WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY ABOUT US
Our clients are happy to provide testimonials for our work. However, many public sector organisations have a general policy of not providing open testimonials, although our public sector clients have offered to provide references for our work specifically on request.
If you are interested in references for Wildcat One from one or more of our public sector clients, please contact us directly.
Client Testimonials
‘Pat Tomlin has acted as a consultant to Cairn since 1997. She has high integrity, is discrete and always offers wise, direct and meaningful counsel. Her ability to provide an individual and impartial source of advice, as an adjunct to our own internal Human Resources Department, has been invaluable to the Group over the years’.
Sir Bill Gammell, Chief Executive, Cairn Energy PLC
‘Every organization needs a Pat Tomlin! She embodies a powerful mixture of common sense, razor sharp insight, energy and enthusiasm. Put this together with her vast knowledge of human resource and business issues and you have a first rate adviser. She is dependable and operates with openness, honesty and integrity. A rare star performer who I would happily recommend to anyone who may need her’
Kevin Hart, Chief Executive, Bowleven Oil & Gas Plc
‘The work was conducted professionally, very thoroughly and her findings were on the button. The recommendations were challenging, robust and well constructed, practical and full of common sense. We have now acted on the recommendations in Pat’s report and GCMB has benefited significantly as a result. A first class piece of work from a trusted advisor’.
Scott Taylor, Chief Executive, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau
‘Pat Tomlin worked with us filling an unexpected void in our HR resource. Pat did this both at a fast pace and very professionally. She handled a number of demanding situations extremely skilfully during this period. Additionally she put the building blocks in place to start the reshaping of our HR function to become more business facing. Without her first class input, members of the Senior Management Team would have had to divert significant amounts of their time to cover this area.’
John Brodie, CEO, Scotmid Co-operative Ltd
I really enjoy working with Pat. I recommend her very highly.
I have worked with Pat at Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and most recently Glasgow Cultural Enterprises. Each assignment involved complex change management requiring Pat to advise on how best to successfully navigate through significant business re-engineering and union negotiations in very sensitive and legally challenging HR environments. Pat’s client based approach meant that by working closely with the Executive Teams she added significant value by bringing relevant, people-focused and excellent technical experience to the challenges to help create clear, focused and workable strategies that were legally compliant, sensitively handled, politically acceptable and with outcomes that met all the key stakeholders’ requirements.
Peter Winckles, Acting Director Glasgow Cultural Enterprises Ltd. (now part of Culture & Sport Glasgow Ltd)
Wildcat One has worked with Ignis on a couple of discrete projects, most recently being a cost reduction programme. We believe the leadership and advice were invaluable in cutting through the issues and realising our required outcome within very tight timescales.
Ian Paterson Brown, Chief Operating Officer, Ignis Asset Management
Following a number of changes in our Management Team we involved Wildcat One to work closely with us, to great effect, to ensure that our management changes were cemented and we achieved a cohesive approach to developing an effective and integrated team, with greater clarity of purpose. The results were better cost control, increased turnover and improved profits.
Alan Burns, Director, Scottish Ports Division, Forth Ports Plc
The design and implementation of the research was excellent, taken well beyond the brief and it was delivered on schedule.
Marcus Sangster, Head of Land Use and Social Research, Forestry Commission
Right from the start staff from Wildcat took the time and trouble to find out exactly what it was that I was seeking to achieve from the development workshop for my team. Keep up the excellent standards. I hope to be in a position to use Wildcat One again in the future’
Ian Speed, Head of Global Operations (OPW), France Telecom
'The best management course I've been on'.
Damian Pender, Project Manager, Global One Communications Ltd (now part of Orange).
Wildcat are first class. I always enjoy working with Pat and her team. Wildcat helped Streetwork UK to drive through important changes and to support staff in the process.’
Tam Hendry, Director, Streetwork UK
We needed a facilitator at the time who would help us to face difficult decisions at a time of great change in the organisation. Pat proved brilliant in this role and helped us to explore some painful areas and move on to plan a brighter future for the organisation. We are reaping the benefits now, as Crew goes from strength to strength.’
John Arthur, Director, Crew 2000
Coaching:
It is lonely being at the top of an organization (no matter how large or small), so having somebody to talk to who came from a neutral but knowledgeable position was reassuring. Pat does not tell you the answers - she creates space in your head and coaxes you to come up with solutions. It is a great service and one I would recommend to anybody who has a new job or is struggling with issues in their existing role.
Marian Austen, MD, Nevis Range (client of the IoD SME Coaching Programme)
Wildcat One has been an excellent training and development resource for Scottish Ballet, particularly valuable for their one to one coaching with managers who have challenges to overcome. Pat remains our first port of call for a range of key HR services.
Fred Emden, Deputy CEO, Scottish Ballet
