Ian G Warnock MSc C.Eng MIEE Director and Lead Consultant
An established management consultant, Ian Warnock is a Principal Consultant. He has worked in senior IT and Business Process positions in both the private and public sectors, and consultancy firms, and led one of the most established and profitable private IT consulting businesses in Scotland. He has provided services to a wide client base of both private and public sector organisations, including blue-chips.
Ian has significant experience in system specification, planning and implementation, covering CRM, EPM and ERP solutions.
Ian is also a qualified lead auditor in BS7799/27001 ISMS, a Chartered Engineer and is also author of two best selling textbooks on Business Excellence, methodologies and the effective use of information systems.
Allan Johnston BSc Associate Consultant
Allan has provided best practice consulting, analysis and IT project management for over 15 years. An established management consultant, Allan is an associate consultant in Nevis Consulting. He has worked in senior IT and Business Process positions in both the private sector for HP, Compaq and DEC, the public sector and aviation. He has provided services to a wide client base of both private and public sector organisations, including blue-chips.
Allan has significant experience in Discovery of Requirements, system specification, planning and implementation, covering CRM and EPM solutions.
Douglas Young
Previously a lead consultant for Hays, Douglas has wide and deep process transformation and requirements capability gained in the public and private sectors. He has worked mainly with the NHS and banks in recent years.
Brian Wishart BSc, CIPD Associate Consultant
Brian was BP's Director of Organisational and Individual Learning, Europe 2003-06, and has more than 25 years generalist HR experience gained in a European context within diverse and challenging environments in both the private and public sector. His expertise includes Executive Coaching, Team Building, Change Management, Employee Relations and Organisational Development. Some of his recent projects include:
- Supporting an M&A across a Refining and Chemicals business by integrating two distinct HR organisations into a single functioning team with a 30% reduction in cost
- Coaching at Vice President and Country President level in major multinational
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- Creating and leading a European Team of 57 L&OD professionals using an internal consultancy team model
- European Change Manager for a global Chemicals business designing and implementing a cultural change programme. Helping with the reorganisation of the business in Europe achieving 15% ROACE from a 5% start point
BSc ( Hons) Psychology; C.I.P.D.(Dialogos -Sloane MIT). Also Certificate in Employment Law, HAY and Psychometric trained. Has held Directorships as a Non-Executive Board Member of Teesside Training Enterprises, Forth Valley Enterprise Board and Opportunity 2000 Scotland.
Gerry Boyle - Associate Consultant
Gerry worked internationally with IBM as a management development consultant, executive/ management coach and facilitator for many years. He has extensive experience of working internationally with organisations in areas such as, organisational development, change management, interpersonal skills, leadership, managerial styles, organisational climate, leadership competencies and coaching.
Gerry has worked at all levels within organisations from executive down. He has over twenty years of experience of managing in manufacturing, communications, public relations, human resources consultancy and management development. He also has experience of managing a remote international team.
Currently an independent consultant, he is working with various organisations, is a faculty member with a leading European training and development organisation, and is presently undertaking development work with a major international services company.
He has a Masters in Human Resource Management and is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development. An experienced counsellor and psychotherapist with a Diploma in Counselling and Supervision, he is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Chris Garner - Associate Consultant
Followed an H.R. career path into general management and consultancy. He previously worked for ICL, British Gas, Kuwait Oil Company, Solus Ocean Systems. He has been a consultant since 1982 with the United Nations, Ministry of Housing (Bahrain) and Hay, and has worked across the full range of HR consulting activities. Clients have been notably in the privatised utilities, the public sector and its emerging agencies and the NHS, and in recent years on large change projects for multinational clients, particularly in the energy and banking sectors
Chris has a track record of helping organisations to improve their performance. Particular strengths are in change through performance management, organisation design and effectiveness and management development at senior levels. He is a seasoned practitioner in the use of competencies to give competitive advantage. He is a Rotarian and lives high on the moors on the Yorkshire - Lancashire border In October 1996. Maths and Management Science graduate from Manchester University (UMIST).
Andy Johnston - Associate Consultant
Andy followed a progressive career in HR, working for a succession of ‘blue-chip’ companies - (Vauxhall Motors, Granada Group, Northern Foods and the William Hill Organisation). During that time he had strategic and ‘hands on’ operational responsibility for all HR activities including resourcing, remuneration and benefits, ER, development and career planning and OD. He led significant change initiatives and gained first hand experience working with mergers and acquisitions. He then joined Hay Management Consultants and, over a period of seven years, developed a wide and diverse client base supplying the full range of HR-based consulting activities.
An Economics graduate from Hull University, DMS and Fellow of the CIPD. Andy lives near Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire, sings in a male voice choir and is a lifelong supporter of Derby County FC.