Welcome to Heron Consultants - Organizational Psychologists

Deborah Barleggs : Jacquie Brazier : Recent Client Projects

Deborah Barleggs

Deborah is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, with British Psychological Society accreditation in Occupational Testing. She is a Principal Member of the Association of Business Psychologists, Founder Member Special Group of Coaching Psychology. Deborah has been practicing as a business psychologist since 2003, and holds an MSC in Occupational Psychology and Level A, B & B+ Certificates in Occupational Testing.

Deborah’s work as a psychologist is rooted in robust psychological and management theory as well as the realism and empathy that come from 15 years commercial experience as a line manager and director within a multinational plc. There, she was involved in identifying and integrating new business acquisitions; initiating corporate knowledge management programmes; aligning HR policies and processes with corporate strategy and creating and developing motivated, high performance, multidisciplinary teams. She had direct responsibility for services generating annual turnover in excess of £10m. As such, Deborah brings experience of strategic planning, business development, business and financial management, people development and management to her work as a psychologist.

“Whilst identifying areas of development was uncomfortable, with Deborah’s no nonsense, common sense approach we were able to work with my weaknesses and strengths to the point where last year I had my most successful year as a manager – less stress, higher results from my team and a sense of my own identity”

C.T., sales director, international publishing company

Jacquie Brazier

Jacquie is an experienced chartered occupational psychologist working as a consultant across all business sectors from graduate through to director level, with small business owners and professionals. Her areas of expertise include team performance and development, leadership development, personnel selection and recruitment, employee engagement, stress management, competency interviewing and framework development, career coaching, psychometric profiling and feedback. Her practice is underpinned by psychological theory and models and influenced by the practical toolkit of techniques provided by her training and learnt from experience.

Before qualifying as a psychologist, Jacquie ran a successful small business working in the catering and event management industry. Immediately after qualifying Jacquie worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Surrey on a pan-European research project into stress related long term sickness absence and work resumption and then as an associate tutor teaching, supervising and mentoring final year undergraduates and post graduate students. Jacquie is qualified to teach adult and further education.

‘Jacquie made a real effort to understand what our business was looking for. We were in a muddle and appreciated her enthusiasm, honesty and integrity in putting the needs of our business first, remaining authentic to our principles and delivering on time. Working with Jacquie was challenging and brought about much needed change.’

GC, Senior Partner, CWP

Recent Client Projects

Assessing Talent

Coordination and assessing at graduate assessment centres for a global bank
Executive assessment and profiling for senior HR positions in two public sector agencies
Competency based interviewing and screening of applications for various graduate and management positions
Development and implementation of competency based selection processes for private dental practices.
Training Needs Analysis for international petro-chemical organization

Developing Excellence

Design and delivery of a series of management workshops for International blue chip organization
Design and delivery of management development programmes for two international publishing companies and several public sector agencies including psychometric profiling, feedback and one-on-one executive coaching.
Bespoke design, delivery and facilitation of executive team workshops for public sector agency, barristers’ chambers, recruitment agency, and a multinational plc.

Enhancing Performance

Development of competency frameworks for professional service firms and not for profit organizations.
Design and delivery of interviewing, focus group and research skills training for HR personnel and MSc students.
Extensive research interviews working on Stress Impact a pan European research project working in collaboration with the Department of Work and Pensions
Practical pressure management workshops for graduate intakes in a number of organizations.
Defining the employee value proposition for an international oil, gas and petrochemical company.
Facilitating strategic and operational meetings for virtual teams.

Coaching Potential

Executive coaching for middle and senior managers in two trade associations, two law firms, two government departments and two charities
Group coaching and action learning sets for a group of middle managers at a public sector agency.
Career coaching as part of a succession planning initiative at a UK retailer.