About DSK Consulting
Dave Skelton: Business & Executive Mentor/Career Consultant
Dave holds BAI Engineering and BA Mathematics degrees from Trinity College, Dublin. He has 30 years Senior Management/Director experience in Manufacturing, Engineering and Healthcare sectors (Millipore – now Merck, Dupont and Cadbury). 10 further years as Business Mentor & Career Consultant, Dave brings with him extensive Change Management, People Management, Executive Mentoring and Organisational Development skills including multi sector experience across the Chemical, Food, Healthcare/Pharma and Financial sectors working to Central Bank, ISO and FDA regulated standards. Although based in Munster he services projects and individuals nationwide.
Professional Experience:
- An executive, business and career consultant who seeks to enable individuals and teams, enhance individual/business performance through the acquisition and/or development of leadership and business skills.
- Skilled in organisation development, change management, career counselling and executive coaching and has developed and facilitated a variety of Outplacement programmes.
- Created and rolled out a bespoke Interview Process for major organisation to streamline the recruitment process. Putting value into the hiring stream to deliver a ‘Hire & Mind’ philosophy.
- Developed Retirement materials to capture the Retirement audience of today, people who are happy to retire from their current role but want to continue active in the workplace.
- Consistently receives outstanding feedback from both clients and candidates alike. His professional, practical and can do approach encourages his candidates to success.
- Managed consultancy projects with major blue-chip organisations from initial decision, through Breaking the News and on to satisfactory outcome.
Successfully completed multi-sector projects with many clients including; Roche, Stryker, Avocent, Yves Rocher, Boston Scientific, Novartis, Pall Ireland, Transitional Optical, BASF, Vistakon, Shannon Aerospace, Ulster Bank, Anglo Irish Bank, Tesco, Eason, Suir Pharma, Xilinx, Analog Devices, Millipore, Tecnotree, Lufthansa Technik, Aer Lingus plus many more.
Memberships: Institute of Engineers of Ireland, Irish Executives , Innovation Ireland , Webrecruit Ireland, Outplacement Professionals Network and Institute of Directors
Directorships: Non-exec Director and Chairman of the Leading Edge Group, Cobh.
I have been lucky to have the opportunity to work with Dave on a project throughout the backend of last year. Dave is a very engaging person who has a tremendous ability to listen whilst offering alternative perspectives on different situations. For me, Dave personifies the idiom - “cool calm and collected”. I enjoyed my time working with Dave and highly recommend Dave as an exceptional resource for any organisation looking to deliver transformational change in any working environment.
I have been working with Dave for coming up on six months now and it has been a most rewarding experience. Dave has a wealth of experience but more importantly Dave is an accomplished listener who has the ability to tease out the critical components of a discussion / meeting and to get to the heart of the matter. His ability to create the space for a valuable and insightful exchange is just a unique skill from which his clients can and do benefit hugely from. I would think, and hope that as we complete our work I will remain in contact with Dave into the future and develop our professional relationship further. I would wholeheartedly recommend Dave Skelton to any organisation seeking to enhance their operation, leadership skills and culture.
I have done business with Dave on many occasions over the years and he has always displayed a vast knowledge of process management and both domestic and international business management. Having managed a major international production facility, he is at his best when resolving complex business issues. I have referred several clients to him for career coaching and outplacement services and, without exception, they have been glowing in their praise of and appreciation of the services he provided. He is experienced, informed, and possessed of exceptional communication and analytical skills and I strongly recommend Dave across all aspects of his business offering.
