
Director at Creative Leadership
Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Director at Creative Leadership
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Inspired by helping people to achieve their best, both personally and professionally, Michelle joined Creative Leadership as co-Director and Talent Management Consultant in December 2007, following a merger with her previous business New Horizon Associates. Prior to this she worked within Resourcing and Recruitment at a variety of complex Professional Services, agency and outsourced organisations including Portman Building Society, Fidelity Investments, PwC and LV.
Michelle is BPS level 2 qualified, an NLP Master Practitioner and holds a Certificate in Coaching from the Coaching Academy. She is a member of The ANLP, NLP Dorset, the British Psychological Society, and Business Exchange Wessex. She is also a volunteer mentor for the Prince’s Trust.
A bit about me
★ I love all things historical and when I was younger I wanted to be an archaelogist.
★ I once worked in the Alps as a Chalet Girl
★ My father’s French so I can speak the language fluently
★ I lived in London for many years but missed the sea and returned to my home-town of Bournemouth, Dorset in 2003.
Recruitment, Interviewing, Selection, Training, Assessment, Development, Performance, Coaching, NLP, Search, Research, Service Delivery, Acting, Competency, OPQ 32, Thinking Styles, Values, Talent Management, Talent, Outplacement.
(Partnership; Human Resources industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Talent Management All Ways
Talented people make a tangible difference to the immediate and future success of businesses.
Growing evidence suggests that to be effective a talent management strategy must go beyond merely recruiting high potential individuals, to include the systematic development, management and retention of those individuals.
At Creative Leadership, we divide our services into 3 strands: Join, Grow and Move On.
We appreciate that each client is unique as are their requirements, therefore we work on just one, two or all of these, depending upon your needs.
We make a difference in the following ways;:
Join - Talent Identification, Attraction, Assessment and On-Boarding
Grow - Coaching, Training, Leadership and Team Development
Move On - Promotion and Transitioning, Succession Planning
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Management industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
(Public Company; Human Resources industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
1993 — 1996
1990 — 1992
1986 — 1990
Member of The ANLP, NLP Dorset, British Psychological Society, The Association for Management, Education and Development and Business Exchange Wessex.
Learning & Development Partner to the Dorset Music Forum.
Volunteer Mentor for The Prince's Trust.
Member of Prince's Trust Enterprise group who raised in excess of £24K in support of the Prince's Trust in Dorset.