• 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.

• 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.

• Michelle Austin Specialist

Michelle Austin

Specialist

Michelle is an HR Specialist and skilled trouble-shooter who uses a mix of experience, creativity and forward thinking to help businesses and their people get better at what they do and achieve personal and strategic goals.

With 25 years’ people management experience in SMEs, whether working with managers, teams or individuals Michelle gives you the tools and techniques you need to inspire and deliver high and sustainable business performance. She challenges, supports, guides and mentors to help you develop, self-motivate and manage, working with purpose and facing change with confidence.

Michelle champions best practice - one quick fix doesn’t pave the way for a long and healthy future so she takes a holistic approach, looking at current functions and performance – what works, what doesn’t – to get the bigger picture. Tell her your vision of success and she’ll help you design a roadmap for change that’s fit for the task.

• 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.

• Raymond Boland Specialist

Raymond Boland

Specialist

Raymond Boland is an established management consultant specialising in the development and maintenance of effective people management and development strategies. He is passionate about good leadership, effective communication and engagement, managing performance, business values and the positive impact these elements have on organisations and supporting change.

• Kate Flory Specialist

Kate Flory

Specialist

Kate works with Remarkable clients across a range of services: Investors in People, Investors in Young People, Growing Remarkable Teams, Skills for Growth and Intent-Based Leadership. 

Kate is a certified Co-Active Coach with over 17 years’ experience as a Leadership Coach and NLP Practitioner, specialising in inspirational head-and-heart one to one coaching and creating powerful, experientially based coaching and leadership training programmes.

With a Business Administration degree specialising in marketing, she brings together her Learning and Development skills along with a wider business acumen. She works collaboratively with organisations to design and deliver an array of training including vision to values, facilitation skills, mentoring a young workforce, coaching and mentoring at work, effective goal setting, delegation skills and much more.

• Christopher Cox Specialist

Christopher Cox

Specialist

Christopher is an experienced management consultant who has also worked at a senior level in operations management. Before that, he was a soldier.

• 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.

• 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.

 

Favourite Food: Fish supper (gluten free)
Favourite Place: St Andrews

• Ewan Hunter Specialist

Ewan Hunter

Specialist

Ewan has worked as part of the Specialist team with Remarkable since 2014 to deliver a range of assessments, accreditations and consultancy activities such as: Investors in People, Investors in Young People, Growing Remarkable Teams, Developing Remarkable Boards, Skills for Growth and Intent-Based Leadership (IBL). He was also part of the team who developed the IBL solutions. 

For over 20 years as a management, leadership and executive search consultant, Ewan has worked with organisations across the world to find, develop, manage and assess their people.

Ewan’s “people” career started with MRI, at the time the largest Executive Search business in the world. After 9 years, he joined a couple of small boutique Scottish search businesses before founding his own consultancy business, HunterSearch, in 2011.

Currently, Ewan also engages with various organisations.  He is Executive Chairman for WorkbaseHR.com as well as holding other Associate roles within Merlin Consultancy (Global) Ltd and ProjectScotland; and providing pro-bono support to Strathclyde University S100 and Bright Red Triangle at Napier University. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Adopt an Intern, a Graduate recruitment organisation, between 2012 – 2015 and was part of the Edinburgh Guarantee Leadership Group, also 2012 – 2015. 

Before undertaking his consultancy career, Ewan graduated with an MA in Scottish History from Glasgow University, and had a first career as a professional snooker player.

• 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. 

• 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.

• Willie MacColl Specialist

Willie MacColl

Specialist

Willie has more than 20 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.

• Irene Macdonald Specialist

Irene Macdonald

Specialist

Irene is an experienced business consultant and QHSE Adviser.

• 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.

• Alix Malcolm Specialist

Alix Malcolm

Specialist

Alix is an Organisational Development Specialist with expertise in employee engagement, vision and values, leadership and management development, performance management, learning and development strategy, team development and coaching. She has a Masters degree in psychology and is particularly interested in organisational psychology and, specifically, neuro-leadership.

• Ruth Oulton Specialist

Ruth Oulton

Specialist

Ruth is an Investors in People Specialist and Business Gateway Adviser. She has an NLP Diploma, is a LAB Profile Practitioner and is SFEDI accredited for business advice.

• Jane Scobie Specialist

Jane Scobie

Specialist

Jane is an MCIPD Qualified HR Professional with experience working with a number of leading retail and media brands. She has led and managed projects encompassing leadership development, high performing teams, HR transformation and organisational development. Known for her ability to work with leaders to achieve strategic business goals through the development of pragmatic HR solutions, Jane is also accomplished in a range of interventions including Coaching, facilitation of workshops and the Insights Discovery Tool.

• 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.

• Nic Taylor Specialist

Nic Taylor

Specialist

Within Remarkable Nic works on Intent-Based Leadership projects in the UK and is one of our founding Intent-Based Leadership Pioneers. She has also supported developing some of the IBL products and currently collaborates internationally with David Marquet’s company Turn the Ship Around for International IBL consultancy development. Amongst others, Nic worked with IBL clients such as DSM (in Switzerland and USA), Skills Development Scotland, Perth and Kinross Council, Scotrail and UK Visa and Immigration/ HM Passport Office.

During her career, Nic’s experience in using customer/user-led inputs to form stimulus for strategy, change, leadership and team development programmes spans through various senior roles in different sectors, such as Finance, Automotive, Governmental and Consulting. Nic also led her own Executive/Performance Coaching and Training business and became Head of the Association for Coaching in Scotland. From 2007 to 2015, she was the Leadership Development Partner to The Co-operative Group (Retail) in Scotland, and then similarly for the UK supporting Retail and Group projects, where ultimately, she led the flagship Retail Senior Leadership Programme with Lane 4.

Nic is a qualified Coach, MBTI and NLP Practitioner and as well as an OCS/ILS Practitioner (HayGroup’s Culture and Leadership assessments). She has an Honour Business degree from The University of Edinburgh, was awarded The Ford Dissertation Prize and a 1st grade for her dissertation on the management of change in the finance sector.

• 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.

• 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.

Favourite Food: Curry/Pizza
Favourite Band: Envoi
Favourite Place: Glasgow

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