Bath Consultancy Group

Meet The Team

 

Professor Peter Hawkins Ph.D. - Chairman and Founder of Bath Consultancy Group

Peter is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in organisational learning, managing complex change and development of organisational culture.

He has worked with many leading companies in Britain, Europe, North America and South Africa, co-designing and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects. He has been a keynote speaker at a number of international conferences on the learning organisation and teaches at a number of business schools.

Peter Hawkins has consulted to a number of leading financial, manufacturing and service organisations including 3i, Capespan, Ernst & Young, Department for Work and Pensions as well as leading companies throughout Europe. He has helped a number of senior executive teams develop their vision, values and strategy for the future, both in commercial companies, higher education and large professional organisations.

 

David Jarrett - Chief Executive Officer

After more than 15 years at PwC and as a Partner at KPMG Consulting, David has considerable experience of identifying, proposing and managing change to deliver value.

He understands the complexity of implementing major changes in large organisations and has experience of integrating the positive and negative forces to deliver results.

David’s range of experience provides a unique perspective against which to challenge and develop the thinking of executives in both the private and the public sector. He is often selected by clients to work with direct and strong-minded individuals.

 

Chris Smith - Director 

Chris has over 20 years experience as a consultant, coach and business manager working with a range of industries, including FMCG, financial services and telecommunications. His consulting work encompasses leadership and team development as well as organisation change. He most enjoys challenges which connect these elements, enabling real shifts in performance.

He has worked with Bath Consultancy Group for over 6 years, having previously been a client of the firm. Current projects include a global executive coaching strategy, including the development of HR Business Partners as coaches; developing team leadership; coaching individuals and senior teams; action learning projects and leadership development programmes that create real shifts. Other recent work includes a comprehensive change initiative working for an extended period with the Executive team and Board. Clients that he has worked with recently include Unilever, Microsoft, Diageo, Nokia, NSN, Ernst & Young and Baker & McKenzie.

In the past, as an Associate Programme Director with London Business School, he worked on several leadership development programmes with international companies in banking and manufacturing.

Previously, as the Director responsible for leadership and management development at Cable & Wireless Group, he set the learning strategy for the senior population and introduced the first integrated, global approach to talent and management development. He also led the whole training and development function through a period of rapid downsizing and outsourcing. For several years he led an internal organisation consulting team at C&W, working around the world to facilitate change and improve business performance. He led the change, culture and leadership elements of a global integration process. He facilitated many senior, international leadership team meetings and also developed the coaching skills of the global leadership population. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Consultant at Price Waterhouse, undertaking numerous organisation development and change assignments.

 

Fiona Ellis - Director

Fiona is a managing consultant in the leadership team at Bath Consultancy Group and she is an experienced consultant, coach and designer of development workshops. She has a strong, calm, facilitative style, and enjoys working closely to support internal consultants, drawing on her own experience as an internal consultant for ten years.

She consults to a range of organisations across the private and public sector range of work including leadership development, working with culture change, whole systems transformation, HR development, action learning, and team development.

She has worked internationally for clients in the oil industry, television, telecoms, and financial services and in the UK public sector, both government and health.
Recent projects have included:

  • Designing one of main leadership development programmes run within Nokia and leading a team delivering this in Europe and Asia

  • Developing a team development framework for Nokia Siemens Networks and implementing globally through on line team charter process, developing Hr to support Team development and a global programme on Leading Teams for managers

  • Leading a project team working in Department of Work and Pensions ( UK Govt) supporting the internal OD team and coaching the head of Leadership and Change Team

  • Developing an approach to Transition Support for senior executives, which is now being used in Shell Nokia, and DWP

She has broad experience of HR development and supporting internal OD specialists, having designed and led an HR Strategic Partners programme with senior HR Business Partners across Nokia.

She has an MSc in Change Agents: Skills and Strategies at Surrey University and has undertaken research into best practice in executive leadership development with international companies for the BBC. She has been a Non-executive director in an NHS Trust.

 

Nick Smith - Principal Consultant

Nick has been with Bath Consultancy Group for twelve years and is a Director of the company. He worked as a manager and management developer for a number of years in the public sector. The current focus of his work is in helping organisations that wish to develop new strategic directions and deliver new and challenging goals, to implement the culture and leadership changes that will sustain such activity.

Nick has been involved for many years on a variety of change consultancy projects, senior leadership programmes and business-based leadership development with Bath Consultancy Group's private, public and third sector clients. He has worked in various parts of Europe, Asia, Middle East, the US and South Africa with a range of global private sector organisations including Ernst & Young, Pcubed, PwC and Mayer Brown.  He is currently also working with a variety of local authorities, healthcare services, universities, police, fire services, social housing companies, national advisory groups and charities.

Post-merger work: Nick has worked on post merger integration across public, private and not for profit sectors.

In Public sector, he worked with a newly formed Children and Families Department of a Local Authority that was a merger of two separate departments (Education and the Children and Families part of Social Services). The work focused upon helping to secure two critical shifts: firstly to make sure that there was proper connectivity between Exec Team and the front line, which at least in one legacy department had been an issue before; and secondly the creation of a ‘new' culture from two very different legacy cultures. A critical part of creating the culture shift focused upon developing a mission statement for the new Department, that both ‘sides' could buy into, and begin the cross boundary integration, when their day-to-day activity encouraged silo working.

In the Private Sector, Nick worked on the integration of a global function within a new joint venture, which merged teams from the two legacy companies. The companies were based in different parts of Europe, although focusing upon the same sector. The cultural differences were significant, but the critical activity post-merger was getting clear and owned communication between the layers of the function. People were passing problems on, rather than accepting responsibility for making sure that issues were tackled and sorted by the team. The levels of personal support and challenge were low and needed to be increased as part of this. We also found a high level of assumption-making about what people meant or wanted, rather than checking back and clarifying and getting agreement to the outcomes that were needed in advance.

In the Not-for-Profit sector, he worked with a National Charity/NGO that was created out of the amalgamation of various organisations in the sector. The Exec team were a mix of people from the previous organisations. In this case the focus of the work was on the top team, and how they could work more sharply together, at a time when Government wanted them to play a more significant role nationally. Some of the lack of focus was caused by differing legacy priorities, some by personal differences in the way people interacted with each other, and some were caused by the differing cultures they brought with them.

Nick is a qualified systems psychotherapist, and a registered Myers Briggs Step 1 practitioner, as well as a certified facilitator of Oshry Organisational Workshops and has been a member of the Oshry Power Lab staff team at Craigsville, US. He is an experienced coach and supervisor of executive coaching and has co-written a book with Dr Peter Hawkins, "Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development" (McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2006), and co-authored a chapter on Transformational Coaching, in the "Complete Handbook of Coaching", Sage, London 2010.

Nick is also an accredited executive coach with APECS.

 

Gil Schwenk - Principal Consultant

Gil co-leads Bath Consultancy Group's coaching and supervision capability. He is an executive coach, coach supervisor and organisational development consultant. He specialises helping organisations realise value from coaching, team coaching and coaching supervision.

Gil’s passion is to liberate the potential of individuals and organisations. His clients span a diverse mix of private and public sector organisations including Nokia, NFU Mutual, Unilever, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Prison Service, NHS, West Midlands Local Government. His clients describe him as enthusiastic, empathic and perceptive.

Gil's recent client work includes:

  • Lead researcher and writer of Coaching Supervision: Maximising the Potential of Coaching published by CIPD
  • Training hundreds of coaches and mentors in a wide range of private and public sector organisations
  • Trainer and supervisor on the Bath Consultancy Group's Certificate in Coaching Supervision
  • Developing a network of coach supervisors across the National Health Service
  • A busy, growing practice of coaching, individual and group supervision, supervision of supervisors

Gil is also a facilitator and coach on the Executive Development programmes at London Business School working with international general managers. He is on the Advisory Board of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council UK (EMCC). He represents EMCC UK at the roundtable of professional coaching bodies.

Gil is a US national based in the UK who has over 25 years experience of Human Resource Development. He was Group Learning and Development Manager at Orange and previously Manager of PHH University Europe. At Orange, he was responsible for all training and development across the UK. Major projects included leadership and management development, creation and integration of mission, values and critical success factors; implementation of performance management systems, recognition and reward strategy and practices. He went ‘independent' in 2000 as a trainer, consultant and coach. He has worked with Bath Consultancy Group since 2005.

Gil has a BA in Communication and Human Relations, MA in Business and Organisational Communication, a post graduate diploma in training management and numerous coaching and coaching supervision programmes.

 

Rupert Harding - Financial Services Lead

After graduation Rupert spent 4 years on Chase Manhattan Bank’s ‘Advanced Development Program’, during this time he managed a number of large global operations teams, merged and re-engineered numerous global processes, ran large scale internal change programs integrating large operations teams across locations and functions. He also created a specialist Emerging Markets team and travelled extensively representing the Bank's global products.

At Northern Trust he established their global network group, coordinating relationships with over 40 ‘agent banks’, travelling to and working in over 20 countries, he also represented the bank on numerous global forums. Rupert headed the UK client relationship management group before moving on to sell Northern Trust’s global product suite to UK institutions.

Rupert spent 5 years as a director of one of the UK’s leading financial services search companies and has spent the last 10 years in Financial Services consultancy.
He has focused in the areas of talent resourcing, director level search, learning and development, leadership development and culture change.

In the public sector he has written papers on change for Connecting For Health, and worked as a change consultant as part of NPfIT for the Department of Health. He joined Bath Consultancy Group in 2008 and specialises in the Financial Services sector. He spent a large part of 2009 in the Middle East, recruiting and training a pool of coaches and assisting in the establishment of a regional financial services business academy based in Doha.

A keen one design sailor, Rupert has competed in many National, European and World Championships and is the current RS Elite National Champion. Last year he raced a 40ft boat across the Atlantic returning in time to compete in the longest downhill ski race in Europe. Rupert is based in the New Forest, married to a local GP, has two dogs and enjoys mountain biking, tennis and watching rugby.

 

Mike Worsley - Senior Consultant 

Mike is a commercially and strategically focused organisational development professional with global experience gained through a range of multi-national companies, spanning both the private and public sectors.

With over 10 years of experience, he has worked across various industries including Banking, Hi-Tech & Telecoms, Oil & Gas, FMCG as well as Professional Services. Mike’s knowledge and understanding has further been enhanced by working across a variety of cultures and regions, ensuring a broad and eclectic global experience has been gained.

Having developed a strong multi-faceted skill base in leadership development, OD, talent management, change, marketing, programme management and commercial business management, he has a proven successful track record of delivering results in fast changing and complex environments.

The skillsets Mike has acquired have enabled him to design and deliver bespoke interventions within organisations to enhance individual and collective performance, as well as the cross functional collaboration required to overcome recognised internal system issues. Delivery of such events has taken place at a local, regional, national and international level within organisations.  Some of his work to date has included:

  • In depth International strategic analysis, review and proposition development
  • Design, development and delivery of national and international leadership development programmes
  • Development of vision and employee engagement strategies for change
  • International executive and leadership coaching (individual and team)
  • Talent planning, development and retention programmes
  • Strategic recruitment, assessment and staff appraisal programme development
  • Virtual solution development across L&D, leadership and change

Following his successful expedition to the North Pole, Mike has subsequently delivered a number of motivational talks and after dinner speeches. Further developing his strong areas of interest, some themes he has developed for clients beyond motivation include leadership, communication, process re-engineering and teambuilding.

 

Chris Preedy - Commercial Manager

Chris joined the BCG team in early 2006 with responsibility for managing the smooth running of a major client engagement.  Having moved on to coordinating two sectors within the firm, he is now Commercial Manager, covering BCG’s financial performance and planning.

Chris took a chemistry degree at Imperial College before taking the plunge into the business world. He has worked for Japanese telecoms multinational Fujikura, handling accounts with Nortel, Ford, General Electric and others. From the outset, his career has involved virtual teaming and cross-cultural working.  He then moved to heading up product development for an anodised treatment process for improving the heat transfer properties of aluminium.

He has travelled extensively in Asia, Latin America and Africa and enjoys running and spending time with his young family.

 

Andy Russell - Project Manager

Andy is a Project Manager for Bath Consultancy Group Ltd. He came to Bath Consultancy Group with over 7 years experience in the Learning and Development field and a further 5 years experience in Retail management.

Andy is responsible for maintaining successful relationships with existing clients; this involves liaising with the client’s to arrange logistics, administration, material design and the financial aspects of any programs. Additionally he provides technical support in the creation of bespoke proposal for potential new clients.

Andy manages the Hi-Tech and Public sectors at Bath Consultancy Group with clients including Nokia, NSN, T-Mobile, NHS and the HM Prison Service. He is also the Network Liaison for the Company which involves managing Consultant, Associate and Client relationships.

In his spare time Andy also works as a Sports Medic for Bath Rugby Club and Bristol City Football club. Other interests include music and playing sport.

 

Jodie Byrtus - Project Manager

Jodie Byrtus is a Project Manager for Bath Consultancy Group with over 5 years experience in the Learning and Development field for both the public and private sectors.

Jodie is responsible for coordinating and supporting Bath Consultancy Group's clients and projects in the Commercial sector.  Clients include Genzyme, Finnair and Unilever for whom she manages the Executive Coaching Service (ECS).

Jodie manages marketing activities for Bath Consultancy Group including maintaining the companies Linked In and Twitter sites and organising key functions and events.  She also looks after the Learning Values Network which is a group of senior OD/HR Professionals who meet regularly to discuss current OD issues.

In her spare time Jodie enjoys travelling and frequently visits family in Mexico.

 

Emma Wilson - Project Manager

Emma is a Project Manager at Bath Consultancy Group Ltd. She has recently relocated to Bath after living and working in Jersey in the Channel Islands for the last 10 years, where she spent 5 years in recruitment and previous to that, 5 years working within financial and hospitality sectors.

Emma is responsible for management of client projects within key accounts and primarily within the Financial Sector.  Clients include HBSC, GE Capital, NFU Mutual, Ernst and Young, The Foreign Commonwealth Office and Singapore Civil Service.

Additionally, she provides general project administration and tender/proposal support, including development of materials and associate and network management support. Internal business projects include co-ordinating key events such as BCG’s annual conference and marketing events.     

She is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships and diary management relative to key accounts.

Emma enjoys travelling home to visit family in Ireland and South Africa. She enjoys yoga and kickboxing in her spare time and is a qualified Reiki practitioner.