Our People
Introduction
JSB's strength lies in the expertise of our specialists, our client-focused relationship management and logistical support staff. This full service capability enables us to meet specialist and immediate challenges, via our public courses and conferences or in-company option. We have rigourously recruited the most talented consultants to deliver training, development and consultancy projects. This team is further enhanced by the impressive speakers who contribute to our conferences and seminars.
Directors and Senior Consultants
Senior Consultant Team
JSB Consulting team
Robbie Cowan, Director, Consulting, began his career as a clinical psychologist and gained extensive insight and understanding into the way people behave, learn and grow, paving the way for a second career in organisational consultancy.
Robbie works in an international context with a range of blue-chip companies and professional firms in the areas of both transitional and transformational change. He offers a depth of experience within the professional services and marketing communications sectors. Robbie's style is interactive, practical and engaging.
Key areas of expertise:
- board-level facilitation and coaching
- strategic planning
- organisational development
- internal communications
Angela Qureshi, Director - heads JSB’s Education sector and Strategic HR faculty. As an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, she has extensive experience at blue chip consulting firms; Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large University.
Angela’s current work includes: Delivery of a leadership development programme for senior managers, currently broadening to support a wider cultural change programme (ongoing); Supporting an HR department with a process of change to move towards a more strategically focused, business partnering approach to HR provision, encompassed by the whole function (ongoing). Angela brings useful experience and latest thinking from her work in an extensive range of sectors including professional services and finance.
Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University. Angela is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Key areas of expertise:
- HR and organisation strategy
- Business strategy development facilitation
- Leadership, change management and organisation development
- Management development skills
- Performance management including objective setting, performance appraisal, training and development, motivation and reward
- Operational HR including capability, discipline and grievance, sickness absence, case work, employment law for managers, recruitment and selection, role design and competency development
Management, Business and Communications Skills
More than 60 trainers, consultants, coaches and facilitators serve our clients. Located across the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA, they combine outstanding sector experience with subject expertise and offer engaging, practical support.
To suit the diversity of our clients' needs, our Europe-based consultants work in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. Our partners in the USA, Southern Africa and Asia Pacific mean that we can cater to the needs of global organisations wherever they are located - and in the language of their local staff.
The breadth and depth of our team enables us to work with people at every level - in groups, at offsites, in large seminars and conferences and on a one-to-one basis.
Our highly skilled team includes the following:
Employment Law Specialists
JSB's Employment Law Faculty is the UK's leading team of employment law training specialists, combining unrivalled authority, legal expertise and practical business experience. Faculty members include:
2-day interactive training and practice - with optional 3rd day tribunal visit (compulsory for ACEL students):
10 - 11 (12) Aug 2010
2-day interactive training and practice:
24 - 25 Aug 2010
2-day highly practical introductory course:
22 - 23 Sep 2010
3-day interactive training and practice - with optional 4th day tribunal visit:
11 - 13 (14) Oct 2010
1-day interactive seminar:
19 Oct 2010
2-day practical course:
4 - 5 Nov 2010
2-day course:
15 - 16 Nov 2010
2-day interactive training course:
11 - 12 Apr 2011
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