We are a team of results-oriented, highly qualified and experienced business psychologists with the mission to help our clients choose, develop and engage winning talent to maximise their organisation’s success.
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Wendy is a Director at Human Assets. She specialises in the design and delivery of assessment and development initiatives, in particular assessment centres for high potentials and leadership development. Wendy has experience across a wide range of public and private sector organisations (e.g. HSBC, NHS, Standard Chartered, Exxon-Mobil, Department for Transport) and has worked in Hong Kong and China as well as Europe.
Current and recent projects include:
Wendy is a Chartered Psychologist and a member of the British Psychological Society. She has commented on business issues on Sky News and in the Observer.
Contact Wendy: wendy.lyons@humanassets.co.uk
Charles is the UK's expert on assessment and development centres (and author of Development and assessment centres, 4th edition, 2007). He has also written books and articles on talent management (Winning the talent war, Wiley 1999) and leadership. He has consulted to a wide range of organisations including many household names in the private sector (e.g., RBS, HSBC, Ernst and Young, Shell, and Exxon-Mobil) and the public sector (e.g., The Cabinet Office, Department for Constitutional Affairs, The Security Service, Department for Transport and The BBC).
His consultancy activity covers the range of talent management and his particular current interests include developing the indicators of excellence concept, talent management strategy, executive assessment and coaching and applying the psychology of emotion to the workplace.
Charles is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
Contact: charles.woodruffe@humanassets.co.uk
Dr Marie Stewart is a psychologist who specialises in Diversity/Equality and Inclusion. She has an MBE for services to education, diversity and equal opportunities. Marie was educated in Jamaica and London University and has qualifications in Education, Psychology and Sociology.
She has worked in the Netherlands and Jamaica as well as the UK and has more than 20 years experience in the UK as a consultant to a range of private, public and voluntary sector clients and international agencies for organizational and individual development.
She has particular expertise in relation to fair assessment methods for selection and appraisal, the management of diverse teams and leadership development for individuals from groups currently underrepresented at senior levels. Examples of recent assignments include: Impact assessment and Diversity/Equality-proofing of new performance management procedures being developed by Government departments;a leadership development programme for middle managers from minority ethnic groups in a major financial group; and an independent investigation of a complaint alleging racial discrimination in annual appraisal reports.
Contact Dr Marie Stewart:
marie.stewart@humanassets.co.uk
Mark has 15 years experience of performance & talent management and assessment design and delivery at all levels across a variety of sectors. He has held numerous in-house roles including Senior Organisational Psychologist at the BBC and RBS as well as Head of Resourcing and Talent at Heathrow Airport amongst others. He has been the Programme Manager of a work-stream to scope, design, trial and validate a group-wide centralised Resourcing & Assessment platform to assess over 300,000 candidates a year across 7 job clusters. The personality questionnaire Mark designed as part of the process was nominated for Best Retention & Innovation Award at the Personnel Today Awards and the programme won the HR Excel Award for best Recruitment and Retention. He has worked in China with the Bank of China on their Leadership Competency Framework and lectured at Nankai University on assessment as well as designing and delivering assessments for BBC Worldwide in the US.
Mark has conducted in-depth psychological profiling and development of middle and senior managers as well as directors across a number of organisations and sectors using psychological interviews and psychometric instruments to establish key strengths and capabilities, areas for development as well as potential and ‘best fit' within the organisation or particular roles. Mark has also designed profiling methodologies to specifically assess capability within senior management and director populations.
Mark has also worked with Executive teams to create the performance and talent picture for the organisation and lead the performance and talent management approach working at ExCo level to present and shape the talent pipeline.
In addition, Mark has designed large-scale recruitment and selection processes across a range of business and sectors from customer facing roles through to graduate recruitment and high-potential talent pools. Working closely with clients from initial research and definition of assessment criteria through to design of exercises, design of training courses, training materials and implementation of those courses. This also includes post-implementation validation of selection processes to ensure effectiveness.
Contact Mark Hopkins:
mark.hopkins@humanassets.co.uk
Trisha is a fully qualified Business Psychologist with 20 years' experience in talent assessment and development. She is qualified to use a very wide range of psychometrics and has a diploma in Performance Coaching. From a theoretical standpoint, Trisha draws on her knowledge and experience of psychology, including emotional intelligence, social identity theory (vital in building strong teams and organisational culture), positive psychology, and different leadership approaches. Trisha has worked in a wide range of industries, both public and private sector. Trisha's expertise ranges from assessing high-potentials to facilitating leadership development workshops and providing coaching.
Contact Trisha Cochrane:
trisha.cochrane@humanassets.co.uk
Samantha is a HCPC registered and chartered Occupational Psychologist with over twenty years of experience in talent and leadership assessment and development. She has worked internationally across many business sectors and industries including finance, legal, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications, energy and transport. She is qualified in a wide range of assessment methodologies and tools that identify and support leadership potential and has assisted many organisations in making informed and rigorous decisions in relation to recruitment, succession, transitions and reorganisations.
As an experienced coach she is skilled at working with people at different developmental stages of their careers. She works with a range of coaching models and frameworks, tending to adopt an integrative approach depending on the unique needs of each client with a particular focus on emotional intelligence, self-awareness and building resilience. Samantha also has considerable experience in working with intact and cross-functional teams in order to support collaboration and decision-making. She draws on methodologies that are underpinned by psychological expertise and up-to-date research.
Contact Samantha Ward:
samantha.ward@humanassets.co.uk