• Ann Astell Specialist

Ann Astell

Specialist

Ann is a chartered psychologist with 30 years experience of bringing psychology to organisational thinking and people performance. Over the past five years, she has worked with organisations to put strategy into action, develop new leaders and support existing ones in times of transformation. The sectors include professional services, marketing, media and advertising, manufacturing and healthcare. She is particularly known for her strengths based approach to individual assessment and development. Based in Scotland, her career has been truly international in both public and private sectors.

• Anne Gordon Specialist

Anne Gordon

Specialist

Anne is an experienced Consultant with broad experience of working in both the public and private sectors. With over twenty years’ experience at senior levels across a range of organisations, Anne focuses on a partnership approach with clients to generate sustainable solutions to the challenges they face.  Anne works across a range of areas with a focus on organisational development activities that support leaders engage their people in delivering an excellent customer experience for their clients.

• Christopher Cox Specialist

Christopher Cox

Specialist

Christopher delivers a range of Remarkable services to assist organisations improve business performance by helping them lead, develop and engage their people.  He also leads his own consultancy providing workable and jargon-free advice on planning and strategy, leadership and management, and employee engagement and well-being.

For over 25 years, Christopher has worked at a senior level in operations management, including nine years as a management consultant working in UK, USA, EU, India, and SE Asia, and nine years running a medium sized food processing company.  His working life began with six years in the army as a tank commander, later specialising in communications and intelligence.

Christopher enjoys working with private, public, and third sector organisations, and has worked with clients ranging from large American corporations to a one person start-up on the West Coast of Scotland.

• Gordon Laird Specialist

Gordon Laird

Specialist

Within Remarkable, Gordon specialises in Intent-Based Leadership. He is an experienced coach, facilitator, leadership and organisational development consultant and registered psychotherapist.

Gordon brings insights from over 20 years of experience in HR leadership roles within blue chip companies in financial services, FMCG and telecoms. A specialist in leadership and organisational effectiveness, Gordon coaches and consults in the UK and internationally across private, public and not-for-profit sector organisations. He brings a collaborative and systems approach to his work and is skilled in establishing a strong rapport as a basis for discovering enduring change, success and personal fulfilment.

• Hilary Crick Specialist

Hilary Crick

Specialist

Hilary has over 30 years’ management experience with both private and public sector organisations. She is a confident trainer, consultant and business adviser with excellent negotiation and influencing abilities, exceptional listening skills and proven coaching abilities.

• Irene Macdonald Specialist

Irene Macdonald

Specialist

Irene is a highly experienced consultant, having worked with Remarkable for almost 20 years.  She delivers a range of assessment; accreditation and tailored consultancy services including Investors in People; Investors in Young People; Health & Wellbeing Good Practice Award; Growing Remarkable Teams and Skills for Growth.

Irene works with a range of industries across all sectors i.e. public sector; private sector; social enterprise; and charity.  She works with SME’s through to large, complex multi-sited organisations.

She has specific experience in coaching; leadership & management development; organisational design; and succession planning.

Prior to working with Remarkable, Irene worked for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office; local authorities; and local enterprise agencies.

• Julie Begbie Specialist

Julie Begbie

Specialist

Julie Begbie is a qualified Occupational Psychologist, NLP Master Practitioner and CIPD accredited Training Consultant.
With more than 20 years experience, she has worked with Odeon Cinemas, HBOS, Standard Life Investments and Bank of New York Mellon as well as many other public and private sector organisations.  

Julie is all about creating happiness and success at work and is passionate about "making a difference” to organisations. 

• Kate Carmichael Specialist

Kate Carmichael

Specialist

Within Remarkable Kate specialises in a range of different services: Intent-Based Leadership, Growing Remarkable Teams, Investors in People, Investors in Young People, general consulting and Skills for Growth.

Collaborative, creative and constructively challenging, Kate's aim is to help change the definition of leadership and give people the opportunity to bring their best to work. She is a confident, dynamic and engaging facilitator.

She holds an Honours Degree in Economics, a Masters Degree in Human Resources Management and a Masters in Information Technology. Prior to working with Remarkable, Kate's held senior-level HR, OD and Relationship Management positions working in the UK, US, Europe, Middle East and Asia across all three sectors where she developed a ready awareness for cultural adaptation.

• Keith Mackenzie Specialist

Keith Mackenzie

Specialist

Keith Mackenzie has over 20 years of experience as a commercially focused HR professional and consultant with significant management team experience in both private and public sector organisations. 
He has worked with small to large organisations in Scotland, the UK and Internationally across a broad base of clients including Managing Directors, their associated Boards and Committee members, developing and implementing People Strategies that support their business goals. 
Strategic in approach yet pragmatic, skilled in a number of disciplines including Employee Relations, Compensation, Recruitment, Learning and Organisational Design across sectors including FS, Technology, Telecoms, Professional Services, Retail, Construction, Charities and FMCG businesses. He has an Honours Degree in Engineering and a Postgraduate in Human Resources Management.

• Maria Baxter Specialist

Maria Baxter

Specialist

Maria is an experienced manager and management consultant who has worked with organisations of all sizes. Maria supports clients in developing and improving their businesses using the Investors in People national framework.

• Mary Leishman Specialist

Mary Leishman

Specialist

In addition to being a Specialist with Remarkable, Mary is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Diploma in Business Advice and Counselling from the Scottish Enterprise Premier Adviser programme. She is also a certified Innermetrix Consultant which looks at a person’s values, behavioural style and decision making process.

• Nicola Dillon Specialist

Nicola Dillon

Specialist

Within Remarkable Nicola specialises in a range of services: Investors in Young People, Investors in People, Skills for Growth, Intent-Based Leadership and tailored consultancy.

Nicola is strongly driven by making a difference and believes that organisations are more successful when they develop and give more control to their people. Clients have described her as inspiring, energetic, full of encouragement and constructively challenging. Young people have described Nicola as fun which makes them feel comfortable in talking about their jobs in a way they never thought was possible.

Nicola holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management with Distinction, NLP Master Practitioner and a Cosca Counselling Certificate. Prior to working with Remarkable, Nicola worked at a senior level as an HR and Organisational development specialist in the Education and Private Sector where she developed a passion and commitment to lifelong learning and highly developed people management and leadership practices.

• Paul Davies Specialist

Paul Davies

Specialist

Within Remarkable Paul is a specialised Intent-Based Leadership consultant, supporting organisations to develop leadership at every level. Paul possesses an unrelenting belief in developing people to optimise their potential as well as a proven track record in supporting teams from Board to Entry level. Throughout his career, he has enjoyed developing organisations spanning retail, commercial and corporate business across blue-chip companies, such as Tesco, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Paul is a natural, authentic leader of people who believes passionately in the power of engagement and role-modelling by creating/transitioning culture that compliments personal and business growth; by reviewing/changing the organisation design to achieve present and future dreams and aspirations.

• Ruth Hewitt Specialist

Ruth Hewitt

Specialist

Ruth is an experienced manager and organisational development consultant who has worked with organisations of all sizes.  A good listener, probe and analyst with a relaxed approach, Ruth explores the barriers in organisations that get in the way of people being able to do the best job they can each day as well as identifying what is working particularly well. By providing recommendations and solutions for change, Ruth supports clients in developing and improving their businesses and using the Investors in People framework is a key part of this process.

 

• Ruth Kelling Specialist

Ruth Kelling

Specialist

Ruth is a highly experienced Consultant with broad experience of working with both public and private sector organisations. She has twenty three years’ management experience across a range of sectors from private, public, charity, to higher education. She has specific expertise in coaching to improve performance, supporting organisations with organisational development activities, and in delivering customer service excellence. 

• Ruth Oulton Specialist

Ruth Oulton

Specialist

Within Remarkable, Ruth specialises in a range of different services: Investors in People, Investors in Young People, Health & Wellbeing, general consultancy services and Skills for Growth.

Ruth is a highly skilled organisational development and people development consultant. She has extensive knowledge of working in all organisational sectors to enhance and improve the way that people are managed, supported and developed. She specialises in employee engagement, wellbeing issues, coaching, leadership and staff development initiatives.

Ruth has an NLP Diploma, is a LAB Profile Practitioner and is SFEDI accredited for business advice. She has worked with Remarkable for 18 years.

• Sean Kennedy Specialist

Sean Kennedy

Specialist

Sean has spent the last ten years changing people’s lives.  He is proud to be at the vanguard of a long overdue transformation of traditional management paradigms, fuelled by a passion for improving people’s working lives, and the contributions they make, at all levels of business.

Sean is a systems thinking specialist with a varied career history including a FTSE-100 financial services company and public sector roles. Before becoming a consultant, Sean had a long and successful career as a video game designer creating number-one selling products for Codemasters and then Sony.

Within Remarkable Sean is specialised in Intent-Based Leadership development, supporting organisations to create a future where autonomy, purposefulness, initiative, creativity, health and happiness flourish everywhere.

• Sheila Anderson Specialist

Sheila Anderson

Specialist

Sheila is an experienced HR Consultant and Coach to private sector companies, economic development agencies, further education colleges and charities through a variety of change programmes including structural redesign, redundancy, reward strategies and introduction of human resources policies.

• Stephen McQuillan Specialist

Stephen McQuillan

Specialist

Stephen works with Remarkable clients across a range of services: Investors in People, Investors in Young People, Advisory and Intent-Based Leadership and is one of our founding Intent-Based Leadership Pioneers. Product development is also an area of expertise where Stephen was instrumental in creating with others our Developing Boards and Innovative Teams services. Having a passion for service excellence, clients describe Stephen as dynamic, fun, innovative and thought provoking.

As a Chartered FCIPD MIC professional Stephen has over 25 years of experience as a Leadership Coach, Trainer, Organisation Development Consultant and Workplace Innovation expert. He encompasses a successful track record with vast experience in working with both the public and private sectors, multi nationals to SME’s and multi-site organisations. He also has Senior Management, Board level and start up experience.

• Willie MacColl Specialist

Willie MacColl

Specialist

Willie has more than 25 years’ management and consultancy experience in the public, private and third sectors.  Working with small, medium and large organisations, he has successfully delivered complex organisational development projects and led large diverse teams, in both in-house settings and in collaboration with others.  With international experience, he has worked in multi-cultural settings assessing and analysing organisational needs to support growth and to drive improvements.  Willie specialises in strategic planning, leadership & management development, team engagement, organisational design and improvement including how to embed Values and strengthen Company Cultures.

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