Career Energy

Our People

1. Ben Giesbrecht

    

   

   Ben is the Chief Executive of Stockval Holdings Limited, which acquired a majority shareholding in Career Energy at the end of 2009. Shortly afterwards, Ben became CEO of Career Energy. Ben has extensive experience of recruiting into the financial services sector, and is also CEO of Curzon Recruitment, the recruitment and training arm of the group.
   He is an MBA (Ashridge), a graduate of the London School of Economics and a member of the Chartered Securities Institute. He has many years experience in the Financial Services sector, having started as a trainee fund manager with Buckmaster & Moore (now Credit Suisse Asset Management) in 1985. Until 2002, He was in charge of the corporate development programme of acquisition at Arbuthnot Group as well as being group head of marketing. Ben also works with Curzon Corporate Finance, an FSA registered Corporate Finance House and Plus Markets Advisor. Ben likes running, which he says keeps him fit and sane, although the former is more evident than the latter. Staff at Career Energy are contractually forbidden to reveal his given first name.

   Harry Freedman

    

   

   Dr Harry Freedman is the Founder of Career Energy. His varied career includes CEO roles in several SMEs and the Voluntary sector. He has authored several books and has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in three disciplines including Psychology. He is a member of the Guardian Careers panel and blogs for the Guardian website. He has made many career changes, which is how he knows that nobody needs work in a job to which they are not suited. Finding the right career is not difficult, but it does need professional support- it is a process in which you need someone to help you to see yourself objectively and to reach the right decisions. He broadcasts regularly on TV and Radio, and writes for magazines and newspapers.

   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. Chris is an avid fan of film and cultural studies and enjoys watching modern British film as well as the classics. She particularly enjoys the heroism of WWII cinema and the larger than life characters of early Hollywood studio films. Her penchant for low-brow horror films is not as widely shared.

   Carmel O'Reilly.

    

   

   Carmel's earlier career was in Investment Banking where she worked for over 12 years. A keen interest in people and organisational development led her to undertake an MSc in Career Management and Counselling with Birkbeck College. As a result she is now working as a Career Consultant delivering results focused programmes in the areas of outplacement and talent management. She is a qualified user of MBTI Personality Type Indicators and is a registered member of the British Psychological Society, the Institute of Career Guidance and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council

   Elizabeth Moyles

    

   

   Elizabeth Moyles holds an MSc in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Manchester Business School (UMIST), is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an affiliate of The British Psychological Society. She is experienced in the challenges of reinventing her career having moved first from the field of Biochemistry and pharmaceuticals into general management within a retail environment and then specialising in HR Management in a number of FTSE 100 companies. Liz has led talent management initiatives in several large organisations and personally managed some highly significant industry closures as well as making herself redundant in the process! Liz is passionate about helping clients to fulfil their potential, working with them to build their motivation and helping to coach and prepare them to make that next successful career change or job move. In her spare time Liz loves to keep fit. She is helped in part by her two huskies who enjoy taking her for a strenuous and energetic walk every day. Liz also enjoys running half marathons and has run The Great North Run several times and also half marathons in Europe. She will be walking Coast To Coast soon and has bought plenty of plasters in case of blisters!

   Jill Mytton

    

   

   Jill is a highly experienced recruitment and HR professional. After 25 years in the recruitment sector and as a Fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation she has helped thousands of candidates successfully find new employment. She has also delivered large scale outplacement projects and designed and developed assessment centres. An enthusiastic communicator with excellent motivational and advisory skills she confidently supports her clients and enables them to work through their emotional stages and reach their milestones quickly. Jill spent most of her youth riding her horses through the Shropshire countryside. Now in her "mature years" she has re-discovered her passion for horses and is learning how to deliver equine assisted qualifications. Her dream is to cross the States on horseback but after that she may never be able to walk again. Her alter ego is Sharon Stone in "The Quick and the Dead

   David Baker

    

   

   The creator and founder of Meta-Morphose International. David is a renowned business speaker, author and supporter of kinaesthetic learning. Over sixteen years M-M assessed, interviewed and trained literally thousands of senior executives and new graduates. He developed a process which acknowledges that interviews can never be objective. His techniques have been adopted by some of Europe's most successful companies. In 2008 he was awarded the life time achievement award by the CIM for his work in Graduate recruitment and training. David has been both competitive Rugby player and Sailor in his time, sadly he has had to retire from both claiming, "That, whilst his shoulders are still broad, they now rarely find the cohesion required to push a scrum or pull a rope in a manner that satisfies him!"

   Joanna Llewellyn

    

   

   Joanna Llewelyn has a Politics degree from University of Wales Swansea. She subsequently worked for the Careers Centre on a European funded project which aimed to keep Graduates in Wales. The Project became so successful that the University offered them entry into a Spin Out programme from which they became a commercial Limited venture of which Joanna was a Director. Joanna took up golf 3 years ago but wishes she took it up 30 years ago. "Fairways forever House work whenever"

   Richard Michaels

    

   

   Head of Business Development at Career Energy, Richard initially worked in Investment Banking, where he developed a deep interest in people's career paths and the choices they make. This led to a 20 year career in the Recruitment Industry where he facilitated many successful introductions between candidates and companies. More recently, Richard provided career coaching & outplacement services on a 1:1 basis in both the private & public sectors. Richard is passionate about sport, in particular tennis, having qualified as a professional coach. He is a great believer in the positive effects that sport plays in adding value to the workplace and encourages people to do more of it.