MLI has extensive senior experience
in international organisations, and a sound understanding of
the reality of taking new initiatives, and implementing change in
complex situations. When working with MLI, we provide a senior Account
Director, and a team of people with the knowledge and skills appropriate
to your needs - tailoring our services to each individual company
and applying MLI’s unique
intellectual capital.
Executive Directors
Andrew Mayo is a frequent speaker, writer and facilitator in international HRM, specialising in people and organisation development, having previously worked for nearly thirty years in major international organisations. He is a Programme Director at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and Associate Professor of HRM at Middlesex Business School. He is the author of numerous articles and books.
Geoff Atkinson is a development specialist with extensive experience gained in major businesses in the UK and overseas. A graduate in mathematics and computer science, he started his career as an Information Technology manager, later moving to roles delivering and managing people development in large organisations. He works with a wide variety of clients delivering programmes of assessment, learning and development, and organisational change.
Peter
Long has particular expertise in talent and performance management, organisation culture change and HR function effectiveness. He has led significant consulting projects and acted as facilitator to senior teams in both the private and public sectors. Peter gained over 20 years international Organisational Development and HR experience as a Director with Xerox Corporation, Forte / Granada plc and ICL / Fujitsu.
Nick Belcher is Director of MLI Training Services and specialises in creating bespoke learning and development programmes. Nick has ten years training and consulting experience gained from organisations in private and public sectors, and is developing and growing MLI's business in training and learning. He also personally delivers impactful training, executive coaching and facilitation.
Non-Executive Director
William
Scott-Jackson has a doctorate from Oxford Brookes University
in the psychology of change and has presented and written on
all aspects of management psychology and people in business.
He is
a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (Skope) and Director of the Centre for
Applied HR Research at Oxford Brookes University Business School,
which carries out practitioner oriented research into the impact of HR in business.
Our Associates
Andy
Bedwell has considerable HR and line
management experience, drawn from both FTSE 100 organisations and Global
HR consultancy. He has worked with European boards to design key elements
of HR strategy but has also held the implementation responsibility for
Talent Management, Resourcing and Development. He specialises in assessment
and development of key and senior talent but has also delivered programmes
covering a wide range of the HR agenda.
Ian Collett specialises
in the design of innovative customer services training and development
events and in the last 4 years has delivered these to over 200 organisations.
He is a qualified practitioner for the use of occupational psychometric
tools including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Saville and Holdsworth
Occupational Psychometric Instruments used for personal and team development.
Ann Edwards is based in the UK, and works as an HR & OD professional with large corporates, professional services and small companies (B2B & B2C) in a growth phase to help them transition to new financial ownership structures, or where they require additional people corporate governance to be successful in the next stage of their development.
Her
particular expertise is in designing and supporting succession and talent strategies. Ann has held a number of senior management and organisational development roles with ICL Fujitsu, BBC and the Hilton Group.
Deana
Hirst has
spent most of her career in People Development, working in senior HR
roles for large multi-national businesses in the technology and communications
sector. Since 1996 she has worked successfully as an independent specialist
who enjoys working on skills development projects - for individuals and
teams. Her areas of focus include performance coaching, mentoring and
leadership development. A second area of specialisation is the custom
design and facilitation of development and assessment centres.
Patricia
Hodgins has expertise in the
design and delivery of programmes in Leadership and Management, Team
Building, Executive Coaching, Communications Skills, Diversity and Equal
Opportunities, and Work/Life
Balance. She has held positions in areas as diverse as the Theatre, Advertising
and Recruitment consultancy and regularly runs programmes for London
Business School.
Liz
Kennedy worked as an HR practitioner in the pharmaceuticals industry
before becoming a lecturer at the University of Westminster and management
trainer. She has done extensive consultant work with the BBC and run
many training programmes in a great variety of public sector organisations.
Peter
Kennedy is
a highly experienced consultant, coach and facilitator who has worked
with senior leaders and their teams on all aspects of business leadership,team
and personal development. He has worked in Europe, USA and South Africa
and has qualifications in areas of human resource and change management
as well as high performance coaching and the use of various psychometric
instruments.
Helen Lewis is a Chartered Marketer, specialising in working with SMEs to develop their business. Having spent several years as Business Development Manager with Business Psychologists and other consultancies, Helen is now helping MLI understand and meet their customers' needs.
Ginny
Spittle specialises in organisation effectiveness. She has 25 years experience
in large multi-nationals, supplemented by periods working in significant
management consultancies. Her last corporate role was as Head of Global
Resourcing and Development for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies.
Penny
Thorley has previously
worked for multi-nationals with a focus on management
development and supporting businesses in transition. More recently her
work has included designing and facilitating leadership programmes, providing
1:1 coaching and developing more effective business teams for multi-national
clients in Financial Services, Government, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals,
Retail and Telecommunications. She
is a member of the British Psychological Society.
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