ADEPT CONSULTING - Key Persons

Following work in corporate training and HR, Bill's career has been in development training, with a particular focus on providing imaginative and relevant programmes for managers, and other employees. He has spent time in higher education, working as a Senior Lecturer in experiential education, but the main body of his work has been in developing managers in the corporate sector. Bill finds that elements of art, theatre and film can work very well as development tools - especially when woven into the fabric of outdoor-based programmes. They provide a wider approach which seems to provoke greater reflection than comes from single- medium programmes. In particular, Bill has been a committed advocate (and developer) of the Czech mixed-media approach known as dramaturgy. He co-designed the original and highly creative ‘John Grimes' 24-hour immersive exercise, and has probably delivered it more times than any two other trainers. Reflecting his long and successful relationship with the corporate world, Bill holds an MA in management learning and a Doctorate in education. He is also a qualified MBTI and FIRO B practitioner.

Job Titles:

• Leadership Development Consultant and Coach

Ralph is a Leadership Development consultant and coach working with people at all levels in a variety of organizations. This includes working as a Programme Director at London Business School working with a number of blue chip organizations. His work involves leadership programmes, coaching individuals and groups, running skills workshops and facilitating business meetings. It also includes team building and innovation and performance strategies. He runs action learning groups in the private and public sectors dealing with issues of business challenges and leadership. Ralph has worked in the computing, pharmaceutical, finance, and public sectors and geographically in Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia. He did training for the British Council in Nigeria and Burma and has worked as a coach and run workshops for the Civil Service and a number of charities. Recently he has spent five years running workshops in Uganda for their Health sector. He co-founded the Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership in the UK. He worked as an engineer before spending one year teaching Maths on VSO in Uganda. He then retrained as a systems analyst before becoming a university lecturer at Cranfield School of Management and then setting up his own company to offer leadership development.