Shared Services and Business Partnering HR
Organisation Models.
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Mike Walters
Mike is an authority on Human Resource strategy
and processes, with specific experience in developing HR structures
and practices to support current and emerging business strategy.
Mike has some 15 years’ consultancy experience and has
led major consultancy assignments for clients as diverse as
Royal Mail, Eurostar, the European Space Agency, the Northern
Ireland Assembly, Kellogg’s, the European Patent Office,
the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, Orange,
the Scottish Parliament, Prudential, English Nature, UK National
Savings & Investments, the UK Department of Social Security,
the UK Inland Revenue, Scottish Water, Heinz, SCA, Exxon, Scottish
Power and United Biscuits. He has also led research and benchmarking
projects for organisations such as the UK Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK Home Office, the
UK Office of Manpower Economics, Scottish Enterprise, and the
UK Department for Education and Skills.
Mike's past career includes HR roles with Shell, Co-op Bank
and the BBC, and the role of Development Manager with the CIPD
specialising in organisational and HR strategy issues. His previous
consulting experience includes a period in Ernst & Young
(where he participated in the management buy-out of its HR practice),
PA Consulting and in specialist HR consulting practices.
Mike is a regular speaker on the national and international
conference circuit, and is the author of numerous management
books, including Changing Culture, Building the Responsive Organisation,
Attitude and Opinion Surveys, The Performance Management Handbook,
Effective Change, From Absence to Attendance., and Absence:
A One Stop Guide. Mike co-authored with Shirley and Judith the
CIPD ‘HR as a Business Partner toolkit’. He has
also published a major research reports for the CIPD on culture
change in the public sector and in multi-national organisations.
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Ann Astell
Ann is a chartered psychologist with over
25 years experience as a consultant in the fields of people
and organisation development. Her strengths are in strategy,
needs diagnosis, client relationship management as a consultant
with extensive experience of all dimensions of bringing psychology
to organisational thinking and people performance. Alongside
two degrees in Psychology, she is an associate Fellow of the
British Psychological Society.
Much of her experience has been with public sector organisations,
in health, international development and government. Her knowledge
of what underpins skills and their development gives her particular
depth in supporting partnership development. She has worked
as a civil servant before becoming a consultant and has worked
on a number of policy initiatives, getting them into the public
arena in ways that work in a sustainable manner.
Her current clients include the Commonwealth, the Scottish
Government and oil companies. She has worked on four continents
across many cultures to promote the growth of effective working
in and across organisations.
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Alison Morley
Alison has a wide range of experience both
inside and outside of HR – as a senior HR Business Partner,
head of learning development, operational line manager and
project manager. She brings a proven track record of business
transformation, change management, coaching and development.
Having experienced a wide range of roles in
a FSTE 100 Alison has brought her combined business, development,
delivery and HR experience to develop uk, where she is working
on enabling organisations and individuals to successfully
transform their professional functions.
Her particular strengths are in developing teams
to effectively manage projects, business consultancy and engaging
line managers. She also works on structural and effectiveness
reviews.
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Robin Field
Robin is a highly experienced HR and development
professional with a wide range of experience in blue chip, financial
services and investment banks, working in the UK and Internationally.
His last role was as a learning partner with Barclays Wealth
where he was responsible for Leadership and Learning and Development
interventions for the private bank. Robin has worked in HR Partnering
models in a variety of organisation and roles and brings practical
experience and insight into how HR can effectively engage with
the business and drive performance. An engaging presenter and
facilitator Robin brings a commercial focus to partnering and
the development of the consultancy skills required to be an
effective HR Business Partner.
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Dale Cox
Dale has more than 10 years experience
at Board and Senior Management level as an HR Director, Dale
has developed, led and managed complex organisational and
HR change programmes in both private and public sectors. These
include project and programme management, strategy development,
outsourcing to India, shared services, restructuring, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals. Dale has managed HR teams of 80
staff with international experience in Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific.
Sample projects include: Leading the transformation of HR
at SSAT a charity with a £100m turnover, repositioning
HR to a strategic, commercially focused function and acting
as a coach and mentor to the Acting Head of HR; Interim Programme
Director for HR Transformation at the Home Office, scoping
and developing the blueprint for the implementation of a 3year
HR change programme; Interim Head of Strategic Business Change
at the DTI (now BERR) building a new corporate People Strategy
and managing the integration of 4 key projects – HR
Intranet , Oracle HRMS, HR policy refresh and restructure
of HR
Dale is a leading figure in public sector
HR transformation and has contributed to and been featured
in many articles.
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Mary McCrea
Mary is an experienced former Head of Human
Resources and Head of Strategy and Talent Management for a
FTSE 100 Company. She applies her HR knowledge and skills
pragmatically to help organisations move towards high performance
cultures. She has considerable experience in talent and performance
management, high potential development, managing change, organisational
development, mergers and acquisitions and learning and development.
Mary introduced HR business partnering in a financial services
company which included becoming business partner to the Finance
and Customer Services functions, gaining vital first hand
experience of this role. In addition she supported IT and
Finance business partners in embedding their roles.
For 10 years Mary was Chair of the HR Directors Group for
a European Alliance of 14 financial services companies and
a key member of the Programme Advisory Group for their extremely
successful high potential and senior management programmes.
Coupled with her recent experience of due diligence exercises
in Asia she has gained a valuable international perspective.
Mary works for develop uk in helping clients introduce Business
Partnering and also in developing their skill set. Her recent
clients include: Lloyds Register, Alstom, Pearl Group, Bristol
City Council and the Citizens Advice Bureau.
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Gill Gray
Gill is a senior HR Development professional with over 15
years experience in HR and people development gained in a
wide range of industry sectors and organisations.
Prior to working with develop
uk, Gill worked with SunMicrosystems in a
number of different roles including HR Manager and Training
and Development Manager. Skilled in leadership and management
development, change and business management, she has designed,
developed and delivered numerous programs in the UK and Europe
in the areas of Leadership development, management skills,
performance management, talent development, career management
and change management. A skilled facilitator, Gill has worked
extensively with business teams and managers to improve organisational
effectiveness. As the manager of Sun Microsystems' corporate
university in Scotland Gill ran a highly successful training
and consultancy business.
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Jan Brause
Jan is a performance development consultant,
professional coach and coach supervisor with many years successful
experience of enabling personal growth and performance improvement
through a passionate focus on the individual in an organisational
context.
With her experience of senior level individual
and organisational development, both in the UK and overseas,
Jan brings a valuable perspective into her work. As a consultant
and facilitator Jan believes in working flexibly and collaboratively
in an environment of trust, challenge and support. As a coach
Jan helps people to view their personal and professional issues
in a new light and to develop sustainable strategies for their
own performance improvement.
Her qualification include a First Class Honours Degree in
Psychology; she is accredited with the Association for Coaching
in the UK, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel
and Development, a Member of the Chartered Management Institute
and the Professional Speakers Association.
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Heidi Edgar
Heidi has operated as a Senior Business
Partner and Head of Employment Relations within financial
sector organisations. She uses her creative and inspirational
approach to develop HR departments and professionals. She
ensures HR delivers quantifiable results to the bottom line
through a pragmatic and results orientated approach; for example,
£1million savings from a holistic health and well-being
programme.
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Elaine Bradley
Elaine’s experience in training and
education reflects her passion for enabling individuals and
teams to realise their potential. As a consultant she has delivered
leadership and talent programmes to a wide variety of organisations
and provided feedback in assessment and development centres.
As a university lecturer, she delivered degree courses in both
business management and psychology.
She has pioneered techniques within leadership development using
Brazillian Percussion to combine the exceptional learning power
of music with organisational psychology.
Recent clients incluce HBOS, CIPD, Scottish Leadership Foundation,
Intratil Airports, Shell, NHS Centre for Innovation and Change,
Prudential and BP.
Elaine holds an MPhil in Psychology, a BA (Hons) in Commerce,
is an examiner for the ACCA and is also a Certified Practioner
of NLP.
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Kate Donne
Kate has over 20 years experience in the
training industry. She has worked in a broad spectrum of industry
sectors including tourism, education, aerospace, health and
retail. Although she designs and
delivers many different soft skill programs, her passion lies
in the field of Presentation Skills where she combines her
performance experience with her business knowledge. Kate’s
principal training objective is to provide delegates with
the professional tools required to develop potential, enhance
overall performance and add value to the business. She is
well known for her energetic, interactive training style and
is highly skilled in her field.
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Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan has had considerable experience
over the last ten years delivering Personal Impact skills training,
as well as Team Building and Leadership Development to the corporate
world - from immersive role play and improvisation to facilitation,
coaching business leaders, and creativity masterclasses which
is what he specialises in now.
He has a degree from Exeter University and is a graduate from
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has worked extensively
as an actor, writer and director for twenty years, and more
recent theatre work includes playing opposite Rob Lowe in ‘A
Few Good Men’ at The Haymarket Theatre in London’s
West End, and on the television, he is best remembered for his
roles in ‘London’s Burning’, ‘Soldier,
Soldier’ and ‘Coronation St.’ He is an award
winning playwright and has directed in theatres all over the
UK.
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Karen Morrison -
Office Manager
Karen
is the backbone of develop uk;
using her excellent organisational skills and professionalism
to ensure develop uk
provides the high standard expected of us by our clients. As
well as co-ordinating consultants, organisations, resources
and our admin support team, Karen ensures our open workshop
programme runs smoothly.
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Helen Kerr -
Database Manager
Helen ensures develop uk
has an up-to-date database and that all our clients and consultants
receive the information they require.
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Elaine Baxter -
Administrator
Elaine provides administrative support for the Office Manager
and ensures our workshop materials are prepared to develop
uk's quality standard.
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