London, UK
Dr. Ian Dodds
Makbool Javaid
Sue Walsh
Diana Bruno-Gaston
Other UK team members include:
Paul Brady, Anjana Doshi, Eden Charles, Fredrik Lexmon, Terry Morgan, Pauline Sagoe, Kingsley Weber, Glanville Williams
Amsterdam, Holland
Florent Meier
Boston, USA
Hilary O'Donnell
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sivan Sivanadan
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Dr. Ian Dodds
London, UK
Founder member Ian has over 25 years experience helping leading private and public sector organisations in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America change their cultures to bring about step changes in performance.
Ian was European managing director of the FutureWork Institute, a diversity consultancy. In that role he successfully developed the Institute's work in Europe and Asia, and secured accounts with well-known clients in a wide range of sectors including banking, retailing, law, technology, manufacturing and government.
He also directed the European Institute's research, and partnered with Business in the Community in 2003 to carry out a high-profile UK study into what talented and diverse private and public sector employees look for from an employer of choice.
Before his work with the FutureWork Institute, Ian was head of the European Diversity Practice for Towers Perrin, where he worked with global private sector clients and civil service departments and agencies. In Towers Perrin, he pioneered a unique approach to the development of high-performance, inclusive leadership behaviour by managers at all levels. This approach helped a UK financial services organisation transform its largest office, previously one of its worst performers, into one of its best.
Ian then worked in Human Resources at ICI (at that time the largest chemical company in the world). As a member of the executive team at ICI's largest chemicals production and distribution complex, he helped to transform the unit from a low productivity operation with poor employee relations to an exemplary model within ICI worldwide. This fact, which helped to spark Ian's interest in culture change, was recognised publicly by ICI's chairman at the time, Sir John Harvey-Jones.
Ian discovered the business benefits of diversity over 25 years ago when, as a board member of ICI's Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organisation, he enabled senior managers across ICI's European sites to deliver strategic and operational synergies internationally. He was then asked to head ICI Group's Management of Change team, where he worked with Fons Trompenaars to improve managers' leadership of multinational teams, and increase the representation of women and ethnic minorities in management. Subsequently, ICI Group Chairman, Sir Denys Henderson, gave him responsibility for the leadership and business development of the firm's top 1,500 managers worldwide, including executive coaching. As a result, Ian was invited to lead a major project, funded by the UK Government, to research the development of leadership among senior managers.
Ian has now created Ian Dodds Consulting, which offers coaching on diversity, change management and leadership behaviour. Through its associate business partners, led by long standing colleagues in Den Hague, Boston, Frankfurt and Kuala Lumpur, its has gained a global capability. Its clients include multinationals and civil service departments and other public bodies. IDC has been contracted by the London Development Agency to develop equality and diversity good practice guides for the Mayor's groundbreaking initiative "Diversity works for London", which is twinned with the RainbowPUSH Coalition in the US, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Ian has been a guest member of the advisory bodies on management development in London, Manchester and Michigan business schools, and a non-executive director of the Foundation for Management Education. He has lectured on change management at Cranfield School of Management, and on co-counselling at the University of Surrey. Ian is a regular speaker on platforms in Europe and elsewhere, and has published articles on diversity, change management and leadership development.
Ian Dodds MA (Oxon), PhD, Cert Ed, FRMetS
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Makbool Javaid
London, UK
Makbool is a partner of Simons, Muirhead and Burton and previously head of the Equality and Diversity Group, which forms part of the Human Resources Group of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP. Before that he was Head of Litigation Services at the Commission for Racial Equality. He has been involved in several high-profile cases during his career.
In addition to general advice on employment law, Makbool also offers specialist advice on the avoidance and management of discrimination in all non-employment areas. He also advises on human rights issues.
As well as having extensive experience of employment litigation, Makbool devotes time to public speaking and training on employment issues. He has been widely published and regularly contributes to legal and personnel journals.
Makbool holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from The London School of Economics.
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Sue Walsh
London, UK
Sue Walsh has wide experience of working at a senior level in government, in areas including operational and change management, programme management and human resources. She has worked closely with people at all levels in the public and private sectors, including ministers, board members and directors.
Sue’s previous experience as a director means that she has first-hand experience of the issues that face leaders in organisations. Her practical experience includes:
• Spearheading a 100% productivity increase in three years, by employing new ways of working in a large specialist unit.
• Heading a major culture change programme involving an innovative partnership, and achieving a 25% improvement in performance in 18 months.
• Leading a human resources programme, and gaining funding and support for it at a time of severe financial restraint.
• Merging two human resources teams, supporting 10,000 people, into one team of half the size.
Sue is an accredited coach. Her coaching background is in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and she is an NLP master practitioner, an NLP coach, and an associated certified coach with the International Coach Federation. She has coached over 100 people at the most senior levels in the private and public sectors – as individuals and teams – including chief executives, board members and directors.
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Diana Bruno-Gaston
London, UK
Diana has over 20 years senior management and consultancy experience in the private and public sectors. Diana has a strong track record in effective and sustained service transformation. She has successfully delivered a number of major organisational change programmes which have transformed public sector services from poor performing, inward-looking, process-driven cultures, into customer-focussed, high-performing, award-winning services, with high levels of both customer and staff satisfaction.
Before working as a consultant, Diana was head of revenue services for a London local authority and has held senior positions in finance, housing and corporate services in a number of high-profile customer-facing service areas. She advised the Local Government Association on policy development and the impact on local communities of its implementation.
Diana consults on diversity, performance management, customer care and helping individuals and organisations deliver business results. She has experience of designing and delivering learning and development programmes to raise awareness, change behaviours and develop skills.
Diana holds a Bsc. Hons. in physiology and biochemistry, and a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies.
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Florent Meier
Amsterdam, Holland
Florent started his career as an HR specialist with Prommix Group. After two years he became a consultant with a small rewards consultancy boutique. He worked with Towers Perrin for four years on a broad range of projects, including co-management of a large European diversity project, and a pan-European study into leadership development.
Florent now directs his own consultancy, Meier Human Capital & Diversity, which partners with Ian Dodds Consulting to serve clients in The Netherlands, Europe and worldwide. Florent also works with Q-Research/The Dominant Factor, a specialist research agency offering insight into change processes.
He has in-depth experience of diversity management, organisational development and culture change, including post-merger integration. Florent is also an executive coach, and has worked extensively in management development. In the HR field, Florent is an expert in compensation and performance management.
Florent holds a degree in Organisational Anthropology at the Free University in Amsterdam.
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Hilary O'Donnell
Boston, USA
Hilary O'Donnell is a strategic change agent focused on the impact of business decisions on people, systems and procedures, and the working environment. She has 25 years experience in internal human resources positions and external consulting on organisational development. She understands what it takes to stay competitive and effectively implement change while running a business day-to-day.
Hilary earned her BA from Moravian College and her MBA from the University of New Hampshire, before taking various human resources and organizational development roles in high technology companies. She earned a reputation for visionary insights, effective and authentic communication with leaders, and her ability to build and organize teams around transitions, and work well across cultures to achieve common goals, build bridges and reduce conflict.
Hilary has lived and worked in the Philippines, Germany and England, experiencing first-hand what it takes to succeed despite cultural differences. Prior to relocating to Boston, Hilary spent ten years in San Francisco and the Bay Area, working with clients in high technology and healthcare.
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Sivan Sivanadan
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sivan Sivanadan currently advises major corporations in Malaysia and internationally on developing and implementing company-wide change programmes, including the design and delivery of customised programmes for top management. He advises on the formulation and implementation of corporate, business and human resources strategies. After obtaining his Bachelor of Economics degree with Honours in Business Administration, he joined Texas Instruments in Singapore in a production role. Following this, he joined ICI Malaysia, where his initial responsibilities were in frontline industrial relations, after which he moved into senior HR positions with the Group.
His experience includes several years' secondment in an HR role with ICI in the UK. He has attended the advanced management programme at INSEAD, and other senior management development programmes at the London Business School, Ashridge Management College, Warwick Business School and Michigan Business School in the US.
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