Andy advises senior HR leaders in the areas of employee insight (i.e.: the meaningful interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data), HR strategy development, and internal and external communications.
With over 35 years’ corporate experience he has played an active role in driving successful business turnaround programs, supported major corporate mergers, helped reinvent and realign firms to meet changing customer expectations, and generated insights which have enabled organisations to diversify their workforce to better reflect the communities they serve.
Andy’s work across multiple sectors is supplemented by proven skills as an executive counsellor, confidant, and coach with a focus employer reputation, employee engagement, stakeholder influencing, and cultural transformation.
Anya brings over 20 years of corporate experience to her consulting. Having started her career in commercial roles, she developed a passion for accelerating team and individual performance in ways that align with a company’s mission, culture and values as well as the employee’s capabilities and ambitions. She has held senior positions in both generalist and specialist areas focused on the US, UK and globally.
As a consultant, she continues to partner with companies, both in the US and internationally, to fully optimize their human capital at both the organization and individual level. Her particular areas of focus include Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, High Performing Teams, Change Management, Talent Management and Employee Engagement. Anya is ICF, Hogan, HBDI, TMS and MBTI accredited.
Over the last 35 plus years Chris has been a trusted advisor to boards of directors and senior management. He has spent the majority of his career consulting but has also served as an executive of a Fortune 100 company responsible for the management and administration of global compensation and benefit programs. This blend of experience has provided the insight needed to transition from design to execution. He helps clients look at complex situations and develop solutions that are implementable, executable, sustainable and explainable to all stakeholders.
Chris has worked across a variety of industries and supported everything from complex mergers and acquisitions to total corporate restructuring and bankruptcy workout. The breadth of experience has enabled him to be as comfortable explaining comprehensive benefit plan changes to shop floor employees as he is explaining complex executive incentive design considerations to a Compensation Committee chair. This approach helps enable clients to successfully implement complex programs effectively.
A Human Resource Professional with over 18 years of practitioner experience in customer obsessed organizations, Cierra has a track record of adding great value in her roles and has spent most of her career as a Senior Leader in the Cost-Co Wholesale Organization.
Cierra works in a wide spectrum of leading-edge people practices including; Employee Relations, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Training & Development and Compensation & Benefits. She has also led Organizational reviews and Change Programs.
Her experience, driving employee engagement through effective People Strategies, made her the perfect choice to Lead and Build our latest OrgShaker Practice – a fully comprehensive HR Service, offering best in class support to clients across a broad range of industries.
True to living the OrgShaker ideal, Cierra has a relentless curiosity and appetite for Learning. In addition to having a Senior HR Qualification (SHRM) she has a Six-Sigma Black Belt Certification and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Cierra also has four Degrees including a MBA from Western Governors University and a Masters in Management and Leadership.
Claire brings 20 years’ experience gained through a corporate career (working in sectors including retail, telecoms, hospitality, and education), as a consultant working with SMEs and start-ups, and in academia.
Born and raised in Brussels, and having worked and lived in the UK, USA, and Spain, Claire thrives in multicultural environments.
Claire has held senior roles in HR and Learning & Development, leading projects and programmes designed to shift the performance of individuals and teams. She specialises in working across the wide spectrum of learning in its many forms – from designing innovative learning programmes, to training delivery, through to organisational development and change programmes.
Over the last 10 years, Claire has had a foot in both business and academia, working as an examiner for the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a guest lecturer in Human Resource Management, and as a Lecturer in Management at Sussex University Business School, with a particular interest in the role of the education sector creating a workforce with the skills needed for the future world of work.
Delighting customers and colleagues around the world by combining our expertise and innovative methodologies requires the OrgShakers to collaborate effectively across multiple locations and time zones.
As Client Services Manager, Cristiana’s role is to help us achieve these high standards on a daily basis. Acting as the ‘Centre Mover and Shaker’, Cristiana ensures effective co-ordination across the team and the smooth execution of our communication, accounting, and marketing activities.
Julian has over 30 years’ corporate and professional experience leading functions across Communications, Corporate Affairs, Public Affairs, Human Resources and Legal, notably with McDonald’s at Global, European, and UK level. He also acted as Chief of Staff to three successive Presidents of McDonald’s Europe.
He was closely involved with the business turnaround and transformation of McDonald’s reputation across multiple geographies. He has a keen understanding of reputational and regulatory opportunity and risk, having instituted McDonald’s first ever global Crisis Management and Issues Management systems. An authoritative and authentic spokesman, he has acted as a principal external representative and brand advocate with national and international media, as well as with external stakeholders at the highest level.
He has consistently shown an ability to ‘join-the-dots’ between different issues and functions and provide innovative and practical solutions to business problems, particularly where cultural transformation is a critical success factor.
He has a strong track record as a trusted adviser to C-suite Executives and has acted as mentor and coach to many others. Fluent in multiple languages, he particularly enjoys working in environments where understanding differing national cultures is a vital element for success.
Lauren has a track record of transforming organizations to improve performance and shareholder value. Her 15+ year human resources career spans retail, FMCG, construction, manufacturing and aerospace industries; from large multi-nationals to Silicon Valley funded start-ups. Having lived and worked in the U.S., Europe and Australasia, she has a global perspective and an ability to operate across multiple industries, geographies and cultures. Originally from New Zealand, Lauren thrives on supporting businesses to think big and realise their potential.
With over 30 years’ HR experience, Marty is skilled in the alignment of People strategy with business strategy to drive the productivity and employee engagement required to deliver bottom line results. He has extensive international and domestic experience in business management, operations, and multi-site HR leadership in a diverse range of global Fortune 500 corporations. Marty’s accomplishments include building high performance teams, re-engineering business processes, and leading cultural transformation including change management and diversity initiatives at local, divisional, and corporate levels in both union and non-union environments.
Marty has served on the Diversity Committee of the American Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois – a nonprofit humanitarian organization with the mission to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. He was named a top executive in Corporate Diversity by Black Enterprise magazine
Marty has a bachelor’s in Business Administration from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Executive Network, HR People + Strategy.
A well-rounded PR professional with a specialism in press relations, Nicola’s career spans nearly 30 years. She started in the corporate world as a press officer for Texaco, and worked for an international communications consultancy before setting up her own PR agency in 1999.
She has helped a significant number of market leaders in HR, management, recruitment, leadership development and business education with their PR over the years, and is known for her deep, issues-led understanding and strategic approach to developing thought leadership. Her extensive international media network means that she is experienced in generating high-quality press coverage in top-tier outlets.
Nicola is also the co-founder and features editor of www.management-issues.com, a global workplace site, which has developed a reputation for being ahead of the curve in identifying new management trends.
She values diversity and is cross-culturally aware, having lived across the world: UK, France, Italy, South Africa, Australia and Switzerland. Educated in the UK, Switzerland and the US, she has a BA (Hons) in Psychology.
Pam brings more than 20 years’ experience as an HCPC Registered Psychologist and a Master Executive Coach.
Before this, a career in corporate lending developed her extensive business nous and awoke in her the realisation that it was people, how they were inspired and led, that created success (or not) for businesses. This led to her retraining as a business focused psychologist and coach, to more fully explore and leverage this knowledge.
She is relentlessly curious, constantly exploring new ideas and focused on developing organisations and leaders to be more effective today and importantly for the future.
She has worked with leaders across the globe, helping them maximise the quality of their thinking and decision making. She has experience across a multitude of industries including Film & TV, Media, Pharma, Finance, Telecoms and Professional services. Clients have engaged her when facing business and personal challenges, working in stretch roles or transitioning into bigger and broader roles. She is particularly energised when working with transformation in her roles as coach, business consultant or talent assessor.
She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Founding Member of the Association for Coaching and a member of the Neuroleadership Institute. She is also qualified in an extensive suite of psychometric instruments, which she utilises in development and in assessment for recruitment.
Led major restructuring, change & transformational initiatives on behalf of large high profile global organisations operating in multi sectors
Consistent track record of influencing restructure, turnaround, strategies at board level by forging strong executive & management relationships through substantiating expected outcome, influencing and encouraging behaviours aligned with business goals
Instrumental in driving the critical change agenda in all key areas of the organisation – strategic reviews, design & development; re-structuring; Integration through business transformations, implementing change, target operating models & joint ventures
Undertaken a number of global assignments; involved in several project lifecycles & reporting to executive boards
Organisation design, restructuring & turnaround career underpinned by solid experience gained from global professional services firm in the areas of accounting, auditing, corporate administration/recovery, liquidations & insolvency
Chief People Officer who is a Human Resources recognised industry expert, advisor and consultant for a range of sectors including Financial Services, Telecoms, Hospitality, Retail, Healthcare, Distribution, Customer data, Dotcom, Construction and Property. Therese also holds Non exec and Trustee position in both tech startup and charity organisations.
Extensive experience across all corporate functions in talent acquisition, leadership development and organisational design and effectiveness.
A track record of adapting and delivering in new and challenging environments, creating the people strategy to deliver the long term goals of the business. These have included board efficiency reviews, developing reward strategies and talent management in some regulated environments and in line with European legislation
Experienced in advising and influencing leaders in both structural and operational opportunities across markets for growth and turnaround
Led a government task force for retail and hospitality for the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy 2016 / 2017 which included CEO’s and HR Directors from over 50 Companies
Member of a government think tank on health and wellbeing across leading companies in the UK
Sought after keynote speaker and contributor for Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion and Organisational Effectiveness.
Non Exec Director of MeVie
Non Exec Directr and Global Strategic advisor of Wagestream
Charity Ambassador for Kids Out. Trustee for Teens Unite.
Therese Procter LTD
November 2017 to date
Business owner – Strategic Advise and consultation at Board level with both UK and Global businesses that are in start up, growth or turnaround.
This has included reviews of leadership competencies, Board effectiveness reviews, introduction of new reward strategies, leadership frameworks and organisation effectiveness. Clients include but not exclusive; McDonalds, NHS, Palmer & Harvey, Hitachi, Sony, Royal Mail, The Body Shop, Hertford Glass, Three Mobile, Travis Perkins, Waves.
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