We are pleased to announce that that we have recently expanded our global reach and now have experts based in New York to support our clients in North America and Canada with Talent Engagement, Leadership Development, Mentoring and/or Executive Coaching. (more…)

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

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)

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.

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.

Rock the Boat Consulting are proud winners of a 2009 National Training Award, the UK’s most prestigious awards for training. 

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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).

Social psychology holds the key to many concepts in employee engagement, revealing gems to the origins of motivation and attitudes. Our current economic climate poses atypical challenges for employers and employees alike, with some elements of the “the psychological contract” such as wellbeing and stability taking precedence over prior traditional elements such as opportunity for promotion, and increasing pay and benefits.So during challenging times what defines mutual obligation? (more…)

Rock the Boat Consulting were proud to be Partnering the 3 day ‘Senior Women in Policing’ National Conference at Exeter University. Click on the link to hear some feedback from delegates swip-personal-leadership2.mp3

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Our clients are wide ranging in their business profiles and in their development needs. However, whatever the organisation, wherever the team or whomever the person, we always strive to tailor our solutions to match their particular needs.  One such case was the investment we put into working on partnership with Flybe to develop their tailored Leadership Development programme, which also included some psychometrics and executive coaching. Flybe invested in allocating about 100 supervisors, managers and senior managers to their development programme and have really started to reap the benefits.  We have used 5 different trainers with Flybe and all the feedback has been excellent. The latest was about Richard Giles, one of our Leadership Experts. Here’s the letter we received from their Head of Engineering.

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