The Members
Fred Sherwin BSc. MBA. MSc.
- A professional consultant and trainer, with
extensive experience in managing change, project
management, and quality and customer service.
- His early career started with Plessey as a sonar
engineer. He then joined the Philips Group, working
initially in the U.K. and later internationally in
Italy, Ireland, Belgium, and South Africa as a
consultant in project management, quality
improvement, organisational change, & business
development.
- Joined the Civil Service College in 1989 and ran
courses in project management, managing change,
quality improvement, and customer service. A pioneer
of quality & customer service in the Civil Service.
- He left the Civil Service College to form the
Partnership. Since then the Partnership has built an
extensive client base and a reputation for success.
- Qualifications in Mathematics, Business Management, and Organisational Change.
Margaret Sherwin BA. MSc.
- A psychologist and teacher by
background, her particular strengths are coaching
and counselling, facilitation, and personal change.
- After graduating in History, she
worked first in Personnel and at the Centre for
Urban Studies before taking up a career in teaching,
working both in the UK and in the Netherlands.
- She then specialised in coaching
and counselling for special needs, and established
centres at both Maidenhead and at Windsor.
- She now specialises in coaching,
research, course design and training needs analysis.
She formed The Lindsay & Sherwin Partnership in
September 1993, and has recently undertaken research
into Health Psychology.
- Has delivered project management
training at DOH, Public Record Office, HM Customs &
Excise, and MOD.
- Provides a "course design and
tendering for contracts" service for a large
training organisation
- Has qualifications in History, Education and Psychology.
Chris Eling BSc.
- An experienced consultant and trainer with
particular strengths in managing change, team
development, and training in appraisal,
inter-personal and consultancy skills.
- His early career was with the Philips Group, and
then Polygram as Group Training & Staff Development
Manager.
- Has had his own practice since 1986. Public
sector clients include the Civil Service College,
Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital. and North Birmingham
Community Health Trust. Private sector clients
include “blue chip” organisations such as AT&T,
Unilever, and Scottish Power.
- With Scottish Power he carried out a major
consultancy exercise to support and guide their
culture change initiative. He worked with the
Department of Health providing consultancy and
training in the management of "policy" projects, and
with Unilever on their development programme for
their "fast-stream" managers.
- He has a B.Sc. degree in Humanities and Technology, has been a tutor on the Open University MBA programme (Human Resources) and is the author of ‘The Communicating Manager’.
Barry Williamson DMS, MCIPD MINLP
- A highly experienced trainer and manager with over 20
years experience in Management and Staff Development.
- Career included positions as Head of Management Training
for Grand Metropolitan Hotels, British Association for
Commercial and Industrial Education, and the Institute of
Training and Development, before starting his own
Consultancy.
- Extensive experience in the Public Sector - in central
government, local authorities, and agencies on management
development and training.
- Areas of expertise include skills such as leadership,
performance management, negotiating skills, change
management, and training for trainers.
- Has written numerous distance learning packages on such
subjects as Selection Interviewing, Leadership, and
Harassment.
- Qualifications include Diploma in Management Studies, membership of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development, and master practitioner of NLP.

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