Cadbury Schweppes plc

'Over the past 10 years, Cadbury Schweppes has developed a strong relationship with YSC.  Starting with an assessment of our Global Leadership Team, we now work with YSC on a number of fronts including new hires and high potential assessment, 360 degree feedback, and career development.  YSC is a highly professional organization who understand our needs and share our values.'

Bob Stack - Executive Director & Chief HR Officer

AOL Europe

'YSC bring great depths of experience and remarkable insight into how effective people will be in new roles. What I particularly like is their understanding of how people develop, and this makes them a terrific partner for AOL Europe as we build our management capabilities.'

Philip Rowley - President and CEO

Diageo plc

'I have worked with YSC as a significant partner with Diageo for the past 8 years.  Their ideas, capabilities and values as an organization are very congruent to our needs and their diverse contributions have supported the growth of our people, and hence our business.  Critically, the consistency in their own business vision, and their leadership team, has created a level of trust with our leadership group - line and HR - which fuels our ongoing partnership.'

Gareth Williams - Human Resources Director

Tesco

'YSC are in a class of their own. Spotting and developing talent is important to our business success and YSC are a very trusted partner with us. They stretch our thinking and continuously provide an impressive standard of assessment and development expertise.'

Clare Chapman - Group Personnel Director

Whitbread plc

'At Whitbread we've set ourselves 'No Limits' stretch goals that require having the very best people and optimizing their talent.  YSC have been valuable partners in helping us to do this and we've developed a close relationship over the time we have worked with them.'

Alan Parker - CEO

The Royal Bank of Scotland

'I value YSC's responsiveness, their ability to challenge and stretch our thinking to achieve greater things, their ability to listen and understand our issues and requirements and they also deliver great work!'

Fiona MacDonald - Resourcing and Development

Lagan Technologies Ltd

'As part of the ongoing development of my executive team I have used YSC for my own personal development, the assessment and development of my direct reports and the development of the team as a whole. To this final end, the YSC model of team effectiveness provided an effective point of reference for us to better understand our current strengths and weaknesses as a team and to plan a way forward together. YSC's knowledge of world class standards of excellence for senior leaders and their teams enables me to set my aspirations high and increase the pace of my progression towards them.'

Des Speed - CEO

The Royal Bank of Scotland

'YSC has particularly helped RBS Manufacturing business to identify talent at an early career stage.  Identifying and calibrating this cadre of talent has helped build stronger succession planning at an organizational level and more relevant and detailed development plans at an individual level.'

Roger Farley - Resourcing and Development