HR consulting: Marianne specialises in consulting on HR and OD strategy in support of creating great workplaces. She works with:

• Boards to develop their vision, values and leadership
• HR directors and their teams to benchmark and develop their practice

She also has specialist experience in diversity, especially gender, race and sexuality, and a particular interest in values driven leadership and culture change.

Facilitation: Marianne is skilled and comfortable working with teams and groups of all sizes and configurations. Clients particularly value her ability to help teams think clearly about both business and HR strategy. She is often called on to help individuals and teams have ‘difficult’ conversations and to deal with complex interpersonal issues.

Executive coach: An accredited executive coach with an advanced diploma from the Academy of Executive Coaching, she works with leaders to support them in being the best they can be. By listening deeply and challenging supportively, she helps her clients to access their own best thinking to address and resolve the challenges they and their organisations face.

Governance and Board development: A Chartered Director, Marianne works with third sector Boards to help them review and improve their effectiveness and designs bespoke appraisal and Board development interventions to support that.

Speaker: Marianne is an experienced conference speaker and workshop leader.

Marianne is passionate about helping leaders deliver business results through making work a great place to be for everyone.

She works predominantly with top teams, and her preferred working style is collaborative and values based, driven by a desire for win/win outcomes.

Marianne joined GCC in mid 2007, having worked for over 25 years in senior people and organisation development roles in the public and not for profit sectors. She currently combines her consultancy and coaching practice with non-executive roles in housing and social care.

Her last corporate role was as Group HR Director at Bromford Group, a large Midlands based housing organisation. While at Bromford, she developed and implemented a business focussed HR strategy for the Group, the success of which was initially demonstrated when the Group achieved fifth place in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies list in 2003, receiving a special award for being the best company for work and family. This was followed by a place in the FT Best EU workplaces list in 2004, and starred accreditation by Best Companies Ltd as a first class place to work in 2007. The company was the public sector category winner of Unisys/Management Today Service Excellence Awards in 2005 and 2006, and the overall winner in 2007.

A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, her earlier career included spells in local government and the voluntary sector, as well as a period running her own business.

Marianne’s focus is mainly the public, not for profit, and voluntary/community sectors.

Clients include: Clyde Valley Group, The Regenda Group, Helena Partnerships, Cheshire Constabulary, Leeds Federated HA, Regional Action West Midlands, and West Kent HA.