Consultant Team

Some of the Key Profiles of the Consultant Team

Margaret Martin - Managing Director

Prior to establishing her own consultancy Margaret had a successful career with IBM both in Human Resources, Training and Sales. Margaret has an Open University degree in Psychology holds the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development by examination and is accredited by the British Psychological Society to run Psychometric Assessment. She has herself has been made redundant and faced the very problems confronted by our clients, which has been a most useful personal experience.

Suzan Freeman - Client Services Manager

Suzan covers all aspects of client services management for Margaret Martin Associates including organisation of workshops, liaison with our team of consultants and contact with sponsor companies. Suzan had a successful career in BT before joining MMA.

Graham Liddicoat - Career Consultant & Sponsor Feedback Co-ordinator

Graham specialises in Project Management; Career Counselling and designing tailor made development courses to meet corporate sponsors training needs.  He has worked successfully in a consultancy capacity with a wide variety of commercial, public sector and voluntary organizations. Graham successfully project managed the Career Direction and Career Transition programmes for British Telecommunications plc (BT) as well as undertaking one-to-one career counselling and group training activities. His previous career in National Westminster Bank included personnel, human resources and employee relations.

Jan Gould - Chartered Business Psychologist South

Jan is a Chartered Business Psychologist and HR professional with over 20 years experience working in industries including transport, construction, the public sector, communications and the oil industry. She has extensive experience of the design and delivery of assessment and development centres, incorporating the results of psychometric testing. Jan has specialised in supporting organisations through change programmes, which has led to the design of competence-based HR systems and the delivery of career planning workshops and one-to-one coaching. In addition, Jan enjoys working with organisations to undertake team building, transition management programmes and leadership development workshops.

Liz Mynard - Senior Consultant South West

Liz is CIPD qualified HR Professional who can offer experience across both public and private sectors. She is currently specialising in career transition (both one to one coaching and with groups), recruitment and assessment, retirement training and vocational case management. She is trained to BPS Levels A & B, and is a Certified NLP Practitioner.

Sue Balcombe - Senior Consultant Midlands

Sue is a highly energetic and versatile Consultant with extensive experience in the development and motivation of a broad range of clients. With a background in customer service and operations management with blue chip organisations, together with 8 years spent in consultancy, Sue has extensive experience in a wide range of industries covering both the Public and Private Sectors.

Gordon Roberts - Senior Consultant North West

Gordon is an accomplished and experienced Career Counsellor and Coach. Equally at home in 1-1 and group settings and at all levels within organizations. An expert at gaining rapport and establishing a positive environment of appropriate support and challenge. Gordon possesses a Masters Degree in Training & Development, is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a Member of the International Foundation for Action Learning.

Malcolm Watt - Senior Consultant North East

With over 15 years experience of career development and outplacement counselling, Malcolm has successfully assisted clients at all levels and from a wide range of disciplines and industry sectors through their career transitions. He has worked with individuals and groups as large as 450 throughout the UK. Malcolm runs courses and workshops on all aspects of job search. He also provides advice and assistance for small business start-ups, Malcolm's initial approach is usually to tell it how it is to see if people really know the pitfalls as well as the pleasures of self employment.

Margaret Wright - Senior Consultant Scotland

Margaret Wright works with individuals, groups, organisations and communities to facilitate change. The focus of her work is appreciative inquiry, an approach that asks powerful questions about what has life and energy - what works, the best that has happened, people's strengths and values as a trustworthy foundation on which to build even more vital futures. She applies this to her outplacement, facilitation and participation work and has experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Alison Croome - Senior Consultant South

Alison is an HR & Training Consultant specialising in management & interpersonal skills development, coaching and facilitation. Experienced across the HR remit in a wide range of sectors and internationally she is keen to support others to achieve high performance and motivation through their work. She is accredited in occupational testing and behavioural competency frameworks. Recent projects include facilitation (change management; leadership development, teambuilding,) and 1:1 coaching (world class sales; outplacement, career counselling) in the transport, telecoms, IT, finance, pharmaceutical and education sectors.

Julie Gentili - Senior Consultant London/Essex

Julie is an HR professional with over 20 years' experience in the areas of career planning and counselling, recruitment and selection as well as training and development. She is trained in Psychometric tools including MBTI and OPQ. Julie's communication and facilitation skills are enhanced through training and experience running a private practice as a Creative Arts Therapist where she has worked in many settings including mental health, education, social services, special needs and the corporate world

Patricia Wilson - Self Employment Specialist

Patricia Wilson is a self employment specialist and she offers support and guidance for: Start-ups, Established Businesses that are stuck, Businesses wanting to grow faster and safely and she can help Business owners prepare for Sale or Succession: Processes - Are yours efficient? Planning - Thinking ahead or fire fighting? People - How motivated? Profit - Impacted by the other Ps! She offers hands-on, practical, proven, cost effective empathetic guidance on self employment.

Francine Coulson Joy - Senior Consultant Midlands

Francine Coulson-Joy (MCIPD, Post Grad Dip in Counselling, MACPInternational) - a highly experienced career management specialist with an excellent track record of leading and motivating people whilst having a passion for maximising the potential of individuals in their career moves, aligning their needs to appropriate solutions.

Angela Marshall - Image Consultant

Angela Marshall, one of the UK’S leading image consultants. Since 1995 she has worked with blue-chip companies like Barclays Bank, Shell and Ernst & Young, politicians and other professionals to enhance their personal image, etiquette and manners. Angela started out at Lloyds Bank, holding such senior positions as Manager of Training & Development, and Area Personnel Manager. Here she gained experience of the most sensitive situations, and learnt the invaluable skills of putting people at ease and building their confidence.

Since going freelance in 1995, allowed Angela to take on all manner of clients, from TV newsreaders to mobile phone companies and many more besides. Apart from her hands-on style consultation, Angela presents seminars and workshops for corporate clients covering subjects on appearance, etiquette and manners and how to small talk and network. Angela is an excellent speaker and has also published two books on the subject of wardrobe personality. Regarded as an expert in her field she regularly gives comments to the press and appears on the media.

Malcolm McGreevy - Senior Consulant Wales

Malcolm is a Chartered Management Consultant with over 15 years experience of career management. As a senior outplacement consultant in South Wales he has run many Leaders in Transition programmes for senior managers exploring new careers in consulting or interim management. He currently acts as a career counsellor and CMC mentor for the Institute of Business Consulting. Prior to his entry into career counselling Malcolm was the CEO of a London hospital and headed up the Health Management practice of PA Consulting Group. Malcolm holds the British Psychological Society Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing-levels A and B (inter) and is a licensed user of OPP’s 360 degree development instruments Benchmarks and Skillscope .

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