Naheed Mirza MSc, Assoc CIPD
Founder and Managing Director
Naheed is an experienced manager and consultant having held senior positions for a number of commercial organisations. This, combined with her experience of having successfully run a multi-million pound business, with accountability for revenue generation and growth, people, and client relationship management, gave her a clear understanding of the challenges faced by senior management teams and led to the formation of Ipso Consulting in 2009.
She has considerable expertise of tacking complex issues within multi-faceted organisations gained from working extensively at board-level, as a trusted advisor, with clients across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors including: the Metropolitan Police Service, The Security Service (MI5), BAE Systems, RBS, Barclays Wealth, Christian Aid, PwC, The Ethical Property Company and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). This has given her insight and knowledge of the challenges that each sector faces and the nuances that make each distinct.
Ipso Consulting is built on a strong ethos of professionalism and innovation and has developed a number of unique organisational development models designed to ensure that client organisations are placed in the best possible position for the future.
Recent projects have ranged from designing organisational competency/behavioural frameworks, creating and implementing leadership development programmes, and leadership profiling at senior executive level for both selection and development purposes.
A great believer in continuous learning, Naheed is CIPD and BPS qualified and completed an MSc in Organizational Behaviour in 2007. She holds a number of other related qualifications and is constantly developing her knowledge through practical application and academic study. She has a particular interest in the impact of leadership behaviours within organisations.
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Chris Channer MA, FIMC
Senior Consultant
Chris is an experienced senior Management Consultant specialising in the design and delivery of diagnostic programmes for organisations to improve their performance, efficiency and effectiveness.
He has extensive knowledge and understanding of organisational culture within policing, central and local government and has delivered major changes through engagement with internal and external government departments. He has experience of liaison and collaboration with the Home office, Audit Commission, Department of Community and Local Government, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, and Prime Ministers Delivery Unit amongst others. Recent projects have focused on developing strategies for working with multidisciplinary partnerships (health, local authorities, police, fire, voluntary and private sectors).
A qualified Coach and a Fellow of the Institute of Business Consultants, Chris also has an MA in Management. His areas of specialism include change management strategy development; diagnostic & analysis of organisational performance in relation to key business processes; and practical leadership development that includes coaching individuals to improve performance.
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Alka Parbat Lalji CPsychol, CSci, MSc, BSc (Hons)
Occupational Psychologist
Alka is a Chartered Occupational and Organisational Psychologist. She has experience of working across a diverse cross section of industries such as transport, manufacturing, IT and financial sectors, as well as a vast amount of work with a variety of government/public sectors and private sectors nationally and internationally.
Alka has experience across a range of areas including assessment & development centre design, facilitation and assessing: role plays, group exercises, presentations, interviewing and psychometric testing and scoring; designing delivering leadership development projects and induction workshops; creating and recommending bespoke executive assessment processes and exercises; job profiling and job evaluation in line with organisational structure and competency framework.
A member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Alka is also registered with the Health Professionals Councils (HPC). She is trained to use psychometric tools such as the 16PF, OPQ, MTQ48, NEO PI-R and Wave.
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Farida Dean
Consultant
Farida has a wealth of experience working with senior leaders in both the public and private sector to improve their leadership capability and business processes.
Farida's key strength is the design and delivery of bespoke evidence-based leadership programmes. With experience of working across the public, private and third sector, she has worked with senior teams assisting them to identify their strengths and areas of potential weakness using a diagnostic processes.
Clients she has worked with include University College London (UCL), Ashridge Management College, Balfour Beatty and several major public sector clients including the Metropolitan Police. Farida is a diversity friend to the National Police Improvement Agency Equality, Diversity and Human Rights in Action programme because of her track record in the area of inclusion within organisations.
Farida is an experienced coach and coach supervisor and is a trained practitioner in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Steps 1 and 2. She is qualified to use the Thomas International DISC profiling tool and also has a PGCE in adult education from Greenwich University.
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