Liz Paxton

An inspiring presenter and thoughtful facilitator, Liz can deliver real results to the organisations and people with whom she works.

Liz first worked for MaST through our Irish offices three years ago, and is accredited with Insights tools and services.

Career background

Liz started her career as a business analyst and delivered training around the implementation of new computer based systems with Levi Strauss. After developing all the training materials in San Francisco, Liz rolled out the implementation throughout Europe, customising the delivery to both language and cultural differences.

Liz developed the first computerised Films booking service for United International Pictures, and was moved to Columbia pictures, ending up as European Systems Director for her work in reforming the processes within the organisation.

Following the birth of her son, she joined Diageo (then Grand Metropolitan) where she became IT Director for Britain and Ireland.

Liz works well facilitating through cultural and business change as well as Sales based learning. She has worked with a variety of organisations in both Britain and Ireland, in banking, telecoms and fmcg.

Specialist fields – Examples of recent projects

• Liz spent time implementing the merger of Seagrams into the Diageo business, with responsibility for IT, Compliance and Change Management. This involved major training programmes throughout the organisation (75,000 staff).



• Liz’s final role with Diageo was as the IT Director for Customer Management, delivering systems, processes, change, training and e-learning throughout the world. Every country where Diageo has a dedicated Sales force were taken through a Brand building program, with both face to face and e-learning training driving Sales Excellence throughout the organisation.



• Liz was involved in the delivery of a Leadership Programme within the Allied Irish Bank which was a ten month project aimed at 40 senior managers. They were held in Ireland & England following a Culture Audit at the bank which identified communicaton and motivational issues throughout the bank. The Culture Audit will be re-run following the programme to measure the effectiveness.



• Liz also delivered the Insights programme in Ireland to AccBank to improve Customer Satisfaction scores. To achieve their objectives, the programme covered Team Effectiveness and 1-1 coaching, using the Insights Discovery and De Bono tools.