Introducing Antoinette Oglethorpe - Multi-Award-Winning Specialist in Career Management and Mentoring

Antoinette Oglethorpe is a multi-award-winning consultant, coach, speaker and author. She specialises in career management and mentoring. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. She is also an Associate Member of the Association for Coaching. She has published two books - Grow Your Geeks: A Handbook for Developing Leaders in High-Tech Organisations and Confident Career Conversations. Empower your employees for career growth and retention. Both books achieved number 1 Bestseller status on Amazon in their categories. Confident Career Conversations was runner-up Leadership Book of the Year in the Institute of Leadership Awards.

Empowering and Inspiring People to Realise Their Potential and Fulfil Their Ambitions
Unlike traditional career support which focuses on promotions and pay rises, Antoinette is passionate about enjoyability and employability. Her mission is to help people realise their potential and fulfil their ambitions so that organisations benefit from the increased productivity that results when people are happier at work. Antoinette has created unique models, tools and templates to help managers and employees have meaningful conversations about progression and development. These approaches are now being used by the World Health Organisation, NHS and government departments among others.

Freely Sharing Thoughts and Ideas
Antoinette founded her eponymous training and coaching company, Antoinette Oglethorpe Ltd. in 2012. Before that, she had 25 years’ experience as a Learning and Development Director for Accenture, Avanade and FTSE 500 companies. She frequently provides free resources to HR practitioners via her website. She speaks at events across the globe on subjects like the impact of mentoring and the importance of career conversations to engage, keep and develop leaders, among other talent development topics.