Meet Antonia
After earning a degree in management sciences at UMIST, I began my career with Mars Inc., where I built a successful track record in HR and Organisational Development, eventually becoming the Organisation Development Director for Mars Europe. Following this, I founded Wingivers, focusing on creating practical, actionable solutions to help businesses align their operations with their customer and shareholder promises. I’ve had the privilege of working with a diverse range of clients, from top teams at Mars Inc. to businesses in retail, B2B services, manufacturing, care homes, and the non-profit sector.
The best expertise, ideas, and challenges come from working collaboratively within teams and groups to achieve exponential growth and strategic goals. Fascinated by the world of work, especially the relationship between strategy and organisation, I’ve been driven to help organisations and individuals constructively work through challenges, elevating their businesses, leadership, employees, and lives.
My experience of running my consulting firm for over 20years, and three years of leading Vistage Groups has shown me the importance of balancing focus on both immediate needs and long-term goals. I’ve also discovered that a key factor in success is the energy, focus, and mindset of the senior leader, and the ability to support them through fluctuating challenges. Over the years, I’ve learned through trial and error how to optimize business performance—placing the right people in the right roles, making strategic decisions, and ensuring effective processes, all in service of a clear vision.
Outside of coaching and mentoring leaders, I serve as Trustee of the YMCA Trinity Group and Chair and Trustee of a Building Preservation Trust.
We hold open programmes for people working or wanting to work in a specified industry sector. The sessions give people the opportunity to understand and discuss how to be an exemplar in that area of work. The programmes normally take place over two days and there is the opportunity for a follow up coaching session back in your workplace
1. Attitude Of Service
In this workshop we bring to clear attention based on our collective experiences:
- what creates such an upbeat attitude of service effortlessly in us
- why it's so powerful when we receive it as a customer
- how to re create this game changing service attitude whenever we choose
- what this means for us personally, our team and our business
- The workshop is participative, fun, enlightening and potent immediately as well as for the long term.
2. Service Leadership – Self awareness and the capacity to win emotional loyalty in authentic, fulfilling relationships. The route to effectiveness for you, your people and your business
HERE IS A SELECTION OF BOOKS we have enjoyed. Some of the recommendations include reviews.
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Flawless Consulting Peter Block pub. Jossey Bass
The best book on how to be a good consultant based on a set of values and ethics that are what Wingivers aspires to live and deliver.
A Manual of Organisation Development – the psychology of change Clare Huffington, Carol Cole, Halina Brunning pub. Karnac Books
br> A difficult book to get hold of and whenever we've enquired they talk about reprinting it. This book is compact, setting out what organisation development is and the scope of the subject. This is coupled by attention to the role and practise of the consultant. It is written by practicing OD consultants and is well referenced
Images of Organisation Gareth Morgan pub. Sage
This book introduces and illustrates the notion of metaphor and its powerful effect on the way we see and make sense of organisations. It helps underline the power of language and the opportunity we have by using a variety of metaphors to help us look deeply at the organisational systems we work with.
Organization Theory: Selected Classic Readings D.S. Pugh pub. Penguin Business
This text sets out some of the originators of organisation theory, the basis of management theory today. People still refer to Taylor, Herzberg, McGregor's theory x and y – by reading some of the original texts you can see how our ideas about effective organisations have evolved and how the practice of management has evolved.
Organizational Culture and Leadership Edgar Schein pub. Jossey Bass
Schein has been a profound influence on us and our practice. In this book Schein makes the connection between the formation and development of culture in an organisation and leadership. It illustrates throughout the essential responsibility of senior management. If anyone was in any doubt who was responsible for the real and practical development of organisation effectiveness in any organisation – this firmly places it with senior management. [It is not human resources]
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
A fabulous reader for the practitioner in developing organisation effectiveness whether an external consultant or as a manager in an organisation. Packed full of ideas and material based on Senge's knowledge and practice. This book has not been surpassed as the consultant's practical handbook as to what to do next.