Anthony Carnell
Director of HR Consulting Practice and
Lead Consultant, Performance

Anthony is a strategically driven and entrepreneurial Human Resources professional with almost 20 years experience across service/industry divisions, organisational and national boundaries, from Director, consultant and line management perspectives. A strong generalist with particular areas of expertise including strategic formulation, e-HR, cultural change, organisational development, performance management, management development & learning, and branding service delivery.

Anthony’s main value is in his ability to find creative business-oriented solutions to business issues. Anthony is respected at Board-level for his direct style and ability to obtain quick understanding and add value from the early stage of any project. His clients include:

Abbey National, ALSTOM, AMEX, Barclays, BT, Cannons Groups plc, Chartered Trust, DeBeers, Debenhams, E.ON, Equitable Life, Foreign & Colonial, GSK, Institute of Payroll Professionals, IBM, Interbrand, IRI, Marks & Spencer, McCormick, Mead, Mourant, NEC Group, SAS, Siemens, Unipart Group.

• Coached and facilitated the top-team resulting in a turnover of 800m Euros against a budget of 550m Euros.
  
  
• Integrated an international top-team and led the strategic planning resulting in an immediate estimated 1.2m Euro saving in the first two months. o Introduced and integrated recruitment and development methodologies, salary banding, P-R-P structures, competency frameworks, and other performance management systems together with career paths to ensure a consistent and open approach focussed on individual performance within a European operation. This resulted in the expansion of the organisation from 17 to 25 units across Europe.
  
  
• Designed and delivered a career management system for a major retail chain resulting in a 30% increase in retention of staff within a single business unit saving over £525K (now in three units).
  
  
• Introduced ‘raising the bar’ methodology (HPO) into a large retail bank resulting in a projected saving of £1.1m over two years in a single business unit. o Directly outplaced 400 IT staff with approximately 340 finding a new role within 3 months.
  
  
• Conceived, negotiated and co-ordinated the skills base transfer of over 420 engineers to ensure a competitive market position resulting in the first profitable year of seven years and the ability to market and sell the business above expectations.

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Dr Amanda Potter
Lead Consultant, Talent & Development

Amanda is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with 17 years experience. Amanda has international experience working at board level with blue chip clients. She has been involved with talent system design and implementation since 1993 and takes an innovative approach to assessment, development and succession planning. Her project work has focused on the following areas: talent identification and assessment, succession planning, performance management, executive coaching, development planning and talent process validation.

Amanda is an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is both a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.

Examples of client projects have included:

• Partnering with leading search, consulting and selection organisations to conduct senior level assessment of short listed candidates e.g. Whitehead Mann, Korn/Ferry, Towers Perrin, RHR International, Norman Broadbent.
  
  
• Design and delivery of high potential talent programmes for Dixons plc, American Express, Iron Mountain, FremantleMedia, HSBC and Liberty Syndicates.
  
  
• Design and delivery of customer service consultant recruitment and development programmes for the American Express Gold, Platinum and Centurion Card businesses.
  
  
• Development of a business wide graduate talent management programme for American Express – currently being used in the UK, Canada and Mexico.
  
  
• Delivery of global senior manager assessment programme in Eastern Europe, UK and Canada for Allied Domecq and Russia British American Tobacco.
  
  
• Conducting assessments to support re-structuring of call centres in Telewest, American Express and SportingBet.
  
  
• Design and implementation of a Performance Management System for a Lewisham Council.
  
  
• Designed and implemented an internet based top talent development programme for the top managers of TNT Worldwide Netherlands.
  
  
• Designed competency models for Sainsburys, Shell, the NHS, HSBC, Dixons Stores plc, American Express, Iron Mountain and many others.
  
  
• Designed and implemented a full selection system training programme for Sainsburys’, Dixons, American Express, HSBC and Brake Bros.
  
  
• Quantitative validation of selection, development and performance management systems for Eon, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, HSBC, American Express & Iron Mountain.

Jim Bloomfield,
Lead Consultant, Selection

Jim is a selection and management development professional with international experience working across a range of industry sectors and job levels up to and including Chief Executive. His projects span the design and delivery of objective selection processes, facilitation of assessment and development centres, one-to-one feedback sessions and career development interventions. Prior to becoming an independent consultant in 2005, Jim worked in consultancy roles for market-leading psychometric test publisher SHL (UK) Ltd, and later, TMP Worldwide, the UK’s largest recruitment advertising agency.

Jim is a member of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP) and registered as a Level A and B trained user with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Examples of client projects include:

• Job analysis and competency design for restructuring project in FTSE 100 client including design of the assessment centre process, interview guide and rating form for 40+ internal candidates and delivery of assessment centres across 4-week period.
  
  
• Job analysis and competency design for two roles within the sales & marketing department of major energy supplier, delivery of assessor training for in-house recruiters, and delivery of competency-based interviews and behavioural exercises at assessment centres.
  
  
• Global restructuring project for major music industry record label to assess all existing personnel against internal competency framework.
  
  
• Two year project to assess leadership potential and identify individual development needs of existing managers and new starters within a FTSE 100 company located in UK and India.
  
  
• Delivery of a range of behavioural exercises at assessment centres to recruit to Director level posts within a number of NHS Trusts.
  
  
• Delivery of a range of behavioural exercises and interviews at assessment centres to recruit to Director level posts within a local government client.
  
  
• Delivery of development centres for senior managers, including facilitation of one-to-one coaching sessions and development action planning for a local government client.
  
  
• Delivery of development centres for participants in fastrack leadership development programme for major UK telecommunications company, followed by one-to-one coaching and development action planning.
  
  
• Delivery of competency-based interviews, psychometric feedback, and a number of behavioural exercises at assessment centres for a range of managerial roles within financial services companies.
  
  
• Course Director for SHL’s Test Administration course and tutor for Level A and B public and in-company courses.

Julie Lee
Lead Consultant, Talent & Assessment

Julie is an occupational psychologist with a 20 years experience in banking, lecturing, training and consultancy. She has worked with a diverse range of organisations in the retail, financial, government, charity, education and food service industries and her strengths lie in understanding the fit between individuals and organisations and appreciating how this fit can be achieved in the prevailing climate. She has a very energetic and positive style and is adept at taking on board the needs of the client.

She specialises in selection, assessment and development and is particularly interested in Emotional Intelligence and has been involved in the development, validation and implementation of an ‘EQ’ scale. Julie has been involved in Assessment/Development Centre design and implementation, competency modelling, 360 design, as well as providing and facilitating a range of training programs. Her other specialism is coaching. Julie has international experience and has worked with organisations across Europe, the US and Asia. Julie is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and she is a verified level A and B.

Examples of client projects have included:

• Implementing in-depth assessment for a client including values, personality profiling (NEO PI-R and HDS), competency interviewing and motivation interviewing.
  
  
• Delivery of Development Centre for URSA / Uralita to assess and address skills gaps of senior management team across Europe.
  
  
• Managing and facilitating a series of development centres designed to identify people of excellence in a global insurance sector industry.
  
  
• Implementing in-depth assessment for Head of Project Teams within a major bank, including personality profiling (NEO PI-R, Emotional Intelligence Measure and HDS) together with structured interview to explore motivation and fit.
  
  
• Designing and project managing assessment centres for public sector (DVLA, Natural England, Fire Service) and private sector organisations (BAA, Rexel Senate, Morgan Stanley, Harrow College)
  
  
• Designed behavioural competencies and competency based exercises for assessment and development for various organisations including: Dixons Stores plc, HSBC, Fire Service, Metropolitan Police, HM Revenue and Customs, DVLA, Gate Gourmet and American Express.
  
  
• Designed team building and development event for No.10 team including MBTI and designed 360 from Home Office Competencies.
  
  
• Conducted job analysis and competency design for DVLA, FremantleMedia, HSBC, Dixons Stores plc, MFI and Aon, Rexel Senate, Respect, English Partnerships and HSBC.
  
  
• Designed team building events using values, Firo-B, MBTI and Belbin for a global financial business.
  
  
• Facilitated a leadership development process for American Express, Brake Bros and Dixons Stores plc.

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William Shearer
Lead Consultant, Personnel & HR

William is an experienced human resources professional, with extensive international experience in Fortune 500 companies at senior level. He has operated at divisional and corporate level, most recently as Divisional HR Vice President for a global energy services company.

William started his career as a lawyer in the US and re-qualified as a solicitor in England, where he was an employment lawyer before making a mid-career switch to human resources. Having lived in France, the US, Iceland and Saudi Arabia as well as the UK, he has travelled extensively and is a natural and effective communicator at all levels and across diverse cultures.

William is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, admitted as an attorney by the State Bar of Texas and a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Work and consulting experience has included:

• At corporate level - developed common policies, procedures, benefits and compensation, and shared services for varied operating divisions; led HR due diligence of acquisitions and integration into group; designed recruitment strategy, increasing local employees over expatriates.
  
  
• At divisional level - provided expertise on employment law matters (including redundancies), managed large-scale transition to new compensation package, and transfer from US to offshore payroll; led HR aspects of creating joint ventures.
  
  
• Project managed regional assessment and development programmes for HSBC, Iron Mountain, Wolseley UK Ltd, T Systems and Northampton General Hospital.
  
  
• Coach for divisional leadership teams, including for new division that crossed previous geographic barriers.
  
  
• Successfully developed a common culture as leader of multi-national HR teams despite greatly differing local needs and sensibilities.
  
  
• Directed remote teams of HR professionals across 6 continents and 14 time zones, creating single team outlook.
  
  
• Pension Trustee and Investment Committee leader.
  
  
• Managed European Works Council across 11 countries and 5000 employees.

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Christopher King
Lead Consultant, Recruitment

Chris is an independent management consultant with 20+ years experience in recruitment, selection & development. Chris has had significant international experience, working in most European countries as well as North & South America, India & the Far East. He works in both the public and private sectors, however predominantly pharmaceutical, IT and telecommunications.

Chris has been involved with selection and development from graduate level to CEO, spanning small size companies up to multi-billion dollar corporations. His project work has been focused on the following areas: Talent Identification, individual and group assessment techniques for personnel selection and development.

Chris holds Level A and Level B Certificates in Occupational Testing and is trained to use a number of psychometrics which include NEO-PIR, Hogan, Wave, Talent Q, SHL OPQ, 16pf, MBTI, and Gordon’s.

Examples of client projects have included:

• GlaxoSmithKline - Large-scale graduate recruitment campaigns - successively improved, developed & validated year-on-year. Individual recruitment and selection of various senior positions including Commercial Director, Medical Director, Business Development Director as well as managerial roles in Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, IT, PR & Government Relations.
  
  
• Motorola - Recruitment and selection of Director of Joint Ventures & Acquisitions, International Relationship Directors, Sales Managers, Account Managers.
  
  
• Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd - Worked closely with the Chief Executive Officer of this billion-dollar, multinational Indian based generics company to help identify and develop leadership talent across the organisation during a change management process linked to a 10-year strategic plan to become a global, research based, ethical pharmaceutical company competing on the world stage.
  
  
• Flemings - Project undertaken to enhance the effectiveness of recruitment and selection within corporate finance. Development of competencies. Recruitment and selection for various roles within corporate finance and financial services team.
  
  
• ING Barings - Graduate recruitment - corporate finance and equities roles.
  
  
• Portal - Outsourced call centres. Team development for Board of Directors.
  
  
• Portrait Software - CIM software company. CEO selection.
  
  
• M.T.I. Partners - technology based venture capitalists. Board member evaluation.