Our People - Principal Consultants
Principal Consultants are associate consultants who demonstrate a wide range of appropriate skills and at least one specialism. They have a minimum of 5 years experience in our areas of work and have an additional minimum of 5 years experience as a senior manager, psychologist or human resource specialist. They are involved in the development of the business, attend regular meetings and share our company values. All Principals have worked regularly with Taylor Clarke, shadowed and have a thorough understanding of our core business models, delivery methods and current leadership thinking.
John Best, (HNC) - Executive Director & Principal Consultant
John is a practical and pragmatic consultant who with his HR, engineering and production management background has a wealth of experience in delivering effective management and leadership development experiences. These experiences range from outdoor team learning to classroom based cognitive sessions to on the job training and mentoring. He has worked with middle managers, team leaders and shop floor staff in the FMCG, Oil and Gas, Banking & Finance, Drinks and Food industries and the public sector. John is a regular contributor to several organisations' management and skills development programmes. He will work with a group to meet their individual aims and objectives while ensuring that the over-arching learning and performance needs of the organisation are met.
Jonty Leicester, (MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS) - Principal Consultant
Jonty is a Principal Consultant with Taylor Clarke and has been involved with the partnership since 2005. He specialises in delivering management and leadership development programmes and supporting the learning from these events with coaching and action learning sets. His clients have included The Department for International Development, Standard Life, Tesco’s, Vodafone, and Astra Zeneca.
Mairi Maclean, (BA Hons, MSc, Dip Hum Psych) - Principal Consultant
Mairi is an experienced consultant who has worked with organisations throughout the UK. She has particular skills and abilities around whole systems working, change and personal development. She has excellent project management and communication skills and believes in fostering an open, inclusive relationship with clients. The main thrust of her work has been in facilitating people through times of change, to reflect on their current business and to consider how best to respond to the changing environment. Underpinning her facilitation skills is a robust knowledge of management and leadership. She has worked in partnership and independently.
Jean Mellalieu, (MAML) - Principal Consultant
Jean is a Principal Consultant with Taylor Clarke and has worked with the organisation since 2003. She is a very experienced Consultant with extensive experience in the design, development and facilitation of Personal, Team, Management and Leadership Development Programmes.
Her experience has been gained in a wide variety of areas including the NHS, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence, Scottish Social Care, University of Durham Business School, Universities of Newcastle, York and Teesside, also print, catering, manufacturing and the voluntary sectors.
Joanne Nunn, (MA, BA Hons) - Principal Consultant
Jo is an experienced trainer, facilitator and accredited coach (International Coaching Federation). She has over ten years experience working with senior managers and top teams to develop leadership capability and high performing teams. She believes that organisations need energy and energy can only be generated by talented, motivated people who are developed in line with the organisation's ambitions. Jo is experienced in using a range of interventions and development strategies including; behavioural observation, psychometric analysis, development workshops, assessment centres, skills training and 1:1 coaching.
Jo has worked extensively within the financial services, media, and public sector services. Clients include: National Australia Group, NatWest, RBS Insurance, Network Rail, Diageo, Vodofone, Scottish Executive, Institute of Education,, NSPCC, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Numico, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Dr. George Ralston, (PhD, MAPPSci, BA Hons, PgDip) - Executive Director & Principal Consultant
Since qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist Dr. Ralston is experienced in organisational and personal change management. He has worked as a consultant, trainer, coach and facilitator. He has expertise in maximising the potential in individuals, teams, departments and organisations and has worked with a range of clients including a large multinational banking group and an international drinks company.
Susan Reid, (MA, FCIPD, MIMGT) - Principal Consultant
Susan is a well qualified and very experienced Human Resources professional operating at senior consultant level with over 20 years’ HR/Business experience at strategic and operational levels gained in a wide range of public (including NHS) and private sectors and with organisations going through significant change. She has a clear focus on integrating people development with business strategy and can work effectively with a wide range of people in teams or individually. Her training style is highly participative and she aims to develop the individual’s potential by raising their self-awareness and increasing their understanding of organisational and personal change.
Alastair Wyllie, (BA Hons, MBA, MCMI) - Principal Consultant
Alastair is an experienced Leadership Development, Change Management and Communications Consultant, Project Manager and Facilitator who works mostly with senior policymakers and officials in public, voluntary and not-for-profit organisations in the UK and Europe. Policy sectors have included social services, spatial planning and sustainable development, economic development, employment and incapacity, equal opportunities and age diversity, community and volunteer development, lifelong learning, public health, and drug treatment and rehabilitation. Alastair designs, produces and facilitates whole systems and participative approaches to stakeholder engagement, policymaking and implementation to create shared awareness and ownership of corporate vision, values and competences, and to promote and support individual roles and responsibilities in their achievement.
Claire Reid, (BSc Hons, FCIPD) - Principal Consultant
Claire is an experienced Human Resource and Organisational Development professional and has held a number of senior HR management positions in both the public and private sectors for over 25 years. As HR Director, she played a significant role in the culture change programme within the Scottish Legal Aid Board (a NDPB) and over the past four years has been involved in the delivery and design of Scottish Executive’s ‘Leading to Deliver’ programme for Social Work Services. She has a lot of experience of working in academia both as an employee and as a consultant. She has proven organisational skills and ability to work with people at all levels. She has designed and delivered development activities for employees at all levels on a wide range of subjects for clients in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Dr Allan Webster, (BD, PhD, FIMgt) - Principal Consultant
Allan is a principal consultant in leadership, strategy and organisation development, with a significant track record in public sector modernisation and transformation. He facilitates senior management in the development of a sustainable vision and strategy, thereby enabling them to ‘make sense’ of their business and its opportunities to their managers and staff. Allan is very effective in enabling teams and individuals, at every level in an organisation, to identify and accept the need for a significant shift in shared vision and to design and develop new ways of working to which teams show extraordinary commitment. He enables leaders to develop the ‘content’ of leadership and the strategic skills needed. He has a compelling understanding of how strategy, people, teams, services, processes and systems can be integrated to create and enable a modernised, public service organisation. He assists leaders and their teams to gain confidence and competence in the agenda of change.
Bill Roxburgh, MA MSc MBA - Principal Consultant
Bill is an experienced consultant with a background in educational and business psychology. He has delivered management and leadership development in the private, public and voluntary sectors. His facilitation style is to encourage psychologically safe but open adult-to-adult communication, to allow individuals to obtain maximum transferable benefit from the group experience.