About Us
LH Consulting is a small London based management consultancy founded by Lydia Hirst in 1996. At the heart of our offering is our desire to support, challenge, encourage and inspire our customers. We have developed long-term client relationships, dating back to the late 1990's, working with a selected team of associates - formally & informally. We deliver a broad range of consultancy and development services, offering specialist skills when required.
With our smaller private sector businesses, we help to secure funding when possible. In the last two years, we have accessed the Train2Gain Leadership & Management Fund for development activities. We will continue to try and secure further funding for future projects.
About Lydia (Director)
Lydia Hirst is an experienced management consultant. Her early business career was in a multinational petrochemical company working in sales & marketing, Quality, competitor analysis, business process re-engineering and planning. Since 1996, she has offered Quality, planning and HR consultancy to organisations from private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
A Certified Management Consultant since 1997; Quality adviser in Investors in People, ISO 9001 and Customer First adviser; an EFQM and Customer Service Excellence Assessor. Since 2005, she has been an approved ILM (Institute of Leadership & Management) Provider and in 2008 became an approved ILM Centre. In 2009, she became a Visiting Fellow of Kingston University. As of September 2011, she has also become Vice-Chairman of Guideposts Trust.
She works closely with the other two partners of the8group (Creative Connexions and Insight Business Development), Kingston University's Director of Centre for Corporate Partnerships; her associate Jane Marren; her marketing assistant Octavia Hirst and has recently re-established contact with London Excellence.
Starting this September, Lydia will be studying for a part time Masters in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University to supplement the practical experience she has in this area.