Martin McEnery


I qualified as a lawyer at Cambridge and as a barrister at Gray`s Inn, London. I had two very formative years teaching law in newly independent Tanzania in East Africa in a new university with a new student body. I followed this with some time in the States working and studying for an LL.M at Berkeley, University of California, and with work in the UK as a legal representative & law lecturer.

The work as a legal representative led to experiences of setting up effective groups to meet needs in the areas of housing improvement and enterprise generation. I became a founder director of two companies providing training, finance and premises for new businesses in inner city areas, and developed wide experience as a training consultant and as a manager of projects in the fields of enterprise start-up and computer training. I joined The Coverdale Organisation in 1986 and I am a Trustee Director of the Coverdale Ownership Trust.

Key Expertise
In Coverdale I have worked in many sectors including Finance, Publishing, Brewing, Pharmaceutical, IT, Hotel, Retail, Academic, Public and Voluntary. I enjoy working in organisations at all levels including senior teams through to supervisors and operators. I have a particular interest in:
  • helping organisations to develop and to manage change
  • diagnosing organisational aims and needs, and strategy planning
  • releasing human potential and enabling individual skill development to meet new job needs
  • working across multi-cultural organisations and in international consultancy
  • ensuring the results of consultancy interventions are measured and evaluated.
I deliver consultancy, coaching, and programmes in the areas of project management, organisational development, change management, leadership, influencing, teamwork/teambuilding and negotiation.

I am keen to ensure that my consultancy work benefits from my life experience as a founder director, lawyer and project manager. I am a licensed Myers-Briggs consultant and a Coverdale Qualified 'Getting to Yes' Negotiation Trainer.

Some recent assignments
  • Consultant in a programme of change facilitation with MFI, supporting a company-wide SAP supply chain installation, developing project management skills and planning and developing the skills and competencies required for change. MFI is a major UK kitchen, bedroom and bathroom chain with operations developing in USA, France, Taiwan.
  • InterContinental Hotels Group UKI: one of two consultants, working in partnership with the Senior Management Team, to design and implement a programme for hotel managers and other managers across the UK. The focus is to get a common direction and a new culture across the company and to get collective thinking on key current issues.
  • Providing individual coaching and team development consultancy to the senior management team of UK Sport, the public body charged with supporting and improving the performance of top athletes in the UK.
  • Consultant manager of a Europe-wide project management development programme for the European division of Levi Strauss.
  • Consultancy in alliance with local Indian consultants to facilitate the conduct of a major change programme for the India office of the UK Department for International Development, based in Delhi.
  • Implementing a programme of negotiation and influencing skills for multi-cultural staff in Department for International Development offices in Tanzania, Kenya, Central Africa (Zimbabwe) and SE Asia (Thailand) with a focus on issues of cultural diversity and change.
  • Visiting consultant working across India with senior and middle level officers in the Agricultural Extension Service in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and other States to develop a core group of officers as coach/facilitators, and to improve the effectiveness of management development.
  • Tectura UK: Design and implementation of a programme for the senior team of this rapidly growing business software applications company to develop teamworking and leadership capability.
  • VSO: Development and implementation of a common style of management and working. This includes the development and licensing of a number of managers to be able to run teambuilding programmes within the organisation.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland: Design and implementation of a programme to enable HR internal consultants to manage projects across the Insurance arm of the Bank contributing to a major internal change programme.
  • Design and implementation of a negotiation skills programme for Europe-wide sales and distribution managers of Symantec Ltd, a US software company.
  • Adis International Ltd: Development of negotiation skill for account managers in a leading pharmaceutical publishing company.
Interests
Family, fresh air, sailing and the practical study of geology. 		Martin McEnery
Martin McEnery
Coverdale UK