Our Management Correspondents
Kelly Mason
Sourcing, training, matching and supporting volunteer mentors to work with New Enterprise clients.
Read Kelly's 5x50 Challenge diary
Jim Henderson
In this current economic climate, clients are asking for help around getting more out of their existing resources and also ensuring they have the capability in their business to take full advantage of the uplift when it comes.
Founded in 1999 Shirlaws has now grown to include operations in North America, UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Shirlaws has redefined business coaching with our unique approach based on establishing a balance between commercial outputs (e.g. Increased revenues, profits, efficiencies) and cultural improvement (e.g. Better leadership, communications skills, life balance).
Susan Grandfield
Susan has been working in the field of people development for over 13 years and has a broad experience with many organisations in the public and private sector, working with individuals and teams on their personal and professional development. Her main passion lies in moving people from where they are now to where they want to be in terms of their skills and mindset. She set up SG Development Solutions in 2010 with the aim of helping organisations achieve success by engaging their employees through fun, practical and inspiring development solutions.
Patricia Elliot
With over 30 years professional, academic and commercial experience in law and psychology, created, designed, developed & now deliver web-enabled bio-medical software through MindCircles (combining valid and reliable CircleSafe (stress risk assessment questionnaire) with Qvolution - proven psychological stress management and prevention techniques. First of its kind - delivered in ONE comprehensive package covering legislative duty of care compliance AND provides the solution. Professional and Personal Goals - to increase human potential and enable individuals to see that they can have a 'better lifestyle' whether at work, home or leisure
Colin Kerrigan
Major business disruptions such as fire, flood, theft and communications failure are unwelcome and unpredictable problems for a business. But the reality is that they do happen and if you are not prepared, they can have seriously adverse effects on your business. Onyx Group have a range of facilities and solutions to help your business mitigate the risk.
David Yeoman
From professional experiences I observed the negative impact business leaders had on employees due to their own undesirable emotional state and the damaging effect this had on the staff morale, motivation and of course the ‘bottom line’.
Many organisations have benefited from the learnings and outcomes achieved through the Roots ShootsFruits Performance Change Programmes.
Clients have included:- a variety of FTSE 100 companies in different sectors, ITV Granada, The Scottish Football Association, KPMG, HBOS, Iron Mountain, Eden Springs, Glasgow City Council, Scottish Institute of Enterprise and many other Small Medium Enterprises. Individual clients have come from the fields of sport, music industry, media and TV.
Tracy McLeod
Tracy is an experienced learning & development professional with wide ranging sector experience working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations. As well as playing a key role in running the Rock The Boat business, Tracy’s key interest is the design and facilitation of interventions that support organisations with identifying, developing and ultimately retaining their talented people.Coaching StyleTracy adopts the various roles of coach, trainer and facilitator as necessary with clients and with her challenging, yet relaxed and open style, enables people to self reflect and honestly share information that supports their self development, ultimately empowering them to take ownership of reaching their goals, both at work and in their personal life.
Robert Calder
Main aim of the role is to develop a range of opportunities to enable international students (including EU students) to engage with the workplace in Scotland. As the project works with all Scottish Universities the students accessing the project will be from an extensive range of subject areas.
Craig Cowbrough
Craig is a communications professional with more than 15 years of experience working in the public, private and charity sectors both in the UK and overseas.
He currently runs a communications consultancy with a wide range of clients both covering such diverse sectors as education and government, to manufacturing, business services and charitable organisations. A specialist in media and stakeholder relations, editing, speech writing, video production and strategic communications management, Craig has extensive high level contacts across the media and government.
Morag Cassidy
Light on the Path provides innovative opportunities for development - personally or for your organisation, using good practice from around Europe and in Scotland. We can:
* help you access trained apprentices for particular projects at no cost to you
* help you explore European options for partnerships
* use innovative and user-friendly tools to help your team work better together
* provide workplace wellbeing services to keep your staff fresh and focused.
If you want to put more energy and innovation into your work, please get in touch and we'll help you find the right way forward.
