Principal Consultant BA, MBA, FRSA Originally trained as a banker, Ian worked in the Barclays Bank Group for 17 years. He was relationship director for Shell and a number of other oil and natural resource companies for five years. In that time he led the bank’s involvement in the Rabi project in Gabon as well as being responsible for the group’s lending exposure to Shell. As one of the key outcomes from a project he led concerned with the development of sales management, he introduced coaching into the bank. He has since developed a range of coaching programmes for clients and is coach to a number of directors and aspiring leaders in the private and public sectors. In his next role, he was responsible for developing the strategic planning infrastructure in the Investment Banking Division’s most profitable business unit. As part of this, he was responsible for successfully integrating the component cultures when two divisions were amalgamated. At the same time, he coordinated a programme of scenario development which anticipated major discontinuities in the market, enabling the business to take advantage of volatile conditions and achieve record profits. His final position was as Director of one of the first Innovation Units to be established in Europe. This team undertook one of the first competency studies in the financial services industry, and also ran projects for a range of third parties in the private and voluntary sector. As a consultant he has worked extensively with clients in financial services, energy, aerospace, IT and the public sector, specializing in organisation development, strategic innovation leadership and coaching. His clients include companies in the FTSE and Fortune 100; in the public sector he has worked with leadership teams in some of the best schools in the country and has also worked on key projects for the Department for Education and Skills Innovation Unit. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005.    |
