Eszter Avar
Management Consultant and Organisational Psychologist, Corporate Values Consultancy Ltd.

I graduated as an economist with an MA in Management & Organisation. Prior to studying Economics, I gained masters degrees in both Psychology and Mathematics.

During my years of practising as an organisational development consultant, I have worked with several multinational companies eg. T-Com, Lufthansa Systems, Siemens, Vodafone, GE . However, my main focus has always been the world of small enterprises. In my experience, helping them to focus on „soft areas” such as communication, problem solving and leadership not only makes these small companies better businesses but places where it is fun to work.

I am also a university lecturer, my specializations are Organisational Development, Team Building, Communication and Presentation Skills.

Tom Connolly
Itac Enterprises

Tom has spent 28 years managing technical projects and organisations in order to meet aggressive goals, streamline operations and grow business. For most of Tom’s working life he has led and participated in teams based in countries all over the world in the ICT and Life Sciences sectors.

Tom was with Apple Computer for 20 years in Cork, Ireland and California. He was European New Products Introduction Manager for 10 years, co-ordinating the work of teams based in California, Ireland, Holland, Singapore, Texas, Germany, France, Holland, UK, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Finland. From the beginning of 1996 to the end of 2000 Tom was Apple’s European Localization Manager, based in Cork, Ireland, reporting to the Worldwide Director of Localization in California. The European Localization team comprised 30 people based in Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and Sweden, each managing a network of localisation, test and print companies in their regions.

Since 2000 Tom has worked as a project management trainer and consultant, and a business development consultant, in the ICT, eLearning, BioTechnology and Pharmaceutical sectors, and specifically in the Localization industry. In the eLearning sector he managed the outsourcing of product development and testing teams from a blue chip company’s premises to a network of contract developers. The developers/testers worked individually from their own homes, in groups from leased premises, and also on the client’s own premises co-located with other teams. Teams were located in Ireland, Canada, the US and India. In the BioTechnology sector, over a 2 year period, Tom project managed the development of an electro-mechanical detection device using innovative sensing technology. The device had applications in law enforcement and other areas. The development teams were located in Ireland, England, Wales and Sweden.

Tom has delivered Project Management, Time Management and Job Effectiveness workshops in Ireland, Holland, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Poland and Australia. He has been appointed a mentor to indigenous Irish companies by his local Enterprise Board, for whom he has developed and implemented a programme to enable microenterprises to grow revenue and expand internationally.

Loránd Kis-Tamás
Management Consultant and Executive Coach, Corporate Values Consultancy Ltd.

I graduated as a psychologist at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE), Hungary. During the university years I worked for a foundation (Kompánia foundation), first as a volunteer, than as a program and project coordinator, finally as the chief executive of the foundation. The foundation mainly worked on the field of health care, drug prevention, peer helping, using psychological and sociological methods.           

From 2005 I have been working for Corporate Values Consultancy Ltd., in the fields of organizational development consulting, executive and life coaching.  

I have been recently elected to the board of directors of Hungarian Gestalt Association (MAG), which is the leading authority of the gestalt based therapies, organizational development and coaching in Hungary, combining and exchanging knowledge and resources and encouraging research.