What People say about our Talent Management Services

“Peter has developed a real expertise in People Consultancy. He has the ability to take complex people problems, dissolve them into its constituent parts and lead others through the resolution of those problems. His high intellectual ability is combined with the knowledge of a huge array of consultative models which he can bring to life - without losing sight of the commercial and customer outcomes. In particular, Peter is a strong advocate of Talent Management at all levels in the organisation; from setting up Talent Management strategies within the organisation, through to recognising and harnessing individual talent within his teams. In addition to his strong, outcome-focussed consultative approach, I have also benefited from Peter as my mentor. During our mentoring relationship Peter helped me overcome difficult challenges and stakeholder relationships in a high-profile “stretch” role which culminated in my promotion and successful completion of that role. Peter is a real asset to any organisation that wants to get the best out of its people. He is a rarity in this field in that he can articulate the tangible commerical benefit of people development as well as the less tangible emotional benefit.”

Business Operations - Practice Leader

“We have just run the first of a series of senior manager high potential programmes and used individual coaching as a key element of the programme, as we pushed eight managers into some tough personal risk taking.

In coaching we wanted the delegates, already in pretty senior role’s, to feel challenged but safe, develop strong self awareness, to be clear and honest about their aspirations, confident to be themselves, and a little bit rattled i.e. breaking down some of the less authentic behaviours people might have picked up over their careers to date, in emulating those they perceived as being successful. Fiona did a fantastic job for us and the feedback from all without exception was excellent. Some of them really had some light bulb moments.

One great quote from our top performer on the programme “not only is it OK to be yourself, it is significantly more enjoyable”. This may sound soft, but the change in stature, several of the managers have developed because of this type of thinking, linked with specific development activity, has been noticed by our Directors. It has also influenced their impact and achievement in significant business negotiations, £££.

I don’t think just any coach could have achieved this for us! I would fully recommend Fiona to anyone looking for a tough, direct, intuitive, business minded, and very skilful executive coach!”

Head of Talent Development

“You are very knowledgeable in the areas of people/ culture change & shares these with wider team and uses the latest thinking to improve our approaches to talent management and workforce development. You are comfortable with complexity – and use these ideas to set context about why we needed to focus on areas of people & process. You have a high level of intellect & can present good solutions to difficult problems.”

Head of Professional Development