Expertise

Lauren is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist specialising in the assessment and development of leaders and high potential employees. She has worked across a wide variety of international organisations within private, public and chartable sectors. She enjoys working in partnership with clients, taking time to understand their needs so that the solutions she develops have the intended impact.

She is driven by making a difference to organisations and their employees, supporting them to deliver more. She has a particular interest in the changing landscape of work and the unprecedented change organisations and employees are experiencing. With a passion to support leaders to navigate these changes and understand how they can deliver effectively.

Managing a team, Lauren overseas much of the work Kiddy & Partners is involved in. She has a particular focus on 1:1 executive and senior leader assessments for both selection and development, development of senior leaders, helping individuals transition from expert to leader through use of deep dive insights and coaching and helping organisations define what they need for their future.

Prior to joining Kiddy, Lauren worked for an international talent management organisation focusing on leadership assessment, high potential identification and early talent selection. She started her career supporting the UK Police Force to select and develop senior level leaders.

Lauren has a Master’s in Occupational Psychology from Nottingham University, she became a Chartered Psychologist in 2009, registered with the British Psychological Society and HCPC. She is a qualified test user with some of the leading psychometrics on the market including NEO, PAPI, Saville Wave and the Hogan suite of personality assessments.

How do you help clients?

  • I work in partnership with clients to help them define what is needed from their leaders to support them to deliver against their strategic priorities.
  • I help clients develop their leaders so that they can navigate change and transformation, getting the most from their teams and delivering value for shareholders.
  • Through deep insight grounded in objective assessment and personalised coaching I support leaders to develop their leadership skills, enabling them to be the best they can.
  • I help organisations understand capability within their organisation, develop their succession pipelines and ensure they have the talent needed for their future.
  • I support organisations to objectively select leaders into their business, utilising best practice assessment techniques ensuring suitability and fit.

Experience

  1. Advising an international FMCG business on all new senior hires, ensuring suitability, identifying risks and supporting onboarding to accelerate a successful transition into the business.
  2. Creating a high touch 1:1 leadership development assessment solution for an international FMCG to support their top talent within People and Culture to become true business leaders, developing their commercial and strategic mindset.
  3. Managing the design, implementation and annual delivery of an immersive development centre to support senior managers to transition from expert to leader with a professional services firm, supporting them to accelerate the growth of a pivotal population and future partners of the firm.
  4. Developing an organisational wide, values and behaviours framework for an international oil and gas organisation, enabling them to embed new ways of working, through a simplified, easy to interpret model suitable for everyone within the business.
  5. Developing a bespoke 360 tool for a large financial public sector organisation and delivering a programme of a 360 feedback and follow-on coaching to the top 350 leaders, supporting them to drive transformation within their business.