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Development Associates
 Ian McLaughlin
Development Associate
Specialising in working with people, teams and leadership, Ian is able to draw upon 14 years development and training experience that encompasses all business sectors.
His approach is underpinned by a strong belief in the power of learning by experiencing, experimenting and reflection. He enjoys working experientially and this is most clearly demonstrated in the programmes that employ the use of CSR Projects.
His unique contribution is the ability to combine his development background with a sound project management approach. By bringing these two elements together, Ian can manage the full process from sourcing and preparation to design and delivery. He has delivered the full range of CSR Project events from one day teambuilds to senior manager strategic alliances.
Ian enjoyed three years with London Regional Transport that included co-ordinating the training and assessment of graduates. This has been further complemented with development positions at Adventure International and The Prince’s Trust. Ian also gained considerable experience with the development charity Raleigh International, where he was responsible for the assessment and training for both Staff and participants prior to expedition. He was established as a consultant in 1997.
Ian holds an IPD Management Diploma, BPS Level A and Intermediate Level B and is a qualified user of MBTI and 16PF. He is an NLP Practitioner and holds a Diploma in Performance and Business Coaching.
Ian lives in Devon with his wife Amy and children Ellie and Sam. They are currently enjoying a ongoing project of their own renovating a 16th century farmhouse.
Qualifications and Continuing Professional Development
- Diploma in Business & Performance Coaching
- Identifying & Applying Competencies
- Neuro Linguistic Programming – Qualified Practitioner
- MBTI ‘Stress/Underlying Life Drives’ workshop
- British Psychological Society: Occupational Testing (intermediate) Level B - Personality Measures
- British Psychological Society: Occupational Testing Level A - Ability and Aptitude Measures
- Advanced Interviewing Training
- Institute of Personnel and Development – Post Graduate Diploma
Case Studies
British Airways - Delivered and co-facilitated the experiential element for the Leadership 2000 project – a development initiative for the most senior 1100 managers within the organisation.
British Olympic Association - Designed and delivered the Assessment Process for recruiting the Great Britain representatives for the Sports Village for the Olympic Games.
Dollond & Aitchison – Led a series of 5 day Optometrist development programmes. Each event was focussed around helping optometrist’s understand and develop their input towards overall business performance.
National Probation Service - Project Manager and lead facilitator for introducing the new leadership competency framework via a series of regional road shows.
Public Guardianship Office - Project Manager and lead trainer for an extensive Change and Re-organisation initiative. The project included 6 leadership and 29 teambuilding programmes that were rolled out in 9 month delivery period.
South Eastern Trains – One of the lead trainers for an extensive roll out programme, developing leadership skills within the senior management population
 Mark Hannaford
Logistics and International CSR
Mark has over 22 years experience of organising expeditions, events and projects overseas working in areas as different as the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Namibian Desert and on projects as diverse as a school renovation projects in Brazil to setting a jungle wilderness medicine course for doctors in Costa Rica and team building challenges in the Arctic Circle.
His approach is always with the strictest regards for project safety, and getting the exact balance between experience and learning to ensure the highest quality in everything that is offered.
Mark was a founding director of Across the Divide Expeditions drawing on his experience of working with Raleigh International and time spent with a Territorial Army special forces regiment. Experience that allows him to see the real issues and implement effective planning.
Mark is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an instructor on the Expedition, Desert, Polar and Jungle Medicine Courses
Case Studies
Princes Trust - Developed and managed a series of extreme challenges in Morocco, Costa Rica, Namibia, South Africa and Borneo for corporate teams based around the concepts of challenge, teamwork, expedition.
Carphone Warehouse - 40 staff, one week redevemopment of remote school complex in Namibia providing dramtically improved eduational facilites for local school children.
Cancer Research UK. Development and implimentation of ten year fundraising package of overseas events and challenges raising over £2 million.
 Piers Carter
Development Associate
Piers’s passion in his working life is people and behaviour. He works with groups from a range of backgrounds from the Public Sector to blue chip organisations, specifically in the area of teams, leadership and effective performance. He specialises in a subtle combination of psychometric tests, behavioural workshops, challenging business simulations and active outdoor projects. Piers is up to date on the latest human resource and development theories including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Strength Deployment Inventory, Meta Planning, NLP, and Experiential Learning.
Piers has been running his own development training business for 9 years during which time he has worked with clients such as Walker’s Snack Foods, Equitas, Costain, Laings, Rabo Bank, Capital One, Mencap, British Airways, Queen’s Medical Centre, TransPennine Express and Barclay’s Bank.
Prior to this, Piers was a full time civilian trainer with the Home Office based at a National Training Centre. In this role he was responsible for developing leaders and teams within various Police response units. The priority was to create adaptable and effective teams and leaders to operate under a variety of very different situations from the most aggressive and confrontational, to community patrols and the busy office.
Most recently Piers Has been involved in facilitating proactive meetings focused on changing behaviour and improving performance with a selection of businesses. These sessions have taken all key stake-holders and honed a practical and strategic action plan to take the organisations onto the next level. His other developing area of expertise is keynote speaking on the subjects of Effective Communication, Dealing with Difficult Customers and Motivation. Piers also works an internal trainer and motivator for Across the Divide Expeditions and Expedition Medicine Ltd
Qualifications and Continuing Professional Development
- BA (Hons) & Post Graduate Certificate of Education
- British Psychological Society Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing, Level A & B,
- MBTI Administrator
- NLP Master Practitioner
- NVQ D32-33 Assessor Award
- Home Office Approved Trainer
- SPA
- Member of the British Psychological Society
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'Original', 'professional', 'utterly reliable', 'relaxed' and 'friendly' are all repeated comments from our clients, with whom we have established long term relationships with come from across the spectrum from public, private and not-for-profit organisations.
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Some examples of our part- nership include Carphone Warehouse & Barnados, Jewsons & CRUK, National House Building Council (NHBC) & Mencap, Capital Radio & Elephant Human Research Aid to name but a few.
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