Darrelle Smith
January 24, 2008
DARRELLE SMITH is a leading learning & development professional with 13 years of experience managing and delivering learning & development solutions in blue chip companies including the Lloyds TSB group, Barclays Bank and most recently, Merrill Lynch where she was Head of Learning and Development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
She is a fellow of the IPD, has a MSc in Organizational Behaviour (Occupational Psychology) and is licensed in the use of varied psychometric instruments including MBTI, Firo B, Verax and Saville & Holdsworth.
‘Rock the Boat’ Expertise
Darrelle has a proven expertise in personal and leadership development. She works with organisations and individuals in the assessment of talent, drawing on a variety of tools such as 360% feedback, psychometrics, panel reviews and performance management.
Darrelle is a skilled facilitator and in addition to working at an individual level, she delivers a variety of workshops & events aimed at assessing and developing talent. These events are always tailored to the organizations specific requirements and characteristically cover a range of tools and techniques to assist organizations to realise the potential of their managers.
Charles Barber
January 24, 2008
Charles is a top class Management Consultant specialising in bespoke services for business strategy, leadership and organisation development, including confidential business investigation and identification of strategic options. His clients have included Bank of Scotland; Scottish & Newcastle Group; Scottish Enterprise; Strathclyde European Partnership; Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce; The University of Edinburgh; several SMEs and mid size corporate firms including, manufacturing, retail, software, electronics; and professional firms. Recently appointed as a Board Director to work with a Company Chairman on the development of a new media company and investment vehicle with interests in intellectual property, new technology, visual and sound media, and communications networks including radio and internet. Charles is Managing Director for 20:20 Group, a company of specialists leading “hands-on” corporate turnarounds in collaboration with banks and investors.
‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise
Charles is an expert in the field of Corporate Work-Out and works with clients to design and embed this performance improving method in their own organizations.. He contributes in a professional capacity to a wide range of professional bodies, including as a ‘Member of International Futures Forum’. Charles acted as a consultant to the Advanced Management Programme in Scotland Limited. The Company designs, resources, and leads programmes on value creation for senior and board level individuals from a diverse portfolio of UK and international companies. Charles acts as a consultant and an advisor to ‘Rock The Boat Consulting’ and its corporate clients.
Anne Fanning
January 24, 2008
Anne Fanning has over 10 years experience of leadership development experience gained in a wide range of industries, including NatWest (now Royal Bank of Scotland) where she was Management Development Manager at Group Head Office and, more recently in international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing, engineering and professional services organisations.
She is a member of the CIPD, holds first degrees in Modern Languages and in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. Qualified to BPS Level A and Intermediate Level B in psychometric assessment, she also holds Myers Briggs Type Indicator and 16PF certification.
Rock the Boat Expertise
She has expertise in the design of competency frameworks for senior management and for graduate level, as well as for technical specialists, providing organisations with clear and workable models. She also trains and accredits in-house to ensure that the frameworks are understood and applied effectively. Additionally, she has often been called upon to review and critique existing competency frameworks and to provide revised and improved models.
Anne also designs and delivers assessment and development centres and can conduct business in Spanish and French to enable organizations to continue their management development in Europe and Latin America.
welcome to Rock the Boat
January 11, 2008
Rock The Boat Consultancy supports you in achieving peak commercial performance by enabling you to deliver your business strategy with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Our success is based on building relationships, therefore, we will work closely with you to ensure that any solutions we implement are based on solid foundations. This means getting to know the challenges facing your business, your industry and finding out what will help you to bring out the very best in your people.
Headed up by our Managing Director, Fraser Murray, we have experience of working at all levels within a variety of industries. Drawing on the major change projects we have led and the subsequent transformations we have helped to create, Rock The Boat Consultancy can and does add real value. However, the secret of our success lies in our ability to help you to get to the root cause of your commercial issues, helping you to unblock poor performance and to maximize the potential of your people and in turn your organization.
Rock the Boat Consultancy can help you to overcome resistance to change, using proven techniques that will challenge existing thinking and methods. We will work with you to build lasting performance improvement, driven by your commercial agenda, facilitated by your internal leaders and delivered by your teams.
