Specialists in Talent Management

Phil Boyle
Managing Director

Phil is President Elect of the global Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).  In 2004 he was awarded the RAeS Sir Robert Hardingham Sword for outstanding service to the Society.

Phil was an operational pilot in the RAF for twenty years. His final tour was at A&AEE Boscombe Down, where he was involved in test and trials flying.

On retiring from the RAF in the mid 80’s, Phil was employed by a Mayfair-based Management Consultancy and managed a number of high level projects across a wide sector before being headhunted into one of the UK’s leading executive recruitment consultancies as a high-tech and manufacturing specialist. He was a co-founder of Ramsey Hall Limited.

Phil is a generalist executive recruiter by design but his obvious strengths in the Aerospace, Engineering and Manufacturing sectors have led to him being recognised as a “specialist” in these areas. He has considerable knowledge of the industrial sector and has recruited at Board, senior and specialist levels within this sector.

Phil has led the development of the Ramsey Hall recruitment and selection system which sees the seamless integration of Best Practice Psychometric and Recruitment procedures into a single process that provides low risk recruitment procedures which identify and attract leadership talent.  At Board level the process is specifically designed to enhance Board Effectiveness and potential, coupled to the fact that he had led the recruitment of well over 300 Board positions, means that Phil is uniquely well positioned to co-present this.

Phil is a Chartered Engineer with first degrees in Engineering and in Maths. He has a Masters Degree in Avionics Systems and another in Management Sciences.  Phil also has a Level A/Level B+ qualification in psychometrics and is accredited to use the HPI and MVPI systems.

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Matthew Davis
Talent Management Practice Lead

With over 16 years experience in Talent Management, Matthew’s background initially focussed on Executive Search however now embraces all aspects of talent management and organisational development including leadership consulting, board effectiveness and succession, assessment, business psychology, coaching and careers transition. He also provides strategy consultancy for both HR and marketing functions.

Matthew’s work in the people and change arena includes all aspects of building performance through people from designing attraction strategies to leadership development, board effectiveness reviews, and organisational redesign, assessment together with strategy workshops. He has advised Boards on organisational capability issues and has helped shape the people agenda for a broad portfolio of blue chip organisations as well as helping clients to reach strategic decisions effecting business units, management teams and future company direction.

Following an early career in research, Matthew became a Director of an Executive Search boutique specialising in senior appointments for industrial sector clients. He also held responsibility for marketing and business development as he does now. In 2005 Matthew joined the SHL Partner Network and has won an award in the partner of the year awards for every year since.

In addition to a first degree in Social Science, Matthew is HR qualified and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. In addition, he is a qualified Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In addition, Matthew is British Psychological Society level A and B Intermediate (plus) trained and is SHL OPQ32, MBTI and Hogan certified. He is currently the Winner of the SHL Partner of the Year Awards for 2010.

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Sarah Hornby
Associate Director

Sarah joined the Ramsey Hall team in early 2010 following a highly successful career for organisations that included Unilever Research, Austin Knight (TMP) and more latterly Managing Director of one of the South’s leading marketing and communications businesses. She has been responsible for driving business excellence and exceeding growth targets year on year, leading teams to win national awards and developing a reputation as an outstanding HR professional.

She has grown her Talent Management Consultancy activities by working with global blue chip organisations as well as start ups and SMEs, partnering with business leaders and HR teams to develop highly effective human capital strategies that meet long term corporate objectives. She has an outstanding reputation for developing and implementing the strategies that attract and retain leaders in their fields; managing cultural and organisational change programmes; building engaged teams; auditing internal/external communications strategies and developing programmes for improvement; delivering targeted and totally outcomes orientated coaching and management development initiatives.

Ongoing programmes include the provision of personalised outplacement that inspires those facing career transition to move with confidence and focus; first steps to management training; leadership development and outsourced HR support. The development and implementation of effective, targeted talent attraction strategies is a particular area of expertise.

A reputation for innovative thinking, delivering outstanding results and focusing on service excellence, she operates a business partnership approach based on trust, respect and total transparency. Key strengths: gets to the heart of complex challenges and readily identifies solutions: driven, highly focused, results orientated and a passion for success.

Sarah is a graduate from the University of Bath, holds a post graduate diploma in Personnel Management and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.

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Mike Cook
Associate Director
Leadership, Talent and Organisational Consulting

Mike is one of the UK’s most well-known leadership consultants and executive coaches, widely respected for his insight and depth of organisational understanding. His clients include companies from most sectors and he has worked in the majority of EU countries.

Mike has helped executives and boards improve both their strategic thinking and the joint leadership of their organisations. In his work he has shaped and delivered leadership development programmes tailored for the specific needs of small companies and also major programmes with up to 25,000 participants. Through his coaching he has helped PLC CEO’s and executives think through, and act on, the challenges of a new role or the demands of a major organisational transition.

As an organisational consultant Mike has worked in collaboration with clients to design and implement the new structures and behaviours demanded by either the market or a merger. Specifically, he has helped design top-level executive structures, introduced talent management initiatives and created the new front line behaviours required by brand improvement programmes.

Mike’s consulting career has been with major, international consultancies such as Hay and Whitehead Mann. Prior to his career as a coach and consultant, Mike had a rich management career covering senior roles in operations, marketing, sales and programme management for major blue-chip IT companies such as Digital Corporation.

Mike has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Warwick and a Master’s Degree from the University of Surrey. He is also accredited in the use of MBTI, Firo-B, HDS and OPQ-32.

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Jenny Ludford
Chartered Occupational Psychologist

Jenny has recently joined Ramsey Hall as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. Prior to joining Ramsey Hall, Jenny worked at both QinetiQ and A&DC to design and deliver a number of talent management initiatives for both public and private sector clients.

Jenny brings with her experience in leading and delivering a wide range of client projects including personality profiling; selection & assessment design and delivery; competency design & validation; training delivery; questionnaire development; as well as assessment and development exercise design. She is a trained assessor and is British Psychological Society Level A and B certified.

Jenny has a Bachelors’ degree from the University of Southampton and a Masters’ degree from London Metropolitan University. She is accredited to use OPQ, TalentQ and Strengthscope personality tools. She has recently been awarded her Chartership as an Occupational Psychologist by The British Psychological Society.

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