Our People:  HR Specialists, Coaches and Management Development Trainers,

Kevin Howes:  Senior Consultant , Executive Coach & HR systems specialist

Kevin has more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs. Much of his experience and successes have been in the financial services, IT, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.

His clients tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach to his coaching and mentoring and his knack of quickly pinpointing where and how performance can be improved.

Kevin has achieved a solid track record of delivering results in companies
e.g. Accident Exchange, Barclays, Britax, BT Cellnet (now 02), DaimlerChrysler,
EPSON, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Nortel, Oracle,
Sankyo, TMP Worldwide, and Zurich Financial Services.

Allan James:

Workshop Facilitator, Appreciative enquirer, Change Manager,

Management Development Trainer and HR Mentor

Allan has delivered consulting and facilitation services to leaders and managers in a range of businesses . This has included the telecom, electronics, consulting and IT sectors as well as functional organisations such as HR, Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to this he worked in the FMCG, Retailing, Telecom and Construction/ Civil Engineering industries.

He has focused his expertise in a number of areas: business strategy and planning; organisation design; managing organisational change; executive and manager coaching; Team development; business process improvement.
He has a Master of Science degree in Organisation Consulting and a Diploma in Management Studies. He takes a practical approach in working with clients and it is backed up by a sound knowledge of relevant theory.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.co.uk

Ron Irving: Director Coach, HR Specialist , Experienced Executive Coach, Business Mentor  

Ron has been a management consultant for the last fifteen years working in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. His specialism is Board Level Executive Coaching and Mentoring.  Born in Glasgow, Ron was educated in Scotland, gaining a degree in Business Management from the Scottish Business School.

His focus is directed at helping individuals grow and develop within their business, through intense one to one sessions.  Ron assists the individual to set the agenda according to her or his own needs, so they are dealing with their real concerns and issues. His style is to partner with each client in setting goals and outcomes to ensure there is a direct impact on the performance and effectiveness of both the executive and the organisation.  So all aspects of work including relationship management, dealing with stress and balancing conflicts in lifestyle are open to examination.
Clients have included BT, the Virgin Group, the Reed Elsevier Group, Ernst and Young, Legal and General, Punch Taverns, Danone and Motability.

Chris Gamblin: Workshop Facilitator, Leadership Developer, Coach , HR Mentor 

Chris has been a Director and Senior Consultant for twelve years and has worked closely, and at senior level, with companies such as JCB, Mowlem, BAE Systems, and Vodafone.

He has worked with Government departments such as the MOD and in a variety of Housing Associations. Chris also partners with Manchester Business School and Liverpool University.

Chris was previously European HR Director for Northern Telecom, and UK (Sales) HR Director for Hewlett Packard. His experience is in Top Team alignment and Business Direction (Strategy Development). He is a specialist in leadership and culture development.
Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.co.uk

Lynne Copp: Work Life Balance Specialist, Executive and Management Coach

Is in business to support clients to create great places to work. She achieves this through her consulting, research, training, communication and coaching.
Her experience and passion for what she does, creates motivation and change in others.

She is empowering, creative and innovative. She is a very well regarded coach and keynote speaker.She has appeared on the BBC Money programme, BBC Radio and is retained by many organisations as a regular speaker at events.Lynne coaches leaders, managers and employees in the large and corporate business sector – both private and public.
She supports people to personally develop, to manage their work and life, manage their workload, improve their wellbeing, develop their communication skills and deal with personal issues related to work or relationships.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Bella Mehta: 

Executive and Career Coach, Change facilitator and Diversity specialist

An executive and career coach with a strong track record in business as well as a highly skilled facilitator of individual and team change. An engaging speaker on equality and diversity issues, as well as the co-author of a best-selling business handbook, Bella appears often as a business commentator on television and radio.

Bella has a Diploma in Advanced Change Management, Facilitation and Coaching from the Institute for the Development of Human Potential and trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling at the Metanoia Institute. Prior to launching her own company, she was a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting and a Project Manager for BBC News.

Gail Brown: 

Executive and Career Coach and Management Developer

Gail is an experienced management consultant now specialising in executive coaching and facilitation She has proven expertise in Performance Management, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Job Evaluation, Design & Delivery of Management Development Training courses, Career & Redundancy Counselling and Executive Coaching

Gail has a wealth of experience and access to a wide range of approaches.
She utilises her NLP skills with her co-active and solutions focused coaching techniques and Enneagram personality profiling and management development training to tailor the most appropriate and unique program for each of her clients

 

Helen Chapman: York and London based

Executive and Management Coach and Personal Resiliency Specialist

 Helen Chapman is an accredited psychological coach and trainer . She is passionate about helping leaders and team to be more effective and resilient in creative and innovative ways. She also likes to keep things as simple and straight forward as possible and ideally fun!  Her first booklet 'Being Resilient' beautifully captures her attitude to life and business, 'if we could stand back more often and imagine what a child might say or do, we might cut through some of our business and personal complexity'

Helen has more than 22 years experience in large multinational organisations working in management and leadership roles in functions such as Research, Development, IT, Finance, Information and Knowledge management. She started her life as a bench chemist at Nicholas Laboratories, before moving to ICI and then GSK. She splits her time between Yorkshire and Hertfordshire enjoying the balance between the two and is currently working on her next booklet 'Being Effective'. 

Sally Prescott: North West of England and London Based
 Executive Coach, Learning and Development Specialist , Director Coach ICF Accredited Coach

Sally Prescott is a Learning & Development Specialist and ICF Accredited Coach - and has a real passion for life. With 22 years of energetic experience working in the service industry, Sally’s driving force lies in enabling people to reach their goals.

Over a 14 year period at Forte Hotels Sally led teams to success for the benefit of both the hotel and individual employees at all levels. During this time, she was inspired to pursue a career in Human Resources and Learning & Development, and is a CIPD graduate. She has also worked for The Savoy, Intercontinental and Jumeirah Hotels - making a significant difference over an 8 year period.  Sally has led hotel teams to be dedicated in delivering customer service excellence and profitable performance.

Coupled with her career, Sally has undertaken 18 years active volunteering for charity Radio Lollipop – providing care, comfort, play & entertainment to make seriously sick children’s stay in hospital a less painful experience. Dealing with worried and bereaved families has put life into perspective yet Sally still enjoys using her considerable skills to bring smiles to sad faces – she has a true zest for life.