Mar 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Leading multi-disciplinary teams and managing client relationships across Culture Change, Leadership and Team development.
• M&A Project, housing association: helped to align the top team in the business' vision and values in order to thrive after a merger
• M&A Project, banking: partnered with the CPO and helped them to capture the best cultural elements of four organisations it was merging.
• Executive coaching: working with leaders of all shapes and sizes to help them transition to bigger roles, optimise performance, manage working relationships better
• Team coaching: walking alongside top teams for lots of household brands, to help them build direction, alignment and commitment, not just for the first line but for their teams too

Jun 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Making people's working lives better in a fun, interesting and practical way.
• Building leadership and team capability
• Coaching executive teams
• Helping executives and leaders translate change messages into meaningful narratives that people can engage with

Oct 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Innovation of training methods to ensure that delivery is engaging for the audience and effective in terms of learning styles.
• Developing the L&D approach and programmes to support the building and sustainment of brand passion and Customer First behaviours

Sep 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Coaching: Assisting managers in cultivating high performance in their teams.
• Maintaining strong collaborative working partnership with onsite union business partners.
• Case management supervision of complex absence, sickness, disciplinary and grievance in a unionised environment.

Sep 2009 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Maintaining People Strategy for a 650+ customer group of engineers and programme managers.
• Coaching senior people leaders to create the best working environment for their people

Jun 1998 – Sep 2008 · 10 yrs 3 mos

• Breakfast presentation on hit music radio stations -Capital Radio (London) Horizon (Milton Keynes) Mercia FM (Coventry) The Storm (London)
• As an anchor I learned to integrate and showcase other's talents in order to create shows with a real buzz.
• I developed my listening and interviewing skills over hundreds of interviews ranging from local people to the Prime Minister. Adapting my style and displaying innate curiosity got the best out of my interviewees.
• During this time my team secured two Gold Sony Awards (the highest prize in radio) by applying the highest standards in content creation, delivery & production.

Sep 1997 – Jul 2002 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Working across the UK on a club by club basis.
• This job requires a great deal of commitment, focus and a performance mindset. The audience will quickly tell if you are not on your game. This includes both the live audience and the person booking you.
• I learned a lot about managing the tensions present with a live audience,in order to deliver the best customer experience.
• TV Credits included: BBC New Talent Comedy Showcase, The Big Breakfast, 'Loves Like a Dog' (Don't ask!) and others.