What our clients say about us

Melanie is the most networked person we know with connections in all continents - without fail she has provided us with executive credible, experienced consultants [often more experienced than we had any right to expect] frequently by return of email, and if not immediately to hand has responded to the challenge of the search spending time and effort on our behalf to identify, vet and brief consultants. We are very grateful for her support.

Anton Fishman
Director
Corporate Insights Limited
www.corporate-insights.org

Wow! - when it comes to connecting people, these guys are the gurus.
The Mind Gym specializes in 90 minute bite-size workshops on a range of subjects, from Creativity to Stress management and Influencing people. All of our workshops are run by our network of freelance trainers, or "Coaches."
To be an effective Coach for these bite-size workouts requires a specific set of skills and as a result we have developed a detailed behavioural competency framework with which we assess all potential Coaches. Melanie has not only clearly understood our style and vision, but also fired up native language speaking facilitators across the US and Europe to tryout for The Mind Gym Assessment.
We have just come back from a hugely successful launch in the US - we could not have found such a high quality pool of local US Coaches without Melanie's dedication, organisation and match-making flair.

Debbie Taylor
The Mind Gym
www.themindgym.com

We are a cross-cultural management consultancy and training company. We are based in the UK but often deliver world-wide – in fact wherever our clients need the training to be delivered.

When looking for appropriately experienced and skilled internationally based consultants and trainers to assist us, Melanie always comes up with the best people and in the shortest time imaginable. She has never failed any brief we have given her – but in fact always gone much further in her quest to deliver excellence.

We thoroughly recommend Hollinshead & Co to anyone who is looking for the right people, in the right place with the right set of skills and experience.

Richard Cook
Global Excellence Ltd
www.global-excellence.com

BayGroup International is a global training and consulting organization that partners with corporate executives to improve shareholder value and ensure a significant return on investment. Our success depends on our ability to provide our services to worldwide clients in multiple regions and in numerous languages. Hollinshead & Co assists us in being truly global, providing high quality instructor resources to meet our client's delivery requirements. Our experience working with Melanie over the past few years has given us a high level of confidence that we can meet our clients' implementation needs without sacrificing the quality our clients have grown to expect from us - and that has made a world of difference. Thanks Melanie!

Bob Rehfeld
BayGroup International
www.baygroup.com

The Selling Trade is a consultancy and sales training company that makes significant performance difference to sales teams by focusing on the physiological and emotional connections between the buyer and seller.

When deciding with who to partner I look first at the un-stated but felt reaction to our meetings. It’s very clear to me that Melanie’s priorities are in looking after her clients by providing the best possible resources who share her passion for professionalism and dedication to the task.

I too have no hesitation in recommending Hollinshead & Co.

David Batup
Selling Trade
www.sellingtrade.com

"Melanie has always been friendly, professional and extremely efficient. Her service to us is excellent. I have no fears about recommending her".

Tony Sharpe
International Director
Huthwaite International
www.huthwaite.co.uk

QED is a strategic, multi-functional, management development and training consultancy with an unusually wide spread of clients across the world in both the public and private sectors. Hollinshead & Co have been totally focused in responding promptly to our occasional requirements for additional, qualified, multi-lingual resources for specialist projects. We have been delighted, not just with their range of resources, but also their customer focus and detailed understanding of our needs, together with their speed of response which has been exceptional.

Jeremy Thorn
Chairman
QED Consulting
Doncaster, England
www.qedconsulting.co.uk

SSI is a sales and sales management training company, specializing in high-tech sales - primarily software. Our success in the US led to demand for our programs throughout the world. For years we provided sales training around the world by sending Americans to do the training. This approach worked when we were small - because our research based selling system works. But, while the message was strong, half of effective sales training is the messenger. Tapping into Melanie's stable of talented trainers took our ability to service our clients to a new level.

Steve Kraner,
Sandler Sales Institute

We at PMSL are delighted to recommend the services of Hollinshead & Co. We frequently require European trainers and consultants at short notice and are constantly amazed at the swift response from Melanie and her team. The high calibre of her consultants together with the level of customer service received, means we do not need a second option when looking for additional resources.

Tracey Sainsbury,
PMSL Europe.

Hollinshead & Co sourced a multi-lingual team of consultants around Europe for an international training project run by Angel Productions(specialist producers of off-the-shelf video resources about equality and diversity at work). The consultants were all of excellent quality, and Melanie Hollinshead's service was speedy, friendly and effective: does exactly what it says it does on the tin!

Stephen Engelhard
Angel Productions
www.angelproductions.co.uk