Howard Crook | Jane Dalton | Steve Mitchell | Tim Luke | Mark Taylor | Andrew Chaplin | Bruce Robinson | Jon Sykes | Jon Riley | Kieran Cheetham | Scott Rose | Louise Hinson | Ragnar Speicher
Howard Crook
Howie has 20 years of experience in designing and delivering experiential development programmes. Howie started his career in outdoor education, and his interest in business led him to focus on Organisational Development, Leadership and Graduate Development. Howie went on to head up Graduate Development at Impact Development Training, then founded A2B (again specialising in graduate development) for another training organisation before setting up Re-Think.
Jane Dalton
Jane began her career in 1990 in the corporate division of HSBC, firstly as a business account manager and then assessing applications for venture capital investment.
Since 1998 Jane has worked in management development working with people of all levels in a range of client organisations in the UK and worldwide. Jane’s roles have included consultancy, client management, training design and delivery on programmes such as modular management development programmes, coaching, leadership, team development, influencing skills, creativity and innovation, culture change, business simulations and assessment centres.
Steve Mitchell
Steve Mitchell has been designing and delivering executive development, personal and team development and cultural change programmes since 1994. He holds a degree in psychology which continues to be a major area of interest for him. Steve works as our senior executive coach and is also a specialist in leadership development.
Steve also has extensive international management development experience, having worked on programmes at INSEAD in France, having led programmes at IMD in Switzerland and frequently running corporate retreats in the Alps.
Scott Rose
Scott has been working in the outdoor and development training sectors since 2000. He has experience working with groups of all sizes from 4 up to 1000 and at all levels from Interns to Director. His areas of expertise lie in large and complex experiential programmes bringing an organisations Corporate Social Responsibility vision to life. He has worked with clients from concept and ideas stages through design and delivery phases. Scott is of the firm belief that an organisations CSR values need to go beyond words to actions that positively influence social and environmental change.
Examples of recent work include working with 140 banking Interns to build their own business enterprise with the aim of generating revenue for a UK social change charity. He has also worked with 750 Graduates working in groups of 50 across inner city London schools, providing small-scale construction type projects that help improve the schools playground environment. Another project involved a roll out of programmes to future leaders of an international plastics company, providing workshops for local schools targeted at specific groups of children with specific needs.
Tim Luke
Tim has extensive experience as an executive coach, in this capacity he has recently worked with the following clients:
- Alcatel Carrier Network Group, Heads of Business.
- Birmingham Midshires Executive.
- Blue Circle Cement, UK Executive.
- Compaq Professional Services, Leadership Group.
- DARA Board and Governance Group.
- Friends Provident National Sales Managers.
- Goldman Sachs
- New Balance, European Executive.
- Nestor Healthcare Services Division, Senior Management Team.
Tim’s no-nonsense, challenging facilitation style has led to his reputation for quickly and sensitively surfacing underlying issues and then having the skills to address these to positive resolution.
If you want someone who is prepared to challenge teams at the top Tim is your man!
Mark Taylor
Mark is an experienced facilitator and coach and has worked with graduates and senior teams. He likes to take a training approach with a longer and more integrated view.
After a decade of working for Impact Development Training Group as a consultant he decided he wanted to work differently and return to working for a small organisation.
Mark has a wide range of skills and has worked with graduates and senior teams. His recent work has included senior team development – high performing team, coaching skills delivery and modular based graduate development. Clients he has worked with in the past include Royal Bank of Scotland, British Telecom, Environment Agency, Merck Sharp and dHome, NHS, and Sony.
He believes it is important to maintain a balance between work and other parts of his life – ‘We should aspire to a sense of human being not human doing.’ A priority is spending quality time with his partner Helen. He still pursues his interest in windsurfing and sailing when time allows.
Andrew Chaplin
Andrew Chaplin has gained considerable direct experience in industry as a manager and consultant across a wide number of industry sectors.
He enjoys working with clients to design and carry out programmes and processes which allow individuals to focus on delivering measurable business objectives and to develop individual and organisational effectiveness.
Andrew has a dynamic and creative style, while remaining focused at an individual level, he enjoys working with a coaching framework to generate commitment to action from programme participants.
Bruce Robinson
Bruce has twenty years experience of running experiential development training programmes. Formerly Bruce worked as a senior consultant at Brathay Development Training before deciding to work independently. Bruce has successfully coached the UK’s World Skills Team for the last four years helping to enable participants to complete at the highest levels under considerable pressure.
Bruce specialises in developing modular apprentice and graduate development programmes.
Jon Sykes
Jon is also a vastly experienced and well qualified training consultant with a proven track record of achievement within a wide variety of development training roles. Jon is highly skilled in designing and delivering a range of effective training and management development programmes to develop positive thinking, communication and change.
Jon’s areas of expertise include:
Coaching, CSR Programmes, Leadership, High Performing Teams and Outdoor Experiential Training work.
Louise Hinson
Has been working in the field of learning and development for almost 20 years.She has a wide breadth of experience to draw upon having worked in a variety of sales, management, coaching and training roles in both the pharmaceutical a hotel and leisure industries. This includes over 10 years of expertise developed whilst working within GlaxoSmithKline.
Louise is passionate about enabling people to envision and reach their potential both in their personal and professional lives. She is a highly skilled trainer / facilitator having designed and delivered a wide range of bespoke experiential workshops based on specific client needs. In addition Louise thrives on 1:1 coaching interventions and the opportunity to see individuals grow and develop for themselves with her support and encouragement.
Louise has a degree in Medical Biochemistry and is a qualified coach and NLP practitioner.
Jon Riley
Jon has worked in the field of experiential learning and development for 13 years, his track record covers a wide-ranging spectrum of clients from senior managers to the “shop floor”, and has included extended periods of work away from the UK; including two years in Spain delivering the highly ambitious “difference!” programmes for General Motors and a further two years spent in Dubai and the Middle East running culture change programmes for Unilever, Emirates Airlines and Radisson Hotels.
He has also had extensive experience of working with clients from the airline industry. As a full-time consultant with the change management division of Aon Consulting he worked exclusively with British Airways for eighteen months, this involved participants from Flight Operations, BA World Cargo and BA MENECASA (Middle East, North East and Central Asia and South Africa).
Jon is also activity involved within the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), currently working with HBOS along side a project team from Group Services. His role is to coach this team of six people as they attempt enrol the whole department in a series of CSR projects within the community in Calderdale, Edinburgh and the South West.
In his spare time Jon is a keen outdoor enthusiast who loves climbing, mountain biking and caving. He has been involved in a number of successful expeditions to South Eastern China exploring unknown cave systems, completing scientific studies of flora and fauna, cave surveying and photography of the untouched areas of Guangxi province.
Kieran Cheetham
With a PhD in thin-film deposition techniques, Kieran is our technical wizard! He is also a certified Microsoft Office Specialist.
Kieran allows us to run live web projects fully integrating social networking media such as Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter and other media such as YouTube. If successful these project can be published to the web, providing long-lasting business benefits.
Ragnar Speicher
Since 2006 Ragnar has beenworking as a performance coach in Germany and as a UK based facilitator across Europe and Asia since 2006. He has designed and delivered programmes around performance management, communication skills, performance coaching, high performing teams and leadership development for clients from across sectors, such as engineering, financial, governmental, construction, and marketing.
Ragnar graduated with a first class MA in Communication sciences and specialises on developing effective communication and building strong relationships. He was also awarded a first class Diploma in European studies (Aston University, Birmingham, UK). His non-academic certifications includes:
- Transactional Analysis 101
- Myers Briggs Type IndicatorÒ Practitioner (CAPT)
- Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (JCA)
- Diploma in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
- Coaching Managers to Coach (Institute of Leadership & Management)
