HDA

Lynda has specialised in career and transition support for over 9 years and worked with a broad spectrum of people across a variety of sectors. She has a strong background in People Development, with particular strengths in Personal Effectiveness and Self-Management Skills programmes such as Assertiveness, Managing Stress, and Handling Change. Using these strengths with a high level of sensitivity and understanding, she helps motivate clients to build the confidence, and self marketing skills to move on.

Julie uses her coaching and mentoring experience to help individuals to change or enhance their career, or who have been made redundant on a 1 to 1 basis. She has a range of techniques and experience that can be applied in a flexible way to meet the clients’ needs.

Robin has supported the transition process of others over the past ten years, through an in-depth understanding of personal development. He has worked with all levels of employee, from shop floor to directorship in a range of sectors.

Since joining HDA, Jackie has supported clients from a broad range of industries including Finance, Education, Engineering and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Jackie has the versatility to support clients at all levels, and as their lead career consultant recognises and promotes opportunities for the individuals being supported to benefit from the full range of HDA resources available to them. Jackie is also the HDA Quality Manager responsible for maintaining the ISO9001 accreditation.

Jayne draws on her extensive career consultancy experience to coach HDA Clients to gain greater awareness of their strengths and development needs, in order to meet their career goals. She has excellent motivational skills and demonstrates sensitive interpersonal skills in her consultancy approach.

In 2002 Suzanne became a transition consultant and career coach to both corporate and private clients providing group training, one-on-one coaching and general support to individuals who are experiencing career change. Suzanne gets enormous satisfaction from helping people realise their potential and skills; especially when it all comes together and new and exciting opportunities are discovered! Her specialties include project and change management, self-assessment, career change and sales training.

Elaine provides performance and career coaching on a one-to-one basis to all levels of management including board level. She is flexible in her approach to coaching using different techniques depending on the individual’s experience, seniority and the type of coaching required.

David is a highly skilled, acknowledged and person centred Career Transition/ Outplacement Consultant. Professionally qualified and certified in careers guidance, counselling, psychometric assessment, training, recruitment and business management. With extensive experience he has provided one to one, group and distance support from shop floor through to senior management levels across many sectors including project managing career resource centres and delivering lively workshops.

Jon’s background is in People Development and he has worked as an executive coach and a facilitator for leadership teams for 7 years in a wide variety of industries and in the public sector. He has specialised in raising interpersonal awareness and improving working relationships and in helping people to bring about change.

Donald  has worked in outplacement consultancy since 1998, supporting staff from shop floor to director level. His particular strengths include change management, counselling, coaching and mentoring. He also delivers workshops across  a wide range of interpersonal and management skills. He has worked extensively in most sectors both private and public.

Peter coaches clients over a wide range of career transition issues, including: self-assessment, job search strategies, accessing the secret jobs market and interview preparation. He has delivered a range of career transition programmes to individuals and group workshops at all levels using extensive personal profiling tools. Peter derives huge satisfaction from empowering and motivating people to achieve their potential by utilising action thinking strategies.

Julia’s special areas of interest include supporting women, both in and returning to the workplace, mind and body awareness and career change. She utilises her training in NLP, coaching and psychometrics to enrich all areas of her work, creating enjoyable and insightful learning environments. Julia offers a creative approach to exploring and developing career choices, coupled with practical, focused support in bringing about positive change. With a passion for people development, Julia enjoys both the design and delivery of Career Management initiatives and has worked across a diversity of sectors, often supporting individuals facing career transition as a result of job loss.

Paul  couples his  facilitation and coaching skills with his experience and knowledge of  recruitment and assessment and understanding of the business environment to provide practical career support.  He adopts a flexible  approach in working to help people achieve their goals and has achieved results in accelerating individual careers and supporting them through personal change and career transition, working both with groups and on a one to one basis.  His  success comes from building good relationships, adopting a challenging but supportive style, and a focus on results. 

John has very strong coaching skills, with the ability to get right under the surface of issues to bring about change. He is unafraid to go where others may fear to go, can work with deeply personal issues with a high level of trust and integrity, can hold people where tensions are high, and has the ability to ask the totally acute question that pinpoints what is at the razor’s edge for growth – at a personal, interpersonal, professional and organizational level. He is very empathic and yet highly focused both on what needs to be worked on, the business context and the desired outcome.

 

Dave’s background is as a training manager and then recruitment manager for a multinational manufacturing organisation and has worked in both the public and private sector, he has been acting as a recruitment and outplacement consultant for 14 years.
Dave has a wealth of experience in guiding clients toward; CV development, job search, retirement and self-employment as well as the fundamental discussion and exploration of how individuals will meet the challenge of career change.

 

Tim Harney Is a hands on practitioner who has worked extensively with clients over the years to ensure that they explore all of the  career options that may be available to them during their career transition period. He has personal  hands on experience of function and line management and is able to put this implicit understanding to good use when working with clients.

Paul specialises in coaching for performance, and has a keen understanding of workplace behaviours and what it takes to achieve in a challenging/changing environment. He has over 20 years experience of supporting all levels and disciplines across a broad range of sectors.

Peter draws on his extensive experience to guide and advise HDA clients on how to ensure they achieve their desired outcomes during their career transition. A career spent in the HR function enables Peter to use his counselling skills to help people to identify what they want to achieve and then to develop their own action plan to achieve it. Peter has in depth IT knowledge and is able to use this to help clients with a technical background.

Sarah’s approach is energetic and creative and incorporates both strong motivational and influencing skills when working with individuals in transition.  Bringing together her coaching and facilitation expertise, and senior HR and organisational change experience, Sarah seeks to solve problems and create opportunities for clients she works with. She is comfortable working at all management levels; with considerable senior and Board level experience.

Roy has spent the past ten years as a project manager, consultant and trainer, involved in all aspects of outplacement. This includes one-to-one and critical time counselling, breaking the news training, and job search workshops. He also has specialist expertise in all aspects of self-employment, from running self-employment seminars to mentoring new business through their initial launch phase.

Since 1992, Paul has been involved in the delivery of outplacement at every level and in a variety of different cultures and industries. This includes successfully managing a contract in Bosnia and Herzegovina for USAID, and he has delivered numerous programmes with differing needs across the UK. Over the last seven years, Paul has also been very active in the delivery of assessment centres for several retail companies, using a range of modern selection methods.

Yvonne has extensive experience at providing career coaching at all levels for clients undergoing career transition and in a variety of sectors including She has particular expertise in establishing large on-site Resource Centres and project managing them to a successful conclusion.

A strong facilitator and trainer, Trish is passionate about people development and learning and is motivated by others’ success. Her practical, highly participative and relaxed approach enables her to easily build rapport with all levels of individuals and help create a learning environment conducive to all. Trained as a competency based interviewer and assessor, Trish has considerable assessment and selection experience, particularly at management and graduate level. Strong on career management, she has designed and facilitated many personal development programmes utilising 360-degree appraisal, psychometric and development centre feedback and the formulation of individual development plans.

Charles has specialised in all aspects of career management as well as a certain amount of headhunting in the last eight years. He has helped hundreds of senior executives with their career moves and has built an impressive network over the period. He has close contacts with consultants in many of the best headhunting firms around.

George has developed a detailed understanding of the job market and career opportunities at all levels in Scotland, and has managed the Scottish elements of major projects in a wide range of sectors. George works in a client centred style to ensure maximum benefit from the process for the individual.

Jill brings a clear thinking, straight talking and motivating approach to outplacement whilst being able to tap into a wealth of experience, resources and contacts from 25 years in the HR and Recruitment sector.  A true entrepreneur, Jill has worked in senior management positions including  Director level and made a dramatic career change herself from Head of Legal Services of a £350 million company to business owner and consultant. 

Tricia has been working in career management for over 8 years and has conducted training courses in career continuation, self employment and retirement as well as conducting 1:1s at all levels. She has a history in HR in many large multinational companies and in this capacity she has recruited and trained staff as well as handling project work in career development. Her training in relationship counselling and in psychometric testing also strengthens her understanding of people issues.

Debbie trained as a coach in 1994 and since then has worked with around 800 individuals to support them through career and role change, self development, promotion and redundancy. She combines her coaching with working as a designer and facilitator of leadership and personal development programmes in a wide range of industries and across the public and private sectors. Debbie’s style is to be client-centred so that sessions can range across many themes and issues, but by the end of the conversation the client will also have a clear, practical action plan.

Jane uses her coaching and mentoring experience to help individuals who wish to change or enhance their career, or have been made redundant, on 1-to-1 and group bases. She can call upon an extensive range of techniques, reflecting her flexibility and experience.

Sean has a comprehensive understanding of the challenges experienced in career transition and change and demonstrates a supportive, positive and motivational approach in one to one coaching and workshops.

Rachel is a highly qualified Coach and Trainer who has extensive experience of working with individuals from a wide range of industries (public and private sector), across the UK and overseas, providing support in many areas including career change, self development, promotion and redundancy.
Rachel’s style is client-centred. Both 1:1 and group sessions cover many themes and issues specific to individual needs and conclude with the client having a clear,
practical action plan.