Stephen has been designing and delivering executive development, personal and team development and cultural change programs since 1994. He is now an independent business and coaching psychologist a member of the British Psychological Society and special group in coaching. A graduate of the IMD Building on Talent Programme c2000, Stephen worked as a full-time senior consultant with Impact Development Training Group from 1994 – 2004 and has been responsible for the design and delivery of training and consultancy for many organisations, including General Motors, Coca Cola, Swiss Re, Novartis, Microsoft, RBS, Nokia, INSEAD and IMD.
He has also used his considerable experience to develop some highly regarded team and business leadership development programmes in conjunction with the faculty of the Manchester Business School. Stephen has a special interest in helping individuals reach new understandings that enable them to strive for more effective ways of being and working.
His approach is quietly facilitative and challenging when appropriate. He endeavours to enable teams and individuals develop their own skills and those that they influence. He is able to help his clients make insightful connections that lead to more informed and creative choices.
An ex National Account Manager with British Telecom Stephen has an awareness of the real business world and what is pragmatic. He is particularly interested in training methods that explore Emotional Intelligence and Personality and which are experiential, engaging, provocative, challenging, and educative.
Professional focus
* Individual & Leadership Development
* Team development
* Executive coaching
Stephen’s coaching style is engaging yet challenging, always beginning with the individual’s ability to explore his/her personality and self awareness. Stephen’s style places an emphasis on the ‘whole’ person, and no stone is left unturned in order to identify performance opportunities and development needs. His style is designed to create a bond of trust and empathy between himself and the client, and through a focused outcomes-led process, issues can be addressed, limiting behaviour’s and beliefs examined and solutions with agreed courses of action undertaken. In this way, individuals have an opportunity for genuine and lasting change.
Stephen helped to design and then delivered “Performance Coaching” in 1995 whilst at Impact; delivering much of the coaching programs that underpinned the change in culture at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Stephen designed and delivered the trainer training events for the senior RBS coaches becoming the first executive coach assigned to the Bank in 1996.