Helen Weir
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"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it!"
Walt Disney
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Helen is an experienced organisational development consultant, with over twenty years experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors, working in the UK and Europe. Hallmarks of her style are her adaptability to different cultural environments and company/organisation size, a positive, can-do approach based on practical work experience from the bottom up, and the ability to support and enthuse people in the most challenging environments.
Her specialist experience includes public relations, marketing, tourism and leisure, event management and volunteering.
How do I describe myself?
I am positive, creative and intuitive. I'm sensitive, yet thrive on challenge and can be tenacious – if I see a mountain I want to climb it to see what's at the top, rather than seek an easy way round. I use this energy to help clients find innovative ways of making connections, growing their business – and making the most of their biggest resource – their people.
Most of my experience comes from learning by doing and working with very talented people. I used to worry that I didn't have enough letters after my name - now I know that I offer an unique skills set that translates well into the real work environment, helping people to find ways of achieving the virtually impossible.
My first sharp learning curve came through community development work with deprived communities in the north of England. From a comfortable, small market town upbringing, with a law degree but little experience in the real world, I had to learn fast how to survive in an unforgiving environment, and deliver the goods. I did!
From there to the relative comfort of the public sector, I pioneered new services, whilst learning how to work through the accompanying bureaucracy and politics. Internal consultancy work with a major national charity during a period of rapid growth gave me a chance to work nationally and internationally, hone my people and project management skills and really learn the ropes about change management in an enormously entrepreneurial environment. Probably the biggest challenge for me was to leave the comfort zone of a regular pay check, to start a rural tourism enterprise in another country. Comfortable it certainly wasn't at first – assimilating a different culture and language, having to create new networks and working in a different environment – but it taught me that you can do anything.
Nearly every role I've had, whether as employee, consultant, or running my own business, has required me to break new ground, help others to build a vision and manage change. Whether it's new business development or crisis management and limitation, my facilitation and communication skills are key to the successful management of the task. Ethical Management Consultancy provides an important value base from which to share life skills and business solutions. |
