John Lawson
Business Coach – Executive Mentor – Management Trainer
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Summary
Since becoming an independent in 2002, he has focused on empowering the owners and managers of SME businesses in the Yorkshire area to improve their businesses through a range of people focused; innovative and bespoke development initiatives. He is an accredited MAS trainer, an accredited Business Advisor and a qualified Business Performance Coach with a unique combination of coaching skills and considerable practical experience of building successful businesses. In short, “making it happen” and “getting things done”.
Key skills and Services
Leadership Coaching and Executive Mentoring.
NLP and behavioural Specialist.
Management Training and Personal Development.
Sales and Marketing, Customer Relationship Management; best practices.
Strategic Business Planning.
Organisational change, culture change and Business transformation.
Information Systems Management and Research
TQM, Quality Improvement and QA systems, ISO, BSI, EFQM.
Business Process Re-engineering; HR, ERP; Supply chain/procurement, Order processing, Production planning and control, QA, wharehousing, logistics, Customer services, etc.
Inventor of QBITS© a DTI funded MAS training scheme, delivered to various hi-tech manufacturing companies to educate and reskill their Improvement Teams in Best Practice, lean manufacturing, teambuilding, self-directed work groups, process mapping, etc.
Creator of “The GAP Survey” to quantify and asses the gap in the perceptions of company culture between management and staff. A major input to informing improvement plans and business strategy.
Career Background
Operating at main board level for 25 years, with roles in Business Development, Consultancy, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Service Delivery and Operations. He has managed major strategic change, business transformations and financial turnarounds in a broad range of private sector organisations from SME’s to major international corporates; including Citria, CSC, NatWest, National Power, Next Retail, Hoskyns (Cap Gemini), IT Services, BNFL, GMS, and British Steel (Corus).
Coaching and Consulting Experience
Typical examples;
- Coaching the Directors (of a NFP Charity) through to success in achieving their personal goals.
- Mentoring the executive team of a manufacturing company, to improve their personal performance in a number of key areas; relationships, innovation, organisational development.
- Developing Business plans and marketing strategies for various service sector companies and coaching their directors through the implementation.
- Mentoring a Sales Director and providing practical Sales technique training, and customer service skills, for his management team.
- Coaching a Design Manager to improve his time management and leadership skills.
- Coaching a Production Director to improve work planning and scheduling processes.