The Team

Lindsey Moore

Rob Stone

  Kay Maybin  

Rob Pugh

Brian Watt

David Lidbetter

 

LINDSEY MOORE - MBA

Summary

Lindsey has 18 years' experience in organisation and management development. She is passionate about helping organisations to create positive climates that enable every individual to contribute to their full potential. Areas of particular expertise are the design and implementation of performance management processes, competence assessment, leadership and team development and creative thinking.  She is also a skilled facilitator, particularly focussing on team start-up and progress review workshops. She has considerable experience in training in-house facilitators as part of organisation change initiatives. She has helped a number of organisations to introduce performance management systems and develop the necessary leadership and coaching skills to ensure their success. Lindsey is an NLP Master Practitioner and qualified to use MBTI and PRISM psychometric instruments.  She tutors on the Open University Business School MBA Creativity and Change module and has recently authored two on-line learning programmes within the OUBS suite of continuing professional development programmes. She currently has clients in the UK, USA and UAE.

Background

Before moving into the training and development arena, Lindsey gained management experience in a range of industry sectors including executive selection, manufacturing and retail in the UK and Australia. She then spent eight years in the NHS, eventually being appointed as Training Manager of Coventry Health Authority. After gaining her MBA, she joined the GEC Management College as a Tutor/Consultant. During her six years in this role she provided consultancy and training support to a range of GEC businesses and other large organisations in the UK and overseas. She designed and managed development programmes accredited by two UK universities and also pioneered the use of creative learning activities within her own organisation. She established Moore Training & Development in 2000 and has recently developed partnerships with consultancies in Dublin and Dubai.

Key Skills

  • Culture change consultancy
  • Leadership Development
  • Project team start-up and teambuilding
  • Assessment and Development Centres
  • Senior management development programmes
  • Design and implementation of performance management systems
  • Facilitating strategic planning meetings
  • Teaching creative thinking techniques
  • Trainer and facilitator training
  • Personal skills development

 

 

ROB STONE – MSc

Summary

Rob has 20 years experience in project management, operations management and organisation and management development.  He has been a projects director with two blue chip companies and has project managed several change management programmes.  Rob is a passionate believer in capability development, both from an organisation perspective and from an individual perspective.  He led the development and company-wide implementation of a competency development framework and delivered key elements of a project management and middle management development programme.  He also spent four years with GEC Management College, developing and delivering core project management and senior management development programmes.  However, first and foremost Rob is a project management professional, with a successful track record of delivering engineering projects across the aerospace, defence, telecommunications and technology domains. Areas of expertise are particularly focused in the areas of project management methods and techniques, but also in the areas of leadership and change management.

Background

Before moving in to the training and consultancy arena, Rob spent his career in a variety of project management or operations management roles.  He spent 5 years in a project management role with Smiths Industries before moving to GEC Management College as a tutor/consultant, where he designed and delivered training courses for project managers and functional directors.  Rob then moved into one of the GEC businesses, Marconi Communications, working in senior project roles within the Asia Pacific region and within the global supply chain.  Rob then joined QinetiQ, where he was employed in variety of roles, including Head of Programmes, Operations Manager, Programme Manager and Projects Director.  During his time at QinetiQ, Rob led several key programmes for the company, either as complex engineering projects, process improvement projects, or change management projects.

Key Skills

  • Change management
  • Project leadership, project management and risk management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Competency Assessment and Development
  • Course design and development
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • CMMI

 

 

 

KAY MAYBIN – MBA, BSc(Psych)

Summary

Kay is an experienced Management Development Consultant with over 15 years experience of working with clients to help facilitate organisational change with individuals, teams and functions to meet business needs. Kay has held Senior Management Development roles within industries from the following sectors; Telecommunications, Defence and Retail with experience of working in a global environment. She has extensive experience in leadership and team development, change management and project management of key projects such as performance management, competency development and coaching for senior managers.

Background

Kay spent 4 years as a Tutor/Consultant at GEC Management College, designing and delivering senior management programmes for blue chip companies within and outside the GEC group.  She was then appointed as Learning and Organisational Development Manager for Marconi Communications.  She then moved into the hospitality industry, first as Human Resources Consultant for Scottish and Newcastle Retail with responsibility for the design and implementation of the talent and succession management strategy across the Retail Division and then as Talent Project Manager for the Spirit Group where she designed and implemented talent and succession strategies

Since 2005, Kay has been provided consultancy support to clients in the retail, construction, telecommunications and airport services industries and also in the public sector. She has become particularly known for her work in the areas of design and delivery of assessment and development centres, 1:1 coaching, change management and leadership and team development.

Kay has a Degree (Hons) in Psychology, an MBA and is Level A and B qualified in psychometric testing, including MBTI (Step 1 and 2), Hogan, OPQ and Firo ‘B’

 

 

DAVID LIDBETTER, MCIPD

Summary

David is a skilled management development consultant and coach with over 14 years’ experience.  His ability to balance support and challenge is particularly valued in his work as an executive coach.  He has undertaken work for clients in the UK, USA and France. He has also worked with managers from Bangladesh, China, Germany, Israel and Oman. David is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (MCIPD). In addition to designing and delivering modular programmes, workshops and one-to-one sessions for senior and middle managers, David has managed major customer accounts and worked with clients from the defence, telecom, manufacturing and leisure industries. He is qualified and experienced in the use of a range of psychometric instruments in his work including OPQ, MBTI and ASE Emotional Intelligence.

Background

From an early career in design engineering, David moved into a training & development role at the GEC Management College, Dunchurch before becoming an independent consultant in 2000.

Key Skills

·        Identification of development needs at an individual, group and organisational level

·        Management, design and delivery of workshops and programmes that support organisational objectives, strategy and values

·        Mentoring or Coaching support for senior managers

·        Personal Skills: Developing interpersonal skills and confidence

·        Negotiation training

·        Design and management of Assessment and Development centres

 

 

ROB PUGH

Summary

Rob is an experiential development trainer. He is also qualified to teach a wide range of outdoor activities and uses the outdoors as the medium for learning in the majority of his training programmes. Rob qualified as a teacher in 1992 and worked in outdoor centres for 7 years. He became self- employed in 1999 in order to pursue his main interests, namely experiential development training and mountaineering instruction.

Style

Rob's style of delivery is relaxed, friendly and informal and he has a flexible approach as situations can develop rapidly in the experiential training environment. "An appropriate level of challenge is the key for successful use of experiential learning; fun and humour being other core ingredients. The outdoors is a great medium for individuals and teams to strive to reach their full potential and provides an excellent environment for positive, long-lasting learning."

 

 

 

BRIAN WATT - BSc MDA CEng MIEE

Summary

Brian Watt is a Chartered Engineer with a successful track record at senior management level in both the public and private sectors. He has vast implementation experience in project management, strategic business development, procurement, contracting and sub-contracting. His experience has been gained whilst making "bottom line" improvements within large multi-nationals and small privately owned businesses. He has led multi-disciplined teams on major negotiations in the Far East, the North American Continent and throughout Europe.

Background

Brian’s teaching and consultancy skills were honed whilst heading up the Commercial Consultancy and Tutoring Group for GEC at their management college at Dunchurch. Delivering a range of open and bespoke programmes his client list includes all the major arms of the former GEC conglomerate as well as the John Lewis Partnership, the Institute of Quarrying, BNFL, the BBC and a UK Constabulary. In this role he concentrated on enhancing the commercial awareness and acumen of Project and Engineering Managers. Also, he designed and gained academic accreditation for the MBA in Commercial Management and has taught at Masters level as a guest tutor in the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing and as an associate tutor of Coventry and Southampton Universities. Also, he is an associate tutor of Cranfield Institute of Technology.

His taught portfolio covers the commercial aspects of the project life cycle and includes:

  • Prospecting - Identifying Business Opportunities Business
  • Opportunity Analysis Tendering and the Management of Risk
  • Contract Law and Negotiation
  • Export Credit Insurance and Finance
  • Export Procedures and Documentation
  • Purchasing and Supply
  • Tendering for Capital Goods Exports and Overseas Projects
  • Ministry of Defence - Contract terms & conditions
  • Procurement Management
  • Sub-contract management