Katherine Murby
July 8, 2008
Katherine Murby is a highly regarded learning and development specialist with more than 15 years experience of working in the people development arena. She has led, designed and implemented transformational people programmes and possesses a natural instinct to inspire and motivate others via excellent coaching and facilitation skills.
Coaching Style
Katherine’s main passion is in the area of behavioural change, particularly in the context of leadership development, executive coaching and performance improvement, working at all levels within organisations to help improve business effectiveness. With a style that is both supportive and challenging, she enables people to reach their full potential, ensuring they take individual control of their personal development whilst contributing to organisational goals and objectives.
Areas of Specialisation
Leadership, Coaching, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Management Skills, Change Management and Behavioural Change.
Client Organisations and Seniority
Katherine’s experience includes working with Barclays, First Choice, Northamptonshire County Council (NIAS), Pfizer Ltd, RBS.
Career Background
Having spent over 15 years working in a variety of senior training and development roles for a FTSE top 100 company, Katherine has a wealth of experience in learning and development solutions and proven coaching and leadership skills.
Qualifications and Training
Katherine is a qualified coach and NLP Practitioner. Additional qualifications and training include: Diploma in Training Management (CIPD), Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Practitioner (OPP), Advanced Behavioural Facilitation (Sheppard Moscow), Occupational Testing, Level A (SHL), Accredited Resourcing Assessor, Level 3 (SHL)
John Bruton
July 8, 2008
John Bruton is a former Prime Minister of Ireland (the “Celtic Tiger”, one of the fastest growing economies in Europe) and a former President in Office of the European Council (from June – December 1996).
In this capacity, he presided over the Irish Presidency of the European Union, during which Ministers in his Government held the Chair of all E.U. Ministerial meetings. At the Dublin E.U. Summit, he helped finalise the Growth and Stability Pact which governs the management of the single European Currency – the Euro.
During this period he also represented the European Union as President of the Council at Summit meetings with the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Prime Minister of Japan, the Prime Minister of Korea, the Prime Minister of China, the Prime Minister of Israel and Chairman Arafat of the Palestinian Authority.
John Bruton was elected Taoiseach, (Prime Minister) of Ireland in December 1994. His administration was a three party Coalition Government comprising Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Democratic Left and he held that office until 1997.
As Prime Minister, he was responsible for the introduction of the new Corporate Tax policy (12.5% on all companies) which underlies Ireland’s current economic success. He also was deeply involved in the Irish peace process. He helped develop the Strategic Management Initiative (SMI) for public sector reform in Ireland.
In 1999 he was elected Vice-President of the European People’s Party (1999 to date); Vice-President of the Christian Democrat International (1998 to date); Member of Dail Eireann for Meath (1969 to date) and Member of the Council of State (1994 to date).
He was previously Minister for Finance. In this capacity, he was responsible for the reform of the tax collection system in Ireland, introducing “self-assessment” which has greatly improved tax compliance and reduced business costs.
John Bruton has played a key role in the development of the Euro, and as both Finance Minister and Prime Minister, in the extraordinary success of the Irish economy. He can speak with great authority on the economy and on future trends both in Europe and throughout the world.
Case Study: aligning your business strategy with a focus on people; employees & customers
July 7, 2008
Rock the Boat consultant, Niall Foster, completed a 10 week pilot project in Saudi Arabia.
Niall has worked in the Middle East and North Africa since 2000 and has delivered more than 15 projects in the region mostly in the oil and gas sector. His latest project was with one of Saudi Arabia’s largest medical services organisations which in September 2007 had a customer base of 350,000 patients throughout the Kingdom.
The project objective was to implement the organisation’s vision of being identified as the best medical provider in the Emergency Room and in Primary Care.
