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I am a Leadership Coach / Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach using the Clifton Strengths assessment (taken 30 million+ times globally).A strengths-based approach to work and life always sounds so simple when I describe this to clients. The reality? Change can take time and effort - yes. However...The beauty in flipping from a deficit-based approach to focus on what someone is innately good at, understanding this, how this helps them to succeed or derails them and how this fits in with others, then lots of positive things start to happen.Self-awareness brings an understanding of your unique identity, how to put strengths to work, how to communicate value and needs, which brings confidence. Managers understand team dynamics and how to create winning partnerships and more productive teams. They can coach rather than manage. Leaders can operate more authentically through their strengths and role model who they are authentically. All of Gallup's research shows the benefit of strengths-based coaching:- 7% to 27% higher employee engagement- 8% to 18% increase in performance- 20% to 73% lower attrition- 3 times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life- 6 times as likely to strongly agree that they have the opportunity to do what they do best every day.This is what gives me energy, and why I get out of bed each day. Expanding the Reach:If you're interested in this angle for children in primary schools too, check out our Social Good brand Inspiration North for more on this project.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

What's keeping you awake at night? We regularly have confidential conversations about the pressures business leaders are under; scrutiny of performance, retention problems, decreasing engagement, increasing recruitment costs, hiring the wrong people, no plans for succession and development, how to support neurodivergent team members and more.Our Work Pirates mission is to unf*ck your work problems. Simply put - Unf*cking Work.

United Kingdom

Supporting the national recruitment drive of the Government's 20,000 police officer uplift investment. I act within the capacity of assessing and coordinating candidates during assessment centres from police forces across the U.K.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

James is a Leadership Coach & Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach. He has used this strength-based coaching to create impact for individuals, leaders / managers, business owners and teams since 2020.Inspiration North has been a number of things. We have volunteered for the charity Action for Happiness (delivering workshops, courses; including running a Happy Cafe that was a lifeline for people through the pandemic. We've raised money for charities such as Team Evie (that James is a patron of) and PIE Project (Michelle and James are both trustees). We have offered training and coaching. And run a podcast with almost 150 episodes.This business was put on ice in the pandemic to focus on securing their business future and income generation through Work Pirates. With this now ticking over nicely, James took the decision to re-invent this as a social good venture (CIC coming soon) as a way to build on his Dad's legacy and strengths-based focus that he used as a Headteacher of a primary school for 21 years. And through his 4-decade career in Education.Move a child's identity away from solely test results, or reading / handwriting ability, and give them a sense of who they are, what they excel at naturally, and you give them ways to build confidence and hope for the future linked to that individual identity...We are currently testing the 5-week Strengths in Schools programme to refine and develop our version 2.0 for roll out later in 2023. If this is of interest, and you'd like to get involved, contact James at hello@inspirationnorth.com

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Co-Producing and Co-Hosting The Inspiration North Podcast - sharing inspiring stories from inspirational people and how they've found their passion: their true north!It has been our absolute pleasure and privilege to speak to and learn from such awesome people.After launching an episode every Monday for 2.5 years we put this on ice in 2021. Look out for a re-boot of the podcast coming soon...

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Zira Life was my first coaching business. Something daunting, exciting and really fulfilling. If you'd like to discuss strengths-based coaching, please look at our offering on www.workpirates.com - all coaching now falls under the Work Pirates brand.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Insights Business Psychology Ltd is a collective of Chartered Business Psychologists, founded by Michelle Minnikin. We help: • Organisations select and hire awesome humans• Humans figure out what they want to do when they grow up and grow their dream careers • Leaders who want to get out of their own way, realise their potential and play biggerWe are passionate about the science of work and careers. We’ve extensive experience and knowledge supporting both public and private sector organisations.We deliver our work in a professional, yet informal way, making it accessible for all. Our values are: TRANSPARENT, GENEROUS, FUN, SIMPLE and CURIOUS and we’re on a mission to help people achieve their potential and business goals in a positive, practical, simple and fun way. We’d love to hear from you… get in touch: info@insightsbp.com

Advance are experts in sales qualification and pipeline management with SCOTSMAN® and Commitment Selling at the core. I performed a diverse role to support the business, which included trainer, sales and marketing, and project management. Typically clients were looking for a transformation of their sales operations to bring more predictable, reliable results by focusing on leadership, people and processes. My hard work was rewarded with an equity stake in the business. Key achievements:• Developed a partnership with the Institute of Sales Management that led to £30k+ of new business. • Refined the value proposition and created sales & marketing collaterals to better communicate this to the marketplace. • LinkedIn activity created the company’s first ever converted lead from social media - £20k contract.• Collaborated on a bid to win a 6-figure contract in the Middle East.• Expanded our client base with a contract win in the US market.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Essentra plc is a FTSE 250 company and a leading international supplier of speciality plastic, fibre, foam and packaging products.My task was to embed an outbound BD team and introduce a more solution-sales approach with an overall goal to turnaround the UK business following site consolidation, corporate re-branding and revenue decline. I had accountability for driving the performance of 6 people (direct reports) for a site with £14 million+ annual revenue. The UK market was split geographically with 30,000+ customers.Key achievements:Sales Structure and Key Account Management principles introduced to counter a 7.9% revenue decline in 2015:• Pipeline value creation of £3.56 million in 2016 - up from £1.5 million in 2015.• £511k of key account new business – Jan to July 2015 & £393k of new business - Aug to Dec 2015.• Q4 2015: 5-week sales push - exceeded MD’s target of £50k incremental sales. Achieved £142k of sales of which £98k was incremental revenue.• Player Manager - Personal conversion of £70,463 of new business in 2015. Developed new business opportunities. worth £561k.• Showed senior management that a different style of sales manager could get results. Proved the value of the BD team at a time it was under scrutiny to be cut. Approval for headcount to double the size of the initial team of 3.

Stockholm, Sweden

Core team member of an entrepreneurial start-up with a concept to offer business book summaries via an app in audio and text. The trend for entertaining and easily consumable content for busy professionals presented an opportunity. This role involved taking an idea and developing it towards a Minimum Viable Product to be market tested before seeking investment to develop a fully functional app and a product to be sold internationally. As COO I contributed to all areas of the business and mentored two colleagues. We came 1st out of 110 start-ups to win 1 of 8 places in Stockholm’s STING business accelerator (to receive coaching from a successful investor).

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Formica is a leading laminate and compact manufacturer with 100 years of history. It is part of the Fletcher Building Corporation. Following the centralisation of the customer service department I was tasked with turning around the French market by rebuilding client confidence and the reputation of the company. This was achieved with a strong customer focus and a proactive solutions-finding approach. This included bespoke account management across 10 large accounts (SNCF and large door manufacturers) and as the point of contact for the South East Region’s distributors. I acted as Team Leader for a team of six during a maternity leave, had recognised influence in bettering morale across the 30 strong customer service department, and spurred greater inter-departmental communication.

Greater New York City Area

Spotting an opportunity with the banking crisis, I started a business to offer commercial real estate finance services across the United States. Banks were not renewing mortgages on many commercial properties and owners were faced with repossession. My services enabled High Net Worth property owners to find other finance sources (bridge loan or debtor-in-possession financing). Working for a New York based hedge fund I acted as the first stage in due diligence of loans from $1-10 million, mentored dozens of intermediaries across the US, and represented the fund as the customer service point of contact.

New York City

SKANSKA was contracted by the United Nations to manage the £1.3 billion complete renovation of its New York City Headquarters, which had not seen major work since it was completed in the 1950s. My mission was to drive the “Zero Defects” quality goal in line with corporate strategy by spearheading the creation and execution of a new quality assurance process to ensure compliance with the construction specifications. This included quality plans for each trade, mock ups, plus testing & inspections across 6 projects.

SKANSKA’s Global Trainee Programme was in its first year and I was selected as the only commercial development trainee from 100 applicants. My first year in the programme gave exposure to the award winning commercial property development unit based in Stockholm (involvement included Sales, Lettings, Land Banking, Finance, Strategic Direction). A second 8 month placement in New York City gave project management experience to build a hospital Emergency Room. A final 1 month project within Head Office’s HR function with a short term mission to improve ratings in the annual employee feedback survey. Each placement was interspersed with intense leadership and project management training plus project site visits in Scandinavia, Czech Republic, the UK and the US.

La Rochelle Area, France

The sales arm specialised in offering investors new build property investment consultations from apartment developments built exclusively by the developer. Led the creation of a new division of the firm to offer non-new build property to expand their market offering and generate revenue sources outside of new developments. This successful foundation led to a tripling in office locations.

La Rochelle Area, France

The lettings arm offered full lettings and property management services for clients purchasing new-build properties from the developer. This included summer lettings for higher yields. Managed a portfolio of over 700 properties with strong focus on customer service. Trained and led 6 employees through a critical reorganization by personally working 80 hours per week to become a dominant force in the market – this lead to the national player Foncia buying the agency.

Mba, Management And Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Mentored two MSc students.Graduated in Top 5 Students. Co-authored and successfully presented a market entry.

Key Account Management: Best Practice

A 3-day residential course in how to adopt a practical approach to planning, analysing and implementing a closer relationship.

Ba Hons, International Business Studies And French

Activities and Societies: Regularly played rugby for the Newcastle Falcons and later Gosforth RFC. Participated in the Polyglot club.

Bachelor, Business And Management

Activities and Societies: Represented the university rugby team and helped to develop the team by playing in a different position each.