David Bancroft-Turner, BA(Hons), MIPD, Dip TM
David's background is in International Banking. He worked in National Westminster Bank for fourteen years including an overseas spell in Bahrain for four years. He operated in a number of areas on the graduate fast track scheme and was part of the project team that set up NatWest Australia Bank and other overseas acquisitions and disposals.
He then entered the world of training and development as a career move and undertook various roles before moving to NatWest Markets at formation as their Head of Management Development. In 1993 he joined Pearl Assurance as Head of Field Staff Training, keeping the company's name out of the press during the pensions debacle. He then moved to a new position as Head of Management Development and Training, implementing what is now seen as the largest in-house accredited development scheme in the country - 'Better by Miles'.
David coaches many senior executives (see testimonies here) and is passionate about the subject of organisational politics and is designer of the unique positive organisational politics process Political Intelligence™
Don Morley, DPhil, FCMA, FCT, mt
Don originally trained as an accountant with Hawker Siddeley and GEC/Marconi before spending 17 years in senior finance roles in US multinationals. This included positions in Holland and Spain as well as in European Headquarters before moving on to be Finance Director of Johnson Wax and subsequently, Controller of Amdahl Inc.
Since 1983 he has preferred to specialise in training and development. For fourteen years he combined senior management development roles in NatWest Bank with a professorship at the International Management Centres (IMC) Business School. Business School activities involved him in many in-house programme's for blue chip organisations and the subject of his doctorate was 'the learning organisation'.
Don is also passionate about organisational politics and has been instrumental in bringing his board room experience to the design of Political Intelligence™
Caro Kingsnorth
Caro is an experienced coach and facilitator with strong communication skills. Her business is focused on personal (executive) coaching and management development.
Her development philosophy is built on 4 key beliefs:
1. Every person has untapped potential.
2. Build a person’s self esteem and you unlock that potential.
3. Confidence is linked to competence.
4. People treated with respect tend to treat others with respect.
Coaching support for both managers and their teams helps to further develop the skills your people already possess and learn the application of new ones. Consistent development of this nature results in a culture where applied learning brings high business performance.
Key Positions
Caro has worked with clients such as Pearl Assurance, BG, Barclays, BBC, Essex and Suffolk Water, and Creative Labs in the areas of performance management, management development and 1:1 Executive Coaching.
As Training Manager for Hertz UK Ltd., Caro was responsible for developing and implementing the training plan for the organisation. As well as design and delivery of management and selling skills courses, she developed a competence based appraisal system; updated all training policies and procedures and created a Staff Development Guide for managers.
James Traeger
KEY SKILLS: A workplace diversity specialist who has developed one of the best known European programmes for men.
James Traeger is recognised as one of the leading specialists in facilitation, coaching and mentoring training, with a particular emphasis on workplace diversity. An outstanding facilitator of change for individuals, groups, teams and organisations, his work is driven by the vision of individuals taking responsibility for their own future. James also works to ensure that his clients recognise the impact of their behaviour on their colleagues, their customers and upon the organisation as a whole.
He is best known as a co-developer of the NAVIGATOR programme, a unique work and personal development programme for male employees. It has been delivered widely in UK and international organisations in both private and public sectors. He was re cently described by Chicago-based Business Week magazine as ‘teaching men the right stuff’.
A graduate of the IDHP two-year diploma in facilitation, (University of Surrey, 1991-93), James' clients include Channel 4, MCL Group, HSBC, Job Centre Plus (DWP), Thus Plc, Barclays, Birmingham City Council, University of Birmingham, Essex County Council, Surrey County Council, The Lord Chancellor’s Division, Public Guardianship Office, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The London School of Economics, Cambridge University, the Home Office, Mercer HR Consulting, Proctor and Gamble and Edelman Financial PR.
