James Mackay, M.Sc(Econ), Ph.D, C.Psychol

Jim has worked with a variety of major organisations on individual, group and corporate issues, offering a keen understanding of business objectives as well as his expertise and knowledge as a Chartered Psychologist.

He coaches senior executives from a variety of sectors and is regularly asked to advise on the personal development of managers and directors. Jim has carried out numerous assessments of senior managers for development, promotion and recruitment: and is also involved in team-profiling and management audits.

After an early exposure to H.R. and industrial relations at Hoover and Alcan Foils, Jim became a consultant in the early eighties, advising on a range of human resource issues. He worked for several years in the United States as a search consultant and returned to the U.K. to pursue that profession, eventually becoming a Director of two London-based consultancies. In the latter, he also operated as a corporate psychologist.

He is a former Visiting Tutor on the Tavistock/University of East London MA course on Consulting and the Organisation, and has written on management and psychological issues for the Times, Daily Telegraph, and Human Resources.

Peter Burton, B.Sc, M.Sc.

Peter is a Chartered Engineer holding a Masters degree in Organisational Behaviour.

He has extensive experience at board level in both public and private companies. He was Chief Executive of CASE Group plc and also Chairman of Chiltern Radio plc, both of which he founded and took public. He has served as a non-executive director in several organisations, including Costain Group plc and Foreign and Colonial Enterprise Trust plc.

His particular interests are in the relationship of board structure and board effectiveness, and in helping clients achieve high levels of customer retention by developing appropriate management styles and organisational structures.

He has practised as a consultant for the past ten years.

Doug Prior, B.Tech. (Hons), Dip. Pysch., C. Psychol., AFBPsS

Doug Prior has considerable experience in organisation and management development, executive coaching, management audits and the assessment and development of senior executives.

In addition to his psychology qualifications, he has completed extended business management programmes at Manchester Business School and IMI (now IMD), Geneva, Switzerland.

After an early career in management consultancy, he spent a period in general personnel management as Personnel Director at Forward Trust Group Ltd. Subsequently, he was Head of Group Management Development at Midland Bank Group and then Managing Director of Midland Career Services Limited.

He was a Director of MSL Group Limited and Managing Director of MSL Human Resource Consulting Limited.

He has worked at individual, team and corporate level with global and national clients in finance and banking, IT, professional services, retail, manufacturing, hi-tech engineering, chemicals, trading and energy. He has also worked in the public sector with clients, such as, the Cabinet Office, Inland Revenue, British Tourist Authority, English Tourist Council, and Cambridge County Council.