Hodgens Global

Chief tax adviser at Hodgens Global providing international citizens with support on their personal UK tax matters.

Chief Tax Adviser

Created to support your tax reporting and compliance needs, regardless of location., Hodgens Global exists exclusively for the private individual who is obliged to declare worldwide income for taxation purposes. If you are planning to transition from one tax regime to another, or need guidance and tax agent support to manage your tax concerns, we are here to provide you with a dedicated service.

Director

EDA Professional Services Ltd

Specializing in US and UK expat taxation, providing a wide range of services including self-assessment tax return preparation and filing. Providing tax planning advice in full compliance with both IRS and HMRC guidelines and reporting requirements ranging from basic income tax to reporting on far reaching issues such as inheritance tax, trust taxation, capital gains and the territorial tax issues.

Senior Tax Advisory Manager

Various international companies

Following the great recession of 2008, there followed a tumultuous period of job changes as I tried to navigate a future in employment while maintaining a stable home environment for the family as an expat, working with many other expats in a similar situation.

Senior financial management and consulting services

Halcrow, a CH2M Company

A leading UK multi-disciplinary firm of civil engineering and infrastructure development specialists (later acquired by CH2MHill who were then acquired by Jacobs) where I oversaw a rapid period of growth in revenue, headcount and profitability in the region, with improved commercial management of projects and the working capital employed in these long term projects, building focused and improved relations with the banks, providing greater visibility of the business. Arranged banking facilities that led to improved trade finance deals, an increase of personnel in the region from 400 to 1,300 and tripling regional turnover. Continual long range forecasting and planning.

Regional Head of Finance - Middle East

V.Ships

A diverse international ship-management consultancy business overseeing several large scale acquisitions of the company during a strategic program of growth. Responsible for monthly and annual consolidated financial reporting and analytical reviews in co-operation with international finance teams throughout the group. Key successes included the sale of a UK based entity within the group, a new company set up for a JV with Radisson Seven Seas Cruises in the UK, in full compliance with CAA regulations, and a reorganization of Italian based entities into a tax efficient holding structure.

Group Financial Controller

Galaxy Energy Group

A privately owned $3billion trading business responsible for monthly executive reports of marked to market trading results, consolidated financial data for the group, with analytical reviews. Developed internal controls, finance teams and banking relations in Geneva, Monaco, Houston and Singapore.

Fisons plc

Initially appointed as Group Internal Auditor, based at head office in London, of this listed multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical/scientific equipment corporation, later assigned to a permanent role as the Nordic Financial Controller for the Group in Sweden where key successes included controlling a multiple currency transaction base to successfully protect the balance sheet, creating an effective management of the taxation issues arising on cross border transactions in the Nordic territory. Set up strong systems to ensure all after sales service activities of the high value instruments sold to universities and biotechnology companies were correctly monitored, reported and analysed - such as warranties, provisions for installations of the instruments and implementation of analytical software programs, stocks of spare parts, and working with the engineering teams providing the customer support.

Nordic Financial Controller / Group Internal Auditor

Sea Containers

Internal auditor, based at Group HQ, of this listed international container business with port operations throughout the world. Subsidiary activities included a leading passenger ferry shipping business, SeaLink, with operations between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express transport and hotel operations. In 1989 the shipping business was acquired by Stena Line which was later acquired by P&O, a company which has since been acquired by DP World.

Group Internal Auditor

CLB Littlejohn Frazer

Audit senior, with ICAEW training, at this City of London based firm of chartered accountants, specializing in Lloyds of London insurance syndicates and Members' agents. Other clients were engaged in large-scale freight forwarding operations.

Audit Senior

I like to provide solutions, to help expatriates progress with their lives and their careers without having any uncertainty about their tax position. I am happy that I get to resolve problems for so many people, and to resolve tax worries that needn’t have existed in the first place.

I am inspired by others who make a success from their opportunities to pursue an expat life. The Hodgens Global business was created in Scotland with the expats' needs for clarity and tax agent representation in mind. We now have a representative office in the UAE.

Hodgens Global represents an international client base providing tax advisory support, enabling them to be fully tax compliant, preparing and filing tax returns and advising on various taxation issues including capital gains, trusts and inheritance tax. We are client focused with a professional, international expat background. No matter where you are located, or the nature of your enquiry, you will receive courtesy, respect and swift professional assistance. 

Having been an expat for most of my career, I can relate to most of the concerns where people often need help.

Laurence Hodgens

Strengths Coaching Online

As your Strengths and Career coach I'll enable you to understand your strengths so you can do more of what energises you and less of what drains you, and thrive in your career.

Explore your strengths. Build your personal resilience. Create a successful career that fills you with passion and purpose.

💛 Gain clarity about what matters to you and how to create boundaries to protect that.

💛 Explore how aligning your strengths and values with your work leads to a more calm and fulfilling work-life.

💛 Understand how to find or create a career that enables you to flourish.

💛 Learn how to present your best self for your ideal opportunities (LinkedIn, CV, networking, interviews, etc).

💛 Be confident you'll make an impact in your career.

Strengths and Career change coach | Career Clarity | Career Change Sucess | Strengths coaching

Right Management

Enabling people to find or create a new career following redundancy.
💛 Connecting with strengths, values and what matters
💛 Clarifying skills and achievements
💛 Presenting your best self for career success and Life:Work balance
💛 Coaching to optimise your CV and LinkedIn profile, to network effectively and to successfully make an impact in your new role.

Associate Consultant | Career coach | Redundancy coach | Outplacement coach

Aviva

* Leadership development: facilitated development workshops for all levels of leaders (front-line to CEO) enabling effective Goal-setting, Performance management and Development for their people. Provided leaders with guidance and insight into interpretation and application of People policies aligned with organisation values and leadership behaviours.
* Wellbeing strategy: Analysed data to Identify mental health as greatest cause of absence; created learning solutions; coached people leaders in application of people-centred policies; led mental health awareness sessions; created intranet site with resources and forum; led delivery of wellbeing initiatives. Resulted in improved understanding of and support for mental health, better team cultures and lower absence rates.
* Worked with Directors on major transformation programme to identify high potential talent for programme roles; analyse engagement survey results and propose solutions; communicate changes to people to ensure maximum motivation; consulted with Staff Forum, Union and Employment Law team to ensure People changes were delivered effectively to enable business strategy.
* Analysed causes of demand into the People team; created and delivered training for people leaders to enable them to effectively interpret and apply People Policies, leading to improved engagement and performance.

HR Business Consultant | People leader coach, mentor and trainer | Leadership development

Worked in partnership with UK business units (circa 6000 employees) to enable learning to drive business performance.
Created new (centralised) L&D operating model, working with key stakeholders to understand business needs and most appropriate solution.
Managed L&D budget for Professional Qualifications and funded learning.
Created Professional Qualifications policy.
Delivered leadership development programme; gained Distinction certification from MindGym for facilitation skills.
Worked with TP providers.
Worked as part of a global team to share best practice.

HR Learning Partner | People leader | Learning & development | Leadership training 

* Recruited and developed the team; sustained high employee engagement through Strengths coaching, regular development and enabling autonomy and teamwork.
* Engaged and consulted with senior management to understand current and future business needs; and to gain sponsorship for programmes.
* Created Aviva Certificate in General Insurance and achieved Prior Learning Accreditation from Chartered Institute of Insurance, increasing achievement of professional qualifications while reducing professional qualification spend.
* Created progressive (beginner to expert) blended-learning technical development programmes and learning solutions to meet individual and business needs.
* Represented organisation with external stakeholders and partners; built network with competitors to share experience and learning.
* Created team brand including intranet site, newsletters, media communications and a ‘virtual team’ to improve engagement and utilisation.

UK & Ireland Technical Learning & Development manager | Career development | Coaching and mentoring 

* Capability development consultancy and advice with senior stakeholders and regional teams.
* Coached technical leaders to improve performance. 
* Coached and assessed technical leaders to achieve NVQ L3 in Coaching Skills

UK Underwriting Academy Capability Manager

Comercial Underwriter

JHP Training

Coaching and assessing of NVQ candidates in Coaching, Insurance, Customer Service and Office Administration

NVQ Assessor

Strengths and Career change coaching for people who want to be happy in their work and in their life 💛 | Strengths & values coaching > Career Clarity > Career Change Success

💛 Understand what work will make you happy and learn how to find, or create, it.

Understand your strengths, get really clear on your values and what matters to you, and harness your confidence to make the change you need. 

Three typical client scenarios:

⭐"I'm 40 and have a good career. I've worked hard for promotions and I'm really good at what I do. But it's not good for me. It's draining the life from me. I don't believe in this corporate BS and I want to do something that's more meaningful. But what?"

⭐️"I'm only 54 and after redundancy don't feel ready to retire yet. But, I'm tired of the corporate BS that comes with a senior role and can't face more of it. I want to do something I enjoy, with meaning and purpose. I have no idea what that is, or how to figure it out!"

⭐"I've had some experiences, in work and in life, that have knocked my confidence. 
I've lost my self-belief.
I've lost my enthusiasm. I'm constantly questioning what I'm doing, and my decisions.
I need to regain my confidence and my belief in myself."

Do any of these sound like you? 

It's common to not know where to start. To feel overwhelmed.

So I'm here to enable you get to where you need to be.

If you're just starting to think about what to do next, and not yet ready to invest in coaching use my free resources and blogs to get started.

If you want help to figure out your next move, see my website for full details of my coaching programmes and prices, and the free resources: www.strengthscoachingonline.co.uk.

You can also read lots of reviews from happy people I've helped 😊 

Why choose me as your strengths and career change coach?

⭐ In my corporate career (in Financial services and HR) my favourite work was coaching and mentoring people to understand their strengths and how to develop their careers.

⭐ I've been through redundancy, from the excitement of 'Yes, I'm doing this!' to 'Oh sh*t, what have I done?'

⭐ I've experienced burnout due to poor leadership and toxic culture and managed to regain my sense of self through reconnecting with my strengths, values and what matters to me.

⭐ I've successfully changed my own career, from insurance underwriting to technical L&D to HR and now to running my own business, while living the life I want to.

⭐️ I want as many people as possible to have access to strengths and career change coaching so my programmes are priced to be affordable.

If you want to be happy in your work, DM me.

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