Toni McLelland MSc FRSA

1st Life Group

A London based boutique business consultancy specialising in working with Third Sector, Social Causes, NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs. We are experienced troubleshooters and turnaround specialists assisting you to navigate change, crisis as well as business development for futureproofing. I have a particular passion for services serving vulnerable groups and young people as well as social impact, mobility and justice.

www.1stlifegroup.com | +44 (0)203 504 0250 | info@1stlifegroup.com
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Management Consultant- Social Causes & Social Entrepreneurship

Queen of Compassion - we work with organisations and businesses to become more Compassionate 
Explore our 7 step guide which includes an audit and action plan
Or get in touch if we can assist with our 4Ps approach (Purpose People Planet Profit (Performance)
https://1stlifegroup.com/services/the-compassionate-business/

Founder - The Compassionate Business and Compassionate Leadership

The Sporting Club

Member and Co Host of The Sporting Club Wales twice monthly 'Coffee Mornings' in Cardiff. Supporting the Vision and Mission of Sporting Club UK invited guests are able to join us for 'Coffee Conversation and Connection plus Co Work in our exclusive members lounge in Cardiff. Membership includes access to members lounges and exclusive events across the UK plus networking and business opportunities.

The Sporting Club | Wales Ambassador & Co Host | Member 

Careers Wales

Board Member and serving Committee Member for The Impact and Performance Committee
Promoting DEIB, Compassionate approaches, measuring impact and ensuring there are suitable opportunities for professional and business development in all communities across Wales

Non Executive Director

UK Government Wales/Llywodraeth DU Cymru

Business Mentor - Social Entrepreneur Start Ups

Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

Big Ideas Wales-Business Role Model. Speaker & Facilitator for Social Entrepreneurship and Start Up Programmes for schools, colleges and universities. Inspirational talks, workshops, business planning & Start Up advice with a focus on public interest causes

Business Wales - Start Up & Social Entrepreneur Programme

The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

Working at the heart of innovation with other changemakers and leaders who are catalysts for improvement and change in social causes.

RSA Fellow

ForbesBLK

Member

Business Advice Australia

Business advisor and consultant to Start Ups and Social Entrepreneurs with a particular interest in Social and Public Causes, Social Impact, Social Justice and Social Mobility.

Business Consultant-Start Ups & Social Entrepreneurs

G100: Mission Million

UK Chair - Business Consulting 

Della Leaders Club

Honorary Board Member & Business Mentor- Della Leaders Club- Risk & Crisis Management - Management Team | London
Mentoring, assisting and empowering social entrepreneurs with business- assessing risk and managing crisis

Honorary Board Member & Mentor- Risk & Crisis Management 

✨Critical Friend for C-Suite Leaders & Boards in Social Causes✨Change & Crisis Specialist✨Business Mentor for Social Entrepreneurs & Start Ups✨Queen of Compassion & DEIB Veteran with 30+ years wisdom & #TonisFairyDust✨

I'm a straight-talking Business Mentor / consultant with specialist knowledge of Social Causes. As a business turnaround specialist I assist boards & C-Suite to navigate crisis & embed change for sustained business growth. 

As Queen of Compassion DEIB underpins my work & I use my 5Ps (Purpose People Planet Profit or Performance) to futureproof business, this comes from years of strategic experience leading large multidisciplinary teams & multi-million-pound budgets in central government, PLC, private & charitable causes. 

SO WHY ME?

When you engage me as a business mentor or consultant, you get:

✨ 3 decades of strategic business experience in DEIB, criminal justice, SEND, disability, social care &  high-profile public critical incidents (e.g.London riots, Grenfell, bombings)  
✨Understanding of compliance, regulatory inspection, safeguarding & business continuity (most business mentors don't know these areas well)
✨A passion for social entrepreneurs to be paid for their cause
✨Appreciation of my unique 5 pillar assessment ‘BLEND’ Model, DEIB & Compassion for lasting results.

Working with larger businesses in organisational development i'm the safe, experienced lead having assisted household names such as, Coca-Cola, BBC, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, MIND & NHS. 

So yes, I’m the person you want on board in a crisis.! My clients describe me as a"critical friend" i'm compassionate, straightforward & described as Fairy Dust personified. 

Notable achievements include:

🎯Identified >£1 million uncharged fees in an audit for PLC company<2 weeks.
🎯An ‘outstanding’ inspection for The Ministry of Justice < 6 months in post
🎯Cut agency staff expenditure by 80k per month (£1 million loss per annum)<2 months.
🎯Delivered diversity training for the Met Police for Stephen Lawrence Macpherson Inquiry 
🎯Assisted a start up from minus deficit to £117k in 8 months

I take time to understand people whilst inspiring, supporting & empowering. Although working with larger corporations, I share my learning, experience & gifts with social entrepreneurs starting out on their journey.

SO ARE YOU :-

✔️An organisation requiring specialist advice or inclusive approaches
✔️Looking to develop business acumen to lead an organisation well or secure a C Suite| Board role 
✔️A social entrepreneur| Start Up wanting advice (ROI< 2 months)

Perhaps curious about my 'BLEND' Model or need some #TonisFairyDust? 

If you need a committed, compassionate business mentor or management consultant with decades of experience, making a difference & impact call +44 (0)203 504 0250

Critical Friend & Business Mentor - Social Causes & StartUps 

A London based boutique business consultancy specialising in working with NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs. We support business in DEIB, Social Impact, Social Justice, Social Mobility areas, and Public Interest Causes. In layman's terms it could be organisations, coaches and consultants who provide services for vulnerable groups e.g Disability, Specialist Education, Social Care and Criminal Justice. 

Work with us if you are:-

💎Organisation- navigating change, crisis, or need to introduce DEIB & Compassionate Leadership
💎Social Entrepreneur or Start Up- Looking to develop your service offer and gain clients
💎A Professional looking to advance professionally in this area to a C Suite or board role

When you work with us you will become a market leader differentiating you from the crowd, we will futureproof or grow your business with the application of the 4Ps People Purpose Planet and Profit (or performance) with clear strategies and practical assistance with support to gain clients and grow.

www.1stlifegroup.com | +44 (0)203 504 0250 | info@1stlifegroup.com

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The Selling Academy

The Selling Academy specialises in sales and sales leadership training, coaching and consulting. We understand that an organization’s survival is based on how well the sales and marketing team performs. Sales is the heart of the company and without a strong sales team, not only are profits lost but jobs as well.

And sadly, many times businesses fail because they either didn’t have a strong sales strategy, leadership or teamWe are passionate about everything called sales, and our mission is to make every team member fall in love with selling. We don’t only help your team members and executive team with their sales skills and strategy, but also mindset.  We will spend as long as it takes helping you achieve success, whether it’s through a one-day workshop, or spending a whole month consulting alongside you on the front line.

Founder and Director 

Employment Services Training

For the last 8 years we have been assisting employment practitioners to place more people into sustainable employment, as well as helping their jobseekers build the skills and confidence to gain employment.

From the employment practitioner’s perspective, we understand that although your job is rewarding, it has it's challenges. We get that it's nerve-racking to pick up the phone and make that cold call to employers. We get that many times your jobseeker would rather be somewhere else than sitting across the desk from you. And, we also get that it's not easy keeping someone in sustainable employment.

From the jobseeker’s perspective, we get that it’s not easy being unemployed. We understand the constant rejection is not helping your self-esteem. And, we also get that you’re probably feeling less than motivated to find a job.

That’s why we have created training and coaching programs that are tailored to both employment practitioners and their jobseekers.

Our workshops, coaching, and consultations have helped thousands of people across Australia with not only their skills, but also mindset.

To find out more about our training services you can visit out website www.employmentservicestraining.com or contacts us via email info@employmentservicestraining.com.au

Founder and Director (Lead Sales and Reverse Marketing Coach)

Sales IQ Global

Our mission at Sales IQ is simple – we want to change the world by helping people communicate more effectively. Communication is a key component of effective and successful selling, but as a sales tool, it’s all too often overlooked.

We also want to change the face of sales. No more pushy sales sharks in cheap pinstripe suits – no one likes those guys! Our approach aims to make the sales profession more authentic and conscientious, resulting in more sales for your business.

Sales IQ provides leading educational and consulting services. Our sales experts deliver bespoke solutions tailored to the individual needs of your business to boost your strategies, sales and staff development.

We are committed to providing unique and proven sales coaching and training solutions you won’t find anywhere else. But our partnerships with our clients go further than simple service delivery. Engaging Sales IQ means partnering with sales experts who are dedicated to understanding your business, engaging your team, and developing the right solutions for you

Sales IQ - Partner

Sales Masterminds APAC (SMA)

The SMA mission is to elevate the professionalism of B2B sales in the region.

SMA is a membership group. The members are leading thought leaders in business to business sales in the Asia Pacific region.

The ultimate SMA goal is to improve the value both buying and supplying organisations achieve through their commercial conversations.

SMA strive to achieve these goal by activities that include:

1. Promoting the thought leadership content produced by our members for the consumption of sales leaders and salespeople
2. Providing key note speakers for conferences and sales kick-of meetings
3. Conducting sales seminars
4. Providing a sales resource centre

The SMA is operated in association with the Strategic Selling Group

http://www.smamasterminds.com

Member and Contributor

Sellingfornonsalespeople.com

Each day technically brilliant and smart people are hired to do great things in their jobs. But then comes the dreaded sales part, when they are expected to hit those KPIs and targets, without having been taught how. An IT Consultant at a consulting firm may have all the necessary skills to analyze how computer systems work within a company. But do they have the necessary skills to negotiate a deal once they make it to partner? A recruitment consultant may have the people skills but needs to know how to pick up the phone and market their job seeker. Or an entrepreneur who just quit a secure job and has to go out and hustle.

This is not your typical sales coaching training where it just teaches you sales techniques but digs deeper into the core issue, which all starts with mindset. We teach you psychological and NLP techniques in how to deal with rejection, resilience and develop the mindset to set you up for success. As well as all the sales and communication techniques which will drive growth, whether it's through your own business or KPIs at work.

This 30-day online program was designed specifically for those who are not your typical sales people but may have to sell, build relationships or influence as part of their job.

WHO WE WORK WITH
Management Consultants, Mortgage Brokers, Real Estate Agents, Recruiters, Financial Advisors, Accountants, Entrepreneurs, Case Managers, Consultants, IT Personnel, Engineers, Bankers, Stock Brokers, C-suite execs, Lawyers, Partners, and anyone who needs to sell themselves, idea, people, services, or products to others. 

But most importantly, we don’t believe in knowledge collection, but implementation and results. 
Get in touch to find out more at info@limitlessminds.com.au or by calling (02) 8007 5857

VP of Sales

PwC Australia

PwC is one of Australia's leading professional services firms, bringing the power of our global network of firms to help Australian businesses, not-for-profit organisations and governments assess their performance and improve the way they work. Having grown from a one-man Melbourne accountancy practice in 1874 to the worldwide merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998, PwC Australia now employs more than 6,000 people.

Pursuit Program & Account Development, Clients & Markets

KPMG Australia

KPMG are a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services across a wide range of industries, Government and not for profit sectors. KPMG Enterprise provides a full range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of mid-sized, fast growing and family owned businesses.

We operate in 155 countries and have more than 174,000 people working in member firms around the world. The KPMG network is coordinated by Swiss cooperative KPMG International (KPMGI). 

In Australia, KPMG has a long tradition of professionalism and integrity, combined with our dynamic approach to advising clients in a digital-driven world. We have approximately 6,700 people, including over 400 partners, with 13 offices around the country.

National Trainer - Sales and Leadership (contract)

Settlement Services International

Settlement Services International (SSI) is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing a range of services in the areas of humanitarian settlement, accommodation, asylum seeker assistance, foster care and disability support in NSW. Formed in 2000, SSI is also the state-wide umbrella organisation for 11 Migrant Resource Centres and Multicultural Services across NSW. 

SSI is the largest not-for-profit humanitarian settlement organisation in Australia, servicing about 12,000 clients per year on refugee and bridging visas.

Learning and Development Advisor

Shaw Trust

Learning and Development - Reverse Marketing & Sales

CDG is a leading welfare to work charity with nearly 30 years’ experience in helping those who are unemployed find and sustain employment. 

Many of the people CDG supports have multiple barriers to employment including a lack of recent work experience, disabilities, health problems and a lack of relevant employability skills. 

CDG supported 27,000 people on their journey into work during 2010/11, from 26 centres. 

CDG started delivering the coalition government’s flagship Work Programme as a prime contractor in London East at the beginning of June. In alliance with international welfare to work provider MAXIMUS, we are also delivering the Work Programme in London West and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and are a delivery partner to Avanta in Sussex. 

In partnership with WISE Employment, CDG is a Work Choice prime provider in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, responsible for delivering employment support to people with disabilities. 

As part of its charitable and public benefit, CDG launched the Expert Volunteer Initiative in 2010. This national scheme aims to sign up 50,000 volunteers across the UK to support the long term unemployed back into work 

To find out more about our service provision and quality, contact us at info@cdguk.org or by calling 020 7811 3131.

Specialties
Job Search, Job Brokerage, Work Experience Placements, Environmental and Community Placements, Vocational Qualifications, Information Advice and Guidance, Pre-employment Training, Motivational and Confidence Building, Work Programme

Reverse Marketer & Employment Consultant

MTC Australia

Recruitment Specialist

Sales Trainer - TEDx Speaker - Founder & Director - Keynote Speaker - Writer - Founder

Although i've has a succesful career in sales, I also had a natural ability for teaching and coaching salespeople and non salespeople into changing their behaviour and taking action. For the past 10 years, I have worked with many sales and non salespeople who either had difficulty hitting their sales quotas, feared sales, were burnt out, or simply did not enjoy it. Through specific tools, I have been able to turn most sales teams around and help individuals fall in love with selling. 

One of my favourite things to hear when coaching individuals, is when they tell me how much they are now enjoying picking up the phone and making cold calls. Yes I've heard this so many times.

I focus on creating learning that sticks. But most importantly, I understand and apply the principles of change management to my training, because without change, the learner will simply walk out of the training not feeling inspired to implement the learning.  
 
What people are saying:

"Due to the advice in this course, we managed to sign a 1.2million$ deal, just by being more confident, by listening to the client's need, let the client express more than us. Some advice given in this course is literally worth gold. A big thanks Rana and Michael for the effort, hope this course will help many more people. Very well recommended!!!" Assaad Moawad - Head of Machine Learning Data Things

"Rana's course has helped me immensely in my career as well as personal life. By using her course and guidance, I was able to hit 103% of my target in my first quarter of my new job. Besides the obvious results, it has also helped me become a more confident person in my sales career and my personal life. I would recommend this course to anyone who is starting out in Sales." Nadun Hettiarachchi - BDR - Oracle 

"I am far more confident in picking up the phone, building relationships with our clients and closing deals. I definitely recommend The Selling Academy for sales training, even if you are not a salesperson, the skills and knowledge you will obtain will be next to none!"  Rowena Irvine - BDM - Inspect Real Estate

"Your training has really taught this old dog some new tricks! I got 3 employment placements during covid last month." Sean Kemp Employment Consultant - Campbell Page

"Amazing sales training! It helped me work on my sales skills and get business opportunities I ever imagined. Rana is excellent!" Carla Fuentes BDM Polaron

"Rana is one of the best (if not the best) marketers I have seen in my 11 years." Nathan Nute
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