WHO IS BRIDGET SKELTON?
Bridget is a highly motivated and experienced senior executive and Board member, with 25 years business leadership experience gained at the highest level of Legal, Financial, Management Consultancy, Retail, Government and Charity organisations.
She works in both executive and advisory capacities bringing independence, impartiality, integrity, constructive challenge, wide experience and a valuable set of personal qualities.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Bridget currently has Board positions with Mills & Reeve LLP, KCHFT ( Kent Community Health Foundation Trust) and Kilburn & Strode LLP.
In 2006 Bridget set up Bridget Skelton Ltd – a business created to enhance executive performance. Since then she has worked with Chairs, Chief Executives, Senior Civil Servants, Senior Partners, Directors and top level business executives to support their achievement of personal and corporate goals.
Bridget was with the PA Consulting Group for 12 years and as a Board member, member of the Management Committee and a leader of PA she set the strategy and led management to achieve results of £320m, employing over 3000 consultants in 26 countries. She managed the People and Organisational Change Practice, and the Global Business Transformation Group with revenues of £18m and £62m respectively. She chaired the Corporate Partner Election Committee, for three consecutive years, which was responsible for the standards and performance levels of 160 Partners. She played a lead role in an American acquisition for PA.
Bridget Skelton’s Achievements
First
First female Board Director of PA Consulting Group, managing the Business Transformation Group (£62m) & People and Organisational Change Practice (£18m). Developed Partner Election criteria to set standards of performance for 160 Partners bringing global consistency and raising profitability.
First
Won Lloyds TSB World Class Change award for strategic work in business design, and transformation of practices delivering £8m savings. Awarded Management Consultancy Association (MCA) Prize for redesigning Barclays support functions resulting in headcount reduction and cost savings of 25%
Winner
Won Drapers Record New Retail Independent Business of the Year Award 2005. Judged on a unique and compelling selling proposition, a commitment to customer service, a strong business plan, as well as an impressive financial performance.
Winner
Supported two Civil Service Permanent Secretaries achieve accolades for good leadership practice in the Departmental Capability reviews. These leaders communicated a clear, compelling and coherent vision for the future of the organization, as well as developing people with passion, pace and drive.
25 Years Business Leadership Experience
Gained at the highest level of Legal, Financial, Management Consultancy, Retail, Government and Charity Organisations.
Bridget Skelton’s Attributes
RESULTS DRIVEN EXCELLENCE
Results-driven individual with a track record of delivering excellence, demonstrated by the achievements of multiple clients and their organisations.
UNDERSTANDING AND DECISIVE
Enquiring, intelligent, understands complex issues, collaborative but decisive, when working on both strategic and tactical matters.
INNOVATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE
Described as “a highly effective model of professional practice, innovative, insightful and challenging, but also empathetic, practical and supportive”.
Board Roles & Executive Coaching
Strategic advice and constructive challenge at Board and Director level.
BOARD ROLES
Essentially the Non-Executive Director’s role is to provide a creative contribution to the board by providing objective criticism, bringing independent judgement to bear on issues of strategy, performance and resources including key appointments and standards of conduct.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Coaching is vital to unlock an executive’s innate strengths, creativity, and resourcefulness. It provides leaders with unbiased, candid, yet supportive feedback plus an objective perspective thereby raising their game.
What My Clients Say
“Bridget’s coaching was instrumental in helping me work through the organisation’s issues and priorities.”
“Bridget has helped me focus on what really matters and developed my self-awareness by careful and sensitive questioning.”
“Bridget’s coaching has been instrumental in my development and I’m not sure I could have survived without her help.”
“This coaching has enabled me to influence these people and enable me to meet my objectives significantly reducing the personal barriers.”
“I gained more insight into the “trade-offs” that would have to be made between personal priorities and constraints.”
“Bridget never failed to strike the right balance between being appropriately challenging and objective, yet supportive of me in various situations.”
“Bridget brings a rather unique set of skills to coaching, mixing business and performance coaching with a sharp sense of the individual.”
“By skillful questioning Bridget helped me to understand what a fulfilled future might look like.”
Bridget’s Clients
