Caroline Stanford

Caroline is a highly regarded professional facilitator and coach who works with team leaders, teams and individuals in effectively optimising potential and accelerating behavioural change.

She helps them to achieve the business and professional results they desire through: faster implementation of change; better leadership and management; more objective feedback and profiling; accelerated career progression; improved performance and business results

Coaching and Facilitation Style

Caroline’s passion is effectively linking people and people processes to business outcomes. Using a variety of tools and techniques that are practical, insightful and inspirational she collaboratively works with individuals and teams in achieving their full potential.

Using an analytic coaching approach Caroline helps people to realise their goals, build powerful relationships, and enhance their problem solving and decision making capabilities ultimately achieving fulfilment and success in both their professional and personal lives. Whilst always helping clients to achieve their goals, feedback from her clients describes Caroline’s style as ‘challenging, insightful and inspirational whilst at the same time empathetic’.

Areas of Specialisation:

Leadership, Coaching, Career Development, Mentoring, Performance Management, Influencing and Personal Development.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Caroline has recently worked on assignments supporting GSK, MOD, Cabinet Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Carillion, Wickes, and Asda and Applied Bio Systems.

Career Background

Caroline had extensive experience within learning and development, specifically in the areas of Leadership Development, Competency Frameworks, Selection and Assessment, Performance Management and Personal Effectiveness. Previous assignments have supported clients such as Scottish & Newcastle, Sainsbury, Argos, HM Treasury, TGI Fridays, British Aerospace.

Qualifications and Training

Caroline is also a qualified coach specialising in Leadership, Performance, Career and Development coaching. Caroline is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the European Coaching Institute. She is also qualified Level A&B [SHL] Occupational Testing, specifically OPQ32 [SHL] and MBTI [OPQ]. Caroline also holds and MA in HRM and Training Development from Warwick University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

She lives in Stratford Upon Avon and is married with two children.

Andrew Crawford

Andrew Crawford is a highly experienced and capable facilitator and coach who began his consulting career with AON Consulting, having previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco as a client relationship executive and before that, he was a worldwide partner with Mercer Human Resource Consulting for 15 years. At Mercer, Andrew effectively served in a number of senior sales and marketing management roles in both the UK and the US. He is an experienced business coach in a variety of sales and consulting skills programs and keeps fully abreast of new thinking and winning behaviors in building trusted advisor relationships with clients and prospects. He was also involved in the development of the Mercer Advanced Management Programme at the Cranfield School of Management in the UK.

Coaching Style

His style is to work closely with senior people to enable them to work through real business issues and to make the best business and personal decisions on achieving their desired outcomes. When planning for success, do you regard your organization as a “problem to be solved” or a “mystery to be embraced?” Andrew helps senior leaders to ask themselves the fundamental questions involved in managing the clients’ needs.

Areas of Specialisation

Andrew is an expert in the use of “Appreciative Inquiry” techniques and process and has had outstanding results using this philosophy and methodology, working with clients to achieve company-wide positive change.

His vast business experience and successful relationships have led him to be selected to coach senior leaders and high potential individuals across the globe. He has worked regularly in The USA, the UK and Europe, as well as fairly extensively in China.

Years Experience

Andrew Crawford has more than 25 years of experience in business development, global and strategic client account management, and sales and marketing management in the international consulting environment. He has spent most of his career working for prestigious global organizations in the U.S. and U.K.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Andrew has worked at very senior levels often facilitating away days for Senior Teams anywhere in the world and his work as a consultant and coach includes the following;

American International Group (AIG), Cagwin & Dorward Landscape Contractors, Conference of Consulting Actuaries, Empower Group, Ernst & Young, Inbucon Group, Marsh & McLennan, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Scottish Enterprise, Swiss Re-insurance, Watson Wyatt, Woodruff-Sawyer, Wells Fargo Bank.

Qualifications and Training

Andrew holds an honours degree in Physics from the University of Glasgow.

Paul Williams

PAUL WILLIAMS has over 15 years of leadership experience in project management, sales and service management and operational management positions.

Coaching Style

Paul enables businesses and individuals to benefit from their own inherent abilities and specialises in Strategic Planning and Problem Solving using a variety of creativity techniques to break down assumptions, identify new solutions and build implementation plans. His expertise in managing knowledge enables him to optimise the creation and flow of knowledge in organizations, and support the creation of cultures which encourage innovation.

Specialist Areas

Creative Problem Solving, Intellectual Capital Auditing, Teambuilding, Leadership and Management Skills, Financial Strategy, Coaching.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Paul’s spectrum of experience includes work with Barclays, Orange, Northumbria University, Cumbria NHS Primary Care Trust, PII (a General Electric company), Hammonds (Corporate Law Firm), St Oswald’s Hospice.

Qualifications and Training

Paul has an MBA (Master of Business Administration), a qualification which includes specialisms in Strategy, Financial Strategy, Creativity Innovation & Change, and Managing Knowledge. He was awarded an ACIB (Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers) in 1990.

Katrina Stride

Katrina Stride is an experienced Learning and Development Consultant specializing in Leadership development. Katrina designs and facilitates small and large group workshops on all Leadership subjects. As an NLP practitioner, Katrina offers a powerful set of models and techniques, which help her coaching clients to transform their experiences and outcomes.

Katrina brings a positive challenge to clients thinking and decision making, often helping them to gain a new perspective. This is balanced by her ability to offer the perfect level of support and encouragement.

Areas of Specialisation

Coaching, Personal Change, Team Building, behavioural change and Leadership

Clients

Katrina has worked with the following organisations: Co-Operative Insurance, Egg, Barclays, Smile, Lewisham University Hospital, Royal Sun Alliance, and Jacobs

Carolyn Brown

CAROLYN BROWN is a successful executive coach and facilitator with over 20 years experience in the business and commercial sector. She is highly qualified and is now a Master Practitioner in NLP communication techniques, Carolyn works closely with one to one coaching clients to assist them in clarifying their goals, aligning their values and enabling them to set strategy to maximize their desired business achievements both quickly and efficiently.

She has a background in leadership coaching and development with an ability to establish instant rapport and trust with the client and has done so with Northumbria University, Businesslink, Barclays, Barclaycard and various successful company directors.

Carolyn passionately believes in the potential of others and is committed to enabling clients to release this.

Andrew Long

Andrew has considerable experience of managing a variety of teams (commercial, specialist and virtual), and of managing change. He has recently developed the Learning and Development strategy for the African arm of a global financial services group. Prior to that he enjoyed several Change Management roles at regional and national levels, and his skills in and passion for the development of people has led him to facilitate in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise

Andrew is able to advise on the strategic options for Learning and Development within an organization, enabling the client to get value for money in the training budget investment as well as ensuring a performance link to bottom line results.

His main passion is in the area of behavioural change – particularly in the contexts of executive coaching, performance improvement, organization design and management development. He works with all levels within organizations to help improve business effectiveness, is able to work with clients in a one-to-one or in group capacity, and has managed relationships with both the private and public sector.

Michael Pattinson

MICHAEL PATTINSON has a passion that lies in the achieving of excellence in others and in driving individuals to reach the very highest levels of performance. An exceptional coach having actively coached people at all levels from senior executives to junior staff.

A part of his passion for learning and improving has led him to develop personally and most recently he completed his studies to become a Master Practitioner of NLP, A Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy and become certified as a Master Hypnotist.

In addition to one to one coaching, Michael has many years experience in designing and delivering training events with a focus on the areas of Leadership and Management Skills. Many organisations have benefited from his Leadership and Management programs including General Electric, Hammonds, The Eaga Partnership Ltd. and Barclays.

Rintu Basu

Rintu is a world-class training and coaching specialist with a broad range of experience in training strategy, implementation, design and delivery over a diverse range of subjects. Having trained and coached across three continents, Rintu is focused on generating excellent bottom line results through empowerment and development of individuals.

Being a certified trainer of NLP and Hypnosis, Accelerated Learning Techniques, MindMapping as well as a strong background in traditional development techniques Rintu assists the development of individuals and teams to maximise their potential and create their own lasting success. Applying these techniques on a strategic level develops true learning cultures leading to accelerated growth of organisations.

Having several years in strategic development roles within an outsourcing call centre environment Rintu’s clients have included Goldfish; BTCellent; Scottish Enterprise; National Police Training; Reading University; Glasgow School of Art as well as several SMEs including, manufacturing, retail, software, electronics; and professional firms

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise

Rintu’s expertise centres on leadership, persuasion and influencing skills. Having a specific interest in Training, Coaching and Personal Development, Rintu consults on a number of local and national panels as well as run bespoke and public programmes. Rintu acts as a consultant and an advisor to ‘Rock The Boat Consulting’ and its corporate clients.

Alex Phillips

Alex walks her talk. As skipper of the yacht “Quadstone” in the 2000 BT Global Challenge, known as “The World’s Toughest Yacht Race”, she developed a group of amateurs into a high performing team and led them to victory against the odds through some of the harshest conditions on this planet.

The skipper’s role in this race has been likened to one of the toughest management jobs in the world. Leading a group of amateur sailors from all walks of life through triumphs and disasters Alex learned many lessons relevant to the business world of today. She is the only female skipper to ever win a leg of this race, which is all about ordinary people achieving extraordinary results.

Her extensive experience ability and experience gained by training amateur crews not only to sail but also to handle the many pressures created by life in the cramped conditions on board for extensive periods of time, has given rise to her speaking and training prowess in the Corporate world. She has a rare and powerful gift of explaining complex subjects in a way that is simple and clear to grasp.

Alex is passionate about helping people fulfil their dreams, and it was a natural progression for her to move from high-profile yacht racing into the business world. Her lessons and experience are readily adaptable to the challenges facing business leaders. An Ambassador for Investors in People and NLP Master Practitioner, Alex has trained extensively in the fields of Team Development, Behavioural Change and Executive Coaching, and now delivers Leadership Seminars, Executive Coaching, Team Development, Communication skills and Stress Management programmes for many clients in both the private and public sectors.

Phil Lowe

PHIL LOWE has thirteen years experience in training and development consultancy which, added to his experience in management in the publishing industry and as a drama specialist in secondary and further education, give him a wide perspective on client issues.

Formerly a senior consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Phil has coached individuals and groups from clients such as Adecco, Bass, Barclays, Carillion, ICI, Seagram, Unilever and Nokia, working with participants from most European countries as well as North and South America and the Far East. He has also co-authored two books on management development, Individual Excellence and Management Development Beyond the Fringe, both published by Kogan Page, and has been co-devisor and writer of seven series of The Board Game for BBC Radio 4. A trained actor, he specialises in use of creative and media techniques in course design and also holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the University of London.

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise

Phil is a people development specialist whose main areas of expertise are creative thinking, leadership effectiveness, teamworking and life-career development. He develops and delivers workshops, undertakes one-to-one coaching covering personal style and career development, facilitates team workshops and uses scriptwriting as a stimulus for exploring management issues.

He is also qualified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the FIRO measures.

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