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Based in the West Midlands, Shipway Consulting Ltd provides people solutions for your business. Supporting all size of businesses with a wide range of services, from one-off activities to long term projects and fully outsourced support, I provide a bespoke service tailored to suit your needs.

Strategic Organisational Planning

Helping you develop your business to ensure that your strategies, people plans and processes are aligned.

Leadership and Coaching

Delivering creative and insightful solutions I can support you unleash the potential of your people.

People Management

Attracting, developing and retaining the best people is critical to your business’ success.

Behaviour Profiling

Everything DiSC® is a leading on-line profiling tool used to improve productivity, teamwork and communication in the workplace.

Strategic Organisational Planning

Helping you develop your business to ensure that your strategies, people plans and processes are aligned.

Leadership and Coaching

Delivering creative and insightful solutions I can support you unleash the potential of your people.

People Management

Attracting, developing and retaining the best people is critical to your business’ success.

Behaviour Profiling

Everything DiSC® is a leading on-line profiling tool used to improve productivity, teamwork and communication in the workplace.

Why choose Shipway Consulting?

My success is based on being local, independent and expert...

Local

Living and working in your locality means I know your market, customer and employee base and can give you face2face support.

Independent

I don't offer a national off-the-shelf one-size-fits-all manual but practical no-nonsense solutions which fit with your needs and approach.

Expert

As a chartered fellow of the CIPD with a wealth of experience across leadership, organisational development, coaching and HR I can deliver you one-stop shop advice and solutions.

Testimonials

See what my clients say

Oakley House Children’s Home

Neil Mason, Director

Our established business needed some direction and vision so Alison devised and delivered, amongst other activities, a key workshop for our team. We spent two days creating our core values and strategic intent based on our ways of working and team dynamics; the sessions were interactive and creative but most importantly relevant to our unique business needs. It has helped us immensely understand what is important to us and how we can achieve it.

H Gittins Transport Ltd.

Andrew Gittins, Director

We are a family run haulage company based in the West Midlands with over 40 years experience and recently required a change to our staff's contracts of employment to ensure we were able to meet the needs of our large customer base. Alison understood our needs quickly and was invaluable in helping us through the minefield of legislation; she took time to ensure we were aware of what was relevant and made everything seem clear and simple. We now have new contracts, updated policies and a cl(...)

Ikea UK Ltd

Linton Scarborough, Deputy CFO

Ali simply excels at coaching, where her probing and insight, delivered in an inspiring and empathetic way, has enabled me and many others to better achieve our Company mission and ‘deliver far more of our human potential.

SRC Accountancy Services Ltd

Simon Cook, Managing Director

Alison works with a number of our clients who are really happy with the services she provides. She is always flexible to the needs of a small business and has provided invaluable professional and knowledgeable advice. She always delivers in excess of expectations, without any fuss and unfailingly with a smile. I could not recommend her highly enough!

Techys 2 u

Tim Bailey, Director

As a small business we needed external support to help us manage a difficult and sensitive employee relations issue. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending Alison's highly easy to follow advice and guidance.

Active Black Country

Ian Carey, Director

Alison has supported Active Black Country and myself at a time of significant change for the partnership and sports sector, driving, creating and leading change which has seen a revision to the partnership’s strategic direction, organisational structure and ways of working. Ali’s approach has been instrumental in developing the revised focus of the business vision; her ability to understand and make connections across a breadth of strategic drivers has contributed considerably. She has very(...)

Shooting Stars Nurseries

Natalie McNamara, Area Manager

Hi Alison. I just wanted to say how valuable the recent performance management training was for the Shooting Stars management team. The information provided was extremely useful and prompted lots of thought into how we currently manage staff performance and how our investigation and disciplinary procedures can be strengthened. The content and delivery of the day was fantastic and certainly exceeded my expectations. The training was full of practical tips and the interactive approach was exc(...)

Star Treatment Ltd.

Emma Ronan, Director

Our company has used Shipway Consulting on several occasions and has always been impressed with the high level of service we receive. We are a small local business and Alison is always on hand to help with any queries we may have about staffing matters; nothing is ever too big or small a problem and the support and guidance is given from start to finish making you feel you are not alone along the way. She has helped us gain a far better understanding of how to manage our teams and has alway(...)

The Fruitful Toolbox

Heidi Blakeway, Director

Alison supported me introducing L&D professionals to Everything DiSC® profiling tools; she is a real expert in developing high performing teams through understanding yourself and others. As a personal mentor and coach I couldn't recommend her enough!

Halesowen College

Les Williams, NHS Director and Chair of Governors

Alison was recruited to provide a personnel and organisational development perspective to the governing body of Halesowen College, as well as bringing skills in strategic business planning. Along with being personable and able to commnicate well her ideas and experience, Alison brought considerable added value to the College. This was most evident in debates about strategic positioning, with Alison offering advice to ensure that the strategic priorities were progressed through effective bus(...)

Happy Giraffe

Heidi Cooper, Director

After ten years in business, we were looking to undertake a radical internal restructure – moving to a customer centric approach. Alison worked with us to identify the best method for understanding our staff and ensure that the new teams moved quickly from forming to performing. Using Belbin, Ali designed a bespoke workshop using engaging and interactive exercises – just right for our team. She ensured that the senior management team understood fully how the profiles could add value to our (...)

Beacon

Arwyn Jones, Chief Executive

Ali introduced our new Executive Leadership team to the Everything DiSC tool and helped us explore our personalities, team behaviours and ways of working. Ali was engaging, knowledgeable and passionate and designed interactive sessions engaging all of us, inspiring confidence in her abilities, and creating a relaxed atmosphere which helped us get the most out of our time together.

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