Overview
David helps senior teams with their strategic focus, relationships and collective approach by building and accelerating their effectiveness as a team.
He has considerable experience of consultancy in leadership, top team dynamics, talent development and learning programme direction across a range of industries. He believes passionately in the value of continuous learning and development as a significant contributor to business performance.
With 20 years of experience designing, delivering and evaluating development programmes, David designs and facilitates learning processes that are both challenging and supportive, delivering exceptional results.
He has delivered excellent senior leadership, management and business performance solutions for organisations with a range of cultures. He has consulted with Jaguar Land Rover, Best Buy, Argos, Siemens, Glaxo Smith Kline (Belgium), National Grid, Coutts Private Bank (Switzerland), American Express, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank, The Arts Council, Network Rail Finance team, Volvo, Honda (UK), Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Tamer Group (Saudi Arabia), SITA (Global), LaSalle, Aberdeen City Council, Lloyds of London, Centrica, Carphone Warehouse, Co-operative Bank, LV=, Ulster Bank, Nat West, etc, etc. He has a very strong and broad experience. David has been a guest speaker at the HR Leaders Forum and two ‘best practice’ case studies have been published about his profiling and facilitation work.
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. He also progressed his career by successfully leading a number of sales and service teams within Corporate and Retail banking.
This mix of strategic knowledge and practical experience of leading many major learning projects enable him to help others through similar challenges.
David is based in Northamptonshire and works across the UK and internationally.
Areas of specialisation
Design and facilitation of interventions within the key areas of change leadership, coaching and accelerating executive team performance, leadership and management development, talent management and performance management.
David’s mix of strategic knowledge and practical experience of leading teams and many major significant 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 reaching 250 senior leadership talent executives which generated considerable and measurable 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. He is also accredited for the use of a range of Thomas International PPA Profiling Tools, including DiSC.
High quality facilitation to board level of these interventions ensures accelerated team, and individual development that delivers high performance levels with tangible results.
An accomplished and experienced coach, David has worked with leaders at various stages in their development, with a focus on personal growth to improve individual and business performance through change leadership.
