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Peter McCann

Senior Partner

Peter is a creative business leader and coach. He coaches junior, middle and senior managers through Outplacement and Redundancy. His team supports them in finding new work, and helps those setting up their own ventures by providing incubation advice. Each Redundancy Forum Programme ( RFP) lasts for six weeks at half a day per week to allow for developmental improvements and collaborative working to stimulate positive outcomes. This exclusive  focussed programme is NOT a series of disconnected one to one sessions so often offered by traditional Outplacement firms, but rather an intensive and highly successful team coaching exercise.CertaintyOne designed and delivered a training programme which has now resulted in 64% of participants finding employment.  Over the last two years, some 290 executives from different industry sectors participated in 17 team coaching courses, with each team engaging once a week over six weeks.

The Redundancy  Forum Programme (EFP) has been exclusively designed by CertaintyOne’s specialist outplacement, redundancy, career transition and health and wellbeing coaches. RFP’s target audience is executive directors and senior and middle managers who have recently been made redundant and whose needs are not really catered for by their local Jobcentre Plus, or from traditional expensive one to one outplacement services. The aim of the programme is to help these individuals with professional careers, with management and budget holding responsibility and average incomes usually over £30,000, to find employment significantly faster than they would normally be able to. On average, it takes 6 – 12 months for an executive to secure permanent employment after redundancy; for some up to two years in the current climate. Many clients are aged over 40 and have no modern expertise in relation to CVs, online job hunting, ‘hidden market’ applications, interview skills, managing job loss/self-esteem, and for some re-launching or changing their careers. The programme provides value on many levels. Its objective is to enable people from professional careers, who were in long term employment but are now unemployed, to re-launch their careers successfully.

CertaintyOne’s core EFP programme covers ten key elements:

1.     Assessing status and setting objectives.

2.     Coping with stress, and financial planning.

3.     Sharing experiences and co-coaching on career successes.

4.     LIFO behavioural style profiling with dynamic 360 feedback.

5.     Career re-assessment.

6.     CV re-building.

7.     Job Searching and handling of Recruitment Agencies.

8.     How to use Social Networks to build personal brands.

9.     Interview coaching and handling difficult questions.

10. Personal action plans and accountability.

Complementing his corporate career, Peter incubated, funded and managed his own SME, and with the support of partners completed, as Chairman, a successful trade sale. This gave him a deep appreciation of managing people, releasing equity and sharing management skills, and the harsh realities of cash flows. Peter holds a BSc in Physics from Strathclyde and is LIFO accredited. His assignments include recent projects across the UK  for Outplacement and Redundancy coaching. Peter is a strong advocate of corporate and social responsibility and his policy is to ensure that the business demonstrates integrity at all levels, and that clients get good honest value for money, whether in the Public Sector or Private Sector domain. As a father of a special needs young adult, he has great respect for the vocational commitment of many employees in Social Services, Education and the Department of Health.

Shirley Hawkins

Outplacement Specialist

Shirley brings many years' experience to the team. She offers support to Companies who have to put redundancy programmes in place, helping manage the process and ensuring that staff are treated fairly. Shirley recognises that in a tough economy, costs may have to be cut fast but it is  also important  to motivate remaining staff who have to carry heavier workloads. In this respect her coaching and team leadership skills are vitally important.

Shirley has been a key figure in developing CertaintyOne’s EFP core programme which covers ten key elements:

1. Assessing status and setting objectives.

2. Coping with stress, and financial planning.

3. Sharing experiences and co-coaching on career successes.

4. LIFO behavioural style profiling with dynamic 360 feedback.

5. Career re-assessment.

6. CV re-building.

7. Job Searching and handling of Recruitment Agencies.

8. How to use Social Networks to build personal brands.

9. Interview coaching and handling difficult questions.

10. Personal action plans and accountability.

The programme was continually amended to include occasional contributions from other specialists when relevant, on topics such as volunteering, operating as independent consultants, marketing, franchising, starting a business, using social media, health and wellbeing, and work/life balance.

Richard Goat

Partner

Richard has a wealth of experience in leading and coaching at Board level. He runs company wide strategic reviews. He has developed a specialism in running Constraint Workshops to help leaders develop mutli-disciplinary teams and improve growth...combining business and personal development. These programmes link corporate objectives to business plans and current executive skills, and help  identify resolutions of major constraints to growth and success. Richard has significant strength in developing start ups.

Richard has a Masters degree from Cambridge. His experience includes assignments at IBM, Continuum (now CSC) Vamp Medical Systems, Portrait Software as well as many leading Banks and Insurers and Barnardo's Children's Charity.

Laura Tovey

Partner

Laura is a senior coach who helps individuals and leadership teams clarify vision, think and act strategically and improve interpersonal and team effectiveness. She has held divisional global and European positions at Goldman Sachs and Barclays. Laura is a master practitioner in NLP, is trained in a variety of psychometric tools, is LIFO accredited, and has had work published in the Journal of Strategic Change and the Journal of European Industrial Training.

Laura has an MBA, and a BA in Marketing from Lancaster. She speaks fluent German. She is a member of the CIPD. 

She has led assignments at McKInseys, Barclays, Euroclear, ITV, Lazard, RBS, PInsent Masons and Oxfam.

Karen Hatt

Partner

Karen is an experienced coach with a focus on Performance Management and Personal Development. She has significant experience of handling Outplacement and Redundancy Coaching for Executives and young people including graduates. She developed her skills with Merrill Lynch, International Playtex and the Thomson Corporation.

Karen has been a key figure in developing CertaintyOne’s EFP core programme which covers ten key elements:

1.     Assessing status and setting objectives.

2.     Coping with stress, and financial planning.

3.     Sharing experiences and co-coaching on career successes.

4.     LIFO behavioural style profiling with dynamic 360 feedback.

5.     Career re-assessment.

6.     CV re-building.

7.     Job Searching and handling of Recruitment Agencies.

8.     How to use Social Networks to build personal brands.

9.     Interview coaching and handling difficult questions.

10. Personal action plans and accountability.

The programme was continually amended to include occasional contributions from other specialists when relevant, on topics such as volunteering, operating as independent consultants, marketing, franchising, starting a business, using social media, health and wellbeing, and work/life balance.

 Karen holds a BA in English from Smith College Massachusetts, USA and an MSc in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from The London School of Economics and Political Science. Achieved the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development ( CIPD). Advanced Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring - merit grade - qualified by  the European Mentoring and Coaching Council ( EMCC) . Karen is trained in a variety of pyschometric tools including LIFO.

Assignments include Thomson Financial Services, American Banker/The Bond Buyer, General Electric Credit and Mobil Oil. 

Barbara McAuley

Partner

Barbara is an experienced line manager and consultant in pan-European customer support and distribution services. She developed her operations skills with market leaders such as $8bn US Newell Rubbermaid, UK based Mothercare, and a German Industrial Tools company. She has project led complex change management and IT efficiency programmes in 16 countries where she reduced costs in sales through centralisation, and improved accounts receivable and logistics operations.

Training was also central to these roles and Barbara, as an IFL member, is also a registered part-time lecturer in several colleges in Hampshire and Dorset, having initially studied IT and Economics at Heriot Watt, Edinburgh.

Vipul Thacker

Public Sector Specialist

Vipul has over 20 years' experience in the Public Sector. A former  Audit Commission Inspection and Corporate Inspection accredited Team leader, Vipul has led major transformational change assignments looking at corporate and service reviews leading to service and corporate excellence.

He has led multi-disciplinary teams with a focus on performance management.

Vipul’s understanding of the public sector enables him to mentor and coach senior managers and staff through stressful situations such as Redundancy and/or Senior Role Changes caused by mergers and rationalisations across Local Authorities and NHS Trusts, SHAs and PCTs.

With an MBA and postgraduate diploma in management studies, Vipul has been a specialist lecturer in Strategic Management.

Sally Wells

Perceptive Placements - Manager

Sally is passionate about helping Senior Executives and the Young Unemployed find appropriate placements, and has unique skills to find interim (or full time positions) in an economy where many companies do not wish to hire full time staff on the payroll until their markets pick up again.

She understands how important it is to assess and value the skills that Senior Executives offer and she takes the time to ensure their time is not wasted…and their communications responded to! 

Sally joined the recruitment industry in 1996 after a successful career in logistics and publishing.

Her first role was with Adecco where she was a Director of Adecco Managed Services and her last role was as Director of Operations managing a team of 500.

After a short period as MD of Crone Corkhill, Sally spent 7 years as MD of Teleresources Consultancy, Origin HR and Randstad Managed Services all now part of Randstad - the world's 2nd largest recruitment business.

Sally has also freely given her time to help 14-24 year olds get confidence and focus towards the career of their choice - working with both young people in education and also those looking for work.