This network represents a collection of trusted colleagues who know the process of design and the realities of delivery. Each individual draws on extensive experience and expertise to accelerate a consulting assignment.
The “blank sheet of paper” from first principles can of course be helpful. It can also be a long-winded job creation programme. This grouping within Talent World Consulting combines creative thinking about problems and options with pragmatism to implement solutions at pace.
Andrew Munro
Chartered Psychologist & Lead Director
Andrew Munro is a Chartered Psychologist and the lead Director of Talent World Consulting. He draws on 30 years’ experience from both sides of the table, as a client and as a consultant. Andrew has worked with over 400 organisations in the corporate, public and the third sector. He has also partnered with other consultancies, from global firms to smaller independent firms to collaborate on a range of research, product development and validation assignments.
Dr Tom Kennie
Senior Level Leadership Transitions & Development Specialist
Tom is a founding director of Ranmore (www.ranmore.co.uk). He has worked with well over 200 organisations on a range of strategy, change, and leadership transition and development activities in the UK and globally. One particularly significant area of his current focus is in relation to career and leadership transitions for senior leaders particularly CEOs. His work on this in the higher education sector is partly captured in his jointly authored book on the topic ‘Leadership Transitions in Universities’ - Arriving, Surviving and Thriving at the Top’ (Kennie T. and Middlehurst R, 2021, Routledge). He also works routinely on developing high performing senior level leadership teams again often associated with a period of organisational transition. He works with public, private and third sector organisations.
Anushia Reddy
Consultant and Chartered Psychologist
Anushia is a consultant and Chartered Psychologist with significant experience operating with executives and leaders worldwide including Boards of Directors. Prior to consulting, she held a number of Regional and Group HR roles in a range of large and complex organisations across a different sectors from Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services to Retail.
She currently works with individuals, teams and organisations to more mindfully and intentionally shape a future of effective performance whilst maintaining wellbeing. Her areas of expertise includes: integrated talent strategy and execution; succession, executive and leadership assessment and development including coaching and mentoring; resilience and wellbeing.
Nick Cowley
Coach, Consultant and Facilitator
Nick Cowley is an experienced coach, consultant and facilitator. In his early career he worked in the UK, Europe and Middle East with global corporations in Operational, HR and OD roles. In 1994, Nick joined the international leadership consultancy, The Oxford Group, and led a wide range of consultancy assignments in assessment, individual and group development, and organisational transformation.
For over 10 years as a Director of The Oxford Group he was responsible for client acquisition and growth, strategic partnerships and revenue generation. Nick now focuses his own practice on executive coaching and mentoring work as well as providing consultancy support to help business grow.
Nick is also co-author of the best-selling book '5 Conversations to Transform Trust, Engagement and Performance at Work’ and originated the development program which runs alongside it. Nick is a keynote speaker in areas of personal and organisational transformation and has delivered presentations all over the world.
Masoud Golshan-Shirazi
Strategic HR Leader
Masoud is a highly commercial strategic HR leader with wide operational management experience. Although he has been a generalist, his passion and special expertise is in Organisational transformation with a strong leadership and talent strategy focus.
His adaptable style has helps him operate across many cultures in the world having lived in UK, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and UAE as well as working in 24 other countries. Masoud’s industrial experience includes, Telecom, FMCG, retail, energy, manufacturing, fashion, and financial services. He has worked in many start-ups as well as big global corporation in Group HQ’s, regional and country roles, as well as working in several privately-owned family businesses.
Some of the big companies he has worked for are well-known brand such as, BT (EE), Coca-Cola (VP 6 Yrs.), Vodafone (13 yrs.), Burton Group (Arcadia), Pizza Hut, Nationwide Building Society, and Yaohan International (Japanese).
Masoud has a proven and consistent record of business results delivery especially in managing business transformation such as managing sustainable fast growth, start-ups, M+A due diligence and integration as well as doing many big business turnarounds.
He is a thought leader working part time as a professor of global leadership at Leeds university since September 2021 as well as being a published author and conference speaker and a C suit executive coach.
Nick Shannon
Business Psychologist and Leadership Consultant and Coach
Nick is a chartered psychologist who spent the first 10 years of his career working as a trader in precious metals, commodities, financial futures and other derivatives. Subsequently he led the growth of a highly successful foreign exchange business. Convinced that the most fascinating and challenging issues in organisations are those arising from the management (and sometimes mismanagement) of people, since 1997 he has consulted to a wide variety of private and public sector organisations seeking to develop the strength of their leadership by providing executive assessment, coaching, and senior team facilitation. Nick has a particular interest in adult development and the cognitive transitions that leaders must make in order to work successfully at higher levels of complexity and hierarchy. He is the lead author of the book 'Metathinking: the Art and Practice of Transformational Thinking' published in 2020.
Nikola Tosic
Open Innovation Consultant
Nikola is a founder of openinnovation.me - open innovation platform and consultancy. Nikola has been working in product design, brand strategy, and marketing for more than two decades, and has focused in the last 4 years fully on open innovation. This resulted in a unique know-how in open innovation that can be used in product design, marketing, and sales. Nikola also has a rich experience across various industries and company sizes including multinationals, startups, and SMBs.
Karin Sode
Senior Business Executive, Entrepreneur and Consultant
Karin Sode is an experienced senior business executive, entrepreneur and consultant. She has founded and led a rapid growth business to £500m+ turnover in just four years, and she has provided strategic leadership advisory services, facilitation and coaching to Boards, CEOs and executive teams in a wide range of sectors. These include media, tech, manufacturing, financial services, utilities, FMCG, biosciences and professional services. Karin is known for her ambitious drive and direct challenge, combined with empathy and depth of understanding of individuals. Karin is a business leader and advisor first and foremost but an academic by background; she is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and holds a PhD from Edinburgh University.
Robert Bolton
Management Consultant
Robert is a management consultant with over 30 years’ experience with a big four professional services firm. Prior to consulting, he led the corporate HR function of a UK financial services organisation. He specialises in driving organisation performance and change from better people practices and optimising the potential of the HR function. Recent clients have included a global oil major, telco, insurance, pharma and government department.
His focus: helping clients build their capability to create the workforce of the future, drawing on the discipline of workforce shaping; evidence based HR to connect people to the business agenda; and nurturing an enterprise-wide digital mindset for organisation agility.
Grainne McAnallen, CFA
Leadership Coach and Systemic Consultant
Grainne has worked as a leadership coach and systemic consultant since 2007. Prior to this, she spent twelve years working as an analyst and portfolio manager in the hedge fund business. She applies a systemic lens to challenges, zooming in to look at the immediate circumstances of a specific challenge and zooming out to take account of all of the other system dynamics impacting on the situation. She works holistically, taking account of both visible and invisible dynamics i.e. working with what can be observed, as well as what is going on beneath the surface. Her work focuses on bringing unconscious dynamics that are keeping individuals, teams and organisations stuck in repeating patterns of behaviour into conscious awareness. Her goal is to start a movement towards a new way of showing up by shifting the belief systems, thoughts, and emotions that are anchoring the individual, team, or organisation in a certain way of being. When these hidden dynamics shift, change programmes, which largely focus on visible dynamics, have a much greater chance of success. Grainne has worked with senior leadership teams in listed businesses and at C-suite level, as well as with fast-growing businesses and not-for-profits. She has a particular interest in shifting cultural beliefs in organisations about the potential of women to progress to senior level.
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