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 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.

Some of the UK’s most senior businessmen and union leaders have rallied together urging UK businesses not to cut staff training and development budgets as the economic climate continues to put pressure on businesses to reduce costs. In an open letter published in the national newspapers this week respected figures such as Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman Marks and Spencer and Richard Lambert, Director General of CBI and Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of BT group plc have stressed the importance of sustaining and possibly increasing investment in training as this is the time when it is needed most.  (more…)

The economy is heading into recession, therefore it is worth asking what organisations gain from downsizing. Perhaps surprisingly, Rock the Boat’s evidence suggests that organisations achieve no financial gains and, in many cases, the aftermath of job cuts leads to poor performance and pressure to cut even more jobs. So what is the best approach for organisations facing the current economic climate who want to secure their long term viability? (more…)

As an established company working across differing industries assisting businesses to develop their human resources, Rock the Boat Consulting has gained a wealth of experience in transforming talent, leaders and organisational cultures.

Our clients include Deutsche Bank, Henderson Global Investors, AXA Rosenberg, QBE, Zurich, State Street,  Flybe, Heinz, Cuisine De France, National Australia Bank, Barrie and Hibbert, Penna, Fairplace, Indigo Vision and many more.

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 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)

John Bruton is a former Prime Minister of Ireland (the “Celtic Tiger”, one of the fastest growing economies in Europe) and a former President in Office of the European Council (from June – December 1996).

In this capacity, he presided over the Irish Presidency of the European Union, during which Ministers in his Government held the Chair of all E.U. Ministerial meetings. At the Dublin E.U. Summit, he helped finalise the Growth and Stability Pact which governs the management of the single European Currency – the Euro.

During this period he also represented the European Union as President of the Council at Summit meetings with the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Prime Minister of Japan, the Prime Minister of Korea, the Prime Minister of China, the Prime Minister of Israel and Chairman Arafat of the Palestinian Authority.

John Bruton was elected Taoiseach, (Prime Minister) of Ireland in December 1994. His administration was a three party Coalition Government comprising Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Democratic Left and he held that office until 1997.

As Prime Minister, he was responsible for the introduction of the new Corporate Tax policy (12.5% on all companies) which underlies Ireland’s current economic success. He also was deeply involved in the Irish peace process. He helped develop the Strategic Management Initiative (SMI) for public sector reform in Ireland.

In 1999 he was elected Vice-President of the European People’s Party (1999 to date); Vice-President of the Christian Democrat International (1998 to date); Member of Dail Eireann for Meath (1969 to date) and Member of the Council of State (1994 to date).

He was previously Minister for Finance. In this capacity, he was responsible for the reform of the tax collection system in Ireland, introducing “self-assessment” which has greatly improved tax compliance and reduced business costs.

John Bruton has played a key role in the development of the Euro, and as both Finance Minister and Prime Minister, in the extraordinary success of the Irish economy. He can speak with great authority on the economy and on future trends both in Europe and throughout the world.

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.

Rock the Boat consultant, Niall Foster, has just completed a 10 week pilot project in Saudi Arabia.

Niall has worked in the Middle East and North Africa since 2000 and has delivered more than 15 projects in the region mostly in the oil and gas sector.  His latest project was with one of Saudi Arabia’s largest medical services organisations which in September 2007 had a customer base of 350,000 patients throughout the Kingdom.

The project objective was to implement the organisation’s vision of being identified as the best medical provider in the Emergency Room and in Primary Care.

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