Profile
Nic Shugar is an independent Leadership Mentor and Organisation Development Consultant. He specialises in partnering with senior management to orchestrate, mobilise and engage their people in making strategy happen. Nic works with individuals, teams and organisations to facilitate the emergence of their potential and to help them identify and address barriers to increased performance. In addition, he has extensive experience in facilitation, coaching, executive team building and behavioural workshops, including enabling leadership for performance.
Nic's current client project has involved being employed at Heidrick & Struggles since March 2008 as the Director, Integration Programme EMEA. He has been charged with the operational leadership of the change management programme at the heart of the firm's strategy shift towards becoming a Leadership Advisory Firm, in EMEA.
He has 19 years leadership and organisation consulting experience helping clients across a wide range of industrial sectors, in UK, Europe and USA including: the Alexander Corporation, Barclaycard, British Petroleum, Cendant, Costa Coffee, DHL, Esporta, Homebase, International Masters Publishers, Johnson Controls, Ministry of Defence, Robert Dyas, Royal Mail, Segal, Sibson, Somerfield, Soros, Symrise, TGI Fridays, The Pensions Trust, Threshers, Whitbread, and WH Smith.
Immediately prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, his major consulting project was the facilitation of a "Good to Great" journey for a subsea engineering department, supporting the transformation of this technical function by articulating clear purpose, direction, strategic alignment and ensuring buy-in. He also supported internal performance management procedures and the adoption of a project programme approach to help ensure the function could deliver the tactical while continuing to develop strategically.
He collaborates solidly with broader human capital disciplines to strengthen the value of total reward and talent strategies, working with actors, artists, horse whisperers and outdoor challenge providers in order to maximise impact within client systems. His MSc dissertation (Surrey, 2002) researched the issues and challenges facing internal consultants in the professional service firm environment and current doctoral studies (Ashridge) seek to explore the value of consultants applying what they do so well for clients, upon themselves.
He has over 22 years line management experience of leading and training teams and departments up to 150 strong, through military reserve service with the British Army, mainly with Airborne Forces. Previous work includes several years as a Solicitor in private practice.
Nic's favourite "job" is, however, being Dad to two small boys. He enjoys mountain walking, field archery, Rugby Fives (joints permitting!) and "twitching".