Career Advice in London

Simon Broomer

Simon Broomer, CareerBalance Founder and Director

Simon is a career planning and a job search specialist. He uses a combination of professional counselling skills, expert guidance and coaching to ensure you can make informed decisions and take the action you need to progress your career.

Simon holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Career Management and Counselling from the University of London.

He has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of career management and people development. He has worked as an associate with leading career management consultancies. He qualified and practiced as a solicitor.

Simon’s career includes training, people development and sales and marketing roles. He has worked for Pearson Plc, Herbert Smith, Chase Manhattan Bank, the NHS, SpeakFirst Training and Reed Elsevier plc. His clients come from all backgrounds, occupations and sectors so he has a wealth of knowledge about the modern job market and new careers which means that he is able to offer first hand practical career advice to his clients.

Simon's comments on how to manage your career appear in the Career Section of the Times.

David Pullinger , Executive Career Coach and Advisor

David Pullinger is a qualified coach with experience as an HR Director in Thorn EMI and with Legal & General, where he was Head of the Talent Programme. Since 2001, he has developed his own business and also works part time for Imperial College Business School as a Career Coach and Adviser, working primarily with MBA students.

David has recently consulted with Zurich Insurance, Norwich Union and Sesame as well as regularly helping a firm of Executive Search Consultants with psychometric profiling, and working with a range of SMEs.

He is particularly interested in how careers can be built to ensure they provide us with real meaning and fulfilment, and he continues to do research in this field.

Suki Bahra , Career and Job Search Coach

Suki is a Law graduate (LLB Hons.) with over a decade of working with lawyers and executives as a recruiter and headhunter. Suki also worked in a leading US law firm as a Legal Recruitment Manager, responsible hiring fee earners.

Suki has a natural interest in assisting individuals to reach their potential in both their careers and in their lives as a whole. She is a qualified coach and has assisted a range of individuals including lawyers, business leaders and well-known celebrities to achieve their goals. She was a featured coach in “The Apprentice Magazine”.

Suki’s approach is fresh, insightful and very practical. Having worked in roles which incorporate the full recruitment process Suki draws on an invaluable depth of practical experience when working with clients.

Linda Aitken

Linda Aitken BA, Pre-Retirement Planning Specialist

Linda Aitken has followed a career with Marks & Spencer plc, has specialised in advising individuals as they make career and life transitions, particularly as they approach the second half of their lives. She is passionate about helping people to be well prepared as they approach retirement.

Linda is a skilled facilitator and communicator with a unique blend of commercial and personnel expertise. She has worked throughout the UK and also in the Far East. This has enabled her to gain experience in this arena for over 15 years.

Her experience has been gained working with major organisations in both the public and private sectors. She coaches individuals and groups on pre-retirement issues.

Rosaleen McNeill, BSc MBA LicCIPD, Career Consultant, based in Glasgow

Rosaleen McNeill is a trained Career Consultant and behavioural profiler with over 18 years’ experience in Career Management and in Recruitment.

As a science graduate Rosaleen started her career as a Pharmaceutical Research Scientist. In 1999 she completed an MBA at Strathclyde University and co-founded Scientific Staffing Solutions, a recruitment business dedicated to the placement of scientists.

Rosaleen has worked with individuals in commercial organisations and in academic institutions in Scotland to develop and to realise their professional and personal potential.

She also works as a Business Advisor on the Young Enterprise Scotland initiative encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit amongst pupils in schools. 

She is based in Queen Street, Glasgow

Jan Dalgleish

Jan Dalgleish is a qualified Career Management & Human Resources professional with over 20 years’ experience.

Jan holds a BA in Education from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a MSc in Career Management and Counselling from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research project was a qualitative study on “What are the motivations of transactional lawyers to remain in private practice?”

She has worked mainly in professional services organisations, including international legal and accountancy practices.  She continues to develop her interest in career motivation and its link into individual and organisational performance.

Paul Kite

Paul Kite

Paul Kite has an MSc Career Management & Counselling from Birkbeck, University of London. He has held senior HR roles across a wide range of sectors and organizations (Ford Motor Company, Whitbread PLC, Mecca and Aviva PLC). He has worked extensively with managers across most disciplines with a focus over the last seven years upon IT and facilities management.

In addition to coaching managers through career challenges within dynamic, commercial environments Paul has a particular interest in leadership development.

Tracey McEwen

Tracey McEwen BA (Hons)

Tracey McEwen is an experienced Careers Consultant. Her main area of expertise is Marketing, Media and Advertising. She spent a number of years working in marketing departments for companies including British Airways Airmiles and Reed Elsevier. Tracey also spent time as an account handler within integrated advertising agencies specialising in financial services and retail businesses.

Tracey has joined CareerBalance’s panel of experts, offering specialist advice and guidance to our clients.