Faye -
The Consultant
Faye has a business background in Management,
Information Technology, Training and Consultancy.
After finishing university in Auckland, New Zealand, she started first
as a computer programmer at the Auckland Hospital Board and later moved
to Systems Support at what was then ICL (NZ). Once there, she progressed on a
path that led her through Systems Analysis, running training, managing a
Customer Centre for implementing entire new systems for clients and
finally sales. While at ICL she also implemented systems and gave
training in Fiji and studied support systems in Australia and South
Africa so that new systems could be introduced into New Zealand.
On leaving New Zealand she was based in London where she worked on a sales
project for ICL New Zealand and then became self-employed, operating as
an ICT consultant based in London. Her clients included BP, where
she was involved in setting up the first Email systems and training
managers to use them. At
Prudential Life, she was a systems analyst.
In 1986 Faye moved to her current location, the city of Amsterdam. Her initial
work was as Training Manager for a Computer Consultancy company,
DCE. She also arranged courses and did direct marketing in this
position.
Upon leaving DCE in 1992, Faye trained as a therapist and decided to
follow her true passion of becoming a full time astrologer. Occasionally she was tempted to do projects in ICT again as she was part
of the management team of BIZZO, a consultancy company. Faye was responsible for
the finance and general management of this company and while there her projects included Project
Management in Anglian Water in Cambridge and Lincoln (UK), and
also for the Register
Amsterdam, which is the part of the Amsterdam Council which registers
births, deaths and marriages. She also acted as a consultant in the
Government Body, Verkeer en Waterstaat, (the Ministry of Transport), where
she was involved in contracts for setting up a new agency.
During her time as a freelance consultant, Faye had of course been using astrology privately for
both business and private clients. In 2006 she decided to merge the two
streams and started up her own company
juxtaposition, a consultancy
company that
uses astrology in business. Just before doing this she completed her
Master of Arts degree in Bath in the UK. She was one of the first
graduates of the Cultural Astronomy and Astrology MA programme.
Her dissertation included research on KLM, C&A and Martinair and offers
an organisational development model for companies. For more information
on this see juxtaposition,
Company Clock page.
Of course coaching (although Faye would like to find a new term for
this!) within companies also forms part of her work.
She is often asked to give her vision on the future. An example in Dutch from 2005 was about pensions in the year 2030.