Hugh Keachie – North of England

Hugh is a professional careers consultant with extensive experience gained over eighteen years of running businesses, including the running of two residential care homes. He has worked in a number of different sectors supporting people at various levels within the sponsoring companies. He is a strong team member who retains his individuality, an indicator of which is his range of bow ties.

As a professional facilitator and coach he flexes his style to reflect the needs of both the people and the situation they are in. These skills ensure that a strong partnership is built both with individuals and the sponsoring companies.

Hugh is a Magistrate and a qualified Family Mediator. He is also an assessor, on behalf of the Cabinet Office, for the new Customer Service Excellence Award.

Diana Jerman – North-West of England

Diana is a Client-focused Senior Career Coach, facilitating individual clients and groups, enabling them to manage change positively in the context of personal and organisational transition. She designed and recently delivered a training programme in "Supportive Listening Communication Skills" for a 3 year joint Research Project funded by the NHS, Liverpool University and Manchester University School of Psychological Science. From 1988 to the present, Diana has managed Career Transition projects throughout the UK in both the public and private sectors.

Alison Kinloch – West of England

Initially training in healthcare management Alison then joined IBM as part of their Management Development team. Alison was seven years as Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust.

Her passion for developing people continues and she coaches senior executives from a wide spectrum of backgrounds to develop and realise their potential. She also supports organisations in developing their staff in a number of different areas including leadership development, coaching and mentoring, and communications training as well as career counselling and interview coaching.

Julie Hopping – Midlands & Home Counties

Julie began her HR career in retailing with BHS, later moving to Unilever as a head office Training and Personnel Officer. In this generalist role, she assumed responsibility for recruitment and selection as well as training and development. She also provided redundancy counselling and support during a major reorganisation.

Since the end of 1996, Julie has worked as an independent consultant on a number of projects in both Prudential and Thomson Holidays including organisation change, managing candidate assessment centres and training line managers. She has carried out selection interviewing, for a number of blue chip companies.

Jackie Newman – South West of England

Jackie has twenty years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as HR Director for Pfizer in the United States and Searle and Monsanto both in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

She has been a key player in a number of mergers and acquisitions and has experience in change management, benefits harmonisation, new site development and a site closure. She has established talent management and development programmes, designed competency frameworks and run both assessment and development centres in addition to her career coaching work.

Peter O'Brien – South of England

Peter is a highly committed careers transitions consultant with proven project management skills plus sales/business development capability. He possesses the ability to build strong on-site rapport and trust to provide the necessary support for both the Client Company and individuals. A range of diagnostic tools supplements his coaching skills, as the need requires.

His work has ranged across varied business sectors and employee levels including Engineering, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Beverages, Insurance, F.M.C.G (including Tobacco).

Peter uses a wide range of diagnostic tools covering Personality Profiles, Values, Leadership Inventories, Emotional Intelligence and Sales Orientation.

Liz Edwards – North London & Midlands

Liz's involvement in people development started in food retailing. From there she moved to education and then consultancy. Since 1991 she has focused on career transition, coaching, and training and facilitation – in both the public and private sectors. Client organisations include housing groups, global publishing, the CPS and the Prison Service, retailing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and the legal and insurance industries. She has worked with clients at all levels in organisations.

Liz has written books on interviewing and retailing, and develops course materials and manuals for workshops and training events.

Jenny Jaggs – N W London & Home Counties

Jenny began specialising in Career Management in 1992 and has worked as a Consultant and Trainer across many professional and industrial groups often providing interim support in Human Resources environments.

She has been involved in many major projects including high volume site closures and significant merger situations. Her early career was spent within high street banking but her experience spans retail, pharmaceuticals, food, drink & tobacco, engineering, manufacturing, publishing, transport & distribution, motor trade, IT & telecoms, financial services, healthcare, sales & marketing, public sector housing and the civil service.

Harriet Grace – West London & Home Counties

Harriet has 16 years experience in career development, working with people from all commercial backgrounds and levels, helping them to make career decisions and/or transitions. She is an expert in identifying needs and facilitating solutions using a flexible, coaching, counselling approach. She has written a novel for her MA in creative writing and has been a professional career practitioner.

Her industry experience has been gained in pharmaceuticals, airlines, oil, brewing, insurance, IT, City investment companies, publishing, tobacco, housing associations, borough councils, retail, the professions – medical, legal & accountancy.

Ann James – Thames Valley

Ann is an experienced coach and trainer offering specialist services in personal development and career choices. She coaches senior executives and MBA students and graduates at Henley Business School, where she also oversees tailored coaching programmes for corporate clients. She holds the Henley Certificate in Coaching, is a practising member of the Henley Register of Coaches, a member of the Henley Coaching Forum, and a Course Director for the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Ann's expertise is rooted in practical experience: she has appointed, managed and motivated individuals and teams; operated within complex structures; initiated reviews of company working practices, and worked with groups and individuals during subsequent restructuring.

Monica Cooper – South London and Home Counties

Monica studied modern languages and then embarked on a career in sales and training in the IT industry. She moved into career management in 1994 and since then has worked as a career coach with a wide variety of large corporate clients undergoing organisational change. She is skilled in facilitating workshops and working one to one with clients to ensure their aspirations are met. She has acute commercial instincts and believes that people, equipped with appropriate skills and attitudes, are the key to a successful organisation. In 2006 she gained the Diploma in Career Management and Counselling from Birkbeck College, University of London.