AI powered Learning & talent intelligence Consultant
How it works
Extra Pair of Hands
I understand how busy it gets in HR & People teams. Constant ER requests, CoE projects, restructuring, merger, acquisitions, redundancies. So, what I want to do is bring an extra pair of hands to your team in Talent, Learning & Development.
I don’t have to fill a full FTE, I can help you on a specific project, a couple of days, a week, a month, or even a fractional 0.2-0.6 FTE resource over 12months. Imagine what you could get done if someone took those extra projects off your desk?
Success Metrics
I have always been a data guy, a bit of a nerd so I love systems and metrics and analytics, ROI and value add. That’s why I like to tie my projects to something tangible, something that delivers performance improvements to your business.
I am also a qualified coach, facilitator and passionate advocate of better leadership and nowadays that means AI. So, everything I do will be augmented with AI, reducing costs and increasing productivity for me, you, your teams and your org.
Strengths at a glance
Strong Points
When it comes to consulting there are 3 strengths I bring to the party that are unusual in my field when combined together:
1 – People Skills
2 – Tech. Development
3 – Commercial Acumen
This means I know how to bring out the best in people, can engineer solutions to business problems and understand where the ROI is.
We Solve Real Problems
what can we do for you?
Talent & Succession
AI-powered Talent Intelligence & succession planning consultant who combines 30 years of talent expertise with award-winning analytics to help mid-market organizations (1,000-10,000 employees) identify succession risks and build leadership pipelines—without expensive enterprise implementations.
Solving Workplace Bullying
Helping organisations solve workplace bullying through talent system redesign—addressing power imbalances, succession planning, psychological safety, and manager development—not just policies.
Combining talent systems + behavioural psychology + leadership development
Performance / Career Development
Career development coach helping mid-career professionals, managers and leaders navigate AI disruption by identifying and building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and AQ - AI Augmented skills - in a modern workplace.
AI can't replace human judgement, empathy, contextual understanding but some tasks will need to be delegated to AI tools allowing the Hybrid Human to thrive.
Bespoke Consultancy
We'd love to share our knowledge and experience
There are a lot of companies and boutique consultancy that can do talent and learning and development. What I offer is the chance to augment services with AI, quickly processing complex tasks, providing slick dashboards on progress and efficient use of your time and mine.
All learners will get access to Career Compass, where all the materials are stored and you have your own private learning space for your teams too.
Learning Consultant
A learning professional and head of learning for 3 decades, there is not much I have not done or seen. That said, I like pushing the boundaries using the latest technology, principles and practices, so look out for something a bit different too (AI is here after all)
- Learning Needs Analysis
- Skills Matrices
- Skills Academies
- LMS LXP Implementations
- Leadership Development
- AI + AQ Development
- Soft Skills
- Performance
- Coaching
Talent Consultant
When I first took a role in Talent Development in 2007, I was tasked with building an executive pipeline for the CEO. I challenged conventional thinking at the time, inviting everyone to take part, not just the ‘top’ 10% leading to higher engagement, higher performance and 8% EBITDA!
- Talent Strategy
- Talent Intelligence
- Talent Identification
- Talent Systems
- Succession Planning
- Talent Development
- Talent Engagement
- Talent Mobility
- Talent Planning
Experienced Contractor, Consultant and Facilitator
Projects and Cases Studies
- Situation: Proposed a new total talent management approach for senior leaders to help drive retain critical contributors, motivate continuous growth and reward high performance. Little or no development existed for c300 senior leaders across the global business.
- Actions: Investigation, identified success profiles including; competencies, traits, drivers, agility, and linked to role performance and succession suitability. Identified underlying model of high performance, then mapped across to talent development requirements, identified risks and mobility plan, captured within existing systems using AI/data analytics tooling to dashboard and inform executive teams on a monthly basis.
- Result: Succeeded in creating Top 200 (VP + above), then Top 600 (ED + above) STEP framework (Succession, Talent Development, Engagement, Performance. Built success profiles for key roles leading to 85% bench-strength coverage across 30 countries and a strong 3-5yr pipeline leading to a 45% swing to succession hires for senior executive roles.
- Situation: Little or no training or development existed for a predominantly technical/professional skilled workforce except compliance training with low completion rates. Attrition and retention and employee engagement were key challenges. Budget predominantly spent on external conferences.
- Actions: Focused activity into functional swim-lanes (compliance, operations, marketing, tech, central services, product, leadership) later hiring learning managers for each and developing the concept of Skills Academies based on subject matter experts (not ‘trainers’) developing experts and specialising content to role skills required that spanned several years.
- Result: Supported the business double in size against 4x revenue growth. Improved engagement from 78-84%, then 92%, reduced attrition by up to c40% in entry roles, increased delivery from 1,500-30,000 training completions per year including 73%-92% increase in compliance completions.
- Situation: Create a way to track and manage senior leadership talent across the 4 brands to provide flexibility and growth of the business.
- Actions: Proposed and built database tracking system and conducting interviews and coaching for senior leaders across the 4 brands (c100 leaders).
- Result: Completed the database and coaching in 3months allowing senior leaders to identify and track talent capability, readiness and development requirements.
- Situation: The client wanted a new performance management system and process due to issues with system scalability, growing requirements, new enterprise challenges that were not linked to performance and management resistance to outdated/nonsensical frameworks
- Actions: Led the Design phase; migrated data to SAP successfactors, collaborated with CPO, CEO, CTO, HRD and senior team leaders to design and implement a new process, system, and skills development approach for all employees and managers at all levels.
- Result: Succeeded in reducing operational costs by 50% and delivered the project including design and delivery of masterclass training and full systems implementation in 6m, resulting in contract extension to design and build management and leadership capability.
- Situation: AI implementation leading to risks of customer service skill redundancies. No application existed in the market to identify and predict skill redundancies.
- Actions: Working with tech developers and infrastructure product manager to build a career impact assessment. Scoping, market research, analysis and workflow design.
- Result: Application available for annual fee to help identify skill redundancy risks, advise on mitigation approaches, development and alternative career development to secure successful future career.
- Situation: Wanted to augment AI into the role of Talent Development. HRIS systems are cumbersome and hard to configure or change. Dashboards are inflexible.
- Actions: Designed an augmented agentic AI team to understand the problem and identify a solution then develop the solution to production level.
- Result: Total Talent Intelligence Dashboard that is HRIS agnostic that can build beautifully branded dashboards for clients with data and intelligent analytics that are relevant to their business.
