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  Vicki Macleod

Vicki Macleod

Executive Coach
Management and Leadership Development Consultant

Vicki Macleod has specialised in enabling and evaluating learning and performance all her working life.

She has many years' experience of guiding work-based learning in organisational  settings, with a successful track record of helping people and organisations achieve the results they desire.

Her work for clients in the private and public sectors has included:

  • designing and delivering university-accredited management development programmes
  • helping organisations establish mentoring and coaching schemes
  • coaching managers and teams
  • leading commercial research and evaluation activities
  • providing consultancy on personal and management development.

A prime motivation is to encourage and enable learning, and help organisations build a learning culture.

Vicki co-founded Performance By Design in 1998.  Previously she led the design and delivery of the MA Learning in Organisations at the University of Brighton (1995-8), and worked on management development with a range of organisations.

Her background is in psychology (BSc, University of Bristol), African studies (MA, University of London), education (PGCE and Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning in Higher Education) and management learning.

Vicki's recent work includes:

  • consultancy on setting corporate mentoring in a multinational
  • evaluation of learning programmes for companies in manufacturing and IT.
  • co-developing Limbering Up For Learning, an innovative programme for personal learning and development
  • facilitating workshops on becoming a learning organisation, for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
  • research into HR consultancy skills on behalf of the CIPD
  • evaluating Kaizen events for a global drinks manufacturer
  • evaluating coaching skills and facilitation skills workshops for Stretch Learning
  • designing and implementing an Institute of Management accredited management development programme for The Body Shop International
  • authoring an internet-based course on performance management for the University of Surrey, and providing on-line tutoring
  • research into how using the internet helps professional learning on behalf of the Interprofessional CPD Forum and the DfEE
  • supporting the implementation of new performance management processes for schools and headteachers nationally.

Her wider experience of work-based learning and assessment includes delivery of Management NVQs at Levels 4 and 5, and Training and Development NVQs at Levels 3 and 4.

From 1990 to 1995, Vicki was adviser for vocational and special education in Surrey with the Department of Employment sponsored Technical and Vocational Education Initiative.

Vicki's other interests include swimming, cycling, reading, ballet, and walking by the river.