ABBEVILLE ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
Ann Marie has extensive experience supporting small and medium enterprises on human resource strategy and policy. She is experienced in the full range of HR areas including recruitment, pay and reward, appraisal, development and redundancy. Ann Marie has worked in a number of sectors including the financial services and accountancy sectors.
Ann Marie is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.
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- Training and Development Consultant
Catherine is an experienced Training and Development Consultant with 13 years experience in generalist HR manager roles with large multi-nationals in engineering, food processing and charity sectors. She has worked for 8 years as an independent consultant specialising in management/leadership development, coaching, and personal development.
Catherine provides training and development and general HR support to small and medium sized businesses, including charities, in London and the local area. As an experienced career coach she has helped many clients make successful progress in developing their careers and has also helped companies manage their restructuring and outplacement.
Catherine has a Masters degree from the University of London and Diplomas in Business Coaching and Personnel Management. She is qualified to conduct Myers Briggs Type testing and is also qualified in the Bar-On EQI for measuring Emotional Intelligence.
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- Di Is an Independent Management Consultant, Specialising in Diversity and Organisational Development
Her consultancy work has included auditing processes to ensure they meet equality and diversity requirements and principles. She has designed and delivering a wide range of workshops on equality and diversity issues for a wide range of public sector organisations.
A major element of Di's current consultancy portfolio involves outreach programs, working with skills development agencies such as PATH (Positive Action Training Highway), and organisations as diverse as the London Fire Service and the Royal College of Midwives. The major focus of this work has been on providing employment and development opportunities for BME graduates. Other recent public sector projects include equality proofing processes and procedures for the Highways Agency and GONW.
With extensive experience of general operational HR and specialised project management of HR related issues, Di moved into consultancy after spending over 13 years in Public Service Human Resource Management.
Di, MSc. FCIPD, is a full member of the CIPD and a senior associate of a registered CIPD assessment centre. This work involves delivery of CIPD qualifications through academic programs and competency based professional assessment. Also an internal assessor for IiP, Di has successfully project managed public and private sector accreditations
Diane is a senior consultant with Abbeville Associates. She is a highly skilled and experienced consultant and trainer. With a track record as a strategic innovator and leader, Diane was recognised for her strong leadership by the Audit Commission during time as leader of Bristol City Council. She specialises in equality, diversity and social cohesion issues, in particular in assisting organisations to respond effectively to the needs of the most disadvantaged and isolated communities. Diane has worked at national and international level where she is a highly regarded expert on equality and diversity.
A particular area of expertise is gender equality, including being an Expert to the Congress of Municipalities and Regions of Europe (CEMR) and to the Council of Europe. As UN Habitat Expert, Diane has undertaken the European section of the Global Assessment of the Empowerment of Women.
Diane has been a Speaker at international events including at the Urban Futures conference, the Forum for the Future of Democracy, the UN investigation into the status of women in New York and the World Women's Forum in Seoul.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of Abbeville Associates Ltd.
Linda Linehan is the Managing Director of Abbeville Associates Ltd. She loves to work with businesses and organisations to ensure that the values of equality, diversity and inclusion are lived out on a day-to-day basis: in the workplace, in business plans, and in meeting the needs of different customer and user groups.
Linda has over 20 years experience in leadership, learning and development, change management, human resources and equality and diversity issues. She has provided strategic, consultancy and organisational change support to a wide range of organisations in the public, private and not for profit sectors.
Linda has worked extensively with company directors, Board Members, Trustees and senior managers, on their own leadership styles, strengths and performance. She has also developed performance appraisal approaches which build on current strengths and deliver organisational success. A key area of expertise involves supporting organisations at a strategic level to improve equality outcomes, e.g. access to and take up of services, for communities and for workforce groups, valuing diversity and promoting inclusion.
Assignments have included using the Abbeville Leadership Excellence framework to evaluate leadership strengths and areas for development. Workshops in England, Wales and Scotland have covered equality impact assessment of policies and services, developing vision and values, team-working and strategic influencing. More recently, she has supported leadership development in faith groups, through facilitation of Leadership programmes, mentoring and group coaching.
In addition to an honours degree in Social Science and Public Administration from the University of London, Linda has a Masters Degree in Strategic Personnel and Development and a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and holds a certificate of competence for occupational testing (Level B plus) from the British Psychological Society.
Linda has been trained in, and conducted, community research for the Weir Link community project and is qualified to administer Myers Briggs Type Indicators (Steps I and II), 16PF and other psychometric tools.
Voluntary positions include Chair and member roles in leadership and steering groups. From 2002-7 she was a founder member of Tomorrow's Planners, a group managing a positive action programme to attract more black and minority ethnic planners into the planning profession. Linda has been a Governor of Morley College in London since 2006 and has held the posts of Director, Treasurer and Education Co-ordinator of the Premier Chapter of Business Network International. Linda is also a Trustee of St. Thomas with St. Stephen's Church.
Job Titles:
- Principal Consultant With
Lucy is a principal consultant with Abbeville Associates, and has more than twenty years of experience as a researcher and consultant working with private and public sector employers and policy makers in the UK and abroad. Her specialism is the development of corporate work-life strategies and the training and management of virtual and flexible teams. She has run a wide range of workshops on related subjects, such as flexible working, managing work/life, being a working parent/carer etc. Lucy is a also a qualified coach.
The organizations she has worked with range from local government to the City, community health services, large international banking and manufacturing companies to small businesses in rural areas. They include: Bank of England, BIS, BP, CAB, DEFRA, Ford Motor Company, Lloyds TSB, the National Audit Office, National Child-minding Association, Eircom, Guardian Newspaper Group, Hewlett Packard, CfBT, IBM, Littlejohn Frazer, London Borough of Brent, Ministry of Justice, NEC, Procter and Gamble, Rolls Royce, The Scottish Executive, UNISON, University of East Anglia, Wandsworth Borough Council, West Lothian Council. She was instrumental in the launch of the Government's Work-Life Campaign and as an accredited consultant, undertook numerous projects funded via the Work-Life Challenge Fund.
Lucy has also undertaken research on pan-European policies and practices, childcare and elder care provision. She has worked on EU funded projects with partners in Austria, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Portugal and Spain. She was the UK expert on the first major EU project mapping work-life policies and practices throughout Europe. In 2003 she received the ‘lifetime achievement' award from the National Work-Life Trust for her contribution to this field.
Founding Director of the national charity, Parents At Work (now Working Families) she has remained as a lead associate consultant there, whilst broadening her experience to include development of the Work Life Research Centre and the UK EAP service ‘Lifeworks' on behalf of Ceridian Performance Partners.
She writes extensively on the subject of flexible working, part-time working, work-life balance, elder and childcare. Publications include ‘Work Retune' an interactive web publication designed for senior professionals and managers when considering flexible working options (2008, Working Families), guides on Flexible Working for managers and employees when caring for someone terminally ill (2007,Help The Hospices). For Carers UK in 2005 she helped develop new on-line training for managers managing flexible working and carers' needs, in 2004 she produced the DTI Work-Life Diagnostic and Implementation Toolkit on behalf of Working Families. In a collaboration between the Work-Life Research Centre and the Industrial Society (now Work Foundation) she co-wrote the training video for managers: ‘Get The Balance Right' published in August 2001. Other publications in the past decade include: The Book of Balanced Living (Spiro, 2002), The Work-Life Manual (Industrial Society, 2000); Getting the Balance Right: a guide for small businesses (Employers for Work-life Balance, 2000); Part-Time Workers (IPD, 1999); Childcare for Employers (Parents At Work, 1998).
Prior to founding Parents At Work, Lucy worked for 10 years in the electronics manufacturing industry, eventually setting up her own marketing business. Her interest in work-life balance and the spur for setting up Parents At Work was partly her own experience of running a small business whilst raising a young family. The needs of small businesses remain an area of special focus in Lucy's work, as are the views of children and young people. She is a vice patron of Working Families.
Paul is a senior consultant with Abbeville Associates. He is a very experienced and well qualified diversity, HR and organisational development professional. He has held senior Learning and OD positions with Barts and the London NHS Trust and the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead. Paul also spent four years in the Audit Commission as an Inspector and Senior Performance Specialist, responsible for conducting inspections of local authorities, including Comprehensive Performance Assessments. As the Audit Commission's chair of diversity and equalities representatives, he designed and facilitated diversity training interventions to ensure diversity and equal opportunities were integrated into the Commission's regulation of, and on-going support to, public sector organisations.
Other relevant positions have included Senior Lecturer in Management and Professional Studies at Warwickshire College, part-time lecturing at the University of Westminster, and Head of Training and Quality Assurance for Westminster City Council Social Services Department. Paul was also a Sandhurst trained officer, Major, in the Royal Army Educational Corps. His final Army appointment in 1994 was Group Education Manager, managing an Army Education Centre responsible for the education, training, and resettlement needs of 5,000 staff in Kent and East Sussex.
Paul has worked on number of diversity and equality interventions, including a review of harassment and bullying in a central Government department. He has delivered equality and development programmes to a wide range of clients at all levels including the Border and Immigration Agency, Logica, L'Oreal, and the NHS. He is currently conducting an Equality Impact Assessment on HR procedures in a British University, and working with a team in designing and delivering a diversity leadership programme in an SHA.
Paul has an MSc in Training and HR, and an MA in Manpower Studies. He is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. Paul is also qualified in a range of psychometric tests including Myers Briggs, 16PF, OPQ and Leadership Judgement Indicators (LJI).