David Durkin

David Durkin is a consultant with 15 years of experience of developing individuals and groups through innovative, engaging development workshops, skills training and 1:1 coaching sessions.

Coaching Style

David has a facilitative and supportive style. David enjoys challenging his clients to maximise performance through the development of key leadership skills and deep understanding of team dynamics. A pragmatic and logical approach helps individuals to identify their own priorities and actions to optimise their development. An expert in learning, David has a wealth of knowledge of different learning methodologies to improve performance

Areas of Specialisation

Design and facilitation of interventions within the key areas of Performance Management, Networking, Leadership Development, Coaching and Teambuilding

Client Organisations

Organisations David has consulted with are Royal Bank of Scotland, Siemens, Barclays, Honda (UK), American Express, the Department of Works and Pensions, Co-operative Bank, Nationwide, LV=, Network Rail, Ulster Bank, Nat West, Indesit Company and the Black Leadership Initiative network. He has been a guest speaker at the HR Leaders Forum.

Career Background

Before his consulting career, David worked in HR arenas in a wide range of roles within different sectors of the Barclays Group; David has gained valuable leadership experience including talent management, training operations, evaluation strategies and assessment/development centre design.

This mix of strategic knowledge and practical experience of leading many major learning projects enable him to help others through similar challenges

As Executive Programmes Director he successfully led the design and delivery of a number of high quality development solutions that have demonstrated exceptional return on investment. Working with London Business School he directed a highly successful series of executive development programmes for top leadership talent in Barclays which generated over £300m of value.

Qualifications and Training

David is professionally qualified and accredited to advanced levels by Team Management Systems for the use of all team and leadership development profiling tools. High quality facilitation to board level of these interventions ensures accelerated team development and high performance levels delivering tangible results.

As well as many practical years within Leadership development, additional qualifications and training include: Licentiate of the CIPD and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.