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Independent Advisor

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As an independent advisor, every engagement is completely tailored - to your objectives and your organization. Since I set up the business back in 2017, I have learned that what I both love doing the most and seems to deliver the greatest value for clients is in these three key areas: ​

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• Helping you to improve support for your working parents and their managers

  • Becoming parents - I have designed and deliver group and 121 sessions to support those becoming working parents (the basis of the book)​ - to help them feel more confident and equipped to deal with the challenges this brings and help you not just retain them but help them to feel even more engaged following this major life change

  • More experienced working parents - tailored sessions and talks to help provide them with tips and tools to proactively deal with the challenges, for example around flexibility and work life balance (and I have experts I can call on in a huge range of subject areas)

  • Managers - who are so critical to the experience of working parents and so often fear saying or doing the wrong thing. I typically run workshop style sessions for them to discuss the challenges and give them a framework to help them feel confident to tackle them.

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• Working with you to design and deliver tactical programmes

  • Sponsorship and Reverse Mentoring Programmes​ - are a great way to build relationships between your leadership and key employee groups that are unlikely to develop on their own. The example I always use is it's relatively easy for a senior male to take a junior male under his wing, much harder for that same senior male to do so with a junior female. Creating a safe space for these relationships to grow promotes learning (of different perspectives and potential issues), visibility (of people and their skill sets / experience) and opportunities (for the organization in their talent planning as well as supporting leadership development)

  • Research - I often begin working with organisations who are early on in their journeys and are not sure where to start. Getting a better understanding of their 'As Is' is crucial. Not only in helping the leadership team get behind a way forward, but in working out what that way forward is. Part of that is looking at what they data tells us and part of it is what your people think. I therefore typically combine reviewing your data (and often a look at your competitors too) with a survey and interviews so you can feel fully informed when making decisions about your strategy. 

 

• Being a sounding board for your strategy 

  • Although I sometimes provide this ​for new clients, and there maybe a more practical element - like helping prepare papers for a board discussion - it's typically for clients I have been working with for longer on some combination of the above.  They use me to sense check their approach to specific challenges or potential policy changes, to get insight on trends and sometimes even bring me in to attend workshops to provide an external perspective. 

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This hopefully gives you a good sense of what I do, but I am always open to a discussion - so please feel free to get in touch, share what you're trying to solve and I'm very happy to see if I can help (and even if I don't feel I'm the right person, I might know someone who is). ​

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Speaker

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I am a regular speaker at industry events which to date have included conferences with c.400 attendees as well as more bespoke events with c.30 delegates and lots in-between! Please get in touch if you are putting together an event and want to find out more.

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