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Darbyshire
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Our Consultant team
Darbyshire Consulting Limited is run by Graham Darbyshire,
Managing Director, and Hilary Taylor, Administration Director.
We have a team of Consultants, several of whom have been
with Darbyshire Consulting since it was formed in 1994.
All our consultants are talented specialists in their own
fields, with extensive experience in blue-chip companies
and consultancy.
We also work with a wider group of experienced associates
whose expertise we can draw upon when projects demand additional
resources. This breadth of experience enables us to provide
exactly the right consultant, or team of consultants, for
each client’s needs.
In adition to Graham
Darbyshire, our Principal Consultants
include Barbara Hocking,
Angela Chapman, Julie
Harrison, Mark Starmer,
Brian Homer, Trevor
Morriss, and Administration Director
Hilary Taylor
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Graham
Darbyshire, BA, MA, MCIPD
- Prior to setting up Darbyshire Consulting Limited, Graham
was an HR professional for over 20 years with Unilever,
Phillips, GKN and HSBC, latterly as an HR Director. Throughout
his career he has covered the full range of HR activities
at senior management level
- He is a regular conference speaker
- He is a fluent French speaker
- His prime areas of focus now are:
- Training and development, especially team-building, leadership,
executive coaching and career management
- Employee attitude surveys, especially linked to organisations
who wish to become ‘employers of choice’
- HR strategy and policy development
- Management of HR problems
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Barbara
Hocking, BA, MBA, MCIPD, CertEd(HE)
- Barbara is an HR Consultant and part-time Principal Lecturer
in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University
- She has over 20 years’ HR experience, gained both
in management – with Ford, Grand Met and HSBC –
and in consultancy, including four years as a Principal
Consultant with SHL. For the past ten years, Barbara has
combined consultancy with university teaching, most recently
on global MBA degree programmes
- Her main specialist areas are:
- Assessment, including psychometric testing
- Training and development, especially management skills,
development centres and executive
coaching
- Performance management, including appraisals, competencies
and 360-degree feedback
- Career management
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Brian Tristam, BA (Hons) Business Studies, MCIPD
- Having recently become an HR consultant, Brian is a general HR practitioner with over 30 years experience in the automotive and aerospace sectors.
- He has extensive knowledge of strategic and operational HR including change management and restructuring.
- His particular areas of expertise are:
- managing the issues arising from change/restructuring
- employee relations
- employment law
- managing grievance and disciplinary issues
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Julie
Harrison, BSc (Psych), MSc, MCIPD
- Julie is an HR Consultant and Visiting Lecturer at Aston
University on the MSc programme in HR Management and Work
Psychology
- She has over 20 years’ HR experience, gained both
in management – with Peugeot, Erikson and HSBC –
and in consultancy, having been a full-time consultant for
the past five years.
- Her main specialist areas are:
- Assessment and selection, including all types of pre-interview
screening, interviews, psychometric testing and assessment
centres
- Training and development, including development centres
- Performance management, including appraisal schemes, competencies
and 360-degree feedback
- HR management issues
- Career management
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Mark
Starmer, LLB, MA, FCIPD, FCMI
- Mark is a leading Training and Development specialist
- He has over 20 years’ training and development experience,
gained in management – with Prudential and, internationally,
with HSBC – and in consultancy. He has worked extensively
both in the UK, continental Europe, North America and the
Asia/Pacific region and has trained managers from over fifty
countries
- He is the author of the best-selling management book entitled
“Will the real leader please stand up?”
- He is a regular conference speaker on leadership and team
development
- His main specialist areas are:
- Executive training and development, especially leadership,
team-building, and coaching
- Understanding and managing organisational culture
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Brian
Homer
- Originally qualifying as an electrical engineer, his work
in the electricity industry included work study and manning-level
reviews
- Brian subsequently changed direction to become a creative
designer and his wide experience in graphic communication
includes consultancy, design, writing and editing, photography
and print management for both public and private sector
clients
- As well as helping clients to develop strategies to under-pin their communications,
his work has developed to include attitude surveys
- His main specialist areas now are:
- Corporate strategy and corporate identity
- Employee and client attitude surveys
- Internal and external communications, especially newsletters,
magazines and bulletins, brochures, leaflets, web sites
and displays
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Trevor
Morriss, BA, MCIPD, ACIS
- Trevor is now a full-time HR consultant, having previously
had almost thirty years’ HR management experience
with Dunlop and HSBC
- There are few areas of HR management which he has not
undertaken in depth during his career, covering everything
from ‘hands-on’ HR Manager roles, through change-management
to specialist HR support roles
- His main specialist area now is Compensation and Benefits, in particular:
- Job evaluation and grading systems
- Reward systems
- Salary and bonus structures
- Salary surveys
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Hilary
Taylor, Administration Director
- Hilary joined the Company at the beginning of 2004 to
support its continuing growth by ensuring that the highest
standards of project administration and office management
are maintained
- Previously, she had worked for 24 years for the French
multi-national, ALSTOM, both as a top-level PA and as an
administration manager on national and international projects
- In addition to many years in the Midlands, her career
experience with ALSTOM has included three years in Hong
Kong, four in Paris and three in Manchester
- She speaks fluent French
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