Our Areas of Expertise

We have two areas of expertise:

  • Organisation Development Consultancy -  in relation to complex change projects
  • Organisation Development  Education Programmes -  designing and delivering high quality courses for HR/OD professionals.

Organisation Development Consultancy

Q&E is known in the marketplace for applying Organisation Development theories and principles to consultancy with impressive results:


1.  We support complex change projects - design the general change processes, design and run different types of intervention to help the organisation move towards its change goals, ensure all are set up for effective implementation, and decide on metrics to track the change processes and the benefits.


2.  We design and run large groups in which people are highly engaged; we use whole system methodologies. (Rosabeth M. Kanter of Harvard Business School, one of the world’s foremost thinkers and educators on change, documented Q&E as having designed and supported the world’s largest change intervention.)


3.  We educate and equip internal change agents (line leaders as well as HR and OD professionals) to support implementation, and to ensure that the outcomes of the change project are firmly embedded in the organisation. We often work in alignment with the organisation’s talent management system – in order to build up the change capabilities of future leaders and equip them to run corporate transformation projects.

 

Some examples of our work include:

 

  • Supporting 3 UK quangos in major change initiatives.
  • Being the sole supporter of a national media organisation carrying out the world’s largest culture-change project, involving over 17,000 people. Working closely with the Executive Board using large scale and whole system methodologies.
  • Supporting a national media organisation in the Middle East through a 24-month complex transformation project.
  • Supporting a pharmaceutical company in setting up its OD function in time to provide internal support for a 3-year change programme.
  • Supporting a major food retail company in its culture change programme by working with its Board and Directors.
  • Providing consultancy and development support in a major service transformation project to a central government directorate over the course of 3 years.
  • Carrying out a review of the organisational effectiveness of two major UK political think tanks.
  • Supporting a major publishing house in its culture transformation programme.
  • Supporting a major pension fund organisation in a systematic approach in achieving its growth strategy.
  • Providing OD support to a global media technology organisation in their restructuring processes.
  • Supporting a merger between two major public sector organisations to form a new body commissioned by its political stakeholders.
  • Designing and delivering the global roll-out of a Diversity and Inclusion strategy and increasing the skills of the global HR partners in a major oil company.
  • Providing internal OD support to a major oil company for over 10 years.
  • Designing and running a strategic planning summit for 700 people for a global organisation in order to ensure major stakeholder engagement.
  • Designing and running strategic planning events for all the staff of a national intelligence organisation.

Organisation Development Education and Development Programmes

We are also known in the marketplace for designing and running high-level Organisation Development Education programmes for both OD practitioners and Human Resource professionals.


Some examples of our work in this area include:

 

  • Providing ongoing OD upskilling for the directors and senior consultants of one of the four top consultancy firms in the UK.
  • Providing ongoing development and support for over two years to the national NHS Organisation Development team.
  • Designing and delivering the Developing Top Management Programme (DTMP) and Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP) at the UK National School of Government.
  • Designing and supporting the introduction of the first Organisation Development Practitioners’ continuous education programme at Roffey Park Business School.
  • Running OD master classes for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s HRM and HRD conferences.
  • Designing and delivering an OD capability development programme to 180 top HR practitioners within the NHS, commissioned by Department of Health.
  • Designing and delivering the Directorship Development Programme for the National Audit Commission.
  • Managing 60% of a major oil company’s annual development budget by designing and carrying out training and development to support their strategy for over three years.
  • Delivering a year-long OD development programme for a public sector cross-agency programme in the North East region to enhance service delivery.
  • Designing and delivering an OD capability programme for over 100 senior HR, Organisation Development and learning and development professionals in a financial retail organisation.
  • In summary, Q&E - as illustrated by the breadth and depth of our work and by our values - is the ideal partner to support any organisation that seeks to develop its own in-house OD capability while going though a change process. Q&E’s approach is ethical, professional, diversity-centric and committed to a genuine partnership with the client. Our experienced practitioners work at both senior and middle levels: we have a successful track record in designing and delivering high level leadership programmes and OD effectiveness programmes across sectors. We offer support at board and director levels as well as at individual level. We are practitioners, writers, and lecturers in the field of Organisation Development.