Gareth Smith Email & Phone Number

Largs, Scotland, United Kingdom

Coordinate all aspects of the recently started Youth Talent Programme at Largs Academy, which matches volunteer mentors from the community with young people in school.Search MCR Pathways and sign up to mentor.

Tasked with the primary role of looking after the welfare, wellbeing and support of the wide B60 talent pool, my role is endlessly fascinating. When allied with a licence for curiousity and a remit of autonomy to seek out and develop excellence, in all its forms, the opportunities are limitless.Specifically that means Executive Coaching, the design, delivery and faciltation of learning and development interventions, along with ownership of B60's very own development framework.

North Ayrshire

MD and Consultant of a small strategy and leadership consultancy, that offered Executive Coaching and bespoke Leadership Programme facilitation. Clients from both the private and public sector.Gained a reputation for being able to facilitate Strategy Away Days for Boards of Directors/Executive Teams, where mixing art/literature & sport with clean, crisp questions, light touch facilitation and a blank agenda, brings about tangible and meaningful results. The route taken was not always… Show more MD and Consultant of a small strategy and leadership consultancy, that offered Executive Coaching and bespoke Leadership Programme facilitation. Clients from both the private and public sector.Gained a reputation for being able to facilitate Strategy Away Days for Boards of Directors/Executive Teams, where mixing art/literature & sport with clean, crisp questions, light touch facilitation and a blank agenda, brings about tangible and meaningful results. The route taken was not always conventional but definitely was stimulating, never far from insightful and often deeply meaningful. Loved to work with the concept of organisational sense making, where we can usually find a significant majority who recognise themselves in Kafka's, ”plight of the individual caught up in the remorseless logic of an irrational system”. But also sense shaping; awakening the senses and raising awareness through art, literature or simply being sensitively present in the moment. Show less

Westminster, London

Key input into attaining Training Quality Standard (TQS) and a Grade 2 Ofsted InspectionManaged a Department within ETS and had responsibility for designing new Business Impact methods and building client relationships.

Braintree, Essex

Responsibility for training department that delivers to 15,000 learners per annum, managing a £1m budget and overseeing 40 staff. Had key role in strategic direction of business.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

As Director of Learning I had sole responsibility for coordinating all aspects of both the Education and Golf Coaching Programmes, to 42 students at two separate sites.

Loughborough

Part time. Part of highly regarded BSc Sports Science lecturing team.

Loughborough

Part time. Contributed to module writing and then delivery on various HND courses.