We're specialist experiential development training consultants who enjoy the challenge of delivering the very best solutions to drive change. Based in the English Lake District we enjoy working together within a networked hub and at the same time put something back into the community - 1% of our turnover is invested in environmental projects.
We only take on work that we are 100% confident in delivering the results which we have defined, we have the capacity, network and experience to work pretty much anywhere in Europe.
Howard Crook
Howard (Owner and Director of Re-Think) has 20 years of experience in designing and delivering experiential development programmes. Howard started his career in outdoor education, his interest in business led him to focus on Organisational Development, Leadership and Graduate Development. Howard went on to head up Graduate Development at Impact DevelopmentTraining, he then founded A2B (again specialising in graduate development) for another training organisation before setting up Re-Think.
Howard has now specialised in developing Fast-Track and Graduate programmes for over ten years and has gained experience of working with 18 different leading organisations in this field, including:
Royal Bank of Scotland, Skanska, Honda, Barclays, Kier, Bovis, ScottishPower, Orange, HBoS and Applabs.
He has also presented widely on the subject via Professional Careers Northwest and to the Association of Graduate Recruiters where he was a member of their Learning and Development Task Group.
Howard also enjoys the challenges of developing organisation change/development programmes and has experience of working at all organisational levels and delivering programmes internationally in: Thailand, America, Japan and widely in mainland Europe, this experience has included working at the prestigious INSEAD management school in France.
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.
Jane then moved to First Direct in Leeds in 1992 where she spent 6 years playing an integral role in developing the training and HR functions. Key achievements included designing and delivering modular management development programmes, aligning HR practices with strategic business direction, designing and implementing comprehensive assessment processes for recruitment and succession planning, overseeing and developing the performance management process, and supporting the business in their people, team and organisation development needs through the delivery of a wide range of training programmes.
In 1998 Jane moved to an international management development consultancy based in the north of England where she worked with people of all levels in a range of client organisations in the UK and worldwide. Jane’s role included consultancy, client management and 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.
Jane also took on responsibility for developing the consultancy’s development work in the graduate sector, developing sales and marketing material, winning new contracts, managing joint delivery partnerships and introducing a broader range of products and services.
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 lead programmes at IMD in Switzerland and frequently running corporate retreats in the Alps.
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 implement 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 4 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.
Diane Alger
Diane is an experienced Training Consultant with sixteen years in the field of human development. She has worked extensively with culturally and geographically diverse clients, in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors which includes working with a vast range of clients like Bae Systems, Mazda Cars and developing MBA programmes for Durham and Manchester Universities.
Diane describes herself as a tutor with a highly supportive and consultative style that can be directive and challenging where necessary. Diane is a qualified coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching. She believes that organisational change begins with the individual, and that increased self-awareness is the starting point to improved performance. Diane strongly believes that programmes should be enjoyable but should deliver real business benefits
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.