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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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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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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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Diane Jones |
Approach Diane works in a positive, optimistic and collaborative way as a Coach, Facilitator and OD Consultant. Diane uses her highly commercial expertise coupled with her excellent interpersonal skills to work with senior leaders and teams to really understand the organisation and its people. |
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Olivia Landsberg |
Approach Olivia Landsberg is a leadership coach accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). With skills in coaching and facilitation, her niche is helping organisations develop a future that is built on clarity, integrity and sustainability. She does this with an approach that she describes as combining "rigour, empathy and warmth", whether working on talent development, engagement, the customer experience, effective communication or performance management. Her skills lie in eliciting personal, team and organisational values and supporting clients in creating a future which reflect and integrate them. Through thought-provoking questioning and cutting edge coaching tools, her focus is on action - to achieve pre-set objectives and implement new skills and behaviours in the work place. |
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Sarah Lee |
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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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Cathryn Priestley |
Approach Cathryn is an organisational development specialist and performance coach who works with teams and individuals to realise their full potential. She is a strategic thinker with outstanding communication and influencing skills. |
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Debbie Pye |
Approach A particular focus of Debbie’s is to work with people who are highly technically and professionally qualified, who now need to develop the skills, behaviours and confidence to build effective relationships, be highly influential and have an impactful personal “brand”. 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. People who are coached by Debbie say that they enjoy her great listening skills, creative problem solving, empathy and flexibility. They say that they go away from sessions feeling motivated, more in control and confident about taking positive action to move them towards their goals. |
| 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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Deborah Taylor |
Approach Deborah is responsible for providing research support to the HDA Consultants as well as the management team. She leads HDA’s research practice which adds value across a broad range of HDA career transition and talent management client delivery projects and key accounts. Deborah draws on her analytical skills as well as her senior recruitment experience within world class organisations to provide a professional research service across a broad spectrum of HDA projects and programmes. |
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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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Martin Vogel |
Approach Martin is an executive coach and facilitator who works with individuals to develop their authentic leadership style and achieve real impact in their professional environment. He draws on strong listening and communication skills to create a coaching style which is supportive enough to give people the time and space to reflect but also sufficiently purposeful and challenging to give them the impetus to move forward. He is adept at cutting through complexity, to help individuals make and implement plans which make a lasting difference. |
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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. |
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Liz Rochester |
Approach Liz is an experienced coach, trainer and facilitator. Her approach to working with clients combines practical business experience with a thorough grasp of the levers which allow people to maximize their potential and optimize performance. She is an expert in driving sustainable performance improvement and large scale cultural change programmes and has extensive experience of heading up leadership, management and organisational development programmes which have delivered exceptional results. |
Quality of our consultants is paramount to our work. For more information on our capabilities, please see here
For more information on our Coaching Team or to understand how HDA can add value to your organisation through coaching, please contact Melissa Gallagher, Client Partner & Project Manager – mag@hda.co.uk / 0207 484 5065


















