about us*

Hennessy Consulting is a leadership development, executive coaching and organisational change consultancy.

Our philosophy

We bring talent alive in any business, giving firms the competitive edge through their people. We develop leaders with confidence, strategic insight, emotional intelligence and, most importantly, with an engaged and committed team around them.

 

We believe...

that the quality of attention, the clarity of intention and the depth of connection underpins performance.

Our approach

We build trust with business leaders. We are trusted to work with them and their people to create a climate for success, collaboration and effectiveness. We do this through psychological techniques, highly skilled facilitation and clear insight into organisations.

 

Leadership Development  

When choosing Hennessy Consulting as a learning and development partner, you will find that we approach development as an OD intervention in support of system-wide objectives. Whilst being experts in the field of learning and development, OD and occupational psychology, we will work with you to monitor and understand how any learning programme is delivering on its stated objectives and other ways it may be changing and nudging your system to change.

 

Organisational Change

Our approach to OD is best summed up the following definitions from “A Field Guide for Organisation Development” edited by Ed Griffin, Mike Alsop, Martin Saville and Grahame Smith:

 

  • As a purpose, OD is the intention to build sustainable successful organisations where people are truly valued
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  • As a philosophy, OD is about a belief in the importance of growing organisational health, humanistic values, a reliance on behavioural sciences, basing your work on data and diagnosis
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  • As a mindset and behaviours, OD is about looking at the bigger picture – systems thinking, a belief in people, being opportunistic and systematic, being courageous, staying open minded, being collaborative, having improvement focus
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  • As a field of practice, OD is about the use of a diverse range of tools, practices and approaches to enable sustained and sustainable organisational performance through the involvement and collaboration of the people in and around the organisation. This may include large group interventions, learning and development activities and a focus on culture change.

 

OD is an evolving field and we continue to learn, bring together different disciplines and make new advances with each intervention.

 

Executive Coaching

At Hennessy Consulting we believe that coaching is a thought-provoking and creative partnership between the coachee and coach that inspires and enables the coachee to maximise their professional and person potential. We provide professional coaches with a wealth of experience in leadership development, assessment and occupational psychology, as well as experience working in and running businesses. As such, our coaches are ideally placed to work with the highest level in organisations, able to work with a wide range of leadership and learning models, and create close and productive partnerships with our clients.

Our team

We draw upon a wide network of best in class occupational psychologists, executive coaches, facilitators and OD/change consultants to meet your needs and fit your business. You will get to know us and we will get to know you, and together we will do great things.

 

We are a passionate team. We love what we do, and that’s what makes our team special.

Jo Hennessy

Managing Director and Founder

Alex Gunby

Director of Coaching

Matt Gott

Associate Director

Kate Oliver

Associate Director

Clare Amos

Executive Coach and Facilitator

Amanda Touhey

Executive Coach

Shalini Sequeira

Executive Coach

Nana-Efua Lawson

Executive Coach

Jayne Reynolds

Executive Coach

Pamela Permalloo-Bass

Executive Coach

Adrian Lock

Executive Coach

Nick Marlow

Executive Coach