Jenny Cridland

Personal Profile

Jenny has enjoyed a successful career as a Senior Leader in Human Resources, working in a variety of complex, global, high technology FTSE 50 organisations. Now an independent consultant and qualified coach, she supports a number of clients and individual business leaders.

Jenny has worked with global teams across Europe, the USA, India, the Middle East, and Australia recruiting senior leaders and individuals with scarce skills. Her focus was to develop best practice development and mentoring programmes designed to retain and grow key talent and improve business, team, and individual performance.

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Background and Experience

Jenny is passionate about developing others and has designed and delivered several organisation wide, strategic leadership development programmes. Additionally, she  is an Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University as part of the University Leaders in Residence programme. Her extensive business experience allows her to help clients understand the politics of an organisation and how to manage multiple stakeholders.

Jenny manages to combine a pragmatic and focused approach with humour and insightful questions that get to the nub of an issue quickly and shifts thinking and perspectives. Her skill in listening ensures that she gets quickly to the heart of issues.

Areas of Expertise

  • Leadership Development
  • Mentoring
  • Human Resources
  • Team performance
  • Personal Effectiveness
  • Resourcing
  • Talent Management
  • Coach mentoring

Professional Qualifications, Accreditation and memberships

  • BA (Hons) Business Administration, Management and Operations
  • MBA
  • FCIPD
  • FRSA
  • EMCC Coach Practitioner EIA

Clients

  • Be the Business
  • BAE Systems
  • University of Strathclyde Business School
  • University of Bath Business School
  • Qinetiq
  • British Heart Foundation

Coaching Assignments

  • Be the Business - Leading a national programme to help 100’s of SME leaders to improve their productivity through a focus on employee engagement and better workplace practices. Resulted in a £250m government investment in a national leadership development programme for small business leaders.
  • Defence – Development of a mentoring programme which ensured the development of key talent.
  • Defence – coaching teams of people following attendance on leadership programmes