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We are committed to providing the best possible services to our customers and are confident that our programmes will help them reach their goals. Get in touch with us today to learn more about how we can help you enhance your team and grow your business.

Empowering Growth: Enhancing Careers, Wellbeing, and Performance through Skills and Knowledge Development

We are passionate about developing individuals, teams and businesses to gain the skills and knowledge that enhance careers, wellbeing, performance, collaboration and commitment. Skills and knowledge that are relevant both personally and professionally. A study by Deloitte found that people who completed a leadership development program were 21% more likely to be promoted within 12 months.

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  • Darrell McLennan Fordyce

    Founder

    Darrell McLennan Fordyce is a leadership development expert with a diverse and accomplished background. He is the founder of FEED Consulting, where he leverages his extensive experience in both the military and commercial sectors to help develop high-performing teams and compassionate leaders in both the commercial and sports worlds.

    Before founding FEED Consulting, Darrell had a rich career that included serving as an army officer and holding senior leadership roles in major global organisations and various sectors, including positions with telco giant Orange, the NBA, and global marketing services group WPP. He also served as Managing Director for consumer and finance start-ups. His work has involved large-scale international projects, such as the Camel Trophy in Mongolia, the BT Global Challenge and Volvo Ocean Race.

    In addition to his corporate work Darrell is a qualified leadership coach, a Fellow of The Institute of Leadership, NLP practitioner and Compassionate Leadership Academy (CLA) Associate. His coaching and leadership programs have impacted a wide range of clients, from NHS Trusts to sports teams, CEOs to newly promoted managers, demonstrating his empathy, versatility and ability to influence across sectors, organisations and levels.

    Emma Ward

    Associate

    Emma Ward is a business leadership specialist with 25+ years’ experience, most recently as European Managing Director of the leading the brand and innovation executive search firm, The Talent Business. Here she helped senior leadership teams including apple, Channel 4, Saatchi & Saatchi and Ogilvy build transformational teams and leaders capable of driving innovation and delivering strategic and commercial impact.

    Prior to this, Emma worked at high profile advertising agencies Publicis and Farm, as well as the brand consultancy Banc in Managing Director roles. She has seen first-hand that business, people and team growth come from ensuring excellence in leadership. She is an avid promoter of the value of Emotional Intelligence providing the basis for quality leadership, team building and collaboration.

    Emma is a former national league hockey player, now playing ‘masters’ and winning the National Championships in 2022. She was also national swimmer and was back in the water recently to win the 2023 Serpentine Swim for her age-group.

What Our Clients Say

Testimonials

“FEED’s focus and empathetic delivery to early career talent is critical in building skills and capability, resilience and a culture of collaboration and inclusivity, that’s too often overlooked.”

“Darrell is a great guy to work with, always demonstrating the highest of personal and professional standards. He was able to influence people with his great attitude, personality and clear strategic thinking, followed by the brilliant ability to connect with our teams.”

"Feed Consulting delivered effective solutions quickly ensuring we were able to build and deliver an engagement plan that saw an immediate positive change in teams and their leaders. Darrell’s excellent counsel is appreciated by all.”