Bryn's specialist expertise lies in the practical application of business psychology to enhance individual, team and organisational performance. After gaining his PhD in work psychology from the University of Sheffield, he worked for 11 years at SHL Group PLC in the UK and North America, where he led consulting teams working on national and international assignments for some of the world's top companies including Air Canada, Allied Domecq, AT&T, Canon, Dell, DHL, Hilton, HSBC, Nestle, Pfizer, Sony and Unilever. He is an expert in the areas of leadership development, organisational change, selection and assessment methodology.
In 2001 he founded Assessment and Development Solutions Ltd, a consulting business focused on leadership development, organisational effectiveness and talent management, particularly the identification and development of high potential employees. He has coached CEO's and senior executives of global businesses in the UK, USA and Middle East, and advised top leadership teams in the strategic deployment and development of their people.
A founder and Director of RedThread Consulting, he is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has published and presented on various aspects of business psychology to international audiences in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Bryn can be contacted at Bryn@redthreadconsulting.co.uk
Originally from a Human Resources background, Simon’s consulting career has ranged widely over 15 years. Immersed in the human capital and talent implications of significant organisational change programmes, he has led projects on performance management, executive assessment and development, leadership development and succession planning. He works widely with individual leaders, leadership teams, and as an executive coach.
His recent track record has focused on the design and implementation of assessment and development centres, both in the UK and internationally, for a broad range of clients across varying sectors. His experience encompasses programme design and management, centre implementation and supervision, training and coaching of client staff in objective assessment skills and programme evaluation and validation. He works as an Associate with a number of leading business psychology and talent management consulting firms as well as for a top rated UK business school.
Before becoming self-employed in 2001, Simon was a Managing Consultant with SHL, where he delivered a wide range of HR consultancy and training interventions. In his early career, he was a HR Manager with a financial services company, a Personnel manager for a College of Nursing, and at the start of his career, a Personnel Officer with a Swiss owned manufacturing company.
Organisations for whom he has consulted in recent years include: Aegon, BT Group, e2v technologies, The Department for Constitutional Affairs, E.ON, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS Group, Siemens, South West Trains, Stagecoach Group, Sony Corporation, The United Nations World Food Programme and Food & Agriculture Organisation and Wesleyan Financial Services.
Simon holds a degree in English and American Literature. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management. He is a member of the Associate Faculty at Cranfield Business School. He is BPS Level A and Level B trained and is registered to use a wide range of psychometric assessment and development instruments.
Vic is a chartered occupational psychologist with a passion for bringing psychology to life in the workplace. Her primary areas of expertise are selection, assessment, coaching, management and leadership development and psychometrics. Vic has worked for leading consultancies as well as operating as an internal HR/OD/L&D consultant for AVIVA prior to becoming freelance in 2003. In her varied career, Vic has managed and implemented a range of operational and strategic HR projects including harmonization through merger, organisational design/re-organisation, change management, strategic resourcing, talent management, role profiling and competency development, job evaluation, assessment and development process and policy. She has extensive experience in psychometrics, team facilitation, coaching, 360 and management and leadership development. Her interventions have benefitted organisations by enhancing engagement/morale, generating responsibility and an appetite for action and ensuring that leaders possess and demonstrate the necessary skills to build and sustain high performance environments through turbulent times.
Vic attained an MSc in Occupational Psychology (with Distinction) from the University of Nottingham. She is an associate fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS) and was awarded chartered status in 2000. She holds her Level A and Level B Certificates in Occupational Testing and is trained to use a number of psychometrics including OPQ, Wave, Hogan, NEO, MQ, MBTI and 360 instruments. Since becoming a chartered psychologist Vic has broadened her background by completing a Certificate in Counselling and a postgraduate diploma in Applied Forensic Psychology.
Clare Amos is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with over fifteen years consultancy experience. Clare’s expertise lies in the area of applying business psychology, which incorporates; assessment & development, executive coaching, the design and implementation of change initiatives, accelerated learning, leadership development, performance management, succession planning and organisational design.
After gaining her masters degree Clare spent four years as a Consultant with SHL. During this time she worked closely with clients to develop solutions to meet challenges in leadership development. As well as designing assessment & development programmes, Clare was also responsible for the project management of several accounts involved in substantial organisational restructure and cultural change.
Clare works independently, is a member of the Associate Faculty at Canfield business school, and works in partnership with several other consultancies. She is BPS Level A and Level B trained and has spent time researching the field of accelerated learning. She has worked with senior executives and management teams across a range of industries, including public and private sector, within the UK, Europe and Asia. Clare has also studied and worked internationally with a wide variety of coaching professionals.
Colin has over 20 years of experience of applying business psychology in Organisational, Leadership, Coaching and Communications settings, as programme manager, practitioner, consultant and trainer.
He has in-depth expertise of Assessment and Development methodologies and has designed, led and co-ordinated all aspects of leadership skills development programmes in the UK and globally, frequently as client account manager. He has advised a number of organisations on Talent Management solutions and has implemented Performance Management systems as lead consultant.
Recent clients include Doosan Babcock, Sony, BT, EADS, United Nations, the Ministry of Justice, ABAgri, ADIA, Agfa Healthcare, Equitable Life and the British Red Cross.
Prior to developing his own practice in 2002, he had a brief stint as Principal of Sapient Partners, a small niche HR consultancy. From 1994 to the end of 2000, Colin was at SHL – then the world’s largest business psychology consultancy – working as consultant, Head of Assessment Centres and latterly, UK Director of Consultancy. Before SHL, Colin held specialist HR and management development roles at Grand Metropolitan and Legal & General.
With a first degree from Brunel, Colin has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour (University of London) and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD
Patrick is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with extensive experience in the field. His main areas of expertise and experience are: Change Management; Organisation Development; Assessment, Recruitment, Psychometrics and Selection; Training and Development; Coaching and Leadership Development; Executive Assessment and Profiling; 360 Degree Feedback; Team Building; and Job Analysis and Competency Profiling.
He started his working career in retail at Selfridges Ltd before gaining an MSc in Occupational Psychology from The Queen’s University Belfast in 1992. He completed his dissertation project on career management with Professor Peter Herriot at Sundridge Park Management/ PA Consulting. In 1993 he joined Saville and Holdsworth Ltd (SHL®) where he gained considerable consulting experience in assessment and development, training design and delivery, and the research and development of psychometrics.
From there he joined KPMG Consulting in London in 1997, where he worked on a wide range of strategic HR, organisation development and change management client projects around the world, including extensive public sector and commercial assignments (based in the Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment practice). He has extensive experience in coaching executives in leading change, facilitating team building events and working with top teams and boards, both in the private and public sectors. He joined the BBC as Head of Organisational Psychology in 2001 for four years to lead a team of fifteen people delivering a wide range of recruitment, assessment, coaching and organisation development projects, including development centres , coaching and 360 feedback.
He was trained in coaching at the BBC Coaching Academy and is completing a Certificate in Coaching PSychology. He has been a Visting Lecturer at Cranfield School of Management since 2006. His international experience includes delivery of projects in South East Asia, Kenya, Moscow and Abu Dhabi, where he is currently engaged in delivering talent management consulting, CSR and a leadership development/ coaching programme for NBAD. He has also been working with a large NHS Foundation Trust since 2011 in its Organisation Development work, designing and delivering a range of leadership development interventions, as well as coaching and assessment processes to support organisational redesign.
In his consultancy career over the past 20 years Neil has gained a formidable level of expertise helping major organisations in the UK, Western and Eastern Europe, Middle and Far East, and Africa to improve their organisational effectiveness. Neil now focuses on two particular areas of work – senior executive assessment development and coaching, and organisational development.
Neil is an expert on assessment methods, people development systems and processes, and managing structural change within organisations. Over the past decade he has worked on the design and delivery of a wide range of executive development and coaching programmes, from worldwide leadership development initiatives to individual coaching of senior executives. In parallel with his work on executive coaching Neil works on major change programmes with the UK Police Service, including the restructuring of national counter-terrorism capability following the London attacks of 7/7, and the development of the UK national cybercrime strategy.
As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist Neil started his career as an internal consultant with BT, where he was involved in redesigning and developing many of the organisation’s HR processes over a period of 8 years. Neil went on to join SHL Group plc, where he became a Practice Leader, responsible for leading complex projects in the full range of client organisations, from charities to banks, public sector organisations to luxury hotel groups, pharmaceutical conglomerates and global electronics manufacturers.
Neil joined the Associate Faculty of Cranfield Business School in 2007, and is an Expert Advisor on leadership assessment for the Department of Education. He holds an MA(Hons) in Psychology from Aberdeen University and an MSc in Industrial Psychology from Hull University.
Anne has 25 years’ experience in supporting individuals, senior teams and organisations to make change that sticks. She works in a broad, systems-informed way, believing that we need to understand our context in order to make wise decisions about next steps. From a starting point of business need, her work integrates the cognitive, behavioural and emotional to create change. Anne uses a potent combination of clear thinking, directness and strong empathy; and is particularly adept at helping leaders to weave together and make sense of the strategic, task and relationship requirements of their roles. They can then turn this insight into actions that align others’ efforts and create followership, being fully mindful of their own values, purpose and integrity in the process.
She coaches individuals and leadership teams as well running group-based development programmes and large-scale conferences. She is particularly skilled at learning design and facilitation.
Anne started her own business in 2012 and her clients are mainly in the automotive, oil and mining and professional services industries.. A Partner at sheppardmoscow ltd for 20 years, se designed and ran Executive leadership development programmes in Ford Motor Company, Volvo Cars, Astra Zeneca, IBM and the World Bank. Some of her development programmes have been award-winning for their quality of design and organisation impact and Anne has a strong reputation for coaching executives whose careers are in danger of de-railing.
Having gained 2 degrees in Organisational Psychology, Anne worked as an Occupational psychologist in the Civil Service for 8 years, reaching the Principal Psychologist grade in the Cabinet Office. She completed her Diploma in Executive Coaching in 2008. She is a fluent Welsh-speaker.
Sue is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with 16 years consultancy experience working as both an internal and external HR specialist in the areas of individual and organisational Assessment and Development, Performance Management and Leadership Coaching. The majority of her work is with senior level and high potential managers and she has worked on national and international projects with clients such as BT, BBC, AOL, e2v, Pizza Express, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Zurich, Sony Entertainment, and TMP Worldwide.
Sue gained her MSc in Occupational Psychology in 1996 and spent the next few years working for SHL Group PLC, renowned as a world leader in the field of assessment and development. She left SHL in 2000 to join Securicor where she worked as a change agent to heighten the profile of HR and cultivate a positive attitude towards organisational and people development in a predominantly task focussed organisation. Sue set up her own consultancy, Akeroyd Barnes Consulting, in 2002, developing and expanding her portfolio of clients further to include a wide range of clients from both the private and not-for-profit sector in the UK and internationally. Sue is now the founder and director of Green Acorn Consulting and continues to work with organisations to maximise their performance through their people and processes.
Sue is a chartered member of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Practised in using a broad spectrum of assessment and development instruments, she is also trained to use Level A and Level B psychometric tests. She is a member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology and holds a Certificate in Coaching Psychology (accredited by Middlesex University).
Karen gained a first class degree in Psychology from Exeter University, and a doctorate in Organisational Psychology at Oxford University. She was awarded a ‘young blood lectureship’ at the age of 25 at University College London. Karen is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychology Society and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She is BPS Level A and Level B trained and is registered to use a wide range of psychometric assessment and development instruments including OPQ, Wave, MBTI, TalentQ, Hogan etc.
Karen’s consulting career has ranged widely, including over 15 years in leadership positions at SHL (where she was Deputy Director for SHL Canada and Head of Assessment) and The Work Foundation. She is a member of the Associate Faculty at Cranfield Business School and an Affiliate Business Psychologist with a number of other development, selection and executive coaching organisations.
She has worked with a wide range of clients undertaking significant organisational change. This has included the development, design and implementation of change and leadership programmes; executive and strategic competency and 360 degree leadership systems; assessment and development centres, talent development and succession planning. She has extensive experience both as an executive coach and as a facilitator of senior management and executive team strategy events. She has a particular interest in leadership and is co-author of ‘The Leadership Illusion; the importance of context and connections” (2010) Palgrave MacMillan that was shortlisted for the Institute of Management Leadership book of the year award.
Her clients span both public and private sectors. She has worked at a strategic level with executives including: Sony Europe, Oracle, O2, Citibank, Mobinil, Vodafone, Deloittes, The Defence Academy, Mott MacDonald, Connaught, Acergy, Aviva, BP, the Government of Dubai, ICI, NHS, English Heritage, The Law Society, The National Trust, Oxfordshire County Council, Nursing & Midwifery Council, Royal College of Midwives, RNIB, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Shelter and Unicef.
