People & Organisational Development Consultancy to Drive Your Success
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Expert People Development Consulting Services
Welcome to Neal Chamberlain Associates. We offer high quality people and organisational development consulting services to help organisations of whatever size achieve their goals and maximize their success. Contact us today to learn how we can help you thrive.
Freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response.
William James
Who We Are at Neal Chamberlain Associates
Executive coaching
Our mission is to help people and organisations to grow their capability- through the power of coaching. Our coaching practice is informed by experience in senior positions across several organisations in many sectors.
We contract carefully with the individual and help them craft their personal development goal. We are accredited in a variety of psychometric tools and through these and other models we help our clients succeed and thrive in today's competitive marketplace.
It is often said people come to coaching when they find they cannot achieve what they wish in their environment. We help you to bridge that gap.
Talent development expertise, change management guidance and organisational development consultancy in service of your goals
Are you developing your people as you wish? Do your people have development goals and plans? Do you understand their aspirations? Are you investing in them, and encouraging them to do so themselves? Optimising their capability will help you and them; and is more likely to keep them with you.
Change is an inevitable feature of organisational life. We have considerable experience of small and large-scale change and can help you design and implement best practice solutions for your situation, ensuring your managers understand and can address the vital communication processes to ensure you carry people with you through the change and into the new reality.
Do you know the people capabilities you need to develop so you can address emerging trends? We help you to identify and define these, then put in place development plans to achieve them.
Team performance consultants
Are your teams playing to their strengths? We can help people identify these for themselves and learn how to better play to them - this will deliver value far more quickly that seeking to address those areas at which they are likely to be - at best - ok.
Are difficult interpersonal dynamics impacting performance? Team conflict, lack of goal clarity, or lack of engagement can seriously undermine performance, morale and ultimately people retention. Our team of experts will listen, observe, guide and facilitate teams to be at their very best, in the service of your enterprise.
Neal’s assistance in forming and delivering our team development work was invaluable. The organisation of it all was fantastic, but it was the exceptional and ‘cared for’ approach which Neal gives in delivering the ‘one to one’s’ and then the group session which really made the difference. This work isn’t always easy, and he navigated it brilliantly and effectively with our team.
Bob Riley, CEO, Manchester Camerata
Testimonials & Case Studies
Team Development
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Neal worked with my leadership team in 2023 to support us in achieving our goal of greater integration and understanding of the work of each part of our services among our wider team of c.100 people. This was a significant undertaking and was achieved in two parts. Firstly, through working with my leadership team, Neal helped us to identify our collective leadership team strengths and facilitated us in reaching agreement on how we would use these in designing and delivering the full team day. The session was a good balance between team building activities and practical, skills based outputs.
For the full team event, Neal proposed a 'world cafe' activity where team members would visit a stall for each of the sub-groups, and could learn more about their work and identify opportunities for collaboration. This, together with team members reporting back from cross-team working sessions, led to a successful full team day. An evaluation survey showed a greater understanding from those present of the totality of our operation and of recognised opportunities for greater collaboration.
I found Neal to be highly experienced, professional and skilled in focusing my sometimes abstract aims into engaging activities and tangible outputs.
Chris Dolan, Head of Faculty Research and Business Engagement, University of Manchester
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Neal was commissioned to work with me on the development of a leadership programme module for the University of Manchester, Humanities Annual Conference. The theme was 'Leadership in a time of Change' and the audience included faculty and professional services staff from 5 different schools of activity including Alliance Manchester Business School. Neal was insightful and creative to work with and developed and delivered a superb session which really hit the mark with these academic and professional leaders. Neal not only understands the leadership question but is able to provide customised solutions to help professional people develop their skills further through reflection, insights and action. One of the most impressive leadership programmes designed and delivered to a very discerning audience. Neal has the perfect balance of listening to what the client wants and delivering more than the client expected! e provide comprehensive project management services to help you achieve your goals on time and within budget. Our team will work with you to develop a project plan, identify risks, and manage resources to ensure successful project delivery.
Dil Sidhu, (then) Chief External Officer and Managing Director, Executive Education, Alliance Manchester Business School
Coaching Clients
Leadership Development - Conference Session Delivery
Coaching Clients
It's been brilliant - you've been fantastic. A really good sounding board.
I feel more resilient, and have got out of 'urgent' mode.
Thank you for your guidance and facilitation of my reflection and growth. Our sessions were valuable and totemic in helping me find my place.
Thank you so much for all the valuable advice and insights you’ve given me over the last 6 months, it’s really supported me to gain a firmer handle on my potential career path, and the key values I had neglected.
I am more reflective and I stop to think before acting. I also read more around the topics we discuss to understand myself better. Confidence has grown, too. I can share my worries and discuss difficult decisions without judgement. A lot of hints around changing the way of thinking. And also understanding my drivers - a new thing for me.