Our key people
Steve Gorton
Director
Steve's role in leadership, people development and organisational transformation has its origins in solid commercial experience together with academia. Following a twenty year sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry he gained an MBA and now tutors at that level for the Open University and Durham University Business Schools.Whilst studying his MBA the key question arose - "Where there is a vision and the skills - why does change work only 20% of the time?" The answer is usually that strategic context and people's attitudes and beliefs are ignored. In co-founding Enabling Development, Steve helps individuals, teams and organisations determine their way forward to deliver enhanced business performance.
Bob Turvey
Director
Bob's first 'brush' with Executive Coaching was as a director of an International Aerospace company in Germany in the 1980's. The change process, which recognised that more than 95% of what we do is dealing with people, was almost immediate, was long lasting and measurably improved his leadership performance. As a founding member of Enabling Development his easy yet demanding coaching style sits well with senior executives and aspirants alike. In addition to one-to-one and group coaching Bob also facilitates a number of public and private Leadership and People Development courses attracting delegates from global corporations. He is also a visiting tutor at Hertfordshire University.
Ken Arkley
Associate
Ken has previous experience of managing international businesses and leading and developing cross business capabilities at corporate level. This has helped shape his ideas on how to release people potential to create new ways forward.Now as a consultant with Enabling Development he is dedicated to providing clear and sharp means to raise awareness and understanding and helping organisations develop their own means of managing more effectively from the Knowledge Perspective. Knowledge Management was first used by Ken, whilst Head of Procurement, as a strategic tool to lever Purchasing Power across ICI. Asked to propose the KM way forward for the Company he participated in a definitive 18-month multi company study on KM best practice worldwide.
Peter Cook
Associate
Peter has more than 25 diverse years of business, academic and consultancy experience, comprising:
- Leading innovative teams involved with new product delivery
- International troubleshooting
- Internal consultancy
- Designing, developing and delivering management development programmes
Ray Jardine
Associate
Ray is the only member of Enabling Development with a pedigree in Human Resources. He was a HR Director at Kwik Save Plc following a successful career as Group Management Development Manager at Argos. He is a "businessman in HR". He has a Masters in Human Resource Development. He had a successful commercial career in Shell International for over 20 years and believes that "best practice" relies on the ability of organisations to deliver it! A practical approach would be 'what could this organisation manage now?‘ His commercial background has led to a "no nonsense" approach to HR where he believes their fundamental aim must be to help deliver the company's business objectives. He is keen to ensure that the outputs of HR support the business and are coherent with each other. He delivers not only the strategy but also the nuts and bolts that deliver the strategy. He is a proven facilitator of people development courses and coaching at Director level. To date Ray's clients are in retail, supermarkets, chemicals, finance houses, e-commerce, telecommunications, FMCG and new media sectors.
David Lloyd
Associate
David specialises in strategy development and organisational psychology, in particular the relationship between leadership and effective performance. He was a senior manager in the public sector who also carried out consultancy in the public and private sector on OD issues. He has taught on a range of masters programmes for a number of business and engineering schools.His public sector work includes leadership development in higher education, leadership development and managing change in the police service and leadership development in the health service.
His private sector work has been mainly in the advanced technology (aerospace and bioengineering) sectors and has included executive development, process redesign, and project team development.
Angelique du Toit
Associate
Angélique came to Executive Coaching as a profession when she realised the successes she achieved as a leader were through the development of the people in her employ. She now combines a career as an Enabling Development Executive Coach, working with individuals and groups, with that of academia. Her academic career includes lecturing in Corporate Strategy and Cross Cultural Management on the MBA programme, full and part time, and other MA programmes with Sunderland Business School. She has developed a part time Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Coaching aimed at senior management.Angélique also publishes and delivers conference papers on issues related to leadership, diversity and organisational strategy.
Abigail Cooper
Associate
Abigail's experience in consulting began in the United States, where she worked with Corporations, medical institutions and government to analyse the costs and resulting operational effects of medical care. Following an MBA, with a focus of team development, she worked as a strategic consultant for a Management Consulting company, helping a variety of global Corporations manage their organisational design and development. Abigail's work with Executive teams developed her premise that companies cannot afford to develop their corporate goals and strategies unless these are effectively aligned to each individual's personal values and beliefs. As an Enabling Development associate, her individual and team coaching is based on ensuring individuals are aware and tooled-up to lead effectively, based on their own, team and Corporate needs.
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