Martin Horton Email & Phone Number

East Sussex

An experienced leadership and organisation development professional, facilitator, executive and leadership team coach and change leader, I can call on some 11-years experience acquired in the private, public and not for-profit sectors. My approach is founded on:* Supporting leaders to be clear on the development possibilities so that they can invest wisely* Helping people to establish and work within their level of readiness and commitment* Co-creating a bespoke, meaningful and impactful development/change programme that matches expectations* Being flexible in the moment, responding to emergent development needs* Enabling the development work to be sustained through a self-supporting organic capability* Enabling success to be measured through an evaluation of what has changedPrivate and social sector clients that I have worked with have come from the steel, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, mineral products, education, leisure, health (hospice) and charity (including those with a focus on cancer, children, women, disability, vocational education and historical) sectors. The leaders and teams of public sector organisations that have engaged me have come from operational, acquisition, human resource, finance, medical, clergy, training, higher education and international and cross-government environments.I am experienced in providing interventions ranging across one-off facilitated events through individual/team-based programmes to more complex organisation-wide development programmes.

Windsor And Singapore

A volunteer facilitator on the Windsor Leadership Programme (both UK-residential and international variants) for those with the potential to reach senior leadership positions within their field.

East Sussex

Supporting people to build inclusive workplaces where leadership teams succeed because people connect through similarity and grow with difference

World-wide facilitation of a mindsets and behaviour change programme for a global pharmaceutical

Defence Academy Of The United Kingdom

The Defence Academy's Centre for Defence Leadership and Management is responsible for delivering education and training for Defence through a portfolio of programmes.As Director Defence Executive Leadership Programme, I was Defence’s lead on board/top team leadership development. Innovating to create a bespoke executive-level leadership offering, the programme gained a first-class reputation and achieved an 88% approval rating across all top team development over a 3-year period.With each programme tailored to specific leadership development needs, the aim was to help senior managers gain a better understanding of: which leadership style would work best in their context; and how to improve their functioning as a team. Grounded in cutting-edge psychology theory, issues typically addressed included: promoting more effective communication; improving decision-making; enhancing trust relationships; raising levels of self-awareness; collaborating more effectively in setting future strategic direction; recognising derailing behaviours (individual and group); and building on strengths.Lacking a formalised approach, I co-conceived and introduced a proven 9-step process for leadership development that was subsequently adopted in support of Defence Transformation. The process was peer reviewed by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology and was unanimously approved as capturing the important principles of ‘best practice’ for such interventions.Additional roles included: focal point for organisation development within the Defence Academy; thought leader on leadership and management strategy development; Defence lead with the Windsor Leadership Trust; primary point of contact with the Whitehall and Industry Group; Defence representative on the Public Sector Leadership Forum; lead negotiator for Defence’s senior leadership development programmes with Cranfield University; and Course Director for the Defence Leadership MSc.

Equipment And Support Continuous Improvement Team, Mod Abbey Wood

As an internal change consultant, I worked principally with major equipment support project teams embedded within the Ministry of Defence’s acquisition organisation to identify, design and implement change programmes geared at achieving substantial performance improvements.Employing a range of tailored change approaches, including lean thinking techniques, I helped team leaders and their teams to deliver impactful business change resulting in financial, process and organisation design benefits.My approach involved: coaching senior managers in adopting new approaches to equipment support planning as a business system; assisting project teams in creating the change and transition conditions required for business change to take hold; developing project team skills to ensure sustainability of the new approaches; supporting client change agents to embed new processes/methodology in the daily routine of project teams; and evaluating the extent to which business change was making a real and measurable difference to project team customers.Working as lead consultant with one such project team, the implementation of a complex business change programme resulted in the delivery of £6M of benefits.Additional consultancy work included: the marketing at strategic levels internally (submarines and ships project teams) of innovative approaches to major equipment support and externally with industry (Rolls Royce); overseeing the design of client awareness training modules; the creation of bespoke change models to support the implementation of business change; and the design/implementation of organisational models.

Bath, United Kingdom

Created from scratch and led the project team responsible for delivering all aspects of a coherent replacement information infrastructure within the Defence Logistics Organisation to 21,000 users at 80 locations worldwide. Charged initially with restoring the Defence Logistics Organisation’s reputation and position within this complex multi-billion pound Defence-wide information infrastructure replacement programme, successfully positioned the organisation from a senior stakeholder perspective as the exemplar and pre-eminent one in terms of quality of support provided during the implementation phase.Key project workstreams included: capturing user system requirements; determining the site roll-out sequence; planning the site migration of users; preparing for data migration; rationalising logistics applications/related business processes to a manageable set; informing training policy and shaping subsequent user training delivery; identifying benefits attributable to implementation of the programme within the organisation; engaging with and influencing key stakeholders (both government and contractor) over the direction of the programme as a whole; shaping the strategy for resolving infrastructure issues associated with the provision of government furnished accommodation; and informing the pilot project for the implementation of flexible-ways-of-working arrangements for the organisations 21,000 users.Other significant projects included; the lead on capturing the communication needs for the organisation’s corporate leadership on geographic collocation; and representing the HR needs of circa 4000 military personnel dependent on legacy infrastructure pending roll-out of the new information infrastructure.

Certificate Programme, Organisational Development

Ilm Level 7 Certificate Executive Coaching And Leadership Mentoring

Strengthscope Accreditation Training

Strengthscope is a psychometric assessment tool that provides comprehensive measurement of an individual's strengths and the extent.

Hogan Psychometrics - Hpi, Hds, Mvpi

Accredited in the use of HPI, HDS and MVPI. At a glance: * HPI provides insight about the 'bright side' of personality. It assesses how.

Psychometric Test User Occupational Ability And Personality Training Course

The course qualifies delegates in the use of ability, intelligence and aptitude testing tools as well as personality assessments.

Go Make A Difference - Solution-Focussed Thinking

Appreciative Inquiry For Organisational Change

Postgraduate Certificate, Engineering Business Management

Master Of Defence Administration

Fundamental And Developing Consultancy Skills

Applying Coaching Techniques Programme