Phil Sampson
Phil Sampson is an expert strategist who has a deep understanding of Leadership, Organisational Culture, Incident Management and Cyber Security and how they influence organisational development and future success.
He joined the Royal Marines in 1978 having been brought up in Kenya. Phil had a diverse and interesting military career as a counter terrorism expert, he served in Whitehall during the 9/11 attacks and was later seconded to the Security Service where he was prominent in founding the strategically important UK Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. Whilst there he was the author of the National Security threat levels before working with the US National Counter Terrorist Center. He later commanded the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines and Royal Marines Tyne.
Phil left the Royal Marines in 2009 to found Sampson Hall Ltd, an organisation that delivers success to modern organisations using lessons drawn from the military, Government and business.
Today his expertise delivers strategy, leadership, teamwork, cultural change and compliance work into private, third and public sector organisations. He is a dynamic and engaging speaker and facilitator and will lead any group to their chosen end state or desired outcome.
Phil believes that organisational development and transformation is achieved through the development of people and he utilises proven metrics and analysis such as i3 profiling, Mental Toughness, developed with Sir Clive Woodward, plus Sampson Hall’s Gordian Model to enhance and importantly evidence this. These tools help an organisation recognise and develop talent and opportunities that exist within it.
As a coach Phil has worked globally with senior leaders in developing their leadership style, personal branding and strategic understanding. He is a performance coach who focuses on delivering the desired outcomes through coaching and mentoring programmes.
Phil has a level 7 Certificate in Leadership and Management, is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM) and a Member of the Association of Professional Coaches, Trainers and Consultants.
To get in touch with Phil, please use the contact form here.
Susanne Brown
Susanne has over 25 years’ experience working within the recruitment and employability sector, and as a Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation has subsequently established herself as a highly respected and accomplished recruiter, adviser and career/ outplacement coach.
Susanne has worked in successful partnership with many national and small to medium organisations, offering bespoke recruitment solutions and career / outplacement coaching to employers and individuals seeking work. Adding greater value, her contacts benefit from a variety of events hosted through her long-standing relationship with the Muckle LLP Employment Law Team.
Combined with her experience & achievements Susanne has a natural ability to work alongside individuals & businesses providing practical advice, encouragement & inspiration, effectively supporting a variety of talent management projects.
As a coach and adviser her aspiration is to help businesses recognise people as individuals, understand the value of assessments within the recruitment process & how to get the ‘right fit’ when identifying talent. A traditional one size fits all approach does not work!
Endorsed by her recent qualification CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management Coaching and Mentoring, she places great value and personal satisfaction in being able to help people become more self-aware; recognising the unique strengths and potential they have to offer, increasing self-belief, authenticity and focusing their own thoughts towards clarifying the way forward with confidence.Susanne set up her own company Brown’s Recruitment & Training Consultancy around 9 years ago and is one of the longest standing associates of i3. Working with the i3 assessment tools unifies her values of creating a strength-based culture; aspiring to help businesses and independent trainers/coaches/recruiters identify and deliver effective talent management solutions and grow through the success, happiness and fulfillment of people.
Susanne is i3’s lead Trainer and Account Manager delivering training, support and guidance across all the assessment outputs; i3 recruit; i3 profiling’ i3 dynamix; i3 career direction.
To get in touch with Susanne, please use the contact form here.
Andrew Pearce
Andrew Pearce is a Certified Trainer of NLP, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist with over 20 years experience and a Registered Clinical Supervisor. His experience includes supporting individuals and couples with a wide range of issues.
He also works as a personal and professional development coach often with senior managers & executives.
Andrew worked for M&S for 15 years in a range of HR roles in the UK and Irish Republic, latterly in the area of management development for the top 50 managers in the Northeast, often supporting managers through organisational change.
Prior to that he was a Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy.
With his broad spectrum of professional expertise and understanding, he works in a wide variety of areas (including public & private sector), particularly facilitating change with individuals & groups.
He is actively involved in Mediation, Critical Incident support and Collaborative Family Law.
Areas of particular interest include; the impact of change, building resilience, conflict resolution and working to destigmatise mental health and minimise its impact.
He has been interviewed on local & national radio and television on the subject of Life Balance and spoken at Oxford University & Newcastle MBA School about the impact of ambiguity & uncertainty on team dynamics and enabling resilience.
As a long-standing practitioner of the i3 assessment tool, his aim is to increase choice for individuals and teams who want the freedom to be authentically who they really are.
He lives & works at a smallholding on top of the North Pennines with his wife, 4 children and numerous animals beyond the back of beyond & just this side of chaos!
To get in touch with Andrew, please use the contact form here.
Debbie Palmer
Debbie is an experienced i3 coach, working with the tool since 2010.
Coming from a background in marketing and brand development before qualifying as an Executive Coach in 2009, Debbie chose to train in i3 because of the individuality of each profile. In combination with her work around strengths and her coaching programmes focussing on personal leadership, she uses i3 to get to the heart of her clients instincts and understand how these play out in their everyday interactions.
Debbie specialises in engagement, motivation and wellbeing at work. She has used the i3 profile with hundreds of clients and numerous teams to help develop greater self awareness and better working relationships.
To get in touch with Debbie, please use the contact form here.
David Cliff
Dr David Cliff is Managing Director of Gedanken and an award winning business mentor!
But…behind the titles and positions is a man who thrives on using his decades of experience, including senior manager posts across the public and private sectors, to help to make a difference to the lives and careers of others.
David’s 30-plus years of experience in business and executive coaching, mediation, counselling, organisational support and individual personal development has seen many thousand hours of face to face practice with people from virtually every work and management discipline. His experience well-places him to coach leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals. He takes a particular interest in those facing strategic issues, including programmes of change or undergoing a significant personal transition. He was named Business Mentor of the Year in 2017 by the Entrepreneurs Forum
During his career, David has experienced working in legal services, insurance, health and social care, counselling, psychotherapy, and business support.
David became Managing Director of Wearside-based Gedanken in 2006. As well as this post, he is a previous vice chair in the north east for a three-year tenure and a board member with the dual ambassadorial brief of Mentoring and Business Crime reduction. He has also sat on a number of boards, including the chairmanship of a policy Home Office Policy Group. He is a Trust Board member of Durham University’s Josephine Butler College. He is a full member of the Association for Coaching and is accredited as a senior practitioner with BACP.
His career in health and social care has included management of services for the NHS and for Durham County Council. A lifelong learner, David has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), and a Professional Doctorate in Leadership Studies (DBA).
Away from the workplace, and sometimes within it, David is a supporter of a number of charities, as well as being passionate about issues such as promoting business growth, mental health, civil rights, arts and culture, animal welfare and social justice.
David is also an enthusiastic writer and regular contributor in Northern Insight, and on platforms such as HR Zone, the manufacturer and BQ He is a regular contributor to the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Magazine (CILEX). Subject matter has included subjects as diverse as Leadership and organisational change, HS2, the future of the North-East economy, and the correlation between mental well-being, performance and technology. Courtesy and strong business ethics are vitally important values to David, evidenced in many of his written works.
To get in touch with David, please use the contact form here.
Allena Clarke
Allena has a career spanning over 32 years within the recruitment and head-hunting space with a pillar of expertise utilising the i3 tools over the last 10 years.
As the North East Non-Exec Director of the Recruitment Employment Confederation lobbying parliament on behalf of her follow REC professionals she established her Non-Exec Career as an addition to the many board level roles she’s held over the years with International, National and SME businesses.
She has successfully partnered many diverse organisations including DHL Express and 3T Energy Group (Internationally as well as nationally, therefore is mindful of the effect of tailoring the delivery across Country and local nuances) to provide Exec level coaching using i3 Profiling to assist the coaching process and provide an open honest ‘safe’ environment encouraging individuals to flourish whilst providing ROI for client companies.
Whilst studying at Masters level within the Internationally renown Durham Business School she also completed training to become an i3 Associate and her adoption of this as her preferred tool-set to commence and assist Executive level coaching has given her many hours of feedback expertise.
During 2020 Allena’s experience within coaching and development have enhanced her ability to provide Career Coaching as well as honest forthright support for a wide audience of individuals and organisations.
A licenced NLP Practitioner she is constantly refreshing her own knowledge with trainings and coaching and provides Executive Search Assignments.
As a volunteer Enterprise advisor for SEND education establishments Allena’s passion for equality and opportunity shine through.
To get in touch with Allena, please use the contact form here.
Chitupa Mung’omba
Chitupa aka Chi-Chi : Leadership Coach, International Consultant, Author, MSc. Int’l Trade & Finance Lancaster, UK; Masters French, La Sorbonne, France; B.A Economics, B.A French, SMU, US. Certified ICF Coach, Certified Martha Beck Master Coach.
Chitupa has been a Master Certified Coach for over twelve years. She is also an International Business Consultant and has worked in most Continents of the world structuring financial and business deals for clients and assisting them in expanding globally. Prior to that she worked in corporate at Senior leadership level, heading up an M&A team and then at Board level of a bank where she served for over 5 years heading up their strategy committee. Her speciality is in the financial services sector though she has “happy” experiences across many sectors, as she has carried out consultancy work across many industries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Indian Ocean islands.
Chitupa is passionate about partnering with leaders of industry and their teams to explore and implement their leadership and culture strategy which are all pivotal parts of their greater organisational strategy. She believes that leaders as the decision makers have to not only have a heightened awareness of the intricate organisational and employee needs, but also have to take responsibility and be 100% committed to all stakeholders, compassionately and ethically. Her forte is in designing and co-creating with her clients leadership development as well as culture programmes aligned to ensuring that their organisational, culture and business strategies come to life and that leaders and their teams find innovative and energised ways to create an organisation where everyone feels they are uniquely and fully contributing to the organisation’s legacy. The ultimate goal is for leadership to set the behavioural, attitudinal and mindset tone of a value based organisation, translating into better qualitative and quantitative results.
Chitupa takes executives and their teams on a leadership journey embedding a model she developed called the ARTE- ™ model of Awareness, Responsibility, and Transformation through the use of renewed Energy. Chitupa became an accredited i3 coach in 2011, is also a published author and loves writing leadership thought papers. She has three wonderful daughters, is a health enthusiast, loves to explore walking trails, is energised by travel and lives happily in London.
To get in touch with Chitupa, please use the contact form here.
Kate Hargreaves
Kate Hargreaves is the Founder and Managing Director of Mosaic Partners Ltd, a specialist People and Organisational Development Agency, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Mosaic Partners is a registered partner centre of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and a recognised Coaching and Training Organisation for the Association of Coaching (AC), the UK’s leading professional body for coaches. Mosaic Partner’s sweet spot is helping organisations to improve leadership, cultivate positive behaviours and shape brilliant organisational cultures through targeted coaching and development interventions.
A skilled and intuitive executive coach and management consultant, Kate creates safe spaces quickly, guiding people to engage in the conversations that really matter, empowering and motivating teams to commit and take action towards the attainment of collective goals and ambitions, from a position of clarity and well-being.
Kate’s approach is always to listen first, explore the world of her client then design and deliver a bespoke highly targeted response to achieve the required impact and outcomes. She most enjoys holding tensions and creating perspective shifts to produce breakthroughs, leading to transformational change and enhanced performance. Clients report that these bespoke interventions continue to have sustained impact over time. Deeply passionate about supporting individuals and teams to tap into their infinite potential, she offers integrated project solutions and coaching in line with organisational needs, empowering businesses to achieve success and growth through their people.
Kate completed her professional qualifications, including an MBA and a Post Graduate Certificate in Post Compulsory Education and Training, at Northumbria University’s highly regarded Newcastle Business School. She is currently training as a Psychotherapist with Northern Guild, one of the UK’s leading training schools for Psychotherapists and Counsellors.
Kate is an Events Organiser and Contributor for the Association for Coaching, and a proud Trustee of the West End Women and Girls Centre, a charity based in the West End of Newcastle, aimed at driving positive change in the world, the local community and in women and girl’s lives.
To get in touch with Kate, please use the contact form here.
David Charlton
David Charlton supports executives and athletes to be the best version of themselves that they can be by improving their Mental Toughness and Resilience.
As an executive coach, and a HCPC Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist he has a proven ability to combine vision and creativity to develop, implement and evaluate psychological skills training programmes for business leaders, managers or athletes. David is highly motivated to help you achieve results, quickly where he specialises in the following main areas:
- Preventing, managing and recovering from burnout
- Helping newly appointed managers to perform to their optimum
- Developing outstanding leadership skills
He has a comprehensive knowledge around the development of Mental Toughness, a plastic personality trait, which determines or limits people to deal effectively with change, challenges and stressors. In today’s fast paced and changing world this quality is becoming more and more valuable to individuals and organisations. As a licensed user for the psychometric tool, MTQ Plus David can provide quantifiable measurability at the start, middle and end of coaching programmes.
David couples this approach, where people can clearly see a return on investment (ROI) with innovative and “different” coaching sessions some of which are in outdoor environments, away from the workplace. Which can make the learning experience much more enjoyable and engaging, as it nurtures creativity, allowing people to relax and share more about their “real” selves.
He likes to keep things simple, helping you learn practical strategies combining personal insights along with cutting edge tools from elite professional sport, occupational psychology and neuroscience to create and sustain high levels of performance.
David is a member of the British Psychological Society and is also actively involved with Sport Tynedale’s committee.
To get in touch with David, please use the contact form here.
Barbara Wilson
Barbara offers over 30 years of industry-based experience in various Management, Coaching & Consultancy roles in the UK & Overseas which include the Emergency Services, MoD (Tri Service) as a Coach and Outplacement Placement specialist, Manufacturing, Engineering, Customer Service Industries and Further / Higher Education.
Barbara is qualified to master’s degree level in Business Management and is adept at identifying team and organisational development needs along with designing bespoke training for employers, business professionals and aspiring managers. Her approach is to first to listen, to ensure a full understanding of the customers needs then, offering customised solutions that will have a tangible and positive impact.
Barbara’s business knowledge & specialist skills set includes: i3 profiling, team dynamics, coaching/developing new & existing managers, strategic project management, facilitation, bespoke course design including CMI Management along with organisational growth/business development, career transition/coaching (outplacement), psychometrics (various tools), coaching, mentoring (new business), train the trainer, equality & diversity and conflict management.
To get in touch with Barbara, please use the contact form here.
Beverly Sherratt
Beverly has over 25 years’ experience working nationally and locally across many large and small industries, with significant experience in not for profit, criminal justice, education, and marketing sectors as an organisation development and design specialist. A research project into the impact of organisation culture on mental health and well-being led by Beverly underpins her work as a specialist with a passion for organisation culture, behaviour and design. She works with businesses to help them to understand their culture and behaviours, and to engage staff through clear vision, values and behaviours. Using i3 as a consultant and facilitator, she works with teams to simplify understanding of team dynamics and behaviours to reduce conflict moving forward to collaborative working.
Beverly is Co-founder of LaunchPad Associates which specialises in people and business development.
Working with businesses key areas of work include: building trust within teams, collaborative working programmes, self-awareness programmes, confidence building, organisation design, developing behavioural competencies and behavioural recruitment, together with wellbeing audits and strategy. Beverly loves working with organisations during significant change or critical stages of team development. She has managed many TUPE transfers and the impact of growth, downsizing and rebuilding.
Beverly provides career direction coaching as early intervention for individuals facing burnout in the workplace, and those at a crossroads in their career. She also works with universities to support employability programmes for students and young people.
She qualified in 1997 with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) – MA HRM at Sunderland University, and trained in coaching via Institute of Leadership and Management and The Coaching Academy, and Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP). Her professional bodies are the CIPD and The Association for NLP.
To get in touch with Beverly, please use the contact form here.
Christina Gates
As an experienced senior leader and coach, Christina understands how to effectively and sustainably help people to help themselves and ensure they are equipped with the insight and tools they need to keep moving forward. Christina has worked successfully with individuals, teams and organisations to bring about change, through utilising her wide ranging experience and the many skills and tools she has to pull on, including i3 Profiling, Team Dynamics and Career Direction.
Christina has worked across the public, private and non-profit sectors supporting and enabling change successfully and collaboratively within organisations. She has significant experience of working with the NHS and Social Care on a wide range of change and organisation development programmes, as well as working with the private, third and charity sectors. Additionally, Christina has over 25 years’ experience of working in the Social Housing sector.
With a sensitive, highly intuitive and down to earth approach, Christina works in collaboration with her clients, building a strong and effective learning partnership. She is a fully qualified/highly experienced Leadership and Development Coach, an Executive Team Coach, a Licensed Practitioner of NLP and a creative and skilled facilitator and trainer.
Beyond her independent business, Christina is actively committed to her role as the Co-Chair of a dynamic charity providing advocacy and support to people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable groups.
To get in touch with Christina, please use the contact form here.
Sandra Sampson
Sandra began her career in the Veterinary arena in 1982 where she quickly realised she had a keen interest in developing people. This led her to take up a lecturing role at Bicton College of Agriculture where she was quickly promoted to becoming the first female Head of Department. During this role Sandra underwent an RSA qualification in Counselling Skills in order to better support young people in her pastoral care.
In 2013 Sandra joined her husband Phil and became a Director in Sampson Hall, an organisation that focusses on individual and organisational development. An accredited i3 profiler and a Coach and Mentor she works with senior executives and teams, leads on Women in Business programmes and is also an expert on Data Protection and the new GDPR regulations.
Sandra is also a Director of Sampson Hall’s sister company, Motiv-8sw. This organisation runs programmes that help the more vulnerable, disengaged and disenfranchised members of our society, who are struggling to fulfil their potential. Their programmes utilise coach and mentoring techniques to improve confidence, self-esteem, leadership and communication skills, giving every participant a tool kit that will empower and lead them back into employment or further training.
To get in touch with Sandra, please use the contact form here.
Charlotte Angus
As a coach and people development specialist, Charlotte works with leaders to develop their ability to lead well. Reflecting on her own experience as a leader, Charlotte recognises both the privilege, and the responsibility leadership brings in enabling the performance and wellbeing of their teams and the organisation. There is no one right way of leading, so Charlotte’s aim as a coach is to work with leaders individually and in groups to explore and understand themselves, then their context to find their right way to lead so they, their teams and organisation thrive.
Charlotte utilises i3 profile as part of her coaching and development programmes, in her experience the profile is incredibly powerful for developing self-awareness and self-worth which is a strong foundation from which authentic and healthy high performing leadership can grow.
Charlotte has almost 20 years’ experience in people development, consultancy and coaching in the UK and Internationally across a range of industries in the private, public and 3rd Sector. Charlotte holds CMI Level 7 Certificate in Leadership Management and Coaching, Certificate in Team Coaching and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Association for Coaching. Charlotte is a volunteer for both professional bodies, actively supporting the development of the people profession.
Charlotte’s style is described by clients as safe, creative, a balance of high support and high challenge and a platform for enabling tangible change. She offers a range of services from individual, group and team coaching, to workshops, mentoring and event facilitation.
To get in touch with Charlotte, please use the contact form here.
Lynn Conley
Ready2Assist has provided a professional business support service since 2012, covering a diverse range of disciplines, including website design, social media support, email marketing, and administration. Their client base is equally as broad ranging, and includes coaches who provide career guidance, mentoring, leadership and management development, business development, and personal life coaching.
Lynn was introduced to i3 via one of her clients, and decided to embark on the i3 REAL Coach training course to give her the skills to support clients with the report writing element of their projects. She now provides a tailored service to suit all business needs, covering everything from single profiles and small batches, to large groups of reports, allowing a fast turnaround and support with meeting project deadlines.
To get in touch with Lynn, please use the contact form here.
Anth Quinn
Anth’s a business coach with a difference, he focuses on helping the owners of small and medium businesses to redesign their businesses, so that it runs predictably, and profitably, without their direct control.
Running a business is exhilarating and tough. It’s all too easy to be consumed by growth, ending up worn out, stressed, and isolated. Anth specialises in helping business owners to get crystal clear on their ideal lifestyle first, and then design the business to support that.
If the business owner is going to free themselves from the prison a growing business can become, then recruiting the right people can make, or break, their efforts.
Step 1 – recruit people to cover what you’re no good at, or don’t enjoy.
Step 2 – recruit people who are better than you at what you are good at.
Anth uses i3 as one of the keys to helping business owners to know themselves, recruit the best people for any role, and get the best out of their team.
He also combines his understanding of NLP, i3, advertising, and marketing to help small businesses attract the right clients, and customers, without wasting money on poor ads and time networking.
To get in touch with Anth, please use the contact form here.
Alice Carroll
Alice Carroll is the Founder of Hummingbee Works – Mental Wealth Investors.
She collaborates with organisations to raise engagement, productivity, and performance by investing in people’s mental wealth. Hummingbee Works run group coaching programmes to create awareness, connection and build resilience, using simple psychoeducation, behavioural and coaching techniques.
Invest in people to play their best game. They will raise their game and the rest will rise with it!
i3 plays an integral part in this service as it provides that common language, awareness and understanding of our own behaviours, the impact we have on others and the power of a connected team.
Champion of all things people – Alice has spent 20 years in the training and coaching arena.
She has spent time and gained valuable experience in both camps, having been an in-house People and Training Director and a Training and Coaching consultant. This enables her to bring a balanced and refreshing perspective to your challenges.
She sees herself as a people translator! A modern languages degree and 3 years living and working in Europe and Asia, equipped her with the skills to translate and interpret different perspectives and explore the brilliant ideas and results that come out of them.
With its values of share, play and empower, Alice brings mental wealth coaching to life, making the entire experience accessible, impactful, challenging, and fun.
Expanding the i3 network: Alice has been a strong advocate of i3 since she became an i3 client in 2014 and subsequently a coach in 2015. She is also making in-roads into developing a southern network of i3 coaches, so do get in contact if you would like to know more.
To get in touch with Alice, please use the contact form here.
Jo Cameron
Jo is an accomplished HR and Recruitment Specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the industry. She has gained extensive commercial experience within fast moving environments including an Awarding Organisation, Telecommunications, Financial Services and IT Outsourcing industries in the UK. She also spent 3 years in Australia as an Account Manager recruiting for the NSW Government.
An award-winning businesswoman, Jo became self-employed in 2013 after following her ambition to make HR Practical, Simple and Human for businesses.
Jo is now the proud Co-founder of LaunchPad Associates which specialises in people and business development support services including:
- Operational HR Support
- Organisation Development
- Business Mentoring
- Outplacement and Career Planning
- i3 Profiling, i3 Recruit, i3 Team Dynamix and i3 Career Direction
Jo has worked with a number of schools and colleges to deliver Employability sessions and has been an Associate Employability Lecturer for the University of Sunderland for 5 years. She is passionate about helping young people to get the best start in employment, by providing career direction coaching and support. Her latest role is Professional Accreditation Mentor supporting Newcastle University Business School students who are studying on the EMBA and MSc Strategic Leadership courses.
Jo has a BA (Hons) in Human Resource Management and IT, from the University of Sunderland and went on to study her Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources at the University of Northumbria. Jo has an enhanced DBS Check and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Jo’s passion to support the local business community is also emphasised in her role as owner of the coworking company Colleagues on Tap, which aims to combat the isolation of being a lone worker for small business owners, freelancers and homeworkers.
To get in touch with Jo, please use the contact form here.
Kevin Maddison
Kevin has over 25 years’ experience working nationally and internationally in property development, investment houses, financial services, software solutions as well as with SME’s and start up businesses.
Kevin works to help understand behaviours of individuals inside an organisation to establish the impact on their business environment. Using the i3 methodology as a consultant, and then to facilitate team workshops, he develops the understanding using team relationships and behaviours to improve collaborative working.
Kevin owns Root Cause Consultancy, which specialises in supporting any organisation with their leadership development, management skills and business process improvement, embeds the i3 assessment tools within his coaching practice.
The foundation of all business is based on the people within the organisation, the culture; they have to be aligned to the systems, processes and environment to achieve positive results. People, like systems and processes, need to be very aware of their impact on the business results, so self-awareness is normally the first step, especially with the management teams.
He has worked in many situations where the individuals once armed with clear direction and purpose achieve exceptional changes in their own way.
Kevin’s coal-face experience is complemented with MBA qualifications, to provide trust and confidence when delivering solutions with all the assessment tools; i3 recruit; i3 profiling; i3 dynamix and i3 career direction.
To get in touch with Kevin, please use the contact form here.
Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor is an expert strategist who has a deep understanding of Leadership, Organisational Culture, Strategy, Performance Improvement and Risk and how they influence organisational direction, growth and ultimately success. He is passionate about enabling people and organisations to achieve their true potential.
Simon has built-up substantial experience of managing organisations in the UK and abroad (Australia, New Zealand, UAE and Saudi Arabia), including a number of senior management roles in both the private and public sector, in client, consultant and contractor organisations, across a range of sectors including Utilities, Engineering, Manufacturing, Environmental, Biomedical, Professional. Possessing a comprehensive portfolio of general management, business improvement and governance skills developed in wide-ranging roles in large to SME type organisations. A confident leader experienced at operating at Director/ Board level, providing a wide-ranging contribution to the organization across a number of disciplines including Leadership, Stakeholder Relationships, Business Strategy and Planning, Business Change Management, Performance Improvement, and Business Turnaround.
Comprehensive experience of managing vertical and horizontal relationships with private and public sector stakeholders, as well as the political interface with local, regional and national elected members. Simon has been responsible for leading negotiations with government officials, lenders, partners, contractors, workforces and unions.
In 2017 Simon established his own company, providing support to business owners and management teams in the areas of strategy, leadership, teamwork, cultural change and governance work, as well as providing mentoring to a number of SMEs throughout the region. Simon is a mentor for the NELEP, a Member of the Experience Bank, and in addition holds some Non-Executive Director positions.
Simon has had an extensive experience of different profiling tools over his career and chose to train in i3 as he was highly impressed with the process and the key aspect that i3 looks at the individual, rather than putting the person into a ‘box’ or ‘type’. Simon uses the i3 Profiling to get to the heart of his clients’ instincts and understand how these play out in their everyday interactions, in doing so helping the individual to develop greater self-awareness, leading to better working relationships and outcomes.
Simon has successfully integrated i3 into his portfolio of business ‘tools’ to offer integrated business solutions and mentoring, providing leaders and teams with great awareness and clarity, and a platform upon which businesses can achieve growth and success through their people.
To get in touch with Simon, please use the contact form here.
Jo Corbishley
Jo has over 25 years’ experience working in and around the automotive, logistics and manufacturing industries in the North East; working with Blue Chip organisations such as Nissan UK, Johnson Controls, Komatsu UK and Cummins Engine Company in large scale project management activities. As a member of the Association of Project Management Institute and since relocating to the North West, she has established herself as a highly respected and responsive project manager but more recently; an accomplished teacher trainer in the sector; with a successful record of coaching individuals through their Project Management qualifications.
Her technical background in Engineering, drive for improvement and problem-solving skills have enabled her to transition easily from corporate work into other sectors such as healthcare and even education. Working as a teacher first before being promoted to Director of STEM, coaching young people and helping to improve the college systems have helped to underpin her recent work in the NHS; where working alongside GP practices and their teams, she has helped to improve patient services.
Her natural ability to work alongside and support individuals; and in particular her desire to help young professionals in challenging corporate environments inspired her to look for a tool that could help others to learn and be able to adjust where appropriate, their approach. Gaining a greater self-awareness and being able to appreciate and celebrate a person’s uniqueness has helped Jo to help others to see the impact that a person’s identity can have on them both personally and professionally.
As a coach and adviser her aspiration is to help every individual, she works with to understand who they are so they can then recognise their value and truly make a difference in the field in which they work. Underpinning the use of the specific i3 tools; Profiling and Career Direction with her recent Career Coaching qualification, she is able to coach individuals and facilitate their career decisions through helping them to understand their strengths and the potential they have to offer.
Jo set up her own company two years ago and specialises in Leadership training, Project Management and organizational development. Working with i3 and their suite of tools, has provided another dimension to her already successful business; helping organisations to be able to fully capitalize on their most important assets; their people, by helping them to identify their natural strengths and then utilising them to operate at their most effective and productive.
To get in touch with Jo, please use the contact form here.
John Taylor
John Taylor Performance Psychology Expert. What’s in the bag.
John Taylor focuses on personality profiling, enhanced self-awareness and holistic philosophies, including mindfulness and meditation.
John is a bold and forthright vocal communicator expressing inspirational thoughts with positive intent. John shares many interests studying Buddhaship, Travelling, Playing Sports, Scuba Diving and Skiing. John finds peace through the power of now and has been inspired by many great authors such as Eckhart Tolle The Power Of Now, Seth Godin Tribes, Chogyam Trungpa (Meditation in Action; Shambhala—the Sacred Path of the Warrior). Osel Tendzin (Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand; Space, Time, and Energy).
John is a Master NLP Practitioner, an ex-soldier who served in the Infantry and Royal Artillery for over 15 years; Joh’s military experience allowed him to tap into leadership and management training. John gained vast knowledge in psychology from an early age through travelling the world, learning about different cultures, continually enhancing his profile through personal development.
John left the Army in 2010 to work for a military charity helping veterans suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), Mental Health issues and difficulty adjusting with resettlement into civilian life.
John then turned a lifelong passion for golf into an easy-to-access coaching program. John launched WITB in 2019, with support and assistance from one of golf’s leading psychologists, Dr Joe Parent, author of Zen Golf Master The Mental Game.
John is one of a handful of Zen Golf Associates working in the field of golf performance psychology.
John is particularly interested in working with sporting individuals and teams towards greater levels of self and social awareness, performance and success.
To get in touch with John, please use the contact form here.
