1. Andrew David Weston,
AFBPsS, CPsychol, MSc, BA, BSc, PGCE
Contact Details
UK Address: 16 Augusta Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 5RH
Tel: 02920 702950
Mobile: 07939 119472
Email: andrew@talentmatters.co.uk
Career History
An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Chartered Psychologist with significant
commercial experience and expertise in adding value to clients
Experience & Expertise in:
• One to one psychometric profiling, assessment and coaching of senior executives
and leaders.
• Design and delivery of competency based recruitment, assessment and development
centre processes.
• Leadership & People Development aligned with Business Strategy implementation.
• Development and delivery of wide ranging Talent Management and Change
programmes including executive coaching.
TALENT MATTERS LTD: Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales
Managing Director Aug 2004 to date
Background:
Talent Matters Ltd offers a wide range of assessment and development support from large scale
recruitment to high intensity individual ‘whole person assessment’ with the use of psychometric tests,
assessments of organisation and job fit and competency based interviewing. In addition, one to one
coaching, and organisation development are offered with particular expertise in working with
challenging groups to facilitate change in business, team and personal performance.
Achievements have included (in some cases on a sub-contractor basis)
• The one to one profiling and coaching of board members and senior managers within a subsidiary of a
multinational oil company, to establish the current strengths within the leadership team and the
potential for the company to meet growth targets.
• Work with a world leading professional services partnership (LLP) with the assessment of potential
directors and partners for the UK and European parts of the global operation.
• Extensive experience of Senior Management assessment in Malaysia and the Middle East: Working
with large oil and petrochemical companies with the delivery of challenging assessment centres aimed
at supporting company–wide talent management process for all leadership and management levels.
• Various Senior Public Sector and Third Sector Selection projects: Working with clients such as: The
United Nations, UK Ministry of Defence, the BBC and the Welsh Assembly Government to select new
directors and senior leaders.
• Lloyds TSB Projects: Piloted, provided improvements to and delivered a new talent identification
process for Lloyds TSB Wholesale and International Banking (W&IB). This included the delivery of
challenging workshops for all the directors and senior managers of the division, including delivery in the
Channel Islands, New York and Miami. Excellent feedback led to involvement in the design and
delivery of a two-day performance management programme with a view to improving the talent
identification and performance management skills of all directors and senior managers within the
division.
• AXA Sunlife, Identifying Talent Project: Working with AXA Life in Bristol. A development centre
process and follow up interventions were designed and introduced to identify middle managers ready to
move on to senior management.

2. MSc Occupational Psychology: Cardiff University
Full Time Student September 2003 to August
2004
Thesis research completed using a globally recognised motivational fit questionnaire:
Research into the possible links between a person’s ‘Motivational Fit’ (a combination of job and
organisation fit) were studied in conjunction with potential influences on an individual to ‘fake’ behaviour
and the effects on retention and absence.
TRAINING SERVICES WALES LTD, Bridgend, South Wales
Principal Consultant September 2001 to August 2003
Achievements include:
• Securing over £300,000 of business within the first year at TSW with major projects including:
becoming a key supplier for the Department of Work and Pensions ‘Leadership for Change’
programme, becoming an accredited supplier for the BBC and delivering leadership development
programmes within BBC Wales and the BBC Archives division in London.
• Supporting major organisational change within the Probation Service in the Midlands with the design
and delivery of a leadership development programme for middle managers, 1:1 coaching and
psychometric profiling for the ‘directors’ of the area (Chief Officer and Assistant Chiefs), and the
facilitation of effective team building for the senior team and wider management team.
CHARTERED TRUST LTD (A subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank and latterly Lloyds TSB Plc)
Leadership Development Manager July 1998 to September 2001
Achievements include:
• Design and delivery of leadership talent assessment and development programmes with associated development centres,
mentoring and external accreditation by Nottingham Trent University.
• Design and delivery of a performance management programme that supported improved management behaviour.
• Design and delivery of a modular leadership development programme that was accredited by the Institute of Leadership and
Management, and delivered in Cardiff, London and Bangkok.
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK Plc
Managing Consultant; Competency Development Unit January 1996 to July 1998
Responsible for:
• Design and delivery of competency based programmes accredited by the Institute of Management
• The design and project management of the banks graduate assessment and selection process.
• Graduate Induction Manager: responsible for client liaison and the leadership of a team to design and
deliver an induction/development centre and follow on leadership development interventions.
• Client liaison with responsibility for providing consultancy and project management services for key
business areas such as NatWest Financial Markets, Mortgage and Insurance Services.
Various lending related Relationship Management roles September 1990 to January 1996
Responsible for:
• Relationship Management roles within Corporate and Business Banking; working with businesses to
promote growth and development with the provision of best advice and support. This included the
assessment of businesses and their management teams in terms of assessing risk before agreeing
terms for bank funding.
• Achievement of sales and lending targets whilst maintaining effective levels of risk.

3. Qualifications & Professional Associations
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• Chartered Occupational Psychologist
• MSc Occupational Psychology
• BA (Hons) Psychology
• BSc (Joint Hons) Geology and Geography
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Qualified Secondary School Teacher)
• British Psychological Society, Occupational Testing – Level A & B+ (Intermediate)
• Accredited user of the following tests and instruments:
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI Step 1 and 2),
- 16PF
- FIRO B,
- FIRO Human Elements
- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS) and Hogan Motivation,
Values and Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
- OPP Benchmarks and Skillscope 360 feedback tools
- SHL OPQ32 and Motivational Questionnaire
- Saville Consulting Wave and Entrecode.
- Bar-On EQi and EQi 360
- NEO PI-R
- GPI
- Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI Level I & II)
- Talent Q – Dimensions
- Lominger VOICES 360 tool and competency framework
• Development Dimensions International (DDI) certified facilitator
• National Vocational Qualification, Assessor and Verifier Award (D32)
• Member of Association of Business Psychologists
• Founding Member of BPS, Special Group in Coaching Psychology
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development