Neil Osment
 

Neil’s main services include:

• Executive coaching. Helping senior Managers of SME’s work through the issues that are holding them back, and achieve “breakthrough”
• “Hunting Elephants” – a unique approach for prospecting where Neil’s team approach major users and undertake face-to-face interviews. This ensures best “Fit”, and support client’s to better understand their prospects.
• NOA telecommunications service. A service to help support customers to kick-start the sales & marketing process. This service can provide:-

1. Prospect development from “freezing” to “hot”
2. “Mystery shopper” surveys
3. Customer surveys
4. Relationship management for small clients

• Facilitated reviews – a programme to help clients burst through their “glass ceiling” and set a plan for the next few years.

Before becoming a consultant, Neil enjoyed a successful career in the packaging industry (Paper, Print & Plastics) operating to Sales Director & General Manager level. He has dealt with medium & large FMCG companies. Clients included:-

Unilever, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, Budweiser, Britvic Soft Drinks, Mars Confectionery, Robinsons Drinks, DS Smith Packaging, and S.C.Johnson

Neil now supports clients to review their business plans, grow sales, explore new markets & develop new business. Neil has helped many clients with results that include:-

• Growth into a new market and achieving sales of over £250k in 2 years
• Development of sales into 3 business channels, increasing sales by 400%
• Setting up a prospecting programme for a client, and identifying over £5m worth of new business
• Mentoring & coaching several Directors of multi-million £ businesses

Steve Hemmings

Following a career working in HR Steve Hemmings has gained extensive experience as an international facilitator and coach working as a freelance consultant. He is equally comfortable working one to one on individual coaching assignments or delivering workshops and seminars with large numbers where team competition and participant lead learning form the core methodology.

His most recent work has centred on delivering workshops that increase financial and business acumen from building the basics to achieving advanced understanding and then integrating the learning into team or individual development plans. These workshops have been based on business simulations that use a powerful and challenging learning methodology enabling participants to explore financial and non financial business issues in a safe laboratory style environment.

Recent client work has included Motorola, Cisco Systems, BP and Rolls-Royce and he is used to working with multi disciplinary/cultural groups having worked in the US, throughout Europe, the Middle East and in India.
 

Dawn Gould

Dawn is a versatile, self motivated professional with experience across both the private and public sector. She has gained experience project managing, designing and delivering learning in a wide range of subject areas; internationally and the UK. She has extensive experience working at all levels within the organisation. Her style is pragmatic, creative and utilises participation of the group and individual.

Her specialist skills include:
• Coaching towards performance
• Performance management
• Developing leaders
• Managing team performance
• Frontline customer satisfaction
• N.L.P Practitioner
• Qualified & Accredited Strength Deployment Inventory ©(S.D.I)
• Qualified & Accredited Situational Leadership ©Ken Blanchard
• Saville & Holdsworth Psychometric Testing & Personal Profile

Avril Porter

Avril Porter supports managers on a one-to-one basis in managing their people more effectively and profitably by coaching and advising them through specific issues that arise. 
This may mean providing learning and practical changes to enable you to:
• Make yours a workplace that people are proud to work for, where their talents can develop and where they’re motivated to go that extra mile. 
• Make your recruitment more effective and improve your interview skills.
• Adapt your employment practices so they comply with employment legislation while tailored to your organisation’s culture. 
• Manage staff problems more effectively and less stressfully.
• Avoid employment tribunal cases.
• Set boundaries so your people know the rules, values and behaviour you expect. 

Avril’s earlier career has included a successful track record as a senior Human Resources professional, partnering and advising managers in a variety of fast-paced and client facing businesses, and as a Management Development specialist championing coaching, designing learning events and delivering workshops.