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.

Tracy McLeod

Tracy McLeod is an experienced learning & development professional, working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations. Tracy designs and delivers performance management programmes and has a natural ability to engage and motivate others.

Coaching Style

Tracy’s key interest is performance management and with her challenging, yet relaxed and open style, she 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, Leadership Development, Mentoring, Coaching and Teambuilding

Client Organisations

With over ten years experience Tracy’s work includes clients such as The Cooperative Bank, Campbell Dallas Accountants, Bibby Financial Services, Deutsche Bank, Indigo Vision, Asda, River Island Clothing, and The Sales Architects.

Career Background

Tracy’s initial experience includes several years in operational line manager roles, after which she has worked in a variety of senior roles within HR and particularly in the area of learning & development. Tracy’s experience lies predominantly within the retail sector, including one role which involved taking responsibility for the management resourcing & development across a region turning over annual sales in excess of £250 million. More recently, Tracy has worked with a number of clients within the Financial Services industry.

Qualifications and Training

As well as many practical years of Leadership development, Tracy is also NLP qualified. 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.

Katherine Murby

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)

Julia Cartwright

Julia Cartwright is an experienced, coach, facilitator and strategic advisor. She works collaboratively to ensure that individuals, teams and organisations can recognise their purpose and vision and find practical ways to problem solve and address change.

Professional Style

Julia uses a sensitive and consultative approach with clients and is a careful planner in delivering innovative and creative training and team development projects. Julia has tremendous energy and expertise in getting problems out in the open and looking for practical solutions.

Areas of Specialisation

Teambuilding, Strategic planning and Management Skills, Coaching & Mentoring, Workshop Facilitation.

Years Experience: 15

Client Organisations

Julia’s experience includes working with the NHS, Open University, Kleinwort Benson, Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities, The National Grid, The Royal College of Surgeons, HealthQWest Scotland, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence and The Murray Foundation. She has a good understanding of how clients operate in both the public and private sectors particularly in the fields of property and health

Career Background

Julia qualified as a commercial management surveyor and worked for Hillier Parker and Morgan Grenfell specialising in shopping centre management. As a senior surveyor with the Valuation Office she project managed development schemes in the public sector which led her to a second career as a psychologist running research projects in patient and public involvement in health. She mentors undergraduates at Oxford Brookes University where she lectures on the Attitudes to Health and Illness module.

Qualifications and Training

Julia is a qualified surveyor, psychologist and facilitator. She has a Diploma in Valuation and Estate Management a BSc in Psychology and an MSC in Neuropsychological. She is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and has just embarked on a Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring.

Diane Peebles

Diane Peebles is an experienced executive coach and people development specialist. With a broad HR background and over 10 years’ experience in the executive coaching arena, Diane has designed and delivered high-level leadership and people development programmes for many large and complex organisations.

Coaching style

Diane is an empathetic yet challenging coach who specialises in helping busy executives understand their own personal style, and the impact they have on other people. She encourages and stretches her clients to realise their full potential through helping them to build more productive and fulfilling work relationships with those around them. She also supports clients who need help to navigate their way around the complexities of large organisations, and who need to build wider influencing strategies. Clients have often described her style as ‘stretching’ and ‘bringing focus’ to their issues.

Areas of specialisation

Diane specialises in executive coaching for leadership development. She also has extensive knowledge of innovative team development programmes, behavioural change programmes using instruments like the MBTI and facilitation of groups.  She has designed and delivered training programmes in coaching skills for managers, as well as many other management and leadership programmes.

Client organisations

Diane has clients from both the public and private sectors, including HBOS, Scottish Power, Edinburgh City Council, The Edrington Group and Edinburgh University.

Career Background

Having a career which spans both general HR and specialist leadership development in a major FTSE top 100 company, Diane has a proven track record in working with and developing executives over many years. Her large-company background, together with nearly 10 years’ consultancy experience, has given her an understanding of the challenges of working within complex organisations.

Qualifications and Training

Diane has an honours degree in Business Studies and is a graduate of the CIPD. She is fully-qualified to use and interpret both the MBTI and SHL psychometric tools, which she uses extensively in coaching and development planning. She is currently studying for a Certificate of Psychology in Coaching through the Academy of Executive Coaching in London.

Luke Hockley

Dr Luke Hockley undertakes work for the Universities of Cambridge and London and is the Professor of Media Analysis at the University of Bedfordshire. For the last 15 years he has led high performing teams in the UK university sector providing world-class media education.

He has worked for the national Quality Assurance Agency as a subject expert and led numerous review visits. As an internationally published author and lecturer Luke is renown for his work on the psychodynamic approach to communication.

Coaching Style

Luke’s uses Jungian psychology to understand an individual’s experience in terms of the organisation. To enable effective leadership, he examines that relationship systemically to address the client’s understanding of the interplay between his or herself and the organisation as a whole.

This work includes client’s ‘private’ issues (e.g. personal anxieties, marital difficulties) as a means to gain a greater understanding of personal and organisational boundaries. The insights that this reveals make it possible to arrive at solutions that both deal with personal matters and which also have a positive impact on organisations. Central to this is listening to the person and their experience of their ‘inner-organisation’ as well as the actual organisation.

Areas of Specialisation

Communication Issues, Coaching, Mentoring, Understanding Personal-Organisational Interactions, Team Building, Vision Setting and Management Skills.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Luke’s career was primarily in educational management where he moved quickly through the ranks to run some of the largest and best university media departments in the UK. He retrained as a psychotherapist to further develop his management and training skills. He combines this work with his role as a research professor and author.

Career Background

Luke has been responsible for developing some of largest and strongest university media provision in the UK. He has provided consultancy services and expertise to a range of organisation both in the UK and abroad to develop high technology media programmes including an 8 million pound media centre at the University of Bedfordshire. Another groundbreaking initiative involved overseeing the training and cultural integration of Chinese journalists preparing for the arrival of the world community at the Beijing Olympics.

Qualifications and Training

Luke is a professional psychotherapist (MBACP), he trained at the School for Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology in London. Additional qualifications include a doctorate in psychoanalytic approaches to films (University of Stirling) and a BA Hons Degree in Film, Television and Photography (University of Middlesex). He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Ana Paula Nacif

Ana Paula Nacif is a successful coach with 15 years experience in communications, journalism and PR. She specialises in career and personal development. Apart from her work with middle and senior management across a range of industries, Ana has also developed coaching programmes for the public/voluntary sectors, including a group coaching programme for a London prison.

Coaching Style
Ana’s coaching style is challenging, intuitive, encouraging and direct. By creating an atmosphere of trust, Ana is able to challenge comfort zones and tap into the resourcefulness of her clients with clarity. Clients say that Ana is a dynamic and insightful coach who is not afraid to push the boundaries to support her clients to achieve their full potential.

Areas of specialisation
Coaching in the areas of career development, work-life balance, personal development and performance management.

Career background
Prior to coaching, Ana spent over 15 years in journalism and public relations. She worked for leading financial publications. Also, throughout her career she worked for various local and central government departments, which has given her a great insight into the public sector.

Qualifications & Training
Ana has trained with the Coaches Training Institute, a leading-edge school of coaching, the first to be accredited by the International Coaching Federation. She is also a NLP practitioner and a member of the Association for Coaching. Ana holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism and an MA in Films Studies. She speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish.

Dorothea Ciniglio

Dorothea Ciniglio is an experienced consultant and has worked in the area of assessment and development of Managers for more than thirteen years. She has deep expertise in Psychometric Assessment, Assessment and Development Centres, 360 degree assessment, and Executive Coaching, as well as many applications of emotional intelligence.

She is also experienced in team building workshops and organisational change initiatives and working with Senior Managers in career management programmes. Previously, Dorothea worked in sales management and training, and was also a director of a specialist recruitment agency.

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise

Dorothea brings a high degree of expertise, qualifications and experience in the field of Development and Psychometrics. With a Masters degree in Human Resource Management, Dorothea is highly skilled and trained in a wide range of psychometric instruments; (British Psychological Society level A and B) including the California Psychological Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Firo B, as well as a wide range of emotional intelligence measurement instruments. She has gained certification as an EQ Map Instructor from Qmetrics Inc. Chicago, Hay McBer Goleman competency approach to emotional intelligence, and trained in character dynamics. Dorothea is a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic programming and a qualified NLP Coach.

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 our 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.

Client base includes:
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc
Network Rail Plc
Vodafone Plc
MOD
Lloyds TSB Plc
Barclays Plc

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