About our Consultants
"The Q & E consultant was in an unenviable situation with a mixed audience and she was able to handle the agendas of particular individuals, their status, background, experience and limited or otherwise knowledge of OD."
"The Q & E consultant was able to engage and enthuse the audience. Her stories and anecdotes provoked laughter but also made the point. She is a walking library! Her subject knowledge is amazing but the power is the ability to bring this to life and enthuse others by combining it with excellent facilitation skills, excellent ‘on the job’ experience and a real passion to improve the standard of OD in our business."
"Inspiring, experienced, impressive, thought provoking, absolutely driven to meet everyone’s needs. Fab!"
"We especially valued the rich experience of the consultants Q & E brought to us from the United States. They were able to bring examples from all sorts of different situations, blended skilfully with well-structured explanations of principles and methods."
Jenny Charteris - CPCR
OD Masterclass
"Our Director has described the OD Masterclass as a pivotal point in our organisation. It has really made people think about what they do and how they do it. The discussions they had about the new Regional role led to the conclusion that the role is about leadership and succession planning. During day two Area Managers were speaking out saying ‘well that is fine, but if we think back to the models that we looked at yesterday we must not forget about the links between culture, structure and leadership’. This is a real step change!"
Consultancy
"The Q & E team was superb in walking with us through every step of our transformational change. They worked with our senior team - secured buy in and common ground and worked with our middle management to ensure they could back up the strategic implementation. They helped us set up a talent management programme and actively use our talent pool to support the change programme. They also worked collaboratively with our HR staff to build a strong platform to support all the change initiatives. Everything they have done is to ensure we are self sufficient in sustaining the change without depending on external resources. I am sure we could not have done what we had without the support from Q & E".
"What makes Q & E stand out is their constant striving towards helping us to build internal capacity in our change efforts. While the billable hours are low, the quality of consultancy support to the internal team is high, and all these combined with the rising change competency of our own internal change agents make them a fantastic group to work with".
"Q & E has a great ability to make you think systemically - they would not stand by and see us working on one aspect of change without helping us to go through the systemic alignment to ensure we have all the right levers to pull. Their supportive challenge kept us pure in our thinking, and enabled us not to take short cuts. They helped us to think not just "systemic" but also "sustainable". Their savviness in human dynamics made change feel easy, fun and human to do".
Change Management Programme
"Quality & Equality supported us in a change programme in our Distribution Division. The consultant gained the immediate respect and trust of the senior line managers and was able to challenge their thinking. The result was a programme tailored to our needs that added real value to our business."
- Distribution HR Manager
Personal Development Programme
"I can truly say it was probably the best and most uplifting programme I have ever been on - at this moment in time I do feel like a new man, someone who still has many futures. I now feel better equipped to deal with 'me' and also the organisation I have chosen to work for."
- Assistant Producer
Action Learning Sets Facilitation
"Our Action Learning set has been meeting for 2.5 years and we form a group of 6 senior HR professionals (all women - our choice) who meet about 6 times a year to discuss individual work issues and our professional development in a totally confidential setting.
The consultant plays a crucial role in helping us all to challenge our thinking, apply theoretical frameworks to situations and issues, and work through joint problem solving. The consultant's experience of organisational development and her inspirational facilitation of the set has been a big plus in helping us all to manage the challenges of our personal and organisational lives."
- Senior Women Managers
Culture and Equality Seminar
"The consultant, as well as being particularly charismatic and engaging, addressed the 'wicked' and complex issues of organisational culture, discrimination and diversity in a refreshing, challenging and constructive session. This was a different way of looking at some difficult issues; this was a different approach to the usual arguments and discussions about diversity and difference."
-Human Resource Training & Development Manager
Major Organisation Development Project
"Our experience of working with the Q&E consultant is that it has been a pleasure. Professional, highly effective and receptive to our needs, the consultant's standard of service throughout the contract, from initial consultation and course design, through delivery to the evaluation of performance, has been the highest.
Unstinting effort was put in by the consultant to work with us to understand the culture of our organisation, and to present material to delegates in a way that made them feel their issues at work really were understood and acknowledged as important.
Much of the success of the programme has been down to the skill and experience of the consultant."
- Her Majesty's Inspector
Organisation Development, Change Management, Managing Diversity and Recruitment Programmes
"I have worked with Quality & Equality for many years and cannot speak highly enough of their professionalism. The consultant who worked with us on each different project was truly inspirational. She gained the respect of all who worked with her, despite having to make some people challenge their thought processes and change their minds over a number of difficult issues.
The consultant's direct approach and amusing anecdotes also makes the learning experience fun and memorable.
Quality & Equality are a highly professional organisation that works to the highest standard in everything they do."
- Director of Human Resources