Andrew Hollingsworth
Associate
Andrew has been working in L&D/OD/HR within blue-chip and SME environments for over 25yrs. His experience stretches over many sectors such as retail, logistics, utilities, professional services, manufacturing, construction, information technology, consulting, aerospace and defense, automotive, government – local and central (public sector), corporate leadership, charity, healthcare, and education.
Andrew has held several senior management roles within international organisations and over the last 10 years he has worked as a commercial coach/consultant within both academic and commercial environments, providing a range of L&OD services across leadership and management development, coaching, personal development, psychometrics, team development, change, performance management, and customer service.
Areas of expertise
Andrew’s key solution areas are within:
- Leadership and Management Development
- Leading and Managing Change
- Organisational Culture
- Emotional Intelligence/Personal Development
- Coaching
- Strategic Thinking
- Talent Development/Management
- Team Development
- Performance Management
- Service Excellence
Key skills and experience include:
- Development and implementation of commercial business propositions – corporate and SME.
- Leadership/Management development – broad range of design and implementation from first-line to Director.
- Coaching – programme design and individual coaching interventions in executive, business and life coaching as well as mentoring and supervision.
- Talent development – design and implementation of programmes from recruitment to bespoke coaching development interventions.
- Performance Management – design and implementation across several organisations for management population.
- Psychometric/diagnostic tools – from distributor setup activities through to programme and individual interventions.
- Change – design and delivery of initiatives from organisational to individual (coaching).
- Personal development – development of Emotional Intelligence – a foundational strength utilised at the heart of every intervention.
Key achievements include:
- Client achieving Culture 100 status through supporting and enabling the business to invest development into the core team of the business.
- Client achieving CIPD finalist status through a cultural leadership ptogramme.
- Designed and delivered best-selling programme in customer excellence.
Professional achevements include:
- Andrew has recently developed a psychological-based coaching/team development tool called Archeotype© that is being brought to market.
- Andrew has written a book called The Elevator: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elevator-Hollingsworth/dp/1911090976.
Qualifications and memberships
- Post-Graduate in Academic/Work-based Teaching & Learning (FHEA)
- ILM 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring
- NLP Master Practitioner
- NLP Coach Practitioner
- NLP Diploma
- Teaching qualification in Mindfulness (Central England College and UK College of Mindfulness Meditation)
- Certificate in Counselling (Person-Centred Therapy)
- Occupational – Ability – practitioner (Level A)
- Occupational – Personality (Level B+) MBTI & 16PF
- Insights Discovery Practitioner
- Saville Wave Practitioner
- Member of the British Psychological Society
