philip@development professionals.co.uk
After completing a degree in Modern European Studies Philip decided to do something a little more active and joined the Army. After Sandhurst he became a Troop Commander responsible for 40 soldiers and as many vehicles. He worked for several months as part of the United Nations Force in Cyprus, supporting both the multi-national peace keeping force and providing humanitarian relief to refugees. Following a posting to Berlin, Philip was a Training Adjutant responsible for training some 600 junior leaders at a time, on a one-year course. His final role was as a Headquarters Staff Officer in the Falklands. On leaving the army Philip had a number of management roles including head of management, supervisory and technology training at the Automobile Association.
Philip uses and encourages others to develop their informal, influential leadership to get things done. This includes helping many businesses in aerospace, engineering and construction improve performance by developing a culture of customer focused lean team working. The key has been to help leaders at all levels engage with people to embed behaviours focused on continuous improvement. Other activities have included coaching of owner managers of small businesses in many sectors. Success has always been achieved by ensuring that a few simple things are done extremely well - and by remembering that simple and easy are rarely the same. Philip and Matthew have worked together on a number of continuous improvement programmes with major UK and USA manufacturing companies.
Philip is a graduate and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and is currently Chair of the Leicestershire and Rutland Branch. Philip holds the internationally recognised CMC qualification and is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultancy. He is also qualified by the British Psychological Society to use a range of psychometric profiles including 16PF5, MBTI and FIRO-B. P He holds the internationally recognized CMC qualification, and is a fellow of the Institute of Business Consultancy.
