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𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗖𝗣 – 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 

Diane is a senior adviser to private equity portfolio companies.  She helps investors and portcos to deliver robust growth against value creation plans - including via post-merger integration.  She has a sweet spot in Tech-enabled B2B Services including Professional Services in the UK and EMEA.

Her experience includes:

- pre-deal MDD and post-deal operating reviews of portcos - eg for Blackstone, Mercia, Silverfleet, LDC, Rockpool, Foresight
- rapid recovery of post-merger integration and transformation, ahead of an IPO (backed by TPG)
- commercial risk analysis for a PE portco, triggering an exit via secondary buyout (backed by ICG)
- recovery of an off-shore proposition, re-positioning for growth ahead of a merger
- design and global rollout of a post-merger data integration model.

Her skills include P&L management, business strategy, sales, operations, business transformation, and change management – drawing on her experience in startups, scaleups and global business.

Founder

Career Coaching by Diane Blaxland

🚩 How will you know if my Career Coaching is right for you? Five quick signs: 

•	there is a gap emerging between your career and your satisfaction level 
•	addressing the gap is increasingly important to you 
•	there are risks if you do something, and risks if you do nothing 
•	you have some advice, but you want to take a wider, longer term view 
•	talking it through with an experienced executive feels like a good place to start 

#ExpertLeaders #Careers #PersonalDevelopment

Catalysis Advisory Ltd

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗘 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀:
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 (𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲)
🔺 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗚𝟮𝗖 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗕𝟮𝗚 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵

Business Advisor

Johnson Controls Inc

$5b EMEA region of $20b Business Services division of $40b Fortune100 listed company

Director Change Management, EMEA

Blaxland Consulting

Advising clients on operational and commercial change.

CPA Global

£100m global Business Services company, backed by Private Equity

Director Strategy

Williams Lea

£20m Division of this £1b global Business Services company, part of DAX30 company DeutschePost

Managing Director 

Clifford Chance LLP

£100m+ M&A practice of this £1bn global Professional Services firm

Head Business Development Operations

Blake Dawson Waldron

A$350m international Professional Services firm (now part of £1b Ashurst LLP)

Business Development, Sales & Marketing management

CEO & Founder Expert Leaders™ | Career Direction & CV Coaching | £1B PSF | $40B Fortune100 | PE scaleups | London Business School

I help professionals step into clarity, confidence, and growth - especially when navigating complex career transitions in challenging or unfamiliar markets.

My clients are technically brilliant, ambitious … and many are internationally experienced. They’re often MBAs, engineers, M&A/finance experts, consultants, lawyers, or technology & data/AI specialists. 

They're ready to step into senior leadership, but something isn’t landing. Their pitch isn’t quite resonating. The growth opportunities they seek feel just out of reach.

That’s where I come in.

With more than 10 years in senior leadership - including as Managing Director responsible for 550 people - I’ve led growth, transformation, and turnaround across organisations from under £10m to over $5Bn. 

I’ve advised private equity investors and portfolio companies on operations, building robust solutions to complex problems. 

And I bring that same level of focus, clarity, and strategic thinking into my coaching practice.

My sweet spot lies in tech-enabled B2B services - including engineering, data/AI, finance, legal, and consulting. 

Highlights of my work include: 

▪️Steering post-merger integration for a $6Bn PE-backed global professional services firm, resolving operational failures, client complaints, and transformation across 15 countries.
▪️Leading the recovery of a £1bn NHS Trust’s lab project post-dispute, bringing together investors, clinicians, scientists, suppliers, and engineers to co-create a viable solution.
▪️Delivering commercial risk analysis that identified a -70% risk to a target exit valuation for a PE-backed £100m B2B services firm, unlocking a £1Bn exit in under three months.
▪️Repositioning a struggling new BPO offshore (India) proposition for profitable growth, delivering 50% savings to the client in a new £3m contract while also tripling profit margins.
▪️Rolling out a post-merger Sales/Marketing/Finance integration model for a £1Bn global professional services firm across 30 offices in 20 countries, deployed to 4,000+ staff.

All of that senior experience now feeds directly into my career coaching.

Many of my clients are mid-career or post-MBA, and sense a need to reframe their narrative, sharpen their presence, and navigate a system that may not easily understand their value. 

We don’t just talk. We rehearse. We edit. We test. We build influence from the inside out.

Whether you're preparing for interview, pitching for promotion, or making a full pivot, I’ll help you to tailor your story, build trust, and move forward with strategic clarity.

🎯 Diane Blaxland

UNOPS

Major achievements:
- Successfully established Individual Contractor Agreement (ICA) Pre-clearance Services, a new centralized HR transactional service within the corporation.
- Served as a Project Manager for the design and implementation of the JIRA Portal.
- Applied statistics and visualization to present the team's workload and successfully secured additional resources.
- Identified bottlenecks in Provident Fund Services and worked closely with IT Group to resolve the issues.


Description of duties:
1. Provides leadership to the ICA Administration Team for 15,000 personnel in 187 countries:
- Guide and supervise HR Admin team (17 members)
- Supervises the coordination between UNOPS and the Provident Fund Provider

2. Support development of HR practices and policy development 
- Contribute to practice improvement, policy development, and related corporate HR initiatives to full compliance of HR activities with UN/UNOPS rules and regulations, procedures and strategies
- Undertake research on a range of HR-related issues
- Assist with projects in support of HR initiatives for attainment of business objectives in line with the corporate HR strategy.  
- Support the communication of HR policy changes and new HR initiatives to management, providing guidance as needed.
- Effective implement internal control, proper design and functioning of the HR management system, and HR business processes mapping 
- Establish internal SOPs

3. Effective human resources management
- Manage actions related to the HR activities 
- Manage, monitor, and track all transactions related to HR through ERP System
- Gather and report information on technical challenges
- Escalate policy queries for clarification and/or instruction

4. Knowledge building and knowledge sharing 
- Guide the development and maintenance of HR analytic parameters, dashboards and data to facilitate informed decision-making. 
- Synthesize lessons learned and best practices in HR

HR Senior Officer, Bangkok Shared Service Center (BSSC)

Major achievements:
- Used Google Looker Studio to monitor the team's performance in real-time.
- Coded in Google Apps Script to automate routine tasks and ensure compliance with the department's targets.
- Implemented new data validations to resolve persistent payroll issues.
- Contributed to the standard operating procedure (SOP) editing team to update the ICA Administration procedure in preparation for the United Nations Board of Auditors (UNBOA).
- Conducted various training sessions for colleagues, covering topics such as ICA Administration, G-Mail, Google Sheets, mail merge, and batch rename tool.
- Played a crucial role in the testing of the new supplier module, part of the Treasury Management System (TMS) project in 2020. Collaborating with my team, we tested more than 400 scenarios, identified and reported over 30 errors, ensuring a smooth transition for UNOPS to the new module.
- Streamlined internal tracking processes between teams, enabling the collection of data for future internal analysis.
- Conducted regular internal team meetings to ensure everyone was on the same page.
- Certified as a Competency-based Interview (CBI) panellist.


Responsibility:
- Assist the Team Lead in overseeing the day-to-day operations of the ICA Administration
- Support the efficient administration of contracts, benefits, and entitlements of UNOPS ICA
- Support in the implementation of HR strategies and procedures
- Support in the facilitation of knowledge-building and knowledge sharing

HR Assistant - Technical Focal Point, Bangkok Shared Service Center (BSSC)

Major achievements:
- Created a Certification of Payment (COP) tracking sheet using Google Sheets and inserted formulas to extract resource ID and position from contract numbers. I also developed filename formats for renaming processed COPs. Consequently, our team spent less time on redundant tasks, leading to significantly higher productivity.
- Accurately transited banking information data for 120 Myanmar personnel in 2019. Prior to May 2019, Myanmar personnel were paid by cheque. When the new Myanmar banking standard was implemented, I meticulously reviewed every personnel banking profile to ensure correct registration of information. This effort resulted in a seamless transition, ensuring all personnel were paid accurately and on time.


Responsibility:
- Administration of Individual Contractor Agreement (ICA) contract, and benefit entitlements
- Registration of supplier profiles in oneUNOPS ERP
- Responsible for processing contracts in oneUNOPS
- Initiate payments for retainer and lump sum ICA
- Assistance in the management of all aspects of ICA

HR Assistant, Bangkok Shared Service Center (BSSC)

Self-employed

Teach science and math. Both face-to-face and online via Skype.

Private Tutor

Wattanasuk International Co.,Ltd.

Major achievements:
-	Coordinate meetings and prepare documents for government bidding of Lat Krabang Inland Container Depot, Thailand (worth 1.33 billion USD)
-	Propose Bangkok bike-sharing project scheme to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
-	Be an intermediary to negotiate contracts between Thai Airways and Bridgestone Aircraft Tires 

Responsibilities:
Secretarial Part
-	Support Japanese Executive Director
-	Arranging visa, work permit extension, 90-days extension for the Director and his spouse
-	Make travel arrangements for executives
-	Greet and receive overseas visitors
-	Attend meetings and keep minutes 
-	Organize and schedule meetings and appointments
-	Translate technical documents in English-Thai-English
-	Conduct research as assigned
-	Prepare presentations or reports as assigned
-	Liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts

Sale Coordinator Part
-	Negotiate contract between Thai Airways and Bridgestone Aircraft Tires, Hong Kong
-	Coordinate with supplier to deliver customer satisfaction
-	Develop monthly sales reports
-	Produce various type of documents, charts, and graphs
-	Release orders to warehouse order pullers

Administrative Part
-	Coordinate meetings, conferences, and teleconferences
-	Coordinate assigned project
-	Prepare document for Thai government bidding process

Secretary to Executive Director and Sale Coordinator

Cal-Comp Precision (Thailand) Limited [泰金寶精密（泰國）有限公司]

Secretarial Part
- Arrange travel for executives
- Prepare presentation for weekly meetings
- Translate documents: English - Chinese –Thai

Coordinator Part
- Be a translator between Thai and Chinese staff
- Coordinate with Chinese manufacture to set up equipment code for factory expansion
- Coordinate with Human Resource department to support factory expansion

Procurement Part
- Process purchase order on company system
- Deliver company software training to Thai staff
- Maintain and register equipment on company ERP

Cost Center Part
- Do cost centre analysis in company ERP

Human Resource Part
- Update and maintain HR information as assigned
- Be a translator during interviews

Training
- Train Thai staff for using new company ERP

General Plant Manager Assistant

Dux Corporation Limited

Major achievements:
- Maintain company website using Joomla
- Set up internal accounting tracking sheets

Responsibilities:
- Analysing and investigating annual and monthly financial accounts
- Undertaking financial administration
- Liaising with managerial staff, colleagues, and clients
- Developing and managing financial systems/policies

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