We provide a brief insight into key news items across our practice groups
Warm welcome to our new Partners
We have welcomed new colleagues over the year who will be working very closely with our team in Scotland and the wider UK.
Andrew Hunter joined Saxton Bampfylde in April as a Consultant, following his 20 year Headship of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. Andrew has over 37 years’ experience working in schools and through that time has followed a simple educational philosophy with a three-part focus: academic inspiration through passionate subject teachers, co-curricular enrichment through activities and societies, and pupil support through individual pastoral care that gives every child a chance. Andrew is part of our Schools’ practice, identifying and supporting Heads and other leadership functions, as well as helping to advance leadership in education in Scotland and beyond. Contact Andrew
Mike Hounsell has joined our consulting team, bringing over 30 years’ senior and board level marketing, communications and general management experience within leading international and national businesses in the consumer goods, financial services, telecommunications and higher education sectors. Mike works across multiple sectors where his functional and sector knowledge add value. His most recent role was as Vice President Marketing, Communications, Recruitment and Admissions for the University of Surrey. Mike is also a former Trustee of East Anglia Children’s Hospices where he sat on their Board and Fundraising/Retail committees. Contact Mike
In September 2019 Rosanna Cundall joined our Arts and Creative Industries practice. With 10 years’ experience focused on the art world, and particularly commercial art across the UK and globally, Rosanna brings a great wealth of experience advising on leadership appointments. She is supporting board level and executive appointments across the arts and creative industries for our Scotland clients, and also in the luxury and consumer sectors. Contact Rosanna
Partnering with Praesta to deliver bespoke coaching
We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Praesta, an award-winning company that specialises in providing bespoke executive coaches to business leaders.
The innovative partnership is part of continuing work by Saxton Bampfylde and our global partners across the Panorama network to expand our leadership services, which already includes services such as board review, talent mapping and executive assessment. The respective organisations will continue to operate as independent entities, but with the strategic benefits of complementary expertise that will enable us to deliver a more cohesive service to clients of both Saxton Bampfylde and Praesta. By bringing together many decades worth of respective experience in executive search and leadership development through this new alliance, we are confident in our ability to continue to support and enable goal-orientated leaders to achieve their full potential in an ever-changing leadership environment.
For more information about the services Saxton Bampfylde and Praesta are able to offer in partnership, please contact mike.mcmanamon@saxbam.com / +44 020 7227 0804
Leading with James Ashton returns for second series, supported by Saxton Bampfylde
We are delighted to announce our support for the second series of ‘Leading with James Ashton’, a leadership podcast that speaks to people at the top of their game in business, charity, the arts and beyond.
Hosted by business writer, speaker and consultant James Ashton, each episode features two leaders from very different organisations discussing their take on leading vital causes, famous brand names and multi-million-pound enterprises. James draws on his journalistic career, which has included roles as City Editor and Executive Editor at the Evening Standard and Independent titles and before that City Editor at the Sunday Times, to encourage his interviewees to open up and swap stories of success and failure, the skills they have picked up, the challenges they face every day and the advice they offer to others.
The new nine-part series features CEOs from mobile phone giant O2, English National Opera, University of Liverpool, Leon, Crown Estate, Royal Albert Hall, and the luxury fashion designer Amanda Wakeley, plus many more, and includes a number of candidates placed by Saxton Bampfylde who are making their mark across a wide range of organisations and sectors.
Episodes can be listened to via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or at www.leadingpod.com
