Talent Management in the current climate Brewing up ... - Ashridge

2008 was Ashridge Consulting’s most successful year ever with our
services very much in demand and an increasing number of large-scale
organisation change assignments.
The year also saw some significant
other achievements, notably:
• The successful delivery of an
ambitious consulting project – the
world’s first truly virtual leadership
programme.
• The launch of Erik de Haan’s
book Relational Coaching to
critical acclaim.
• The celebration of the 10th
anniversary of our flagship
programme, the Ashridge Masters
in Organisation Consulting.
• The launch of Ashridge
InterfaceRAISE, a collaboration
of our insight into organisation
change and engagement with
the experience and know-how
of global flooring company
InterfaceFLOR – pioneers in
sustainable business practice.
• The development of partnerships
to deliver our programmes in both
Denmark and Abu Dhabi.
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In a previous issue of Converse we
introduced you to our four practice groups
(Strategy, Talent and HR management,
Change and Leadership) and the consultants
who were leading them. While recognising
that organisational challenges rarely fall
exclusively into just one area, we find that
the practice group structure increases the
clarity, focus and accountability for our
clients. With changing client needs and
developments in our own thinking and
expertise, our practice groups have grown
over the past year – here are the people to
get in touch with:
To ensure that we maintain both our specialist edge and our capability
to support our clients in the best possible way, we recruited three new
consultants: Nick for his sustainability expertise, and Liz and Bruno for their
considerable change experience.
Nick Ceasar
Nick joined Ashridge Consulting to
add his expertise to our growing
sustainability practice and further
the Ashridge InterfaceRAISE
collaboration. He recognised that
“combining the Interface story with
the Ashridge Consulting approach
to change, leadership and strategy
created the essential ingredients
needed to make sustainability an
integrated value-adding experience
for all of our clients”.
He has worked in the area of
corporate responsibility for almost
a decade, both as an adviser
and practitioner. He has advised
numerous large multinationals
and has experience of corporate
responsibility practice in Europe,
the US, Asia and the Middle East.
Nick shares a day in his life in
the article on page 8.
Liz Wiggins
Liz joined Ashridge Consulting
after an international career in
marketing, internal communications
and consulting because she was
“impressed by the calibre and
depth of experience of Ashridge
consultants and was inspired by the
commitment to do the right things
for clients, not what makes most
money – an attitude that sadly not
all consulting firms practise!”
Liz has led and participated
in a wide range of consulting
assignments from strategy
implementation, culture change,
internal communication and
employee engagement, working with
a variety of high-profile organisations
including Microsoft and Oxfam.
She is currently co-authoring a
book on The Theory and Practice of
Change for the OUP.
Organisations in transition/Culture change and renewal
Caryn Vanstone caryn.vanstone@ashridge.org.uk 07880 788279
Developing leaders and top teams
Lindsey Masson lindsey.masson@ashridge.org.uk 07775 946790
Strategy engagement
Chris Nichols chris.nichols@ashridge.org.uk 07738 803410
Philippa Hardman philippa.hardman@ashridge.org.uk 07714 697159
Virtual working
Ghislaine Caulat ghislaine.caulat@ashridge.org.uk 07785 371421
People and performance
Sally Hulks sally.hulks@ashridge.org.uk 07766 813288
The business of sustainability
Anthony Kasozi anthony.kasozi@ashridge.org.uk 07760 171817
Nick Ceasar nicolas.ceasar@ashridge.org.uk 07595 650307
Bruno Dalbiez
When Bruno joined Ashridge
Consulting at the end of 2008 he
knew the organisation quite well.
Indeed, before he embarked on
the first-ever Ashridge Masters in
Organisation Consulting, launched
in January 1997, he was already
a client of long-standing in his role
as Organisational and Change
Management Consultant with
Hewlett-Packard. “My reason for
joining was to learn from, contribute
to, and become part of, a very
special community of world class
professionals with a culture and a
set of values and beliefs as close to
my own as I could dream of.“
He has over thirty years
of international experience in
management and leadership
development, change and
organisation development in global
technology companies.
He brings with him expertise
in a broad range of approaches to
individual, team, and organisation
development and change, including
appreciative inquiry and complexity.
His areas of interest beyond work
are cooking, oil painting, wines and
foods of the world.
Bruno is fluent in English,
French and Spanish and thrives in
multi-cultural environments.