SUZIE PARKES

 With a career spanning more than two decades, Suzie is a highly experienced    global operations performance consultant and success coach, with an impressive  background in operations performance, risk management and health and safety  strategy and governance.

 

 Clients include Royalty, Celebrities, CEOs, Senior Executives, Team Leaders and  Business Professionals. 

 

 Suzie’s consultancy work, training and coaching, coupled with her wealth of  global commercial experience and pragmatic approach promotes full legal  compliance, employee engagement, highly productive communities of practice,  effective communication across global teams, business and market units and a  happier and healthier workforce.

 

 Business professionals  are empowered to realise their full potential, maximise  their effectiveness and continually deliver excellence.

 

 Suzie has lived and worked in a wide variety of jurisdictions across EMEA and  Asia Pacific and she is proficient in a number of languages.

 

 

Operational Experience

 

• Health and Safety Advisor and Risk Manager to Royal Properties, Gardens and Estates

 

• Historic Royal Palaces Commercial Events Health and Safety Advisor (UK):

   - Tower of London HBO/BSkyB 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Launch

   - Tower of London Poppies 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red'

   - BBC Good Food Festival

   - Concours of Elegance

   - Hampton Court Palace 500 (Light up the Palace, Handel's Fireworks, Tudors           on Tour)

 

• Bupa’s Global Health & Safety Strategy & Governance Manager (London), global healthcare provider with 52,000 employees

 

• Operational Risk Manager (Sydney) of The GPT Group, a leading global property trust with a diverse portfolio of retail centres, offices, industrial business parks and development projects

 

• VP, Asia Pacific Risk Manager (Singapore) of Barclays Capital Services Ltd global investment bank

 

• EMEA Health and Safety Manager (Europe) to Oracle, a multi-billion dollar global IT and software provider with global real estate and commercial facilities management company Jones Lang LaSalle

 

• National Health and Safety Manager (London) of global financial services company, Old Mutual Financial Services Ltd

 

• New Business Development Manager and Senior Consultant (London and Auckland) with leading global finance recruitment companies  Hays City, Hays Accountancy Personnel and Robert Walters Associates

 

• Business and Marketing Advisor to a DFID funded NGO (Indonesian Borneo) with VSO

 

• Private practice and organisational experience in coaching, managing conflict, stress and change management, counselling and business psychology (Guys & St Thomas Hospital, The Estia Centre, The Maudsley Clinic, Victim Support, The Kingston Womens’ Centre, numerous global corporates)

 

 

Specialisms

 

• Operations Performance Review

• Corporate Risk Management

• Corporate H&S Governance and Strategy Development, Gap Analysis, Implementation, Auditing, Review and Compliance 

• Innovation, Design and Delivery of user friendly bespoke frameworks, tools, systems, processes, procedures, policies, reporting and training

• Building and Developing Effective Teams and Communities of Practice

• Employee Engagement review and improvement

• Business Performance Coaching to Directors, Executive Assistants, Team Leaders and Business Professionals

• Design and delivery of global training and workshops on Effective Communication, Harnessing Team Performance, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Time Management, Positive Approaches to Managing Pressure at Work, Mindfulness, and Dynamic Performance Management

• Change Management and Cultural Adaptation

• Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Negotiation and Decision Making

• Recruitment selection and assessment

 

 

Qualifications and Training

 

• Suzie has a B.A. Hons Degree (2:1) in Spanish/French (Queen Mary College, University of London)

 

Suzie has completed studies in:

• Occupational and Organisational Stress Management

• Counselling and Psychotherapy (CCPE) Certificate and Diploma

• NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) Certificate and Diploma

• TEFL (El Instituto Usandizaga, San Sebastian, El Pais Vasco)

• VSO workshops in Cultural Diversity, Adaptation, Communication and Conflict Management

 

• Suzie has successfully shadowed the Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at Guy’s Hospital, the Estia Centre and The Maudsley Clinic

 

• Suzie’s spoken and written languages are English, Spanish, Indonesian, Malay and French

 

 

Companies Suzie has worked with

 

• Barclays Capital Services Limited (Singapore, London)

 

• BFI (London)

 

• Bupa (London)

 

• Coca Cola (UK)

 

• Croner (UK)

 

• DEFRA

 

• The Discovery Channel (London)

 

• The Global Property Trust (Sydney)

 

• Hampton Court Palace (Surrey)

 

• Hays Accountancy Personnel (London)

 

• Hays City (London)

 

• Hillsborough Castle (Northern Ireland)

 

• Jones Lang LaSalle (EMEA)

 

• Kensington Palace (London)

 

• Kew Gardens (Surrey)

 

• The Kingston Women's Centre (Kingston)

 

• Medecins San Frontieres (Indonesian Borneo)

 

• Mitie (UK)

 

• The Northern Trust (London)

 

• Old Mutual Financial Services plc (London)

 

• Oracle (EMEA)

 

• Optum (UK)

 

• Robert Walters Associates (London, Auckland)

 

• Rolls-Royce plc (UK)

 

• The Salvation Army (London)

 

• Sky (UK)

 

• Surrey County Council (UK)

 

• The Tower of London (London)

 

• Victim Support (London)

 

• VSO/Voluntary Services Overseas (Indonesian Borneo)