Meet The Team
Simon Ford
Simon is a creative and strategic thinker with an extensive track record in leadership and management. He demonstrates excellent inter-personal skills, expert training, coaching and mentoring skills and builds relationships and trust with clients as he facilitates business and/or personal solutions.
His unusual broad and flexible range of skills developed over 20 years of growing/developing successful businesses has led to his proven track record of training and negotiating across cultural, geographic and organisational boundaries and getting people to ‘buy into’ a joint solution which can then be initiated and maintained by the parties involved. His focus is on business results with Clients achieving measurable long term behavioural change.
Andy Parker
Andy trained under internationally renowned coach Myles Downey at The Industrial Society School of Coaching in the late 90′s and is a highly regarded business coach, facilitator and mentor. As an early adopter of coaching practices he has used his expertise to underpin his effectiveness in a variety of senior roles and to help others in theirs.
Andy has worked and consulted at senior manager and board level in a range of industries including automotive, manufacturing, financial services, construction and IT. He is currently a commercial director in a specialised sector of the construction industry but takes time out to work with other business leaders and management teams.
Jane Holt
Jane helps organisations match the right people to the right job using ability tests and personality profiling which can greatly increase the likelihood of choosing people that will succeed in the role and suit the culture of the organisation. Additionally, Jane can help you build assessment centres, which built around the specific behavioural attributes required by the job, further raising the probability of choosing the right person.
Lucy Burne
Lucy has successfully run her independent Telesales business for over 22 years and as a result has significant experience in both face to face and telephone sales. Prior to starting the business she achieved consistent high standards leading a team of Telesales professionals selling newspaper advertising – a team who became well known for hitting weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual targets selling business-to-business advertising.
Paul Cook
Paul is an ingenious, enthusiastic, strategic thinker with a broad track record in leadership and management.
Key strengths include:
His interactive and inspirational approach through interpersonal skills. His tactful and sympathetic coaching and mentoring style and his natural ability to communicate well and build trust with individuals, teams and organisations.
Paul gravitates to other people and is highly skilled at understanding others’ needs and motivations. Part of a range of skills developed over forty years of growing and developing successful businesses. With over twenty years of involvement in full time training he has worked with a range of national and international clients delivering a wide variety of training solutions for individuals, teams and organisations.
David Lee
David has a lifetime’s experience of living and working internationally. Born in Argentina and educated in England, he has lived and worked in North & South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. A graduate from Durham University, he undertook management training at Ingersoll Rand before working as a research economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. His subsequent career involved senior positions in international healthcare projects, general trading, manufacturing and trade show & exhibitions before finally creating his own M&A company in Argentina.
Alex Morgan
With 15 years’ HR, training and coaching expertise, she also has senior organizational experience, having led the HR team for a large direct marketing company, and been Leadership Development Manager for a major pharmaceutical corporation.
She guides clients confidently through organizational change, corporate HR projects, employment legislation and tricky individual situations. This knowledge, combined with her coaching skills, truly empowers others to release their potential into action.
Rosalyn Rahme
Rosalyn has over 25 years of recruiting, coaching and business experience. As Chairman of The DP Group, Rosalyn is involved in both coaching and executive level mentoring assignments which she complements with her role as Director of Goldjobs, an Internet portal and networking site for executives.
Barry Hennessy
Barry is a trusted advisor to his clients; he has an extensive track record of developing business solutions involving the convergence of people, processes and technology. He was also an executive with a major PLC within the pharmaceutical sector. Barry deploys a rare mix of business, technology and leadership skills combined with extensive sales, training and consultancy expertise. He has led and been accountable for numerous large scale change programmes, each of which has achieved profound change at organisational, team and individual levels.
Mark Watkins
An unusually gifted and experienced coach, Mark’s passion and enthusiasm for developing people has also helped him build a broad training portfolio and a loyal client base. Equally at home training front-line sales teams as coaching senior executives, Mark has an empathetic but challenging approach that really motivates his clients to stretch for their goals. He has led outdoor experiential training for some years and relishes the opportunity to lead clients safely and successfully beyond their comfort zones. Mark focuses on developing the whole person in everything he does, with spectacular results.
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