A CHANNEL ISLANDS executive director will be passing on her skills to KPMG counterparts in the Caribbean later this month. Elaine Monkhouse will spend a week in Curacao delivering a change-management course that she developed and piloted in Brussels last year.

‘The course will provide them with a well developed set of tools but what will bring it to life is the hands-on practical experience and my experiences of change management in an island context,’ she said.

Dr Monkhouse added that change management covers an extensive range of areas, from IT to the complex ones involved with a merger or acquisition.

‘The costs of getting it wrong are enormous and we see it so often and so it is essential that KPMG staff have the skills to be able to help their clients minimise the effect of change.’

She said that change has been identified as a core skill for all the company’s consultants.

‘KPMG Advisory is investing in the professionalism of its consultants on a global level to ensure that the advice we give and the tools we use are consistent, of a high quality and can be clearly recognised as being a KPMG discipline.

‘I am delighted to be able to hand over my experiences to my Caribbean colleagues,’ said Dr Monkhouse.