Centrica – Senior Leader Development Programme

Facilitators

Facilitators

Dr. Diana Theodores is an international performance coach, speaker and author specialising in authentic voice and presence for leaders. As an Associate at The Praxis Centre for Leadership Development, Cranfield School of Management she is Joint Director of the Impact and Influence open programme and is also a Visiting Faculty in Leadership Development at Cranfield Executive Development. As Director of Theatre 4 Business, Diana applies her years of experience in professional theatre and to the principles of ‘great performance’ on the world stage for business leaders, teams and individuals. Her dynamic approach to coaching offers an irresistible invitation for business leaders worldwide to connect with their unique force and capacity to step into a ‘bigger self’ and put their leadership learning into action. Gill is a Performance Coach and Facilitator. With a background in acting and directing, she draws from techniques acquired in both these areas. Gill has worked with organisations in both the public and private sectors, including most City banks, the top four accountancy and law firms, leading oil and gas companies, top pharmaceutical organisations and management consultancy firms. As an actor and director, Gill has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and many regional theatres. The work has been diverse; from directing opera and the classics to running drama workshops in prisons, she has also directed in Moscow and New York. Gill has worked as a corporate trainer since the mid nineties. Her work has covered presentation skills, personal impact and influence, team building, diversity, appraisal training, performance management, feedback and leadership training. Her work takes her across the UK and Europe, and she has been a guest speaker on leadership for several global organisations.

Steve is an experienced innovator and facilitator who loves to work with leaders and teams on problems that require a different perspective. In his early career he worked in process re-engineering applying ideas from lean, six sigma and systems thinking to challenges in organisations as well as facilitating and coaching teams to develop these skills. At Treehouse Innovation, he is part of the leadership team and helps leaders build organisations that will make the world a better place: designing and making great products and services, providing rewarding careers and creating value for owners by solving the problems that societies face. Key clients have included Accenture, Lloyds Bank, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce, Woolworths, Janssen and KPMG. He often works with senior leadership teams to help create alignment on the challenges they face and help leaders to think differently in order to solve complex problems. Nathan is the Managing Partner at Treehouse Innovation where he helps organisations build cultures of innovation. In his past life, he set up and ran four new businesses at world-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, including co-founding OpenIDEO.com a global platform of over 300,000 innovators. He has facilitated workshops with hundreds of participants and led organisation design programs that have helped shift the innovation strategy for traditional organisations such as Freudenberg and Generali and helped design a startup incubator for Europe called HackFWD. He has worked with clients such as SKY, HP, IKEA, T-Mobile, VISA, Astrazeneca, DFID and Oxfam to help them to innovate. He is an experienced public speaker and has delivered keynotes at TEDx, The Economist events, and the White House on topics such as the role of Design, Innovation and Collaboration.

Diana Theodores Personal Impact and Influence

Steve Baker Systems & Design Thinking

Gill King Communicating as a Leader

Nathan Waterhouse Systems & Design Thinking

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