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Sheila Browning
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Background
A creative and pragmatic business
professional with experience in manufacturing, light
engineering and high tech sectors. Since 1988,
operating in the fields of Change Management, Organisational
Development, Process and Performance Management Improvement
with SMEs and large companies at Board level, in both public
and private sectors. She has experience of working in
the UK, USA, Canada, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy.
Her engineering background ensures an organised approach to problem solving for clients to which she
adds creative skills and the ability to gain rapport in
organisations at all levels and in different cultures. Sheila
has the knack of understanding and explaining complex problems,
ideas and concepts in an easily understandable way.
Main Activities
 | Strategic planning, scenario development and
“Business Mirrors” simulations. |
| Organisational change / development in the UK,
USA, Canada, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy. |
| Top Team coaching and mentoring in the UK, USA,
Canada, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy. |
| Provided outsourced management development for a
large UK company in the construction sector for 3 years. |
| Customer surveys, UK and international for clients
to use to make strategic decisions. |
| Systems Thinking coaching using simulation
techniques to explore underlying causal loops. |
| Facilitating personal change in using NLP
techniques (the modeling of excellence). |
| Process improvement projects for clients in
manufacturing using SPC and Taguchi techniques. |
| Investors in People – Assessor and Advisor. |
Achievements
| Organisation, team and individual development
programmes for private and public sector companies. |
| Formed a strategic alliance in 1999 with The
Allison Group, LLC in New York to our mutual advantage. |
| Launched Icaem Insight in 1994. 80% of business
is repeat business for delighted customers. |
| Business growth and management development with a
hi-tech business start up in Belgium. |
| Design, development and delivery of successful
management development programme with large multinational
company in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Spain, Belgium and
Italy. |
| Launched Aitchison Knitwear – design and
manufacture of customised design knitwear in a retail environment. |
Professional History
| Founded Icaem Insight Ltd in 1994, Managing
Director. |
| Director, Institute of Computer Aided Engineering
and Management. |
| Owner, start-up business in the retail and
knitwear design sector. |
| Management positions in Hewlett Packard and
Marconi Space and Defence |
Higher Education
| MBA, Heriot Watt University (won class prize), |
| B.Sc. (Physics), Strathclyde University |
Professional Qualifications
| Member of the Institute of Directors. |
| Accredited to deliver Insights Discovery
Personality Profiling. |
| Founder member of the Scottish fractal of The
Society of Organizational Learning. |
| NLP Practitioner and Member of the Society of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming. |
| Family Firm Institute – ‘Immersion’ course adviser
training. |
Languages
French
(basic), Italian and German (survival level)
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