Helen’s background
Helen is a business psychologist who specialises in helping organisations to become more effective through their people. Since 1992, she has led long-term, in-depth projects across the UK and the rest of Europe with a wide variety of clients. She has worked in most major industrial sectors, as well as the public sector.
Helen’s highlights
- Devising and implementing programmes on leadership skills, change management, communication, customer focus, career guidance, and interpersonal skills, among others.
- Coaching and mentoring top team members in their personal effectiveness.
- Facilitating strategy development with board members.
- Managing the assessment and selection of people for key positions, and achieving alignment of roles within organisational restructures.
- Helping teams at all levels work together more effectively.
- Shaping organisational structures to meet the changing demands of the business.
- Monitoring the quality of relationships between organisations and their customers.
- Researching and developing company-wide communications strategies.
- Designing and managing employee opinion surveys, and feeding the results into culture change programmes.
- Carrying out research to gain direct feedback from clients’ customers.
- Speaking on conference platforms, as well as radio and television.
Helen graduated in Psychology from Bristol University, and joined the National Health Service as a Research Psychologist. She completed an MSc in Organisational Psychology, based on an investigation of what makes people feel committed to the companies they work for. Since then she has qualified as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.