Inspirational Speaker: A thought leader, Judith loves sharing her learning about people and business. She peppers her talks with stories of real people who struggle and succeed in equal measure, making it easy for the audience to connect to her message. Providing ideas from other companies and from her own research, she inspires organisations to take the next steps in their journey towards excellence.

I have waited for years to hear an inspirational woman speaker and finally tonight I have! (HR Director)

Facilitation: Judith has many years experience working with teams, leaders, managers. Her psychology background means she is expert in managing team dynamics and is known for giving straight feedback in a way that is easy to accept.

Judith is very perceptive about the dynamics within the group and pays real attention to each individual’s experience. (HR Manager)

Executive coach: 35 years working one to one, helping people explore their impact in the world, makes Judith an exceptional executive coach. The combination of psychological understanding, wide experience of working with senior business leaders plus an ease in building rapport gives her an edge in tackling the wide range of situations coachees face.

You are honest, brave, funny, motivating, and inspiring. Your skilled coaching has helped me to make real sustainable change. (Marketing Director)

Author: Judith has written three books to date and numerous articles on the subjects of great leadership, inspirational manager, employer of choice and talent development. She also writes customised materials for clients, linked to workshops, company magazines, development interventions. She has an ‘easy read’ style, designed to draw in the reader and engaging their interest quickly. Focusing on real time stories, while sharing her expertise and knowledge, she enables the reader to review their personal experience and take the next step towards their desired goal.

I am enjoying your book immensely. It has been a real help – it is indeed proving a valuable reference guide – seemingly my only lifeline in what is currently a very rough sea! (HR Manager)

Most of my own managers have now read Inspirational Manager or are waiting to read it – there is a queue! (Senior Police Officer)

Judith’s 30-year career led her to set up Great Companies Consulting in 2002, to support companies in building workplaces that make a positive contribution to the life of employees, whilst being successful in the market place.

Her commitment to people and workplace culture led Judith to spend a year with Great Place to Work® UK, during the production of the 2002 ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list for the Sunday Times, to develop her understanding of what makes a company great. In the course of that work, she visited a number of the great companies in both UK and USA. This experience plus many conversations with a wide range of senior leaders from ‘great’ to ‘difficult’ cultures focussed her thinking and led her to set up Great Companies Consulting (GCC).

In order to understand the inputs that produce a great culture, Judith went on to research and write her best selling book, Becoming an Employer of Choice(CIPD, 2004). Written in her signature style of simplicity and easy to understand language, the book inspires, whilst providing useful information and ideas for action. Her second book, Inspirational Manager, (Prentice Hall, 2007) provides a clear and practical guide to being the manager of choice for high performing individuals and organisations. Book three, The Psychology of Success, (Prentice Hall, 2009) focuses on talent, identifying the best way to manage high performers in the 21st Century.

Prior to founding GCC, Judith had 10 years experience in Leadership/ Management Development and Executive Coaching and has coached a wide range of senior leaders in a variety of business settings. As a coach and consultant, she is known for providing strong, rigorous support that includes giving the tough messages. Using her experience of psychology she is able to do this in a way that maintains self-esteem and allows the person to move forward in a positive way.

Her career has taken her to a variety of countries and she has worked with people from many different cultures including Africa, Asia, USA and Europe, both individually and in cross cultural groups. This has given her an understanding of the significance of diversity in the workplace.

Judith is an engaging and exciting international presenter on the subject of Employer of Choice, Inspirational Manager and The Psychology of Success. Conferences include: Etisalat Conference, Abu Dhabi; Human Resource Conference, Istanbul; Human Resource conference, Warsaw; Metropolitan Police Conference; Annual CIPD Conference; National Housing Federation; Aston Business School;, NHS Conference; AIMS Conference, Budapest; Skillsoft HR Conference

Her background is in Gestalt psychology and she was a founder member and Managing Director of the Gestalt Centre from 1979 to 1990, which continues to be one of the prime UK Psychotherapy Training institutes.

Judith has worked in a wide range of business settings:

Private sector including: Emap, Schenker, CBS Outdoor, T Mobile, EDF Energy, Prudential Insurance, AndersElite, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Ernst and Young, Honda UK, NTL, De Beers, Chubb Insurance, Standard Chartered Bank, Vodafone, Carlsberg

Public / Not for Profit – ACAS, Metropolitan Police, Scope, Department of Work and Pensions, Nuffield Health Trust, Hertfordshire TEC, Office of Fair Trading, Cheshire Constabulary, Nominet, Regenda Housing Group