Our consultants have worked both in the UK and internationally, as both managers in and consultants to the private, public and voluntary sectors. We have extensive experience in: business visioning and strategy development - our team's clients include: Strategic Investment Board (NI); Sector Skills Development Agency stakeholder engagement, consultation and facilitation exercises - organisations that our consultants' have assisted include: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Welsh Assembly Government; Kent County Council policy development, implementation and review - clients with whom we have worked include: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Prison Reform Trust business planning - clients with whom our consultants have worked include: Environment Agency; Skills for Logistics strategic and operational reviews - our consultants have carried out reviews for clients such as: Her Majesty's Prison Service; Commission for Local Administration in England performance review and improvement - clients with whom our consultants have worked include: Department of Finance and Personnel/Northern Ireland Civil Service; Skillsmart Retail; The National Gallery organisation design and development - our consultants have worked with organisations including: Jobcentre Plus; Addaction; POWhER
Our clients include companies working in a variety of commercial, business and industrial sectors, government departments, devolved administrations, agencies working in the areas of further and higher education, skills, criminal justice and offender management, health, social and care services, and third sector organisations delivering services in these and related areas. Here are some examples of assignments with which our consultants are currently or have recently been engaged: Working with a Government Department to inform the development of its third sector strategy through stakeholder engagement events Developing and project-managing a programme of Master Classes for an NHS commissioning body Conducting and reporting on a stakeholder consultation exercise, as part of the grant and governance arrangements review of a third sector learning and skills body for its sponsoring Government Department Advising a third sector provider of Health Advocacy services on aspects of its bid to provide services to 3 NHS SHAs, and providing ongoing advice Facilitating a series of diagnostic focus groups for public and third sector providers of social care, for a County Council, to determine the training and development needs of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises, to support the CC's diversification of its social care supply chain Consolidation of a research study, for a third sector Criminal Justice body, into a report recommending policy and operational, targeted at Ministers Review of executive team structure and roles for a third sector provider of IAG and advocacy services, following rapid growth, delivering an options appraisal and an implementation strategy, including job designs and people development plans Working with the Board of a UK employer led industry body to review and re-design its business model and strategy Helping the Board of a UK company to be more effective in its strategic and governance roles Development and implementation of a business planning process for the representative body for a UK industrial sector Leadership development programme for an NHS Foundation Trust Designing and delivering a major culture change programme for a Government Department and its delivery Agency Working across Government Departments in Northern Ireland to deliver strategic, operational and system reviews Comprehensive organisation structural review for a third sector provider of dependency and harm reduction/prevention services Development work with providers of higher and further education in the UK Restructuring the sales and business development functions of a major professional service organisation Design and delivery of a senior management development programme for a FTSE 100 group of companies Team and people development, including performance and executive coaching, and organisation effectiveness for a major automobile manufacturer Coaching the Managing Director of a specialist publishing company, focusing on business improvement and interpersonal skills Coaching a senior healthcare professional, focusing on career planning and choices, and life strategy