Fraser Murray

Fraser’s unique combination of qualities has led to success and acclaim as a top developer of high potential talent across a range of industries and organisations. International coach, an inspirational speaker, and sought after facilitator, Fraser advises top and middle management on talent strategy, leadership, teamwork, life goals and career development.

Coaching Style
With a style that is engaging and supportive but equally forthright and challenging, Fraser’s messages are both transformational and pragmatic, helping people to find new direction, purpose and possibilities within their lives and their relationships at work. Fraser works with teams at all levels indoors and outdoors and is renowned for his creative solutions. He also uses ‘back to the future’ coaching techniques to help teams and individuals to create an ideal vision - with measurable outcomes - before inspiring them to achieve it.
 

Areas of Specialisation:
Talent Strategy, Leadership, Coaching, Career Development, Mentoring, Networking, Teambuilding and Management Skills

Years Experience: 15

Client Organisations and Seniority
Fraser’s experience includes working with ABN AMRO, Allied Domecq, AXA Rosenberg, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Cuisine De France, Heinz, Henderson Global Investors, National Australia Bank, RBS, Coutts and Transport For London.

Career Background
British born, Fraser forged a career in HR and Top Talent Development across sectors ranging from Food Retailing to Manufacturing, Beverages to Financial Markets, before becoming Director of Training for Barclays Bank.

Qualifications and Training
Fraser is a qualified coach specialising in Life Coaching, Performance and Career Coaching, often using NLP and other techniques such as ‘Back To The Future’ thinking. A member of the Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and has a BA in Business Management Studies.

Richard Giles

Richard Giles FCIPD is an experienced learning professional with over 15 years experience working for a major blue chip organisation, and 8 years in leadership roles within a Corporate University environment. 

He has experience in leading virtual teams, promoting culture change through embedding Performance Management Processes and through his extensive training design & delivery is able to provide tailor made solutions to his clients.

 

Richard now uses his considerable experience to work closely with clients who are looking to achieve a shift of attitude or performance in individuals or teams. He delivers training programmes in all areas of management and leadership development including performance management, customer service, communication & presentation skills and change management. He is also a strong and creative design consultant with the ability to take a brief, analyse the need and design a high quality interactive training programme.

 

Key areas of expertise include:

• Design and delivery of bespoke events to address specific team issues

• One to One coaching 

• Facilitation of workshops covering a range of areas from Conflict to Planning & Visioning

 

 

Richard is a Chartered FCIPD, a Myers Briggs Type Indicator Practitioner, a Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner and is Saville & Holdsworth qualified up to Level 3.

 

Ann Pemberton

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

Coaching Style

Ann has a facilitative and supportive style. She enjoys working collaboratively with clients to maximise performance through the development of key leadership skills and an understanding of personal behaviours and effective communication.  A pragmatic yet creative approach helps individuals to identify their own priorities and actions to optimise their performance and development. An expert in learning, Ann has a wealth of knowledge of different learning methodologies and assessment tools to help improve performance and confidence.

Areas of Specialisation

Design and facilitation of learning events within the key areas of Performance Management, Leadership & Management, Communication and Inter-Personal Skills, Recruitment, Coaching and Teambuilding.

Client Organisations

Ann’s experience includes working with Barclays Bank plc, Carillion plc, Taylor Woodrow, Laing O Rourke, Production Services Network, Bristow Helicopters, Nexen Petroleum, Technip UK, MPG Group, Network for Black Professionals, Gist and Siemens.

Career Background

Before her consulting career, Ann worked in the HR arena in within different sectors of the Barclays Group and then at Carillion plc, a leading construction to services organisation.

Qualifications and Training

Ann is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Accredited to Level B with the British Psychological Society she can utilise the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step 1 and 2), Strengths Deployment Inventory, SHL Assessment Tools and Thomas International PPA.

Deb Golec

Deb is a highly regarded Executive and Business coach with more than 25 years experience in the financial services market.  She has transformed large teams, through intensive coaching and mentoring and has had success turning individuals lacking confidence, from underperformers to valued contributors.

Coaching Style

With a style that is motivational, passionate and proactive, Debbie constantly challenges mindsets and paradigms. Ultimately driving for change and progress she unleashes the potential she sees in others by adopting a caring, compassionate and friendly environment.

Debbie works at all levels within organisations and has a passion for leadership development, performance improvement and career management.  Her primary aim is to enable and empower people to unlock their potential and achieve their personal and professional ambitions

Areas of Specialisation

Executive and business coaching, Mentoring, Leadership, Team Building, Career Development and Networking.
Career Background

Having spent 30 years working for the UK arm of an International Bank, Debbie has held several senior positions leading and managing sales teams with multi million pound budgets.  She has a proven track record in improving productivity, increasing income and influencing and inspiring the people she works with. Her intuitive guidance and support has accelerated many careers over the years.

Qualifications & Training Career Background

Qualified NLP Practioner and Coach. ASSESS – Psychometric Development Certification, Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMAP), Behavioural Event Interviewing (BEI) accredited to industry Standard, Associate Institute of Personal Development (AIPD) Associate Member Association for Coaching (AMAC)

Carol Nuttall

Performance and Reward Specialist

Profile

Carol Nuttall is a Performance and Reward specialist with skills developed in a variety of public and private sector organisations. She has particular experience of investigating and developing solutions in a change driven environment.

With a style that encourages visionary yet practical solutions Carol has helped enable individuals and teams to exceed expected performance levels. She has had particular experience supporting individual and organisational change.

Areas of Specialisation:

Competency identification and development, Performance and Reward methods, Coaching, Management development

Years Experience: 12

Client Organisations and Seniority

Carol’s clients include Barclays, CA, Carphone Warehouse, Associates of Cape Cod (UK), Promanchester, Knowsley NHS, Shrewsbury Hospital, Littlewoods Retail

Career Background

Prior to her consultancy role, Carol was Head of HR with Swiss Life UK and the trading division of Littlewoods Retail. In these roles she played a key part in organisational restructuring and dealing with business integration, a key element of which was the design and development of a reward strategy that would encourage motivation and support retention.Carol has also worked in an HR management role with Barclays Bank plc and Department for Work and Pensions where she was a participant on a fast track development programme and was sponsored to complete an MBA.

Karon Hampson

Karon Hampson has over nine years experience of working in learning and development. She is a senior training professional, renowned for her challenging yet empowering style. Before moving to a focused people development role, Karon enjoyed a long and varied career within financial services. She has first hand experience of leading, motivating and developing teams, enabling them to deliver against business objectives.
Karon is currently working with both the private and public sectors and achieves results through working closely with each client to implement effective solutions which deliver against their own learning strategies.  Karon’s style is enthusiastic, lively and passionate and she has an energy which creates an environment of challenge that motivates and inspires individuals to question themselves and positively effect their own development.

Her areas of expertise include:
• Effective communication skills
• Recruitment and selection including Development assessment centres
• Customer service
• Leadership and management development including performance management
• Individual development through observational feedback and coaching

Karon is a qualified practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Denyse Busby-Earle

Denyse Busby-Earle has a passion for working with people and bringing out the best in them. She brings a unique combination of NLP Life Coaching, use of psychometrics and 25 years of business experience, including 10 at Director Level. She also survived a very rare form of cancer which has helped her to understand how to get the most from her work and her life, balancing a full-time career with parenting, relationships and social interests.

Areas of Specialisation and Approach

Her areas of specialisation include diversity and inclusion, handling pressure, stress prevention and wellbeing, career development, change management and employee engagement.

Career Background

Worked at a senior level within the Royal Mail Group, and also within the world’s largest food and drinks manufacturer (Nestle UK Ltd), and also in Trinidad with BP. Denyse has also had the honour of being invited to work with 3 UK Charities, helping disadvantaged groups to find and be successful at work.Qualifications and TrainingCertified NLP and Hypnotherapy Practitioner and Life Coach, accredited user of various psychometric assessment and development tools, IMD (Switzerland) and McKinsey Leadership Trained, MBA (Bradford), Bsc Honours (Biochemistry), Keep Fit Association Trainer

Client Testimonial “Denyse has a great coaching style. She listens carefully not only for words but also for the underlying motivations and aspirations. She gives clear and practical input and supports this with confidence, inspiration and encouragement.” JH, Managing Director of a global consumer organisation

Jan Bethune

Jan Bethune is an experienced Human Resource consultant working in the areas of Organisation & Human Resources Development. Working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations, Jan’s focus is to work with companies to hire the best, development excellence and measure

Coaching and Facilitation Style
A challenging and insightful yet gentle and engaging style, Jan can help people to reflect and problem solve by using a range of tools and analysis and move them forward to reach their full potential. She works with individuals; teams and organisation wide to align people and people management to business outcomes.

Areas of Specialisation
Executive Coaching; Assessment and Development; Competency Frameworks; Team and Individual Development.

Qualifications and Training
Jan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development as well and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Health. She also holds a diploma level qualification in Coaching and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (level A and B). She has expertise in Psychometric Assessment, qualified and experienced in the use of ASSESS Systems and competency frameworks for the purposes of recruitment, assessment & development including 360-degree feedback.

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise
Jan brings a high degree of expertise, qualifications and experience in the field of Assessment, Development and Psychometrics. She is experienced at working in Public, Private and Voluntary Sector organisations.

Client Organisations
Jan has recently worked on assignments supporting NHS; Local Authorities; Scottish Government; various Private Companies and Housing Associations.

Career Background
Jan had extensive experience within Human Resources and learning and development.

Tracy McLeod

Tracy McLeod

Director

Rock the Boat Consulting

 

 

 

Profile

Tracy is an experienced learning & development professional with wide ranging sector experience working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations.  As well as playing a key role in running the Rock The Boat business, Tracy’s key interest is the design and facilitation of interventions that support organisations with identifying, developing and ultimately retaining their talented people.

 

Coaching Style

Tracy adopts the various roles of coach, trainer and facilitator as necessary with clients and with her challenging, yet relaxed and open style, enables people to self reflect and honestly share information that supports their self development, ultimately empowering them to take ownership of reaching their goals, both at work and in their personal life.

 

Areas of Specialisation  

Design and facilitation of interventions within the key areas of Performance Management, Assessment & Selection, Leadership Development, Coaching, Mentoring and Teambuilding

 

Client Organisations

Tracy has worked with a variety of clients including The Cooperative Bank, Deutsche Bank, Campbell Dallas Chartered Accountants, Asda, River Island Clothing, IndigoVision, NHS Manager’s Development Network (Sponsored by NES and IHM), Spark of Genius, Balfour Beatty, The Sales Architects and NG Bailey group.

 

Career Background

Tracy’s initial experience includes several years in management within the commercial sector before moving into a variety of senior roles within HR, specialising in the area of learning & development. Her final role within the career stage involved managing a remote team responsible for the delivery of a first class HR service within the retail sector. More recently, Tracy has worked with a range of clients across both the private and public sector. 

 

Qualifications and Training

As well as many practical years of Leadership development, Tracy is a qualified NLP practitioner and is accredited in the use of Assess Psychometric Systems – selection, personal development, team assessment & development and 360 degree feedback. Additional qualifications and training include: Certificate in Training Practice (CIPD) and BSc Honours degree in Biochemistry 

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.

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