David has extensive global experience of consultancy in leadership and talent development, team dynamics and learning programme direction across a range of industries.
He believes passionately in the value of continuous learning and development as a significant contributor to business performance. With over 20 years of experience in designing, delivering and evaluating development programmes, David designs and facilitates learning processes that are both challenging and supportive, delivering exceptional results.
His extensive client list includes Volvo Truck & Bus, Jaguar Land Rover, Honda (UK), Volkswagen Audi, Network Rail Finance, Standard & Poors (UK, USA & Canada), Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy, Argos, Siemens, Glaxo Smith Kline (Belgium), National Grid, Coutts Private Bank (Switzerland), American Express, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Tenet Group, Co-operative Bank, LV=, Nat West, Zeiss, MD Insurance, the DWP, SITA, etc. David has been a guest speaker at the HR Leaders Forum and two ‘best practice’ case studies have been published about his work with a regional sales team to accelerate performance to exceptional achievements.
David’s practical experience is based on a very successful career in retail and corporate banking, where his successful leadership and development of a number of sales and customer service teams took him into specialist learning and development consultancy and senior leadership roles with Barclays. He successfully led the Learning Design teams and then became Programme Director at Barclays University Business School.
His primary areas of specialisation are:
- Design and facilitation of interventions within the key areas of leadership development, accelerating executive team performance, emotional intelligence, commercial thinking, finance, change leadership, performance management, coaching and talent management.
- High quality facilitation to board level of development interventions ensuring accelerated team and individual development that delivers high performance levels with tangible results.
- As an accomplished and experienced coach, David works with leaders at various stages in their development, with a focus on personal growth to improve individual and business performance and change leadership.
