Strategic HR Projects & Interim Management
Current & Recent Assignments
Principal Consultant managing the outsourced training and development function for £620M insurance underwriting agency; implementing competency requirements in compliance with FSA and Lloyd’s regulations
- Identifying and analysing development needs for all professionals and support staff
- Creating the training strategy as part of the organisation’s Business Plan
- Developing Board and management training programmes to address key skills needs
- Establishing and managing hands-on delivery of the plan
Retained work for other financial services clients
- Design and management of project to achieve Investors in People recognition in a fast-changing market association
- Working with Board members of large underwriting agency to create a performance development plan; leading implementation in collaboration with client management team
Project Consultant with recruitment agency
- Directed the agency team's approach to tendering project (Retail bank)
- Provided client’s-eye perspective in creating and refining the proposal
- Resulting submission successfully achieved its aim with the client
Commissioned projects for professional associations, The Open University & others
- Researched and compiled a series of practical guides to promoting careers through work placements/internships: "Work Experience - An Employer's Guide to Success" (2002); "Graduate Employability: Issues for Employers" (2003)
- Created the design and content to address all aspects of student employability
- Led dissemination of the guides across the employer market
- Secured the follow-on evaluation project (DfES funded)
UK agent for Alancity s.a.
- Provision of telephone-based foreign language tuition, offering highly cost-effective language skills tuition for business