Sue Lewis

In these challenging financial times I am working with organisations to increase their internal capacity - helping companies to do their own assessment and development centres, their own coaching and their own training. This reduces their reliance on external consultants, who, let's face it, can be expensive.

Sometimes an organisation simply needs a straightforward update to their skills set. They need their managers to have more facilitation skills, their team members to communicate more effectively in presentations, for their women employees to be more assertive, for everyone to deal with stress more effectively.

Sometimes a culture change is required, involving a strategy for organisational development that stretches over a longer time period and encompasses a wider range of solutions. It needs to really provide what its customers want, instead of the organisation’s idea of what the customer wants and its usual way of meeting it.

Sometimes a team realises it is being less effective than it could be, or gets stuck in some way and its usual strategies for un-sticking itself no longer work. Its patterns of behaviour have become self-defeating, on personal, interpersonal and business issues. More often than not they are unaware of the ways in which they contribute to their problems and unwanted outcomes.

Sometimes standard training or development programmes are not the answer to increased personal performance. The individual may need time, space and privacy to explore the issues that concern them with someone who will support and challenge their thinking and behaviour.


I work with organisations on all these levels.

Targeted leadership development programmes

Team development

Culture change initiatives for long-term change

Personal development and process awareness programmes

Leadership coaching

Personality and psychometric profiling

360 degree feedback

Assessment and development centres

Internal capacity development

Recent and current organisational clients include:

Bosch
Unipart
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Oracle France
Whirlpool Europe
Motorola
British Telecom
NHS
Inland Revenue
DVLA
Lend Lease Europe
Ministry of Defence
DaimlerChrysler
Cabinet Office
Civil Service, Malaysia
GlaxoSmithKlein (UK and USA)
Sanofi Avensis
National Grid
Microsoft
Network Rail
Supreme Educational Council, Qatar
Natural England
Save the Children

I work privately as well as with a number of consultancies including:


Centre for High Performance Development (see www.chpd.com)
Consulting People Ltd (see www.consulting people.co.uk)
Bray Leino Learning (see www.brayleino.co.uk)