Our People

Graham Manville Principal Consultant and Managing Director Performance Management and Strategic Facilitation

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John Griffin Associate Director Sales and Change Management

John began his commercial career with Nestle later moving to SC Johnson Wax where, during his Sales Management incumbency of some 27 years, he held many senior Field Sales and Account Manager positions before becoming Sales Director for UK/Ireland. Also reporting into John at this time were the Customer Marketing and Customer Service Departments.

As a result of John sponsoring many European initiatives, the British Company was appointed the 'Centre for Excellence' for Europe and undertook 'lead country' status for strategy development. This resulted in his promotion to Sales Development Director for Northern Europe where John provided expertise and support for Scandinavia as well as the emerging CIS and Central European markets.

Since February 1997, John has worked for a number of leading international Management Consultancies, as Director of Consulting, and, over the course of the past ten or so years has worked extensively for many prestigious multinational companies across three continents (Europe/Asia/Africa) in both mature and developing markets. His Sales and Customer Marketing expertise has enabled John to lead or support a broad range of projects from trading terms strategy; best practice customer management; and sales capability training, through to organisation benchmarking and channel strategy development.

John is married with four grown up children and lives in Sussex.

Gill Schiel Associate Consultant Managment Development

Gill Schiel is a results-driven HR Consultant, with extensive HR management experience across a range of business sectors and global blue chip companies, including senior HR management experience at JP Morgan for 14 years.

Gill has always been fascinated by the complex interaction between business leadership styles, people dynamics and business success. Her successful HR career has been built on her business understanding, working in partnership and consultation with senior managers and executives to align strategic and tactical people agendas with organizational goals, providing value-added ideas and solutions. Gill tailors flexible and insightful interventions to increase management effectiveness, staff productivity, innovation, engagement and teamwork.

Creating proactive but practical future-focused policies, and implementing best practice across the full spectrum of human resource issues to create short and long-term competitive edge and employer of choice profiles, Gill enjoys helping companies attract, retain and develop talent, manage performance and lead effectively through organizational change. Defining and reinforcing positive corporate cultures and helping managers understand the fast changing dynamics in today's workforce, Gill's expertise brings together successful management and employee success to accelerate business growth. Gill is CIPD qualified and is also an experienced mediator, coach and mentor, with specialist interests in occupational psychology.

Roy King-Underwood Associate Consultant Process Improvement

Roy is a Chartered Engineer with over thirty years management experience at Senior level and boardroom level. Roy has been a Consultant with Longview since 2004 and has developed long lasting client relationships leading to sales growth and high return on investment. Roy is also a qualified life and business coach and led six sigma change management programmes.

His achievements and skill-set includes:

• Supply chain re-organisation - providing $4m improvement in profitability
• Company management
• International company start-up and acquisition - 2 acquisitions in USA
• International sales restructuring - Australia and Europe over 10% improvement in sales and id="html"m plus bottom line savings
• Applications engineering and product life cycle management
• New product introduction - 40% new product growth - 300% reduction in time to market

Penny Clarke Associate Consultant Management Development and Coaching

Has significant experience in staff development. A qualified coach and an energetic and innovative consultant specializing in leadership, performance management, career coaching, personal
development and leadership training, as well as in acting as an internal consultant.

7 years experience as an independent management development consultant coaching senior managers and professional staff. Penny uses a range of coaching models and NLP skills to help individuals come to solutions, and using psychometrics and 360% feedback as appropriate.

Specialising in business and leadership coaching, in performance development, career development and in personal growth. As a member of the Association of Coaching I abide by their ethics, and I am part of a coaching supervision group.

Mike Blee Associate Consultant Strategic Facilitation

Mike has an MBA and is a well known management consultant with international experience that has been gained mainly in the leisure and entertainment industries. He has owned and managed his own company for a number of years and this ensures a very practical based approach to problem solving. Consultancy and management training has been carried out for both large and small corporate clients.

As a consultant he has advised many companies in the areas of strategic development and risk management. From 1995 until 2007 he has also worked in academia initially lecturing in the area of corporate strategy on Masters Programmes. With wide marketing experience this was followed by his gaining responsibility for international student recruitment for The Business School at Bournemouth University

Mike's international experience includes working in The Far East and the US.

He has practical case examples published in the leading UK strategy text 'Exploring Corporate Strategy - text & cases- Johnson, Scholes & Whittington publisher Prentice Hall 2005 & 2008 editions.

Emma Teasdale Associate Consultant Management Development and Human Resource

Emma is a full member of the CIPD and a highly resilient, creative and resourceful HR professional with over 17 years experience within a wide variety of industries. Developing and delivering a comprehensive range of projects, providing both credibility and drive, working independently or as part of a team. Being both a conscientious and considerate individual this self-starter gives originality to any project with her quiet yet persuasive approach, based on a 'can do will do reputation' combined with a strong business focus. Her proven ability to influence at all levels and develop sound working relationships has enabled this very capable project manager to investigate, plan and deliver strategic company wide human resource initiatives driving real business results through the promotion and drive for added value through people.

David Gill Associate Consultant Strategic Facilitation

David Gill is an experience consultant having worked with many blue chip organisations. He is also an Associate Senior Lecturer in strategic management in a leading vocational business school. He has more than thirty years teaching and executive education experience. David held the role of MBA Programme Director for 5 years and teaches on undergraduate and post graduate programmes. He was previously Programme Leader for the part time MBA programme.

Chris Jackson Associate Consultant Management Development and Strategic Facilitation

Specialist combination of director, business advisor, mentor, technical manager and operations manager who has operated in small and medium businesses with equal success. International experience in fast moving and challenging conditions. Particular abilities are innovation, drive, focus and objectivity.