Philippa Riley
Director of Global Assessment Products
Philippa has extensive experience in the design and development of innovative online solutions for selection and development. Philippa believes passionately in the value of psychological research to inform and produce effective, engaging and evidence-based assessments.
Areas of Interest
Philippa’s main interests lie in applying technology, research and evidence to find better ways to meet Clients’ assessment and development needs. Philippa’s particular areas of interest are the design of innovative tools for selection including Situational Judgement Tests, Virtual Assessment Centres, and game based assessments. Philippa draws on scientific research to inform her work, and has written numerous articles and presented at conferences on a variety of topics.
Qualifications and Memberships
- HCPC Registered Occupational Psychologist, BPS Chartered Psychologist, MSc, BSc
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- BPS Registered Test User: Occupational, Ability and Personality
- Trained in a variety of psychometric tools, including Saville Wave®, Talent Q Dimensions, Hogan Personality Questionnaire&trade and JCA’s Emotional Intelligence Profile
Assessment Experience
Philippa’s experience in the assessment space primarily involves the creation of innovative online assessments and simulations for all role levels, from non-management through to senior managers and executives. She has extensive experience of conducting job analysis and designing competency frameworks, and of designing rigorous assessment processes around these including business simulations, situational judgement tests, competency based interviews and virtual Assessment Centres. Philippa has designed and delivered 1:1 leadership assessments for senior managers and executives using behavioural simulations and ‘deep dive’ structured interviews based around various psychometric tools to identify individual strengths and risk areas.
Development Experience
Philippa has experience of designing and using tools to facilitate development, including behavioural simulations and psychometrics. She has been a designer and assessor for senior development centre programmes, creating innovative bespoke exercises and delivering 1:1 feedback. Philippa has developed a number of 360 feedback tools, and has facilitated development discussions using these.
Dan Hughes
Director of Developmental Products
Dan brings a passion for evidence-based psychology and desire to help people improve their wellbeing and performance. He has worked for several HR consultancies, gaining over 20 years’ experience in the design, development and implementation of psychology solutions in business. Over his career he has developed a wide variety of different psychometric tools.
Areas of interest
His main strengths and areas of interest lie in psychometric measurement, technology-based assessment and development (particularly mobile apps) and data analytics.
Dan loves the insights that high quality psychometric tools can provide to individuals. They provide a lens or framework to help individuals really understand themselves and others better – a foundation for a powerful discussion with a facilitator or coach. He finds it very rewarding to be building and delivering products which can have a transformative impact on people’s lives inside and outside of their work.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc Psychology and MSc in Occupational Psychology
- Chartered Psychologist (BPS) and Registered Psychologist (HCPC)
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Test User Occupational – Ability and Personality
- Qualified in a range of psychometric tools – personality, Emotional Intelligence, strengths
- Assessment/Development Centres – Assessor Skills and Centre Design
- Over 20 years’ experience in the design and implementation of psychometric assessment and development solutions, enabled through technology
- Independent Test Reviewer for the BPS Psychological Testing Centre
Jill Pennington
Consulting Director for Development
Jill has had in-house roles in a number of large organisations – Ford, Diageo and Zurich. Working with these organisations has given her practical insight and understanding about the challenges faced by organisations and leaders. Combined with about fifteen years in leadership roles, her aim is to bring experience, inspiration but also pragmatism to the team and the work they do.
Areas of interest
Having worked in corporations and as a consultant, Jill is able to apply her business experience to develop practical, bespoke, and creative solutions to performance challenges at work. She works with organisations, leaders and teams who want to improve performance by changing behaviour and building skill.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BA Hons, certificate in coaching
- Over twenty years’ experience in Learning and Development working as a coach, consultant and facilitator as well as leading Consulting teams
- Early career in HR and L&D as well as a recent corporate role means she combines business focus and understanding with expertise in leadership, change and performance
- Interest in leadership, organisation and team development
- Master EI practitioner
Kat Lewis
Consulting Director for talent management
Kat is driven by her passion to help individuals and organisations achieve their full potential and enjoys taking a pragmatic approach with her clients. She has managed and delivered a range of UK and International talent management projects, including the identification of future leaders and best practise end-to-end assessment, development and behavioural change solutions for clients who span the globe and numerous industries, such as FMCG, financial services, telecoms, pharmaceuticals and retail.
Areas of interest
Kat’s main areas of interest include talent identification, leadership development and resilience & wellbeing, as well as helping organisations to demonstrate the measurable business impact of their HR interventions.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc Psychology and MSc in Occupational Psychology
- Test User Occupational – Ability and Personality
- Qualified in a wide range of psychometric tools including Saville Wave, NEO-PI-3, 16PF, EIP3, Hogan, Strengths Insight and The Resilience Questionnaire.
Ali Shalfrooshan
Principal R&D Consultant
Ali is an experienced business psychologist with a passion for using psychology, technology and psychometric test design to help organisations and individuals thrive. He has a particular interest in designing innovative solutions, which combine technology and scientific rigour to help deliver a measurable business impact.
Areas of interest
Ali is passionate about delivering innovative, technology driven solutions that deliver positive change within organisations. He enjoys building strong working relationships with his clients to ensure that he helps identify the best solution and supports them to achieve their business goals. He has a particular interest in using his expertise to help individuals achieve their potential and designing inclusive, immersive and fair recruitment processes. Ali draws on leading edge innovations in business psychology to inform his work, and has written numerous articles and presented at conferences on a variety of topics (Resilience, SJT design, employee engagement.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology
- Trained in a variety of psychometric tools, including OPQ, The Resilience Questionnaire, Saville Wave®, Talent Q Dimensions, Hogan Personality Questionnaire™ and JCA’s Emotional Intelligence Profile.
Assessment Experience
Ali has extensive experience in leading the design of technology enabled high volume recruitment solutions for a range of clients. He has designed a variety of solutions covering the entire end to end recruitment cycle, from attraction, sifting out to selecting in eg VR Realistic Job Previews, Multimedia assessments, Situational Judgement Tests, assessment apps, Culture/Motivation/Behvaioural fit measures, Virtual Assessment Centre Exercises, Online interviewing tools to name a few. Ali specialises in designing high-volume assessment solutions and in 2017, he and his colleagues won the ABP Excellence in Assessment Award for a recruitment solution he led the design of. His experiences in assessment are extremely varied and has worked with a range of clients; some notable industries include retail, hospitality, FMCG, housing associations, finance and public sector.
Development expertise
Ali has designed a range of online questionnaires, workbooks and courses to help individuals meet their potential and enhance their employability skills, mindset, and motivation. He is fascinated by the topics of employee engagement and resilience, facilitating a range of workshops and interventions with employees to help improve organisational effectiveness. He is one of our course directors, frequently delivering tailored and bespoke workshops around Resilience, SIFT, SJT design and our BPS accredited TUO:A and TUO:P psychometric courses. He has upskilled professionals from a variety of sectors, e.g. financial services, pharmaceuticals, charities, housing associations, public sector etc.
Andrew Limb
Senior Consultant
Andrew’s early training as an engineer stays with him in several ways, and over a decade on he still loves creating elegant solutions to client requirements, always work with the clients end goal and objectives in mind. As an Army Officer he learned a lot about real-life leadership and hold ‘care’ as one of its primary components. He also learned that he has a talent for connecting very naturally with a wide variety of people and that he gains huge satisfaction from helping people fill their own potential.
Areas of interest
Andrew gets a real buzz from helping people to discover and live to their potential. He finds that so often people are unnecessarily and unconsciously limiting their performance and wellbeing, and he loves helping people really grow and shine, both in and out of work. He also enjoys the intellectual challenge of what we do at PSI and loves being part of the family, as we are lucky to have world class psychometric tools and expertise in Emotional Intelligence, that he gets to apply with his clients to solve their business challenges.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MBA(Nottingham University Leadership Scholarship & Distinction)
- Queen’s Commission (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Coaching
- BEng(2:1 hons)
- Emotional Intelligence Master Practitioner
- NLP Practitioner
- Belbin Team Roles Practitioner
- Insights Discovery Licensed Practitioner
- MBTI Step 1 Practitioner
Development expertise
Andrew is an experienced people-development professional whose skills centre around programme design and facilitation, executive coaching and consultancy. His work is fuelled by a passion for helping people and organisations to both recognise and reach their potential and his areas of primary expertise are leadership, strategy and culture change. Clients find Andrew very easy and reassuring to work with and enjoy his responsive approach, clear thinking, broad experience and pragmatic results-focussed approach. He is an experienced operations and project manager and is qualified in a number of psychometric instruments.
Becca Gravell
Junior Product & Training Consultant
Becca has two basic personal life goals – to be happy and to be healthy. Very early on she realised that understanding and learning about psychology could not only help her achieve these, but could help others too. She loves to know that what she’s done has made a positive difference to someone else however small. She also loves the way that psychology is interconnected with everything we do and that everyone can relate to it at some level.
Areas of interest
Having recently qualified Becca is a lot more open and aware of current research and trends that area affecting organisations worldwide. Her background in sport is and continues to be a massive influence on her outlook. An important factor in sports training is patience; training for days, months, years to hopefully achieve or change something. Therefore she likes to think she brings patience and the understanding that even one small drop can make a ripple in the water!
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- MSc Occupational & Business Psychology
- BPS Psychometric Test User: Occupational, Ability and Personality (formerly level A&B)
- Prince 2 Foundation and Practitioner Project Management
- European Language – French (Advanced)
Development expertise
Becca has experience in supporting and delivering assessment centres for candidate selection as well as the application of psychometrics. She is experienced at delivering 1:1 feedback and has facilitated development programmes and workshops using both 360 reports and Emotional Intelligence psychometrics.
Bill Davies
Principal Consultant
Bill brings a good dose of humour, as well as knowledge, wisdom, considered judgement and curiosity. He is known for the depth and range of knowledge after working with JCA Global, a PSI Business, for the last 20 years, as well as his willingness to share and support the team. Building solid relationships where there is trust and confidence, is what he believes supports great outcomes. Our customers say he brings a real calmness and reasoned approach.
Areas of interest
Bill has worked in coaching, leadership development and personal development for over 30 years. He has a number of strings to his bow including being a trained trainer, having management experience, lecturing at the University of the West of England, leading a business development unit, and writing career development material.
Bill specialises in Employability and Mental Wellbeing at JCA, a PSI Business. This area takes the best of applied career psychology, together with JCA’s Emotional Intelligence expertise, and makes it relevant and applicable to welfare, careers and social services sectors. The aim is to provide practical psychology that impacts positively on self esteem, motivation and self efficacy.
Qualifications and Memberships
- Post-graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance (parts 1 and 2)
- Member of the Career Development Institute
- M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology
- Member of Association of Business Psychologists
- Registered member of the Health Professional Council
- BPS Psychometrics Level A and B trained
- Human Givens Diploma
Development expertise
Bill has over 25 years career coaching and counselling experience. He has taught career coaching skills ay post-graduate level and has co-designed and delivered a range of career tools and materials which have been delivered internationally. Bill has designed and delivered development centres and has played key roles in the development and delivery of award-winning workshops and programmes. He has delivered coaching to senior levels at team and individual levels. Bill has also trained in mental health and wellbeing and co-designed and delivered resilience workshops and associated material.
Freddie Parry-Jones
Product & Training Consultant
With 5+ years’ experience within Business Psychology, Freddie enjoys working with individuals to find the best solution for their organisational and personal development goals. With a strong belief that everyone can achieve and excel with the right support, Freddie recognises the value that encouragement and challenge can have on an individual. Freddie believes that by developing our Emotional Intelligence and having a better understanding of ourselves and others allows us to perform at our best, while helping others reach their full potential.
Areas of interest
Freddie enjoys working directly with clients to build long standing relationships and help reach the right solution to business requirements, priorities and challenges. Freddie has experience in conducting training needs analysis to support the design and development of effective development programmes and selection and assessment centres within the. In addition, Freddie has experience in the application of psychometrics, employee engagement, and 360-degree feedback delivery and facilitator training. Freddie is proficient in qualitative and quantitative analysis and enjoys the value and depth that qualitative research can bring to projects.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- BPS Psychometric Test User: Occupational, Ability and Personality (formerly level A&B)
- Counseling Certificate
Georgina Stokes
Senior Consultant
Georgina is committed to the application of evidence-based theory and rigorous delivery of the behavioural assessment process to achieve valid selection outcomes. She builds relationships with stakeholders to understand and guide solutions to match the client’s unique needs, and shares best-practice assessment methodology through the delivery of engaging training.
Areas of interest
Georgina’s interests are driven by a desire to help organisations succeed through selecting and developing the best talent in an objective way, that enhances diversity within an organisation. She has a particular interest in improving gender-diversity in traditionally male-dominated industries.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology, BSc (Hons) Psychology
- BPS Accredited Test User (Occupational Ability and Personality)
- Trained in Saville Wave, NEO-PI-3, 16PF, EIP3, Strengths Insight and The Resilience Questionnaire
Assessment expertise
Georgina has experience in the delivery and facilitation of assessment centres for junior, mid and senior level recruitment, using Online and traditional AC delivery methods, for individual, one-on-one and group exercises. She has also worked with key stakeholders to build online exercises using the VirtualAC platform, for assessment in recruitment, promotion and development contexts, in multiple languages and sectors. Her experience includes assessment for restructure in varied organisations, where she has taken on a variety of roles; including candidate assessment, centre design and co-management. In addition to behavioural assessment, Georgina has experience in designing Situational Judgment Tests. Her combined experience has been within multiple industries, including logistics, finance, FMCG, defence, aviation, pharmaceutical and the Public Sector.
Development expertise
Georgina enjoys training clients in the behavioural assessment process, for use in assessment or development centres including competency-based interviewing skills, assessor skills and successful centre management. She is also experienced in the use of different client competency frameworks and developing exercise content to directly measure these criteria.
Jo Maddocks
Chief Psychologist
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is about being all that you can be; managing your resources and potential to thrive and succeed in work and life more broadly. Jo applies this principle to both his work and personal life as an endurance athlete. For him, it is as much about physical self-management as it is about psychological awareness. We are all born with the innate resources to thrive and grow, but need to learn how to harness them through the application of EI.
Areas of interest
Jo has over 25 years of experience working across the work-life spectrum, from raising the self-esteem in long-term unemployed adults to facilitating team development programmes with senior leaders. Across all aspects of his work, Jo believes he provides a highly pragmatic and realistic approach to making a positive difference to peoples’ lives.
Qualifications and Memberships
- Verifier and assessor for BPS test user qualifications
- C.Psychol (Chartered Occupational Psychologist)
- C.Sci (Chartered Scientist)
- AFBPS (Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society)
- Doctoral Student (Leicester University)
Development expertise
Jo’s area of expertise is in developing and applying Emotional Intelligence in the workplace. He particularly enjoys creating new products and resources that help individuals, teams and organisations to improve. Much of which is described in his recent book; Emotional Intelligence at Work; How to make change stick. It is important for him to see what he produces put into practice, so he stays closely involved in the delivery of training and consultancy services.
Lauren Reeves
Principal Consultant
Lauren has over 10 years of experience working with a range of clients to design and deliver valid, robust and innovative assessment and development solutions. She has extensive experience designing online platforms to deliver these solutions and is passionate about utilising technology within the field of Occupational Psychology.
Areas of interest
Lauren is passionate about identifying and implementing technology solutions to deliver the best assessment and development solutions to clients. She has liaised with IT colleagues and developed several online platforms that have been used globally, to help hire individuals from a range of sectors and level of seniority. Lauren has significant experience working internationally; she spent time working in several states in Australia, Dubai, Sweden and Norway, to ensure the successful implementation of key client projects. She has experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and enjoys building relationships with clients, enabling her to effectively adapt her approach to changing priorities.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc, BSc (Hons) in Occupational Psychology
- Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Ability Test & Personality Test trained; in HPI, MVPI, HDS, OPQ32, NEO PI-R, WAVE, identity, 15FQ, Dimensions, DASA, EQI, Risk Type Compass, LJI and LJA
- Assessor trained
Assessment expertise
Lauren has extensive experience of designing, developing and implementing a range of assessment solutions for clients. These include; situational judgement tests, values-based assessments, realistic job previews, competency-based interviews and ability assessments (numerical, verbal and logical). Previously, Lauren managed a team of Occupational Psychologists and Technology and System Implementation colleagues, who were responsible for the overall design and delivery of all client projects. This was through the entire client assessment lifecycle; from initial scoping through to delivering and evaluating project outcomes. Lauren also has significant experience in designing and delivering assessment centre exercises and can utilise technology to develop engaging and immersive experiences for candidates and clients alike. Lauren is also assessor trained and can provide feedback on a range of psychometric tools and provide 360-degree feedback.
Development expertise
Lauren has designed and delivered development centres for a range of clients, from junior managers through to senior executives. As part of this process, Lauren has provided individuals with comprehensive feedback and coaching, using a range of psychometric and 360 data. She has been involved in the design and implementation of future and emerging talent programmes, both utilising online platforms and face to face programmes. She has designed several 360-degree questionnaires and implemented two of these into an online system, to help individuals continuously develop. In addition to the client facing development work, Lauren has experience in researching and building organisation-wide competency frameworks, both in the UK and internationally. With extensive experience in training, Lauren is also able to run BPS accredited training courses and has experience in a wide variety of psychometric tools.
Mike Murray
Principal Consultant
A business psychologist with over 20 years’ consultancy experience, who has worked with a wide range of clients from different industries in the UK and overseas. He specialises in identifying talent and coaching and developing managers.
Areas of interest
Mike’s interests focus on identifying what ‘good’ looks like in any job, and then helping organisations to define and measure the skills and qualities which will lead to outstanding performance. He has done business in over 50 countries and, because of his previous career in international marketing, he can quickly assimilate the culture of an organisation and he understands the challenges faced by managers in large organisations.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSC in Occupational and Organisational Psychology, BPS Chartered Occupational Psychologist.
- Trained to administer a wide range of psychometrics including OPQ, 16PF, HPI, HDS, NEO, EIP, Watson Glaser, MBTI, Saville Wave and Lominger ‘Voices’ 360.
Assessment expertise
Mike has extensive experience of assessment for Selection & Recruitment. He regularly conducts job analysis to identify the behaviours required for success and designs relevant and realistic simulations to measure these. He has designed and run a large number of assessment and development centres to enable clients to identify the best talent using simulations, interviews and psychometrics. He has also designed virtual assessments that can be used remotely and online 360 feedback questionnaires. He has designed and delivered 1:1 executive assessments in a wide range of sectors to measure current performance and future potential. These use a combination of simulations, ‘deep dive’ interviews and a range of personality tools. Mike also provides feedback to candidates, helps them to create Personal Development Plans and provides follow-up coaching for senior leaders.
Development expertise
Mike has designed Development Centres to help global organisations to benchmark the skills of their current managers, to identify high-potential employees and to accelerate their development. He has also designed and delivered workshops focusing on specific skills such as Leadership, Influencing, Negotiation, Time Management, Customer Focus and Emotional Intelligence. Mike has helped managers to increase their Resilience and their ability to deal with pressure and periods of change. He also regularly trains managers to act as assessors and he runs our BPS accreditation courses for those wishing to learn to use ability tests and personality questionnaires.
Miriam McCallum
Principal Consultant
Miriam loves to explore how we make emotions, the chemical messengers we make and how we are able to respond and adapt to our environment. Her corporate background is in HR and senior management, and she brings this perspective in helping understand and empathise with our clients.
Areas of interest
One of Miriam’s values is Zest – she has a passion for life and love to explore new things and different ways of working. She is also a big fan of positive psychology, having studied the work of Barbara Fredrickson and Martin Seligman, she loves to explore how we can truly flourish and thrive at work and in life. Her passion for learning drives her, she loves learning new things and helping others to do the same!
For Miriam Emotional Intelligence is learning how to be at your best more often, in your own authentic way. It means knowing and valuing your strengths, understanding what can hold you back or limit you and learning how to “get out of your own way”. She believes understanding your EI patterns helps you to discover more about who you really are and begin to explore the vast potential that exists within in each one of us.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Organisational Psychology (degree awarded with distinction)
- BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
- Trainer of NLP
- NLP Master Practitioner
- Diploma in Coaching Supervision
- PCC Accredited Coach (ICF)
Peter Clarke
Head of Product Consulting
Peter brings a deep understanding of how different organisations apply and embed our products; applying this knowledge to common or new challenges. Whether working in the public or private sector, with senior leaders, first time leaders or graduates, he brings a practical insight and understanding about how Emotional Intelligence can support growth and sustained development.
Areas of interest
Peter loves working closely with our clients, gaining an understanding of their unique culture, climate and people challenges. Most of all though, he loves the deep focus on the individual and using that understanding to develop their personal performance, contributions to the team, and the ultimate impact this has on the climate and feel of the organisation. He also loves seeing how supporting people with their Emotional Intelligence helps people be present, engaged and be happier in work and home lives.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (hons) Psychology & Criminology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- EMCC Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
- British Psychological Society Level A & B Competence in Occupational Testing
- Psychometric Test specific qualifications in: EIP, TeamEIP, LCI, PTP, PAPI, NEO PI-R, LJI, WAVE, 16pf, 15fq+
Poppy Boothroyd
R&D Consultant
Poppy’s expertise lies in the research and development of psychometric and technology-lead tools that measure Emotional Intelligence (EI). More recently, she has helped design a mobile app that blends scientific rigour and practical user experience to promote positive behavioural change. Poppy also has experience in coordinating large scale translation projects – playing a key role in the review of back-translations to assess face validity across the language suite.
Areas of interest
Poppy recognises the importance of emotions and how emotional management and dissonance can influence an employee’s job satisfaction, adding to existing evidence that emotions are influential over this work outcome. She is a strong believer that employees are just as (if not more) important as customers. Her primary focus as a Research and Development Consultant is to design technology-lead products that are well-researched, but accessible, so that everyone can have the opportunity to develop their EI.
Qualifications and Memberships
- Graduate member of the BPS, Trainee Occupational Psychologist
- MSc in Occupational Psychology
- BSc (Hons) in Psychology
- 5+ years’ experience in HR and Business Psychology
Development expertise
Poppy’s expertise lies in the research and development of psychometric and technology-lead tools that measure Emotional Intelligence (EI). More recently, she has helped design a mobile app that blends scientific rigour and practical user experience to promote positive behavioural change. Poppy also has experience in coordinating large scale translation projects – playing a key role in the review of back-translations to assess face validity across the language suite.
Ross McGarrigle
Principal Consultant
An energetic, creative and commercial consultant who supports organisations through all aspects of talent management. Ross builds relationships with stakeholders, provides cutting edge solutions and remains agile in response to ever changing needs.
Areas of interest
Ross is focused on identifying practical solutions that help individuals and organisations to flourish. With a background in product development and a keen interest in technology, he likes to keep up to date with the latest developments and innovations in selection and development. With his experience and creativity, he strives to design solutions that are not only accurate, rigorous and robust, but also solutions that leave a lasting, positive impression.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology
- Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Registered Specialist in Test Use
- Test qualifications include NEO-PI3, 16PF, Saville Wave, MBTI, EIP3, Watson-Glaser etc.
Assessment expertise
Ross is an experienced consultant with over 10 years of experience in assessment and development. He has worked with not for profit, public and private sector organizations across a wide range of industries, most notably retail, banking, real estate and FMCG. He is comfortable operating across all levels with experience working with individuals from graduate to board level. Ross has delivered and managed many complex projects to design and deliver bespoke, end to end, assessment solutions for clients, including job analysis, assessment design as well as monitoring and evaluation. He has experience working on projects for recruitment, promotion, restructure and redundancy and recognizes the challenges that comes from these different contexts.
Development expertise
Ross has designed and delivered bespoke development workshops to address a variety of specific client needs, from a series of workshops designed to help support apprentices on their first step into the working world to workshops for new and experienced managers, focussed on demonstrating authentic leadership and increasing emotional intelligence. He has designed and delivered, individual and group, assessment processes to identify where individual development should be targeted and then provided coaching support to help individuals process their feedback and identify a plan of action for their own development. Ross is also very experienced in training our clients on the skills required to design and deliver their own best practice assessment solutions, including test user qualifications for ability and personality testing.
Sally Brunning
Products and Training Consultant
Sally is passionate about using psychology to help people in the workplace. She believes individuals have the power to choose how they behave, respond to events and interact with other people. Her experience with emotional intelligence and personality has provided her with knowledge and understanding of how each of these impacts our everyday behaviour. Due to this, she believes that psychology, used in the right way can benefit every organisation and its employees.
Areas of Interest
Sally loves facilitating learning and brings several years’ experience of working with clients to design, build and deliver a range of training and consulting offerings. She is enthusiastic and optimistic about everything she does and brings a real passion for Emotional Intelligence, which shines through the work she produces.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (Hons) in Psychology
- MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology
- BPS Test User: Occupational, Ability and Personality
- Qualified in a range of psychometric assessments including: EIP3, NEO-PI-3, EQ-i 2.0 & EQ360
Development Expertise
Sally is a Business Psychologist, specialising in Emotional Intelligence and training. She has several years experience delivering a range of training programmes for clients, including: e-learning, webinar-based learning and face-to-face facilitation. During her career she has become proficient in designing, developing and refining training offerings, including e-learning, web-based learning and face-to-face training. She also has experience in designing and developing assessment and development offerings for clients. Her background is in Psychology, and she has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and a MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology from Northumbria University. Sally is certified in a range of psychometric assessments including Emotional Intelligence, ability and personality.
Sally Tanski
Principal Consultant
An experienced Learning and Development professional with a successful career in both private and public sector organisations. Sally is enthusiastic, empathetic and enjoys working with people. People say they appreciate how she listens, provides honest and challenging feedback, and creates space for them to consider new options. She focuses on strengths to help people improve their performance.
Areas of interest
Sally is a coach, a facilitator and consultant with over 25 years’ experience of leadership development and of being a leader. She understands how things work in the “real world”, and the pressures leaders face, which helps her develop practical, workable solutions. She sees the development of emotional intelligence as a vital component of success, giving people and organisations the competitive edge.
She loves the fact that her work has the potential to have a huge impact on people. She thinks it’s a privilege that she gets to help people find solutions to problems and achieve the future outcomes they want, and that in doing so, continues to learn herself.
Qualifications and Memberships
- Accredited user of Emotional Intelligence Profile (EIP3) and Emotional Intelligence Profile 360 (EIP 360)
- Accredited Licensed Neuro-Agility Brain Profile Assessor
- Accredited Executive Coach (awarded by The Academy of Executive Coaching), ICF Accreditation
- Graduate Member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)
- Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP)
- Qualified user of the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO-B)
- Qualified user of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step I and II
- Qualified user of the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI)
- CIPD Post Graduate Diploma in Training Management with Distinction
Sarah Speers
Head of Training
Sarah Speers is a Chartered Psychologist (Occupational) and HCPC registered, with 20 years consultancy experience working within the private sector and public sector. Her work includes Test User Ability & Personality (previously Level A and B) training and Emotional Intelligence accreditation programmes, profiling at a graduate and executive level, assessment centres, individual effectiveness programmes, competency framework design as well as a variety of other bespoke consultancy projects.
Areas of interest
Sarah’s main focus is training and facilitation – working with groups to introduce our model and support them to become competent and confident in using our EI tools.
She brings to the team the stories, the experience, the individuals that she has worked with and the knowledge of the relationships she has developed in this time.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc Hons Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- Chartered Psychologist
- HCPC Registered
- Chartered Scientist
- Associate Fellow of the BPS (AFBPsS)
- Test User, Occupational: Ability, Personality, Specialist in Test Use (Level A, Level B, Level B Full)
- Verified Assessor, Occupational– Assistant Test User, Test User Ability and Test User Personality
- Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
- The Human Element
Development expertise
Sarah’s focus is on training for development. Her experience ranges from coaching, to facilitating accreditations (such as the Emotional Intelligence Profile Accreditation) and leadership programmes for development. She also has experience using psychometrics for developmental exploration sessions.
Sophie Seex
Principal Consultant
As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Sophie brings an understanding of what makes people tick to the table. She has also been practicing and teaching mindfulness for the past 20 years and use this as a tool to develop Emotional Intelligence.
Areas of interest
Her early career was in organisational development, which lead her to focus on the wider system clients and organisations are working within and to ensure alignment with culture, strategy and values. She brings professional rigour, compassion and a quest for achieving positive outcomes to the team and my client work.
She loves creating and hosting spaces for people to learn. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing people make new connections and insights and feel safe enough to show authentically.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc(Hons), MSc, Chartered Psychologist
- Associate Fellow BPS (British Psychological Society)
- Member of BPS special group for coaching psychology
- Graduate Ashridge Business School Coaching for Consultants
- 15 years+ consulting experience working as consultant, facilitator coach
Steph Noble
R&D Consultant
With 7+ years of Business Psychology experience Steph is currently specialising in research and development, working as a trainee Occupational Psychologist. During her time working in this area she has been involved in a number of valuable internal and external organisational projects, and her involvement with a number of business areas has provided her with a wide base for her own personal development.
Areas of interest
Discovering how business psychologists can support people through applying Emotional Intelligence, and personally observing positive change in others following intervention is what drives Steph.
With a strong ability to connect with others and a desire to provide a first-class service to our clients, Steph is a ‘people person’ and brings valuable communication skills to the team. Linking this with her preference for organisation and planning, she works at the heart of many cross-team projects providing successful project and communication management.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (hons) Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- Graduate member of the BPS, Trainee Occupational Psychologist
- Test User Ability & Personality
- EMCC coaching qualification
- Prince 2 Project management
Development Expertise
Steph has experience in product development, product validation, and psychometric test construction, working with internal and external stakeholders. She has experience working with clients to create solutions, having involvement in every stage, from initial scoping to final implementation, whether that be 1:1 feedback, group facilitation, or group data analysis.
Temi Duro-Emmanuel
Senior Consultant
Temi is a Senior Consultant with extensive experience in the design, development and delivery of robust assessment solutions. Temi has a strong focus on providing clients with solutions with a clear, measurable business impact.
Areas of interest
Temi is interested in implementing valid assessment and selection interventions which are aligned with industry best practice guidelines. This includes a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion and ensuring solutions are fair, objective and valid. Temi has significant experience of working internationally and has spent time supporting clients across APAC, Europe and North America. Her experience has lent itself to forming trusted relationships with clients and providing expert advice to help reach organisational goals.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Business Psychology, BA Psychology & Women’s Studies
- BPS Accredited Test-User Ability and Test-User Personality Administration
- Trained in a variety of psychometric tools including OPQ32, WAVE, 15FQ+
Assessment expertise
Temi has experience designing end-to-end solutions for clients including situational judgement tests, customised reports, ability tests, interview processes and assessment centres. These solutions have been implemented for front-line staff through to C-Suite executives across diverse industries. She is especially skilled in data analysis and has conducted validation studies to ensure assessments are valid, reliable and deliver ROI. Furthermore, Temi has experience managing global selection projects and ensuring projects are fit for purpose across various regions. Temi has facilitated bespoke training sessions to enable clients to use solutions according to industry best practice. She has also run BPS accredited training courses and has experience using world-renowned psychometric tools.
Development expertise
Temi has designed and delivered bespoke development interventions for a range of clients. This includes facilitating Team Development workshops as well as acting as a Lead Assessor for Executive Development programmes. Temi has provided in-depth individual feedback to senior managers which has resulted in the creation of targeted personal development plans. She has also managed comprehensive 360 projects and overseen the design and delivery of 360 questionnaires as well as provided individual and group level feedback.
Tom Parker
Research Consultant
Tom is a Research Consultant with experience of job analysis, organisational change and product related consultancy. His skills include product and assessment design across a range of areas within the business psychology space.
Areas of interest
Tom has a particular interest in the intersection of psychology and technology in order to meet clients’ talent management needs. He currently works on the continuing development of PSI’s VirtualAC tool, which is used to deliver virtual assessment and development centres at an international level. One of Tom’s main interests is in the use of behavioural simulations to accurately predict workplace performance which he undertakes alongside his work on PSI’s flagship personality tool, the 16pf. He is also a keen proponent of positive candidate experience within the assessment space, and has presented at conferences on the topic.
Tom is interested in the use of the full range of technology within the assessment space and helping to ensure assessments are available to a wider range of individuals through the use of mobile delivered design.
Qualifications and Memberships
- MSc Organisational Psychology
- BPS Accredited Test-User Ability and Test-User Personality Administration
Anne Montgomery
Principal Associate Consultant
Anne is a Principal Associate Consultant and has worked with PSI talent management since 2008. She has held corporate office roles and operational roles throughout the UK and Europe reporting to Board level.
Anne’s interests centre around finding the people solutions for business issues. She believes successful individuals, teams and organisations thrive commercially and get the greatest return as a direct result of effective talent management strategies. Anne has delivered a range of interventions that have made a real difference by assessing and developing behaviours to match future needs to maximise performance and minimise disruption. She encourages leaders to think and see things from different perspectives and to focus on areas of performance that will bring the greatest return.
Anne has worked within retail, banking, automotive, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, housing associations, recruitment and public sector health. She holds several qualifications and memberships including Psychology BSc (Hons), Graduate in Common Purpose, MSP Programme Management and Prince2 Project Management, Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is Ability Test & Personality Test trained.
Chrissie Martindale
Senior Associate Consultant
Chrissie has worked with PSI talent management since 2009 and has almost 20 years’ experience of assessment for selection and leadership development in the public and private sector.
Chrissie’s early career was in retail Banking and she worked in house as a recruitment consultant before leaving to set up as an external assessment consultant in 2005. She has a wealth of experience in competency based behavioural assessment and was one of the founder members of the UK Assessment Centre Group, whose aim is to promote best practice in Assessment Centres delivery in the UK. Chrissie believes passionately that everyone has the right to love the job that they do and is an advocate of strengths based leadership. Much of her time is spent coaching clients on a one-to-one basis as well as designing and delivering leadership team workshops. She also loves observing and coaching at leadership development centres for the insight that they bring to clients around enhancing their leadership skills.
Chrissie is a member of the British Psychological Society having graduated from the Open University in 2016 with a First-class honours degree in Psychology. She is on the British Psychological Society register of qualified test users, previously known as level A&B. Psychometric questionnaires that Chrissie has trained in include OPQ by SHL, Wave by Saville Consulting, Dimensions by Talent Q, Strengthscope and Strengthscope Team by Strengths Partnership and Resilience by PSI talent management. She also holds a certificate and licence in career counselling and is a member of the Association for Coaching.
Some of the clients that Chrissie has worked with are: Audi UK; GCHQ; Visa Europe, K Com; Notting Hill Housing Association; Arts Council for England; Royal Mail; Post Office; Business Link; Camelot; Akzo Nobel; Barclays Bank; Lloyds Banking Group; Waterstones; World Pay; HMPS; DWP; UKTI; SOCA; Birmingham City University; Nottingham University; Newcastle City Council; Manchester Airport Group; NHS; Royal Horticultural Society; Vodafone; E ON energy.
Jon Pope
Principal Associate Consultant
Jon is a Principal Associate Consultant and has worked with PSI talent management since 2008. He is an experienced business consultant working primarily in performance coaching, management and leadership development, assessment, strategic planning, communication and employee engagement.
Jon has worked extensively with aspiring and senior leaders to identify strengths, development needs and overcome potential derailing behaviours. He enjoys working 1:1, with small teams or large groups and is programme leader for a range of learning and development programmes – from apprenticeships at Levels 3 & 5, and post-MBA level awards.
Jon has worked in a wide range of sectors including retail, automotive, financial services, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, manufacturing, IT and computing, professional services, housing associations, FMCG, facilities management, local government, central government and policing.
Jon is a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Institute of Consulting and the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Jo Davis
Senior Associate Consultant
Jo Davis has worked with PSI talent management as a Senior Associate since 2009. She has over 20 years’ experience in developing leaders and emerging leaders in both the public and private sector. As well as Assessment and Development Centres, Jo’s experience covers developing inspiring learning solutions, expert facilitation and coaching.
Jo sees her role and purpose as providing a catalyst for enhanced performance. She is particularly interested in working with individuals during transition points in their careers – either to a more senior role, working within a new organisation or through periods of significant change. She enjoys working with high potential individuals and managers to enable them to realise their potential and their aspirations.
Jo has wide ranging sector experience that includes retail, Fortune 100, automotive, airlines, banking, pharmaceutical, professional services, housing associations, FMCGs and facilities management. She is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), is Ability Test & Personality Test trained and holds a Practitioner Diploma of Executive Coaching.
Heidi Winser
Senior Associate Consultant
Heidi is a Principal Associate Consultant and has worked with PSI talent management since 2011. She has previously held HR, OD, Change and Leadership positions in-house and now works with a wide range of organisations to identify and develop talent to build business capability, performance and enable organisational transformation.
Heidi is an expert in creating strategies to provide talent insights to enable both organisations and individuals to perform and transform. She deploys a range of diagnostic tools and a people-centred and strengths-based approach to maximise alignment between the organisation’s and individual’s needs. Heidi has significant interest in developing bespoke capability and competency frameworks in partnership with organisations to enable professional and career development and to underpin overall talent strategy. Heidi takes a keen interest in the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and behavioural science and uses this to inform and refine her approach.
Heidi has worked across many sectors, including policing, Criminal Justice, NHS, local government, healthcare, retail, industrial goods and aviation. She holds a Masters in HR, Diploma in Performance Coaching, is Ability Test & Personality Test qualified and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and a member of the BPS RQTU.
Sue Braybrooke
Senior Associate Consultant
Sue has been a Senior Associate Consultant with PSI talent management since 2011 and has over 20 years’ experience. She has held senior management positions in both HR consultancy and business and she combines her broad commercial and business experience for the benefit of the organisations and leaders she works with.
Sue designs and delivers innovative and dynamic training and learning strategies and interventions including blended and e-learning solutions for leaders/participants at all levels to deliver organisation change. She enjoys working 1:1 and with groups and is not afraid to challenge the status quo to bring about real change in behaviour. Sue’s facilitation style is collaborative, she engages individuals through their knowledge and expertise to share and learn from each other. Sue also enjoys coaching individuals throughout their career, believing that this approach is critical to the development of people.
Sue has worked on an international basis with clients from the financial, pharmaceutical, retail, FMCG, charity, NHS and automotive industries. She is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), is Ability Test & Personality Test qualified and is an Accredited Coach with ICF (ACC).
Sharan Dhillon
Product and Training Consultant
Sharan has always been fascinated by people, how people work and why, and so it is great to be working in a company and role that allows her to pursue this passion. She enjoys building relationships with her clients and partnering with them to work towards meeting their business priorities and solving their unique challenges. She also appreciates being surrounded by opportunities to continuously learn from both her clients and her experienced colleagues.
Areas of Interest
Sharan is a Business Psychologist specialising in the applications of Emotional Intelligence for both assessment and development purposes. Having been in various client facing roles, Sharan enjoys building relationships to understand the client’s “world of work”, and advises L&D and HR professionals at all levels. Sharan is particularly interested in change management and development at an individual, team and organisational level.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (hons) Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- Test User Training Ability & Personality
- EIP, Team EIP, LCI
- Advanced Assessor Skills
Development expertise
Sharan partners with her clients, helping to solve their unique challenges using the power of Emotional Intelligence. She prides herself in understanding clients’ development needs and desired outcomes to recommend the most appropriate solution. Sharan also has experience in delivering 1:1 Emotional Intelligence Profile feedbacks and analysis work for clients.
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