CONSULTANTS

Vicki Nicholson Managing Director & Senior Consultant

Vicki is the Founder and Managing Director of CWSolution. Her career started in finance and insurance, where she gained experience across a range of organizations, including Royal Insurance (UK), The Irish Stock Exchange, Lasser Marshall (New York) and Robertson Taylor (London). For the last ten years she has worked in the field of organizational development consulting and facilitation. India has been her home for over fifteen years.

With her rich depth of experience, Vicki understands and enables the critical skills required by executives, managers and employees to communicate and lead successfully in the global virtual environment. She has designed and facilitated numerous successful individual and team development initiatives for major MNCs inside and outside India.

Vicki has a BA from Trinity College, Dublin and is an Associate of the Chartered Insurers Institute. She is accredited to conduct a number of international programs including Think on Your Feet and to administer MBTI, Firo B and Belbin Team Roles.

Vimala Seshadri Consultant

Vimala has a diverse background that stretches from her doctorate in pharmacy to being the Executive Director of a not for profit home for girls and her experience as a facilitator.

She began facilitating in the pharmaceutical arena conducting leadership programs, and developing teamwork in multifunctional teams. More recently Vimala conducts programs on Virtual Teamwork, Global Communication, Cross Cultural Collaboration, Presentation Skills and Team Building for a variety of clients across the IT, Pharma and Financial sectors.

Vimala combines energy and international experience with her excellent communication skills and sense of humour to empower and bring out the potential within those she works with.

She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Clinical Residency from the Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis. Passionate about helping people make a change from within, she founded a home for girls in Chennai to empower them to realize the potential within. Vimala is in process of obtaining her International Coaching Federation certification.

Peter Fitzmaurice Director & Senior Consultant

In his role as a senior consultant at CWSolution, Peter functions as a specialist facilitator and mentor. Peter relates well to people at all levels and combines innovative techniques with drive and energy to teach new skills, resolve conflicts, process issues and lead teams.

Peter has researched, designed and delivered programs for numerous organizations throughout Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, India and Malaysia. He works with senior executives from a broad range of industry sectors as a coach, consultant and facilitator. He has been an accredited Think on Your Feet® coach for 14 years and is one of the few elite masters of this workshop in the Asia Pacific.

Peter has successfully completed assignments in outplacement consulting, career counselling, process facilitation, strategic planning and organizational development. He has longstanding consulting relationships with senior management teams in several organizations. Peter is accredited to conduct a range of internationally recognized programs.

Tanya McGinnity Senior Consultant

Tanya brings her extensive experience in the fields of Leadership, Management and all aspects of People Development to her role as a senior consultant at CWSolution. She has consulted with organizations in countries such as Spain, Switzerland, US, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and India in industries ranging from Financial Services, Information Technology, Pharma and Market Research. In India she has completed long-term assignments for both Accenture and Tata Consultancy Services.

Tanya has spent many years conducting coaching and project management, workshop implementations and capacity development programs. She has also had significant involvement in leadership studies, moderation of management and as a lead facilitator of numerous executive level capacity development programs.

Tanya¹s qualifications include MBTI (Myer Briggs Type Indicator), FIRO B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation), Human Needs Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry. Originally from Northern Ireland, Tanya has a BA Hons from Dublin City University and is a qualified yoga and tai chi instructor. She also works as an Executive Coach and is currently completing her International Coaching Federation certification. Tanya has been based in India since 2003.

Bertie Vaz Consultant

In his role as a consultant, Bertie develops and delivers some of CWSolution’s most popular programs, including Communication and Presentation Skills, Leadership Excellence, Team Work, Problem Solving, Assertiveness, and Time Management.

Bertie flew fighters for the Indian Air Force before switching to helicopters & civil aviation. He has also worked with the United States & Iraqi Air Forces. These two tenures have given his experience a cross-cultural and international flavour. Besides flying, he also enjoyed tenures on the faculties of the Air Force Academy and the Defence Services Staff College where he directed and facilitated workshops in a range of managerial & people skills. He also got ample opportunities to verify these concepts and skills in his work life, much of it in front line units, and he emphatically says, “They work!”

Bertie is a Certified Professional Behavioural Analyst for the DiSC psychometric instrument that allows individuals to develop a richer understanding of themselves and others. He is also accredited for the Belbin® Team Role and e-interplace© systems for team development.

Charlie Jackson Consultant

As a consultant, Charlie effectively enables those he works with to develop strong self-leadership and teamwork skills. His style lends itself particularly well to CWSolution’s leadership and management initiatives, and his deep belief in the need for self-awareness and inner development helps our clients achieve professional success.

Chalie has eighteen years of experience in programme and project management, training and consultancy. He has worked extensively with international and local non-governmental organisations and also in the corporate sector. Having worked in Europe, Africa and South Asia in a variety of contexts, he brings to his work a deep understanding of communication and cross-cultural issues.

Charlie holds a Master’s Degree in Advanced Professional Studies (Community Development and Adult Education) and a Diploma in Community Education. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, he is now settled in Bangalore.

Dennis-Grant Thistle Consultant

Dennis-Grant’s passion for working with people is a key aspect of his role as a CWSolution consultant. His background and nine years of clinical experience in the field of professional Counselling and Psychotherapy help him assist corporate clients in a business context. Dennis-Grant is particularly adept at sharing his in-depth understanding of problem solving skills and techniques.

His professional competencies include: management training, consulting, research, program design and coordination. Dennis-Grant has worked with numerous local and international non-governmental organizations. In his native Canada he worked for five years on a joint corporate-public service sector initiative with a national scope, mandate and high public profile.

Apart from other professional development studies, Dennis-Grant holds a BA in Sociology from Concordia University in Montreal. A consistent theme throughout his career has been in the arena of cross-cultural work and it was those interests that brought him to India 2 years ago. Having lived and worked in English and French speaking Canada, the USA, Colombia, Sri Lanka and India he has a lot of firsthand experience and insights about being effective in multi-cultural and multi-lingual contexts.

Meeta Baphna Consultant

Meeta’s core strengths are cross-cultural and global communications, business etiquette, and presentation skills. She also has an extensive teaching background and experience in business and technical writing.

Her professional experience ranges from working at a Fortune 500 company to being self-employed to teaching. During her career at Caterpillar Inc., Meeta worked in the areas of Public Relations, Finance, and Marketing Communications. More recently, she was a Lecturer with the University of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. Meeta has also freelanced as a business writer for GE Consumer and Industrial and taught courses in Accounting and Business Writing.

Meeta holds a Masters’ and Bachelors’ degrees in Business Management from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, U.S.A., and graduated from both programs with honours. She grew up in the US and moved to Bangalore, India in early 2007 with her husband and three children. Meeta has a unique understanding of the Western world and Eastern ways, and enthusiastically strives to help both sides work better together.

Sujata Lulla Consultant

Sujata facilitates learning and development in the areas of cross-cultural, global communication and presentation skill, as well as team building and leadership development. She has 11 years of professional experience having held positions as Senior Training Manager and has broad experience in the people development field.

She started her career as a Manager with ITC Hotels. She has worked for many years with GE in the areas of coaching and leadership development. While at GE she was a lead facilitator for numerous Executive level leadership courses in India and abroad. She also worked extensively in the areas of knowledge transfer and migration of courses to China, Hungary and Romania. Sujata holds a Bachelors’ degree in Hotel Management from W.G.S.H.A (ITC Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Administration) and an MBA from Symbiosis Pune. She is accredited to debrief the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and (DiSC).

Sujata has a strong engaging style with people and is able to draw on her experiences from several industries and with groups from all levels. At CWSolution, in addition to being an asset to our consulting team she is also our representative in Hyderabad, operating out of our Hyderabad office.