Career Energy

Our People

1. Harry Freedman

   

   Founder of Career Energy. Harry has worked as CEO in a variety of SMEs, and in the voluntary sector. He moved into Career Management by applying the techniques promoted by Career Energy, namely identifying dominant skills and experiences and transferring them into relevant new contexts. His formal Career Management experience was gained with leading providers of corporate career services, and informally as an employer and as a coach in the voluntary sector. He has a degree in Psychology.

2. Julian Hosking

   

   Marketing Consultant. Julian is an experienced and successful income generating Global Promotions and Marketing professional with a background in both the commercial and charity sectors. He specialises in brand building and communications and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Julian is also a trained prison mentor and Open College Network teacher at HMP Aylesbury Young Offenders Institution and is a member of the patient panel for West London Hospitals A&E training.

3. Suparna Dasgupta Ghose

   

   After completing her MSc in Human Resource Management, from the London School of Economics, Suparna has worked in a number of sectors - academic, not-for-profit , outplacement and most recently in people development for a top management consultancy . Suparna also works as a change management consultant for a strategic health authority and is qualified in the use of psychometric testing instruments.

4. David Randall

   

   A seasoned change agent and team coach, David's experience has embraced the facilitation of groups as well as one-to-one work with clients. He also looks after developing partnerships. David has been trained in personal coaching and career counselling and his style is firmly objective-orientated, focussing his energy at helping clients to achieve their personal career goals. David founded his own successful business and is a member of the LDA's High Growth Business Club, and has long experience of public sector employment, large and small organisations, consulting (UK and international) and the armed forces. Married with two children, David has a PhD in change management from Kingston University, as well as a first degree and MA from London University.

5. Jean Dowson

   

   Jean Dowson has nearly thirty years' experience in leadership, training and senior management appointments both overseas and in the UK. She has an MBA, a Diploma in Coaching and is also a qualified NLP practitioner. Insightful, commercially aware, an excellent facilitator and trainer and a coach with a successful track record, her focus with clients is on developing effective and practical steps that help them achieve their goals quickly and effectively. She believes that coaching can help you achieve what you want, find the answers you need and construct an action plan that will help you deliver your goals. Her coaching style works well with people who are energetic, intelligent leaders and managers who want to bring out the best in themselves and their staff. She is highly motivational and delights in working with people who are passionate about achieving their goals. She lives in Worcestershire and sees clients who live in the Midlands.

6. Colin Fisher

   

   For the past six years, Colin has successfully delivered one-to-one coaching and career counselling to a wide variety of individuals. These current activities follow a successful 32-year management career with Marks and Spencer. In 1994 he started his own consultancy, successfully delivering Change at leading UK and Irish retailers. He then chose to re-train in Coaching and Career Management and established yet another career in his mid fifties.

7. Chris LeCatsas-Lyus

   

   Chris is a consultant with over 15 years experience in the public and private sectors specialising in people development and coaching. Having completed a postgraduate degree in Career Management from Birkbeck College, University of London, she is also accredited by the British Psychological Society in conducting psychometric testing and is an MBTI and PRINCE2 Practitioner. Her approach to career management is person centred and her main interests are in supporting people through change and helping them integrate work – life issues.

8. Rena Greenaway

   

   Rena takes an empathic approach to her clients' whole situation, with particular sensitivity in areas such as redundancy, lack of confidence, and in the many different issues women face at various stages in their lives. With an Honours degree in Psychology, she worked in IT, brought up a family then found a route back into IT after a career break. She eventually studied for an MSc in Career Management and Counselling with the Department of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College, and now loves her work.

9. Barbara Kubica-Daniel

   

   Barbara moved to the UK and joined Career Energy as its office administrator this year. She has a diploma in Linguistics having studied English Philology in Poland and Austria. She worked as an EFL teacher in language schools and at a maritime university in Poland. She also has experience as a voice-over, translator and interpreter, and as an actress, production manager and board member of an amateur English speaking theatre company.