Vivienne Mackay

Vivienne Mackay is an experienced Relationship and Event Manager, working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations. Vivienne’s role is to continually develop productive business relationships, organise conferences, seminars and training days. She also delivers our unique and interactive, Making Connections – Networking Skills and Work Life Balance workshops.

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Coaching Style

Vivienne’s key strength is with her natural affable style of encouraging people to interact, make connections and get the most from an event. She has an inquisitive nature with a focus on learning and giving to others.

Areas of Specialisation

Networking and Work Life Balance events.

Career Background

Vivienne qualified as a Stage Manager and spent time working in Radio, Theatre, Television and Film. Her experience in these worlds involved managing budgets, creative problem solving and working with unconventional individuals. Vivienne’s natural ability to network stems from a colourful and diverse working background, and from travelling extensively whilst growing up. Vivienne enjoys cooking and playing with her kids.

Qualifications and Training

Diploma in Drama (Stage Management)

Niall Foster

 

Niall Foster is a pragmatic coach and facilitator with worldwide experience in human capital management, business culture transformation, change management, start-ups, value based management, strategic planning and competence development based on benchmarked best practices. Through his work he has extensive experience of writing on performance improvement themes with his best seller ‘Kaizen Strategies’ series published by the Financial Times/Prentice Hall. The Institution of Engineering and Technology publish his new book on Team Leadership in 2009. 

 

 

 

Areas of Specialisation and Approach

Niall aligns an organisation’s vision, strategies, employees with technology, processes and culture to realise bottom line results. He diagnoses issues, designs and implements/facilitates enduring measurable solutions. Niall’s approach is at the cutting edge of development. His methodologies are based on the assumption that organisations must find ways of tapping the inventiveness of their staff and systems in line with their customers changing expectations. He works with his clients and coachees to enable them to close the gap between concepts and practical action. He helps align attitudes and processes to create environments where people are better motivated, thus helping to bring about change and continuous improvement. All this is founded upon his expertise and experience as a manager, trainer and professional coach. 

 

Client Organisations

International work includes Microsoft and the Arab Academy of Science and Technology in Egypt; the Great Man Made River Project in Libya; Interlink College, Nigeria; Saudi Aramco; Al-Khafji Joint Operations, and Marafiq Power & Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, Qatar Gas; RasGas, and Transfield Emdad Services/Intergulf in Qatar; Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and PDO in Oman. During 2004-06 he delivered public programmes and 1:1 coaching for EuroMaTech and Glomacs, based in Dubai. 

 

Private sector experience includes Computer Associates, Cisco Systems, Nestlé, Dell, Toshiba, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, State Street Bank, Coutts, BT, Henderson Global Investors, the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development, Cuisine de France, ABN AMRO and Hibernian Insurance. Public sector clients include the NHS Scotland, the London Boroughs of Islington, Hackney, Merton, Lewisham, Kingston and Croydon, the Ministry of Defence, London Transport and Homes for Islington.

 

Career Background

While Niall is a consultant he also leads considerable numbers of personnel in companies where he works as an interim director. He assists organisations that want to build competitive advantage through the development of employee talents and skills in support of their company vision and strategies. He was interim Group Training Director with Barclays Bank and interim HR Manager at Vodafone. Additional interim and non-executive board roles include Stafforce Personnel, Sterling Commerce, Henkel, SAS Institute and Sandvik Steel. 

 

 

Qualifications and Training

Academic qualifications include a BA in Economics and an MSc in Organisation Development. He is a visiting lecturer and consultant at London Metropolitan University, Bournemouth Business School International, the Baltic Management Institute in Vilnius, Fairplace, Capita Consulting as well as a member of the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development’s Turnaround Management and Business Advisory Services team.   

 

Margo McClimans

Margo C. McClimans is a leadership development coach with experience building and delivering programs for executives and business students. She has coached all levels of management, from CEOs to first-time managers both in Italian and English.

Coaching Style

Her coaching style is extremely supportive and at the same time intense. Common remarks from her clients are that she makes one feel very comfortable opening up and that her questions are thought-provoking. Her experience living and working in the US, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, UK, Thailand and Italy have also contributed to her acute cultural sensitivity, which makes her coaching style very accessible and language very comprehensible to clients from any nationality.

Areas of Specialisation

She specialises in one on one coaching for leadership development. She also designs and delivers customised leadership and management training to groups in the topics of trust building, active listening, intercultural training, communication, feedback, conflict management, and persuasion among others. She uses indicators like 360-degree feedback, Kouzes-Posner SLPI, VIA strengths test, and MBTI.

Client Organisations

She provides coaching and leadership training around the world for managers at Siemens AG. She has also done individual coaching for employees of Agusta Westland, Telekom Slovenija, Cardinal Health, and others. She co-developed and coached for the Leadership Development program at CIMBA Consortium International (MBA) in Italy through the University of Kansas.

Career Background

Her own professional background is entrepreneurial; she founded International Stone Consultancy, a natural stone brokerage and consulting company that facilitates exportation from Italy to Europe, Middle East and North America. Previously she worked as Purchasing Manager for a stone importer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been in the stone business for nearly ten years and continues consulting in this field.

Qualifications and Training

Margo holds a BA with honours in International Relations from Franklin College Switzerland, an MBA from the University of Kansas’ CIMBA program and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach with training through CTI. She is also a Six Sigma Green belt, has Kepner-Tregoe project management certification, and also has expertise in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool. She is American born and also holds an Italian passport.