Biographies
Shelley brings over 20 years experience of working within the I.T Sector where she has developed and led numerous leading edge Assessment Centres, Development Centres, Graduate Recruitment Programmes and Business Development initiatives. With a background in Sales, Operations and Development, she quickly understands the varied and different needs within a business which allows her to translate and ensure those needs are met through compelling, bespoke and sustainable solutions. Shelley's customer and people centric approach has made her a key part of the Mentor Account Management team and her experience in managing complex, high impact programmes means she is also an integral part of our Core Project Management team.
Simon has extensive international experience of leadership and talent development at all organisational levels. A particular interest is the link between effective leadership and organisational performance. With 15 years experience in senior sales roles in the FMCG industry, Simon brings a strong commercial understanding and focus to his clients with experience across the public and private sectors. He has an MSc in the Psychology of Performance, is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, a qualified Myers Briggs Practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management.
Simon is a regular speaker at conferences and is a member of the Professional Speakers Association. He is the bestselling author of 3 books (‘Bare Knuckle Selling’, ‘Bare Knuckle Negotiating’ and ‘The Inner Winner’) and co-author of ‘Bare Knuckle Customer Service’. Simon has a high-energy, inspirational and practical “down to earth” style and approach.
Lesley is a passionate, decisive, influencer with the ability to lead, develop and engage people at all levels. Over 10 years experience as an organisational development and training professional with a track record of facilitating culture change resulting in high-level performance improvement.
Lesley’s achievements include - Development and facilitation of employee development programmes aimed at fast tracking potential leaders and raising the capability of managers at all levels; Design & development of a ‘Coping with Change’ programme within an insurance company; Delivery of successful values alignment programmes resulting in culture and behavioural change; Coaching Senior Managers to challenge the status quo, make proactive decisions, manage change to lead with integrity; Transforming an underperforming TUPED workforce into a successful team where everyone’s efforts contributed to service excellence and improved profitability; Delivered massive step change programme achieving 7.4% cost savings to secure 160-million contract extension; Introduction of a Wellness Programme, resulting in £0.7 million cost savings; Design and delivery of a modular programme to develop leadership skills in a multinational accountancy firm.
Neil is one of the original founders of Mentor Group, establishing this unique organisation in 1996. He is also one of the three consulting directors of Mentor today, alongside Chris Norton and Jim McManus. As Managing Director of Mentor Group Ltd, Neil provides direction, sound governance and access to the latest thinking for clients. As a consultant, he leads and develops Mentor’s capability in Organisational Development. His substantial experience has been gained in the IT industry, in sales and general management including time served as UK Sales Director and International Operations Vice-President. Much of this was spent in Western Europe, the Far East and the USA. Neil provides heavyweight support to FTSE and specialist clients in strategic Talent Management, global Leadership Development, Assessment and Development Centres and Change Facilitation Programmes.
Debby is a specialist in the areas of Personal Effectiveness and Business Development. She spent 13 years in the pharmaceutical industry within the commercial arena working with key opinion leaders. Her particular focus is High Impact Communications and Service Excellence. Her emphasis is on enabling managers to get the most from their teams by helping them with the ‘people dimension’. With bespoke Mentor programmes, Debby has created and delivered advanced communication skills capability that meets clients’ required key performance measures. Her world-wide delivery of specialist programmes has transformed the communication between non-technical people and highly specialist individuals such as scientists and engineers in numerous high profile organisations.
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