Established in 1993, our courses and consultancy services are inspiring and engaging as standard.
We want to understand your business, its performance and its needs, so that we can design training and development solutions that deliver tangible results and positive feedback.
Why We’re Different
We don’t pre-judge and we don’t presume. We get to know your business from the ground up and we build programmes that respond to what makes you and your people unique.
Who We Are
We’re a team of experienced people development consultants. Each of us has particular interests and expertise, broadening and deepening our offer. But we also focus on consistency – and each of our consultants is capable of delivering the full suite of Cedar services.
Lindsay Muir
MANAGING DIRECTOR
“Clear but fun, encouraging but challenging, engaging and optimistic!”
Lindsay works with business leaders to shape their vision and strategy, connecting people development with business success. In the training room Lindsay helps teams and individuals develop the confidence and skills they need to thrive in their roles. Challenging and honest, our clients value his commitment to changing people and businesses for the better. Perhaps that’s why he’s built so many strong, trusting and long-lasting relationships over the years.
Lindsay is a fan of mountain and road biking and walking in the mountains.
Alistair Gibb
SENIOR CONSULTANT
“Facilitator, trainer and coach!”
Alistair focuses on helping people become more effective in their roles – on enabling them to change and make change, by creating those light bulb moments of discovery through which we identify alternative ways to do things. He’s committed to raising the professionalism of management – and creating time away from business to think more strategically. In doing so, he helps businesses improve their performance through their people, by reducing stress and the time spent on solving problems. His training and coaching is engaging, interactive and challenging – but also creates a safe space to share ideas and distil best practice.
In his spare time, Alistair likes to think that his cycling justifies being such a foodie … but fears the truth might be closer to the opposite.
Phil Ingle
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“Business will improve when people develop new behaviours … and to do that they need to know what to do and why to do it.”
As an associate consultant, Phil helps businesses develop by improving the skills and knowledge of their people. He thinks of this as a process of developing a client’s competitive edge: Phil’s specialist area is finance, and his well-planned training generates improved financial results. Phil focuses on equipping leaders to communicate better, and organisations to express their goals more clearly. In this way, Phil can best identify who wants to learn what – and what gaps there are to fill. He makes this fun – there aren’t many people who can find the humour in a balance sheet, but Phil’s one of them (no, really!).
Outside of work, Phil has a set of diverse interests that encompass musical theatre, running, tennis and motorcycles. Between these hobbies and the office, we’re told he even sees his family sometimes!
Rob Kelly
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“In-depth experience in aligning business and people strategies in order to deliver stronger business performance.”
One of our associate consultants at Cedar, Rob has been an organisation development consultant for twenty-five years – so it’s not surprise that he has a rich and deep experience in transforming culture and performance with a range of clients. He has delivered senior leadership development programmes, and coached and advised leaders, from a wide range of industrial sectors – and across the globe, in the UK, wider Europe, Asia and the USA. Rob’s a particularly valuable coaching partner for senior decision-makers, and he has significant experience in working across cultures in post-change, post-merger and post-acquisition environments. He approaches all these challenges in a straight-talking manner, backed by a natural authority which is fed by an in-depth knowledge of his subject.
Beyond the office, Rob walks, runs and canoes… but in all honesty a good chunk of his free time is spent searching up and down for his escapologist Golden Retriever!
Richard Pheasant
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“An authentic and genuine trainer, who simply enjoys passing on skills, knowledge and information to help improve managers in what they do”
Richard has been training managers and leaders for the past 18 years in both the UK and the Arabian Gulf, helping them to improve their competencies and succeed in getting better results. He likes to keep his courses interactive, stimulating, and at the same time, practical. He has a great focus on leadership and in working with managers in this area, encouraging and developing them to be better at what they do. He has done this with managers from numerous companies and organisations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and London.
As well as management and leadership skills, Richard delivers a range of courses to help people develop their personal soft skills.
When he is not preparing and delivering training, Richard enjoys playing golf, watching rugby and soccer, and is often involved in leadership, teaching and local church community work.
Lindsay Muir
MANAGING DIRECTOR
“Clear but fun, encouraging but challenging, engaging and optimistic!”
Lindsay works with business leaders to shape their vision and strategy, connecting people development with business success. In the training room Lindsay helps teams and individuals develop the confidence and skills they need to thrive in their roles. Challenging and honest, our clients value his commitment to changing people and businesses for the better. Perhaps that’s why he’s built so many strong, trusting and long-lasting relationships over the years.
Lindsay is a fan of mountain and road biking and walking in the mountains.
Alistair Gibb
SENIOR CONSULTANT
“Facilitator, trainer and coach”
Alistair focuses on helping people become more effective in their roles – on enabling them to change and make change, by creating those light bulb moments of discovery through which we identify alternative ways to do things. He’s committed to raising the professionalism of management – and creating time away from business to think more strategically. In doing so, he helps businesses improve their performance through their people, by reducing stress and the time spent on solving problems. His training and coaching is engaging, interactive and challenging – but also creates a safe space to share ideas and distil best practice.
In his spare time, Alistair likes to think that his cycling justifies being such a foodie … but fears the truth might be closer to the opposite.
Phil Ingle
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“Business will improve when people develop new behaviours … and to do that they need to know what to do and why to do it.”
As an associate consultant, Phil helps businesses develop by improving the skills and knowledge of their people. He thinks of this as a process of developing a client’s competitive edge: Phil’s specialist area is finance, and his well-planned training generates improved financial results. Phil focuses on equipping leaders to communicate better, and organisations to express their goals more clearly. In this way, Phil can best identify who wants to learn what – and what gaps there are to fill. He makes this fun – there aren’t many people who can find the humour in a balance sheet, but Phil’s one of them (no, really!).
Outside of work, Phil has a set of diverse interests that encompass musical theatre, running, tennis and motorcycles. Between these hobbies and the office, we’re told he even sees his family sometimes!
Rob Kelly
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“In-depth experience in aligning business and people strategies in order to deliver stronger business performance.”
One of our associate consultants at Cedar, Rob has been an organisation development consultant for twenty-five years – so it’s not surprise that he has a rich and deep experience in transforming culture and performance with a range of clients. He has delivered senior leadership development programmes, and coached and advised leaders, from a wide range of industrial sectors – and across the globe, in the UK, wider Europe, Asia and the USA. Rob’s a particularly valuable coaching partner for senior decision-makers, and he has significant experience in working across cultures in post-change, post-merger and post-acquisition environments. He approaches all these challenges in a straight-talking manner, backed by a natural authority which is fed by an in-depth knowledge of his subject.
Beyond the office, Rob walks, runs and canoes… but in all honesty a good chunk of his free time is spent searching up and down for his escapologist Golden Retriever!
Nigel Dennis
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
“Simply training people to behave differently is insufficient. You have to develop underlying attitudes for sustainable change.”
Nigel’s our associate consultant who specialises in developing new mindsets and approaches, in order to bring about a change in the culture of an organisation. Typically, he might tackle collaborative approaches to negotiation, managing performance and change, or improving assertiveness and self-esteem. He focuses on making sure that these changes stick – by raising learners’ awareness of the business impacts of unconscious behaviours, he teaches skills … but also changes behaviours long-term. Sensitive and supportive, Nigel gives learners the chance to practice new behaviours and really bed them in.
When he’s not in the training room, Nigel spends a lot of time restoring his classic car, a Lotus Elan +2 from the 1970s. The car originally belonged to his late father and he last travelled in it at the age of 13!
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Alternatively, just give us a call Alistair 07718803664 or Lindsay 07711279658
