Doug MacKie

Doug has over 18yrs experience as an organisational and clinical psychologist, working in both in UK and Australia. He worked in a number of senior health service positions both in management and service provision prior to moving into organisational consulting. Recently, he has provided a range of organisational services to leaders and senior managers within several of the FTSE 100 companies in the UK, including leadership development programs, executive coaching, selection of senior managers, identification of high potential employees, career development programs, 360 feedback and identification of organisational competencies.

His qualifications in both organisational and clinical psychology have helped to shape his focus on increasing the performance and well being of both the individual and the organisation. He has a particular interest in the effects of positive and negative emotions on job performance and the development of leadership and coaching capabilities in senior executives. Doug has recently been involved in projects to identify and develop the characteristics of high potential senior managers within the financial services, FMCG and Retail, Health and Public sectors. Companies Doug has worked for in the identification and development of leadership and management capabilities include Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, Standard Life, Diageo, Mercer and Rio Tinto. As well as being directly involved in executive assessment with the above organisations, Doug has extensive experience in constructing coaching and development planning interventions around the organisation’s capability framework.

Local clients in Queensland include companies in both the public and private sectors, in the health, financial, local council and local government areas. He has recently worked effectively for multi-national FMCG’s from 2000 to the present primarily conducting executive assessment, development planning and coaching to senior executives in UK, Ireland, Australia, Thailand, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. In addition to providing 1:1 executive coaching, he has helped facilitate numerous high performance coaching program designed to teach senior mangers the key competencies involved in coaching others towards increased performance.

His key areas of expertise include:

- Executive Coaching using behavioural and evidence-based methodology
- Executive assessment and development planning
- Leadership development for senior managers
- Identification and development of high potential employees
- Design and delivery of assessment centres from Senior Managers to Graduate recruitment
- Development of competency profiles and assessment techniques to support management development
- Design and delivery of development centres across all levels of organisations.
- Psychometric assessment and feedback
- Building coaching capability within an organisation through coaching skills training

His qualifications and professional memberships include:

- Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Honours) 1988: University of Edinburgh.
- Master of Clinical Psychology 1991: Manchester University
- Master of Organisational Psychology, 1999: City University
- Registered Psychologist in Queensland, member of the Australian Psychological Society and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
- Founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists,
- Member of APS Coaching Psychology SPIG,
- Founder member of the BPS Coaching Psychology Group,
- Chartered member of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI)

He is qualified in Level A (Ability) and B (Personality) Certificate of Competency in Occupational Psychometric Testing and licensed to use amongst others, the Hogan Personality Inventory and Hogan Development Survey, the MBTI, the FIRO-B and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ).

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