ABOUT TALENT INNOVATIONS

Church bellringer, singer, mother and homeopath

After a psychology degree, her professional life started with 11 years in HR and was followed by six years in business psychology consulting at SHL (two with SHL USA). Inside of a commitment to deliver transformational online 360, Elva started the business in 2001. She has an absolute passion for 360° feedback, for creating transformational tools and for supporting senior women through integrated and fulfilling careers.

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Swimmer, dancer and mother of one

With over 20 years of experience in a client-facing role and a background in software business analysis and business development, Karen has a wealth of experience to bring to our customers. She has a CIM post graduate degree in marketing and has worked across many global prestigious brands to deliver market leading projects. Karen is driven by a natural desire to provide high standards of customer service, which she always delivers in a personable and warm way.

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Music lover and mother

Since completing her psychology degree, Kate has been working as a leadership, talent and OD consultant for over 20 years.  She is a Chartered Business Psychologist, whose experience includes six years at SHL (in the UK and Australia), where she and Elva first worked together, and seven years running her own consulting business.  Kate’s passion is for working with leaders to increase their awareness so that they can successfully lead themselves, their people and their businesses.

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Swimmer and environmentalist

With a master’s degree in environmental physics, Nick’s early career was in environmental testing. Despite a life-long passion for the outdoors and all things scientific, Nick re-qualified in psychology and started working with psychometric and 360° data in the mid-90s. Working with a wide range of clients, he has been able to refine his coaching and facilitation approach.  Nick loves coaching young talent and those with latent potential, whether managers or executives

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Swimmer, film-buff and father of two

Before qualifying as a psychologist he spent a brief period in the offshore oil industry.  Neil started his professional career in BT’s internal consultancy group where he spent eight years before moving to SHL for another eight years.  He takes real joy in designing competency frameworks, leadership assessment and development processes, and coaching senior managers.

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Passionate about life, learning and her three teenagers

After completing her PhD exploring the link between psychological and physical wellbeing, Ann went on to hold several leadership positions. Whilst in the NHS she managed a range of diverse teams and capital portfolios. Since the late 90s she has worked as a coach and development consultant helping individuals and teams increase their levels of engagement, leadership impact and joie de vie.

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Runner and climber, mother of two

On completing a masters in occupational psychology, Jo immediately started practising psychology at SHL where she stayed for five years. She has since held senior roles in a range of consulting firms and business schools, with a focus on Executive Development – deepening self-insight and supporting leaders to be the best they can be.

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From Notting Hill, a father and would-be professional dancer

David has been working with executive teams, managers and those at the sharp end for over 15 years.  His passion is for clear and inspiring leadership.  Working with those who already have it, and those who want it, he has been leading and managing culture change, leadership development, and 360 programmes since 2002.  With experience in UK, France and Canada, from conceptual design through to execution.

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Business psychologist and coach, Samaritan listener and mother of two

Having gained a first class degree in psychology followed by a D.Phil at Oxford, Karen was awarded a young blood lectureship at University College London.  Her consulting career has spanned leadership and management roles in psychology consultancies including SHL and The Work Foundation.  Karen has a particular interest in leadership development and organisational change and is a qualified executive coach.

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Love building new types of online assessment, digging into data, and walking in Scotland

Michael has a first class psychology degree (Queens, Belfast) and a PhD (Surrey).  He has worked as a psychologist for the RAF, in senior management (R&D) for SHL, as a user experience designer on many IT systems, and as a business change manager.  He specialises in evidence-based research, finding patterns in data, and then helping users to apply these in talent management solutions.

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Very proud dad and grandad

John has a lot of varied experience as a professional software and systems developer, including 18 years at BT specialising in web applications, then freelance for a while before joining Talent Innovations in 2010.

“I just love making things that work. I’ve always been a techie and have never lost my enthusiasm for creating systems, especially when driven by new ideas.”

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Dog lover, book worm, and thrill seeker!

After graduating with a degree in Social Psychology five years ago, Laura has worked in a variety of industries, including the recruitment and hospitality sectors. Customer service has always been at the heart of what Laura does, and she strives to provide exceptional customer experience at all times. Managing the Bureau Operations at Talent Innovations allows Laura to exert her organisational skills, and her interpersonal skills, all the while ensuring that our clients gain the most out of the 360 experience.

Loves bellringing, music, the Cumbrian fells and her daughters

With a Masters in HR Management, Julia has a wide variety of experience in Human Resources and leadership development flexing between global corporates to SMEs, investment banking, manufacturing to public sector in the UK, US, Germany and Japan.  She enjoys designing appraisal, feedback and 360 tools, and coaching individuals.  Throughout her work, she excels in pragmatic and elegantly simple approaches which provide clarity to help people grow.

Songwriter, guitarist, marathon runner

With degrees in Materials Science and Organisational Psychology, after learning his trade at Legal & General and Diageo, he spent the next 25 years in business psychology consulting including 7 years as a senior leader at SHL.  He is an acknowledged expert in leadership assessment processes and techniques.  As a coach, he strives to enable leaders to appreciate their unique contribution through talent engineering interventions that allow them to achieve their potential.

Mother, student, yogi and optimist

Following her Psychology degree she worked at American Express to support the introduction of their global 360 degree feedback process.  During her 20-year career she has worked across sectors and both as an internal and external consultant, focusing on leadership assessment and development.  She is passionate about supporting individuals to enhance their self-awareness and professional growth to help them realise more of their potential.

Community leader, volunteer, Mum and walker

Carolyn completed her Masters in Occupational Psychology, and then spent 7 years at SHL learning the ropes in using psychometrics in a meaningful way in assessment and development.  She moved from there to Human Qualities where she specialised in the areas of leadership and management development.  More recently Carolyn has worked across a diverse range of organisations to help empower and enable leaders to get the best from themselves and others, through 360 feedback, coaching and group facilitation.

Proud mum of three and keen problem solver (the two are possibly related)

After obtaining a Pharmacy degree, Lana decided to set course towards a more computer-oriented career.  She now has 10 years of experience working in web development and design, digital and social media marketing.  In order to organise and expand her varied knowledge, she enrolled in a Computer Science MSc course, which is helping her focus on and improve her technical skills and programming experience.

Church bellringer and lover of organisation

With a degree in International Hospitality Business Management, Joseph worked within the hospitality industry for a total of 9 years, both in the UK and the USA. This allowed him to gain experience of both interacting with and managing a variety of different people. Joseph brings together his wealth of customer service experience and his love of organisation to ensure the smooth running of the 360 process.