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HDA Associates Limited
Trading as HDA
Registered Office address:
Avon Wharf
23 Bridge Street
Christchurch
BH23 1DY
Company registration no:
01981354
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220 2406 29
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HDA Talent Consultants and Coaches
HDA’s Talent Management team consists of experienced business consultants, coaches and facilitators; all with significant commercial experience and superior track records as senior leadership developers and organisational change facilitators.
Our highly experienced team seamlessly merge their coaching tools and techniques with a strong mentorship approach to achieve successful outcomes.
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Elaine Ashworth |
| Approach Elaine is a talented trainer, coach and facilitator, specialising in Management skills, Sales and Negotiation, sophisticated Customer Handling Techniques / CRM as well as Human Resources. |
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Fiona Eldridge |
| Approach Fiona is a highly experienced coach with Board level experience in both the public and private sectors. She utilises both her extensive experience and her qualifications/NLP training to coach senior leaders and teams within organisations. |
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Jon Fantes |
Approach Jon has worked with organisational leaders to formulate HR strategies to support business plans, including restructuring and culture change programmes. He specialises in team and individual development using a pragmatic, goal-oriented approach. |
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Rachel Foord |
Approach Rachel is a personable and highly engaging coaching professional who utilises excellent communication and interpersonal skills to connect with her clients. Both professionally and personally Rachel has received acknowledgement of her ability to quickly establish rapport with people, a skill that allows her to accelerate her client's coaching and training experience with her. |
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Vanda Forward |
Approach Vanda is a dynamic, creative training professional. She utilises excellent communication and interpersonal skills to move seamlessly between the roles of trainer, consultant and manager. |
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Jim Gilbert |
Approach Jim is a highly experienced senior executive coach and mentor, with an interest in improving business performance, effectively managing change and enhancing management capability. |
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Jacqui Hartas |
Approach Jacqui’s approach is positive, constructive and co-creative. She is a skilled listener and supports and challenges clients to use their strengths to maximum effect. Her interests include using coaching and facilitation to identify and develop leadership strengths, achieve professional success and appropriate change. |
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Geoff Hinsley |
Approach Geoff combines his senior management experience with his coaching training, utilising a spectrum of tools and techniques to support individuals to achieve their objectives. |
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Briony Lalor |
Approach Briony is an effective strategic thinker and implementer, specialising in leadership and team development. She is particularly skilled at developing other’s self-awareness through the use of psychometric and 360 degree feedback tools. |
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Sarah Lee |
Approach Sarah’s approach is energetic and creative and incorporates both strong motivational and influencing skills. Bringing together her coaching and facilitation expertise, and senior HR and organisational change experience, Sarah seeks to solve leadership and business problems and create opportunities. |
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Angie Martin |
Approach Angie’s strong interpersonal and facilitation skills, along with a rich business and cultural awareness that underpins her coaching, have proved influential and powerful. She encourages leaders to think and see situations from different perspectives, and focus on areas that can bring greatest return for themselves and the businesses in which they work. |
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Ian Moore |
Approach Ian Moore is a organisational and culture change specialist and coach who works with both internal and external stakeholders to realise potential, develop greater capability and deliver sustained performance. With extensive experience of working 1:1 and with teams, he is passionate about promoting a learning approach to change. His style is recognised as being collaborative and he has been described as bringing a charismatic and honest approach to his work. |
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John Perry |
Approach John blends highly effective one-to-one coaching and counselling skills with a strong knowledge-based facilitation approach. He has particular capabilities in the areas of stress management, time management and inter-personal skills. |
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Dennis Preston |
Approach Dennis is a strategic thinker with a sharp intellect for business, organisational and interpersonal issues. His strong influencing and negotiation skills enable incisive and challenging questioning to stimulate creative thought. He is particularly interested in issues of communication and conflict management at senior levels. |
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Debbie Pye |
Approach Debbie specialises in helping individuals and teams achieve excellent performance by developing the leadership skills and behaviours they need to support excellent performance and drive organisational change. |
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Adrian Swinscoe |
Approach Adrian uses a measurable, goal-focused approach equipping individuals with the skills they need to move forward and improve performance. He has a particular interest in improving business performance, creating high-performance leadership teams and inspiring a "can do" results focused management and team attitude. |
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Kaye Thorne |
Approach Kaye is a well-known writer, talent expert and online media developer. Kaye’s approach is creative and innovative and she specialises in supporting people and organisations who think differently. |
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Kate Turner |
Approach Kate has a natural, results-focused coaching approach. Her command of a range of management and leadership tools enables her to provide helpful frameworks which act as a back-drop to discussions. |
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Dawn Winder |
Approach Dawn is an enigmatic, engaging facilitator and coach. She has a particular interest in maximizing employees’ credibility within their organisation and marketplace. |
For more information on our Coaching Team or to understand how HDA can add value to your organisation through coaching, please contact Melissa Nealon, Client Partner & Project Manager – man@hda.co.uk / 0207 484 5065


















