Consultant Team

Some of the Key Profiles of the Consultant Team

Margaret Martin - Managing Director

Prior to establishing her own consultancy Margaret had a successful career with IBM both in Human Resources, Training and Sales. Margaret has an Open University degree in Psychology holds the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development by examination and is accredited by the British Psychological Society to run Psychometric Assessment. She has herself has been made redundant and faced the very problems confronted by our clients, which has been a most useful personal experience.

Suzan Freeman - Client Services Manager

Suzan covers all aspects of client services management for Margaret Martin Associates including organisation of workshops, liaison with our team of consultants and contact with sponsor companies. Suzan had a successful career in BT before joining MMA.

Graham Liddicoat - Senior Consultant & Sponsor Feedback Co-ordinator

Graham specialises in Project Management; Career Counselling and designing tailor made development courses to meet corporate sponsors training needs.  He has worked successfully in a consultancy capacity with a wide variety of commercial, public sector and voluntary organizations. Graham successfully project managed the Career Direction and Career Transition programmes for British Telecommunications plc (BT) as well as undertaking one-to-one career counselling and group training activities. His previous career in National Westminster Bank included personnel, human resources and employee relations.

Jan Gould - Chartered Business Psychologist South

Jan is a Chartered Business Psychologist and HR professional with over 20 years experience working in industries including transport, construction, the public sector, communications and the oil industry. She has extensive experience of the design and delivery of assessment and development centres, incorporating the results of psychometric testing. Jan has specialised in supporting organisations through change programmes, which has led to the design of competence-based HR systems and the delivery of career planning workshops and one-to-one coaching. In addition, Jan enjoys working with organisations to undertake team building, transition management programmes and leadership development workshops.

Liz Mynard - Senior Consultant South West

Liz is CIPD qualified HR Professional who can offer experience across both public and private sectors. She is currently specialising in career transition (both one to one coaching and with groups), recruitment and assessment, retirement training and vocational case management. She is trained to BPS Levels A & B, and is a Certified NLP Practitioner.

Sue Balcombe - Senior Consultant Midlands

Sue is a highly energetic and versatile Consultant with extensive experience in the development and motivation of a broad range of clients. With a background in customer service and operations management with blue chip organisations, together with 8 years spent in consultancy, Sue has extensive experience in a wide range of industries covering both the Public and Private Sectors.

Gordon Roberts - Senior Consultant North West

Gordon is an accomplished and experienced Career Counsellor and Coach. Equally at home in 1-1 and group settings and at all levels within organizations. An expert at gaining rapport and establishing a positive environment of appropriate support and challenge. Gordon possesses a Masters Degree in Training & Development, is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a Member of the International Foundation for Action Learning.

Malcolm Watt - Senior Consultant North East

With over 15 years experience of career development and outplacement counselling, Malcolm has successfully assisted clients at all levels and from a wide range of disciplines and industry sectors through their career transitions. He has worked with individuals and groups as large as 450 throughout the UK. Malcolm runs courses and workshops on all aspects of job search. He also provides advice and assistance for small business start-ups, Malcolm's initial approach is usually to tell it how it is to see if people really know the pitfalls as well as the pleasures of self employment.

Margaret Wright - Senior Consultant Scotland

Margaret Wright works with individuals, groups, organisations and communities to facilitate change. The focus of her work is appreciative inquiry, an approach that asks powerful questions about what has life and energy - what works, the best that has happened, people's strengths and values as a trustworthy foundation on which to build even more vital futures. She applies this to her outplacement, facilitation and participation work and has experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Alison Croome - Senior Consultant South

Alison is an HR & Training Consultant specialising in management & interpersonal skills development, coaching and facilitation. Experienced across the HR remit in a wide range of sectors and internationally she is keen to support others to achieve high performance and motivation through their work. She is accredited in occupational testing and behavioural competency frameworks. Recent projects include facilitation (change management; leadership development, teambuilding,) and 1:1 coaching (world class sales; outplacement, career counselling) in the transport, telecoms, IT, finance, pharmaceutical and education sectors.

Julie Gentili - Senior Consultant London/Essex

Julie is an HR professional with over 20 years' experience in the areas of career planning and counselling, recruitment and selection as well as training and development. She is trained in Psychometric tools including MBTI and OPQ. Julie's communication and facilitation skills are enhanced through training and experience running a private practice as a Creative Arts Therapist where she has worked in many settings including mental health, education, social services, special needs and the corporate world

Patricia Wilson - Self Employment Specialist

Patricia Wilson is a self employment specialist and she offers support and guidance for: Start-ups, Established Businesses that are stuck, Businesses wanting to grow faster and safely and she can help Business owners prepare for Sale or Succession: Processes - Are yours efficient? Planning - Thinking ahead or fire fighting? People - How motivated? Profit - Impacted by the other Ps! She offers hands-on, practical, proven, cost effective empathetic guidance on self employment.

Francine Coulson Joy - Senior Consultant Midlands

Francine Coulson-Joy (MCIPD, Post Grad Dip in Counselling, MACPInternational) - a highly experienced career management specialist with an excellent track record of leading and motivating people whilst having a passion for maximising the potential of individuals in their career moves, aligning their needs to appropriate solutions.

Angela Marshall - Image Consultant

Angela Marshall, one of the UK'S leading image consultants. Since 1995 she has worked with blue-chip companies like Barclays Bank, Shell and Ernst & Young, politicians and other professionals to enhance their personal image, etiquette and manners. Angela started out at Lloyds Bank, holding such senior positions as Manager of Training & Development, and Area Personnel Manager. Here she gained experience of the most sensitive situations, and learnt the invaluable skills of putting people at ease and building their confidence.

Since going freelance in 1995, allowed Angela to take on all manner of clients, from TV newsreaders to mobile phone companies and many more besides. Apart from her hands-on style consultation, Angela presents seminars and workshops for corporate clients covering subjects on appearance, etiquette and manners and how to small talk and network. Angela is an excellent speaker and has also published two books on the subject of wardrobe personality. Regarded as an expert in her field she regularly gives comments to the press and appears on the media.

Malcolm McGreevy - Senior Consultant Wales

Malcolm is a Chartered Management Consultant with over 15 years experience of career management. As a senior outplacement consultant in South Wales he has run many Leaders in Transition programmes for senior managers exploring new careers in consulting or interim management. He currently acts as a career counsellor and CMC mentor for the Institute of Business Consulting. Prior to his entry into career counselling Malcolm was the CEO of a London hospital and headed up the Health Management practice of PA Consulting Group. Malcolm holds the British Psychological Society Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing-levels A and B (inter) and is a licensed user of OPP's 360 degree development instruments Benchmarks and Skillscope .

Stephanie Jewell - Self Employment Specialist

Stephanie Jewell is a Business Consultant offering a flexible menu for Business Start-Up's and SME's. Providing advice and guidance to help individuals to make the best decisions when starting their own businesses or for those who wish to freelance. Addressing the key question " is self employment the best option?" Working one-to-one and in small groups, the following topics are covered: Assessing personal skills, current levels and future options, practical aspects of starting and running a small business, market research, marketing and establishing a brand, business planning and cash flow forecasts. Networking skills and how to interact with other businesses. Learning from good practice, motivation and self confidence building. She complements the services offered and provides specialist skills on a whenever needed basis, ensuring the client's needs are met costs effectively and on time.

Elaine McCann - Career Coach Belfast

Elaine McCann, BA(Hons)MCIPD has a wealth of experience in managing and delivering Human Resources solutions both at the strategic and operational level. With 13 years experience in the field of HR, working up to Senior Management Level, Elaine has spent the last 4 years working independently, as a consultant.

Elaine has been accountable for designing and delivering several outplacement programmes over the past 3 years within multinational organisations, family owned Companies and SME's. These programmes have extended to various Industry Sectors including the Building & Construction Sector, Financial Institutions, Manufacturing Sector and Retail Sector.

Elaine has a reputation for working in a professional and sensitive manner at all levels in organisations. She has uses her skills attained in achieving a Diploma in Counselling Theory and experience to support staff affected by the prospect of job losses and uses her coaching and facilitation skills both in a workshop environment and in one to one coaching sessions, to enable each individual to realise their full potential and move forward successfully.

Pat Hennessy - Career & Executive Coach Ireland

With over 25 years experience in the Career Sector, Pat provides career & executive coaching both within organisations and to individuals throughout Ireland. Over the years Pat has worked with a wide variety of industries and sectors and has developed a high level of coaching expertise and skill in addition to an extraordinary level of knowledge and passion about coaching and careers. Pat is finalising his PCC accreditation and holds a degree and diploma in Coaching.

Pat says... "My distinctive focus is on supporting individuals to take full responsibility for their careers and lives and to help them find authentic expression to become who they were meant to be".

Judith Underhill - Executive Coach

Judith is a commercially focused and customer orientated Executive Coach, Change Agent and facilitator with broad and varied experience from a range of industry sectors. With a positive attitude and insight, underpinned with an ability to analyse strategic issues, Judith coaches' individuals and teams to discover practical solutions and outcomes for transforming personal and business performance.

Judith holds an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from the University of Surrey as well as a Diploma in Performance Coaching, NLP Business Practitioner, and CIPD Certificate in Training practice and is an ILM accredited facilitator and trainer. She has been an Executive Coach for Zurich Insurance for the past four years and is also one of just 25 elected to the NHS CEO, Chair and Executive Directors coaching panel.

Judith has over 20 years experience in the financial sector. During the past nine years Judith has worked with individuals and teams in both the public and private sector. With a strong business background she has an ability to articulate the strategic perspective of an organisation to the wider system with ease and clarity. Judith writes regular articles for the Federation of Insurance Brokers, Professional Pointers magazine and actively creates network and development opportunities for coaches and consultants in a drive for continual professional development.

Judith is an associate member of the CIPD and qualified to deliver the DISC profiling tool, Belbin team roles, and 360 Degree feedback. She presently holds the position of Chair for the HR Forum for the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce.

Sonia Eckhartt - Career & Executive Coach

Sonia is an experienced HR and professionally qualified coaching practitioner, spanning 18 years in business. With a wealth of HR experience, her background includes implementing multiple business and operational improvement projects in multi-national companies. In her last position, Sonia was European Director of HR Operations, responsible for a large complex project to introduce SAP and an outsourced HR service across 30 European countries. As well as being a graduate of the Coach University, Sonia has an MSc in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management. Sonia's style is highly supportive and intuitive, empowering clients to make bold changes and achieve career goals.

Caroline Ryan - Executive Coach

Caroline has a wealth of international business experience, having worked across many industry sectors and in many professional roles over the last 30 years, including setting up and running businesses for others. This has provided her with a solid understanding of organisational challenges and the support required at many different levels of a business for it to thrive. Qualifying as an executive coach 11 years ago, her primary focus has been to support leaders and those in positions of influence to be more effective in their roles, particularly during times of organisational stress and transition, through the provision of 1:1 and shadow coaching. Her clients include multinationals, SME's, as well as public sector organisations: inc: Centrica, British Gas, Network Rail, National Police Force, The NHS, etc. She has also offered career and career transition coaching to those exploring their options or changing direction and requiring support during the process. Recently she has provided new business start up advice as part of a European Regional Development funded project, as well as a range of bespoke workshops. Caroline is an NLP practitioner and is qualified to deliver a range of assessments including MBTI, a variety of 360 feedback tools, Executive Team Alignment (ExecuTAP); Situational Leadership (II); she is also accredited through the ICF (International Coach Federation) and holds a Business Coaching Diploma through the University of Newcastle.

Beverley Murden - Career Consultant

A highly professional consultant specialising in training, career transition, change management, recruitment/assessment and people development. A qualified performance coach with the ICF (International Coaching Federation), and a professionally trained counsellor, trainer and interviewer. Experienced in operating in both public and private sectors with the ability to work and operate at all levels. With 20 years experience as both a professional specialist and manager in a large multi disciplined company.

A highly motivated consultant who is able to quickly and effectively build rapport and understanding with people, fostering excellent working relationships with clients. Extremely passionate about coaching and empowering individuals, to take personal ownership, of their development and careers.

Nicola Harding - Career Consultant

Nicola is a highly skilled Human Resources professional with over 20 years experience in Generalist and Compensation and Benefits. Has worked in consultancy, corporate and line roles, mainly for blue-chip organisations within a variety of industries ranging from the engineering sector to the charity sector, with an emphasis on Hi-tech companies. C&B skills cover the whole range of Compensation and Benefits activities from setting salary ranges to introducing strategic solutions to allow companies to attract, retain, and motivate their key employees. Generalist skills include career counselling and c.v. review services, training and expatriate policies and practices. Nicola is seen as an expert in her field by both external and internal clients. She has the ability for careful consideration of all relevant facts, conducting research with a methodical approach to analysing problems. She is able to see the "big picture" when designing a process or considering a solution. Encouraging the audience to think about the wider context.

Bob Collier - Career Consultant

Bob Collier is an Associate Consultant who has some 17 years experience in Outplacement and Career Management/Coaching. Bob has worked for a whole range of blue chip companies and public sector organisations supporting them through a time of change. Bob Collier provides career coaching, training and outplacement support. Bob has also been involved in Survivor Counselling. Prior to moving into Outplacement, Bob had worked in Recruitment and Human Resources with a major city institution, before running his own recruitment business in London for 3 years.

Alan Hockey - Career Consultant

Alan has 20 years experience as a Consultant providing career guidance and delivering outplacement programmes to individuals and organisations in diverse industries, including the Public Sector, Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Call-Centres, Finance and Care. He successfully combines counselling and business acumen to provide moral support and practical advice to achieve successful client outcomes.

He is experienced in creating and running Career Management, Managing Change, Jobsearch and Interview Skills Workshops, Performance Appraisal Programmes and Self-Employment and Pre-Retirement seminars,

Gillian Cotton - Chartered Business Psychologist

Chartered Business Psychologist

Gillian facilitates her own designed seminars such as: Stress Management, Building Your Self-Esteem and Confidence, Being Assertive, Dealing with Difficult People, Dealing with Conflict. She has travelled extensively working with a multi-cultural diverse range of clients.

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