Our change management consultants
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Stuart Corrigan
Managing Director
Stuart offers a decade of experience across the realms of organisational change, performance management and leadership using the Vanguard Method. He has worked with companies across a wide range of industries in the UK, US and other European countries offering them consultancy, coaching and training.
He founded Vanguard Scotland Ltd in 1997. After listening to John Seddon, the architect of the Vanguard Method at one of John’s seminars, Stuart realised what he had been doing as a manager was fundamentally wrong. He left his job with one of the world’s largest training organisation to start Vanguard Scotland Ltd. in 1997 with a passion to make a difference in service organisations in the UK.
Stuart has also established himself as a professional speaker who presents a fresh perspective on leadership and management practices. He has spoken at many events and has built a reputation of being a challenging and thought-provoking presenter who offers a clear message for delegates to go away with and put it to practise.
Visit www.stuartcorrigan.com
Denise Toscani
Director
Denise is the co-founder of Vanguard Scotland. Before becoming the Director of Vanguard Scotland she worked in one of Edinburgh’s top financial institutions and was one of their top performing managers. This allows her to understand first hand the issues and challenges that managers are facing in leading and managing organisations.
She has facilitated a large number of interventions using the Vanguard Method in the Police, Justice Systems, Housing Repairs, Property Maintenance, Social & Health Care and Pensions amongst others which have produced outstanding results. She believes that the key to these outstanding achievements is the understanding that these clients gained from the Vanguard Method to help them think about the design and management of work from a different perspective.
Denise also delivers workshops which are highly popular such as process mapping which has allowed many clients to apply at their work place to have a high level view of what’s happening within their systems.
Keith Bennett
Prior to joining Vanguard, Keith worked as a consultant in a variety of business improvement fields. He booked Vanguard’s founder - John Seddon - to speak at a Network Meeting he was organising and had a ‘road to Damascus’ experience.
When John asked the audience – ‘how do you set a target so that it’s not an arbitrary measure?’ Keith realised that he had been working on all ‘the wrong things’ for the previous 20 years.
He read ‘Freedom from Command and Control’ in the days following the Network meeting and realised that he had to stop ‘working on the people’ in his client organisations and start to learn the Vanguard method.
As Keith says:
“Since joining Vanguard I now realise that if you want to achieve massive performance improvement you must ‘work on the work with the worker’ – you have to give up the notion that working on the people will really change an organisation. I have never done such rewarding consultancy work as I’m doing now – I constantly see clients achieving improvement beyond their wildest expectations: service improves, costs fall and their people are happier!”
As a Vanguard consultant, Keith has transformed businesses in local governments and private businesses which have produced tremendous results and reduced costs significantly.
Bob Harston
Prior to joining Vanguard Scotland five years ago, Bob worked in financial services providing corporate advice to many of Scotland's successful companies.
Bob has helped public and private sector clients achieve amazing sustainable results using the Vanguard method and strongly believes that Vanguard's unique combination of systems thinking and intervention theory is the only genuine method to achieve massive service improvement.
Vicky Harston
Vicky has been working with Vanguard Scotland since the company launched in 1997. She is an experienced and versatile consultant that has worked in the private sector both in Europe and the UK.
Over the last 4 years she has specialised in the public sector within many services including Housing, Benefits, Roads, Planning, Building Control and Social Work. Most recently she has led radical redesigns of all aspects of Social Housing achieving amazing results.
She also delivers Public sector and specialised Housing seminars.
Lesley Kragt
Lesley has a professional background in nursing and occupational psychology. She has extensive experience at senior management level in the independent, not for profit and public sectors. Her previous employment has included working as a Director of Development with a leading national not-for-profit organisation.
Immediately, prior to joining Vanguard Lesley was working in the public sector as a Business Improvement Lead. In this post Lesley was instrumental in implementing and testing out the concept and methodology of lean management and systems thinking within the Council. Lesley's latter role in the council was Acting HR and Shared Services Manager where she led on a number of improvement and change projects.
Caroline Rodgers
Caroline worked in the contract research industry for 12 years in a variety of roles including project management, study director and quality assurance. From there she moved to the public sector to apply the Vanguard method within a police force in both operational and support processes.
Following her move to Vanguard, Caroline has continued to work in both the public and private sectors. In the private sector her experience includes improving systems in private healthcare, financial services, the utilities sector and property repairs, procurement and invoice processing in a national third party provider. In the public sector, Caroline has worked in police forces, courts, housing associations, councils, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Executive, improving systems in housing, social work, planning and building standards, contract centres, finance, HR and I.T..
Caroline also provides education sessions for COPFS and council senior management and works with internal consultants in a number of organisations to ensure their ongoing development.
Daniel Rodgers
Daniel joins Vanguard Scotland with a wealth of experience. He headed the clinical trials packaging as Director of Operations at Quintiles. He went on to set up a clinical development company managing drug reconciliation and returns and was heavily involved in multiple projects.
Daniel also helped with the development of the project management programme with the systems thinking approach and has several years of experience in managing projects applying the Vanguard method in capital programmes, automative prototype environments and launching new products.
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