Nicola Maxwell, Senior Consultant
nicola.maxwell@edomidas.com
Nicola began her professional career after graduating from Stirling University. She initially trained as a Financial Adviser and spent 6 years providing financial advice to private clients of Scottish Widows before an opportunity arose to work for Standard Life.
She moved into the field of Learning & Development in 2004 and hasn’t looked back since! She capitalised on her earlier experience by training people in regulated sales roles within financial services.
After qualifying as a Myers Briggs practitioner, she also developed a keen interest in psychology and has worked with a range of clients in the financial sector to deliver a range of sales, technical and behavioural training programmes. She also enjoys consulting with clients to identify the solution that’s right for them.
With two young children to look after there isn’t a lot of free time left for herself! Any down time is spent doing Pilates or, more recently, ‘fair-weather’ running. Living on the East Lothian coast, there is certainly no shortage of scenic trails to take your mind of the burn! Nicola is also an avid reader and although she now owns a ‘Kindle’, she’s determined it will never replace the real thing.
Connie Allardice, Senior Consultant
connie.allardice@edomidas.com
For 14 years Connie ran an HR/Business development consultancy business and in 2006 she sold the business to enjoy her “mid life crisis”. With her husband she bought a camper van and toured Europe for 18 months. Having worked with edoMidas previously on joint initiatives Connie joined the company on her return. Connie has coached and trained at senior levels in both public private sector organisations and since joining edoMidas she has been involved in both coaching and High Performance projects such as National Australia Group, Standard Life Investments, BiP Solutions and Burness LLP.
In her career she has worked with all sizes of companies from small early stage start ups to multinationals and her key areas of interest are growth SMEs and performance management.
18 months of travelling has only enhanced the travel bug and you will still find Connie disappearing off at every opportunity to explore new areas. Don’t be fooled when she tells you that she has no time in her diary, it will be another trip!
Helen Wilson, Senior Consultant
helen.wilson@edomidas.com
Helen has worked for 20 years in an extremely competitive environment in the financial services, managing over £1m budgets and several training teams. As a Lead Consultant, Helen delivers the edoMidas Critical Communication and Leading High Performance programmes for clients such as National Australia Group, Baillie Gifford, Standard Life Investments and RMJM Architects.
Helen's passion is animals and the countryside - riding her horse Kiri, walking her dog Morse or buying antiques ('cracked saucers' as David says!) for her country pad. Combining her love for animals and a great talent for painting, Helen is often commissioned to paint pet portraits.
Rex Davies, Senior Consultant
rex.davies@edomidas.com
Rex has a really diverse set of skills that he has applied to good effect across many areas of international business and commerce.
He has taught creative thinking to B&Q store-managers in China and organised team building with Voith Gmbh in Germany and technology transfer incubation start-ups in the UK. He was part of a team delivering Promotion Panel interviewing skills training with HM Customs and Excise. He coaches in M&S and advises on business funding with entrepreneurial start-ups in the renewable energy and nano-technology sectors.
He is a Master of Science in Organisation Development and is co-author with David of books on The Learning Organisation (Forty-five activities for Developing a Learning Organisation - Gower) and Right-Brain Thinking (Mind Opening training games - McGraw-Hill) which have been published in English, American, German, Danish, Hungarian and Spanish editions and extracts.
In his spare time Rex is a published performing poet. He is currently studying for his certificate in Sociodrama and Action methods with the British Psychodrama Association. He’s also a founder member of the Derbyshire Playback Theatre company.
Derek Thomson, Senior Consultant
derek.thomson@edomidas.com
Derek has 25 years leadership experience as a private sector Executive Director, public sector Non-Executive Director and international, multi-sector Leadership Development Consultant.
Recent client assignments range from executive coaching, mentoring and personal skills training through to large group facilitation, leadership assessment & development centres and organisation-wide culture change programmes.
Derek’s clients can be found across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the pharmaceutical, retail, energy, motor, construction, financial and professional services industries, as well as the public, charity and higher education sectors.
Prior to becoming a Leadership Development Consultant, Derek spent over 20 years with Standard Life plc, holding senior and executive management positions in a variety of areas. Notably, Derek was, for six years, a member of the Global Executive Leadership team and Director of an award-winning Customer Service Operation where he led 500 employees.
Between 2003 and 2008, Derek served as a Non Executive Director of Edinburgh Leisure, a Charitable Trust with over 700 employees and £24m turnover. Derek led the board as Chairman from 2006 to 2008.
Derek is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a post graduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring, jointly accredited by the University of Strathclyde and the Institute of Leadership and Management. Derek is also licensed for MBTI Steps I and II.