Newgrange Consultants
Our Consultants
GEOFF DOBSON
A PLC Board level Human Resources professional, Geoff Dobson has over twenty years' experience in blue chip organisations acrossa diverse range of industries. He has managed at every stage of the business cycle, from start up and growth stages to mature international operations.
Geoff has had strategic responsibility for the HR function and General Management oversight of an international business. The majority of his senior roles have been within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical systems and medical devices sector. In addition he has worked for one of the world's leading oil firms, and has worked in manufacturing, industrial chemicals and gases, and in logistics.
Geoff maintains a broad interest in all aspects of HR and can offer a real depth of experience and expertise in recruitment and selection, organisation development, change management, professional development and compensation. He has substantial international experience, particularly with 'transatlantic' life science company cultures. He has also experienced the diversity of business cultures in Western and Central Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle and Far East and Latin America Geoff has sharpened his commercial expertise with an eighteen month assignment as the General Manager of the North American operations of a UK PLC, so he is very aware of commercial significance of the HR function.
Geoff is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He has a Masters Degree in Organisation Consulting, a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences, and is a qualified psychometric tester.
MARY HANLEY
As a Chartered Psychologist, Dr. Mary Hanley utilises her academic and consulting experience to direct the research and development activities supporting Newgrange Consultants. Mary holds a PhD in Psychology, an MSc in Occupational Psychology, a Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Healthcare, and is chartered with the British Psychological Society.
In addition to her work with Newgrange Consultants, Mary leads all Post Registration Masters’ and Doctoral programmes for healthcare professionals at the University of Northampton School of Health. She works in collaboration with a range of healthcare providers to meet the training needs of their professional staff.
Mary has been a consultant to the Open University on occupational health psychology and stress management. She is an external examiner and has been a guest lecturer at several UK universities. Examples of her industrial and commercial consulting work include leading a project on behavioural indicators in recruitment and selection for a regional energy provider, and consulting work with an executive recruitment and selection company.
Mary has an extensive record in research and her work has been published by the Open University and in professional journals. Her professional interests include psychometrics at both testing and evaluation levels, the design of healthful organisations, and the goodness of fit between individuals and their career choices.
ALISON VANN
Allison has over fifteen years experience as a recruitment and selection specialist, and has wider HR experience including responsibilities for induction programmes, employment policies and creation of organisation's 'Employment Brand'.
Alison has managed recruitment and selection campaigns across a number of industry sectors, including IT, advertising and communications, biotechnology, medical devices, marketing, paper and packaging, retail and high technology businesses.
Alison has recruited at technical and professional, middle and senior management level. Whilst the majority of her experience has been with recruitment service businesses, Alison has also worked in-house with the HR functions of major organisations to run special recruitment campaigns. Alison has deep experience of the advertised selection sector, together with specialist expertise around innovations in on-line recruitment and selection methods. Alison is also developing her skills in psychometric assessment.
GEORGINA MCKELVEY
Georgina has twenty years generalist HR experience, working within blue chip, international companies involved in information services, media, life and physical science service industries. She has worked on a diverse range of activities including change management, organisational learning and development, team building, leadership, recruitment selection and assessment, HR operations and services.
Georgina has led several major performance improvement programmes including managing recruitment programmes, competency profiling, performance improvement programmes, organisation restructuring, redundancy and re-deployment exercises and team-building workshop design and facilitation.
Georgina is a chartered member of the CIPD with a degree in Business Management and is a qualified psychometric tester.
BRIAN McIVER
Brian specialises in driving high performance from sales teams through improved revenue performance and cost reduction. He brings 20 years of research into Products & Markets, Sales Channels and Selling Skills; and then applies unique models which deliver results. His extensive personal experience in line, staff and executive roles enable him quickly to identify Key Improvement areas. He has trained and developed Sales Directors, Managers and Sales Executives for global businesses such as BT, IBM, EMC, and SCO. Brian has also worked with clients across the retail, financial services and manufacturing sectors.
Brian has provided performance improvement Consultancy throughout Europe, the Far East and the Americas. He is bi-lingual Spanish-English and he holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Registered Offices: Headlands House, 1 Kings Court, Kettering Parkway, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN15 6WJ
Company Registration Number: 05536884
