Key People - Marion Dunlop, Director
Marion comes from a health and social care background initially training as a registered general nurse and midwife before moving into social care management in the voluntary sector and then education and training in further, adult and higher education. She has been involved with competency based qualifications and work-based learning since S/NVQs established in the care sector in the early 1990s.
Academically, she has a Diploma in Life Sciences, a B.A.(Hons) in Applied Social Sciences, a Certificate in Education (Post compulsory education) and in 1995 she undertook a full time Ph.D. in the School of Education at the Open University at Walton Hall looking at work-based learning. The research explored the experiences of both managers and employees during the introduction of competency based qualifications in Small and Medium Enterprises employing small numbers of staff. Since then she has been involved with national educational projects relating to vocational qualifications as a consultant.
She has worked independently as a consultant since 1994. Her interests in developing new approaches to education and training, supporting SMEs in training and valuing staff, as well as her coaching, supervision and brief outcome-focused therapy background have resulted in a successful array of services across occupational sectors and businesses. Marion combines a number of theoretical models within her coaching, supervision, training and therapy work to suit the client - cognitive behavioural; solution focused, NLP, TA etc - in order to help clients to achieve change as effectively and speedily as is comfortable. She is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and is a member of the Association for Coaching. She is also an INLPTA NLP Business Communications Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner.
Key People:
Director: Marion Dunlop
Associate Consultants
- Jeanette Carson
- Helen Gregory
- Coral Harrison
- Ellen White
Support Coaches & Therapists
- Marion Dunlop
- Jeanette Carson
- Helen Gregory
- Coral Harrison
- Ellen White
Business Manager
- George Dunlop