Organisational and Business Development

Our Organisational and Business Development specialists include:

Mark Ellis MBA

Consultant and QAS Business Manager

t: 01302 767893

e: mark [at] qedconsulting.co.uk

Mark specialises in working with public and private sector organisations at senior level, developing both managers and the wider organisation, leading QED Consulting’s workshop and training services.

Mark has experience of working overseas and being immersed in culturally different types of work this includes his delivery of the India programme strategic review of a Nobel Prize winning Aid organisation. Further to his experience Mark also holds an MBA from the prestigious Edinburgh Business School.

At QED Consulting Mark is passionate about providing strategy development and strategy implementation consultancy to private sector organisations. Mark also invests much time in the design and delivery of workshops, coaching and our Succession Planning services.

Mark is also the Business Manager of Quantum Assessment Services (QAS), responsible for its operational and strategic direction. QAS is a division of QED Consulting which works with a wide range of private, public and not for profit sector organisations across the UK, enabling, supporting and assessing them through the Customer First and SFEDI quality frameworks and also offers assessments against the Institute of Leadership and Management suite of qualifications.

As qualified climbing, mountaineering, kayak and ski-ing instructor with a passion for outdoor pursuits Mark excels in enabling others to achieve more than they believed they could, both in and outside of work. If you ever find yourself needing a phone a friend on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, brimming with general knowledge, Mark is your man!

Steve Hinton BSc CEng MIMechE

Executive Chairman of QED

t: 01302 761222

e: steve [at] qedconsulting.co.uk

Steve is an experienced consultant who works with Chief Executives, Managing Directors, Senior Executives and other leaders. He brings a combination of wide business and consultancy experience and excellent interpersonal and coaching skills. He has a particular expertise in the whole field of business support, enterprise and entrepreneurship.

He has had a varied and multi-faceted career. He trained as an engineer and worked in manufacturing management and then general management. His entrepreneurial spirit emerged in 1987 when he led a buyout to form a new engineering group in the rail sector. After running that company for 6 years, the desire to do something different again asserted itself and he was one of the founders of QED Consulting. Steve is the Executive Chairman and owner of the business and focuses his client work on senior level coaching and high level consultancy projects.

Steve’s style is challenging, practical, business focused and very effective. He helps to stimulate and embed deep changes in behaviour and performance – transforming clients’ personal and business achievements. He has a First Class Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and he is an NLP Business Practitioner. He is Chairman of the British American Project, a transatlantic leadership development and networking organisation.

Married to Michèle, with three grown up children, he spends his spare time sailing his catamaran. A passionate runner, Steve has taken part in numerous marathons and swears by the problem-solving and de-stressing clarity that a good run provides. With such a healthy outlook on life, we often turn a blind eye to his weakness for the occasional Bacon sandwich.

Jeremy Thorn BSc CEng CCMI FRSA

President of QED

t: 01302 761222

e: jeremyt [at] qedconsulting.co.uk

Jeremy is an experienced business leader and management consultant specialising in strategic business, organisational and management development, including high level training across a wide spectrum of management topics and one-to-one senior executive leadership coaching. His clients include an unusually broad range of both large and small businesses internationally, a number of UK Government Departments, a wide variety of organisations across the National Health Service and several Local Authorities. He is also a widely experienced Non-Executive Director and Chairman of several client companies.

Jeremy is the author of several prize-winning, hands-on business books and is a frequent key-note speaker and top-team facilitator. He is also a licensed user of the comprehensive range of ethical psychometric profiling tools which QED employs widely to support their work with individuals and teams.

Kathy Denton BA BSc MSc

Director

t: 01302 767889

e: kathy [at] qedconsulting.co.uk

Kathy has wide business experience at board level within the commercial and marketing areas of premier league organisations such as Marks & Spencer, Boots PLC and L’Oreal. She has enhanced this experience with a Masters in Occupational Psychology which allows her to work with individual clients and teams to optimise their performance and maximise the opportunities for business success.

Kathy’s broad leadership and management experience enables her to support clients with a practical, insightful and inclusive approach to the achievement of objectives. She has been involved in a wide range of individual and organisational development initiatives taking a realistic and client-centred approach ensuring improved performance and the maximisation of potential. Kathy heads up QED Consulting’s Coaching team and is particularly passionate about optimising individual potential.

Kathy is also mum to 3 lively children who provide many useful and humorous examples to support her workshops and to keep the office entertained! She is currently involved in writing a book on Human Resource in the Leisure Services, is non-executive director of the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield and Deputy Chair of the Governing Body of a local school.

Kathy’s current favourite quote is:

‘If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to go to the forest to gather wood, saw it and nail the planks together. Instead, teach them the desire for the sea.’ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

With so many things in common (such as having a young lively family and being fluent in French), Kathy is hopeful that if Hollywood ever gets round to making a movie of her life, Kristen Scott Thomas would jump at the opportunity portray her.

Martijn Mugge MBA

Director

t: 01302 767890

e: martijn [at] qedconsulting.co.uk

Martijn was born within and graduated from the Netherlands before his move to the UK in 1995 where he has become an acknowledged expert in fostering and developing enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Over the past few years he has led a wide range of initiatives throughout the UK including Entrepreneur Schools for budding entrepreneurs and early start-ups, High Growth Start-Up programmes for would-be entrepreneurs, and providing Succession Planning services. Martijn is also a qualified NLP Business Practitioner and NLP Coach and is a registered SBS consultant (SBS 2323).

After having been involved in community and economic regeneration, holding senior management positions within large training and enterprise development companies, and starting and growing his own training company (turning over just over £1m within 2 years of trading), Martijn brought his expertise and passion for enterprise to QED Consulting.

With no end to his talent Martijn is fluent in five languages (after living and working in different countries, including the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, and Spain) and is loved in the office for his dry sense of humour and sharp wit!

An entrepreneur at heart, Martijn says that one of the best things about working at QED Consulting is the freedom to be entrepreneurial with support from good people; enabling him to combine his passions of entrepreneur schools and new product development.