I enjoy working with all of my clients and many of them have been great partners in my development since 1999. My thanks to all of them including:
Boots UK - Simon Roberts, Executive Vice President of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and President of Boots, Jonathan Gardner, MD Boots Opticians
"I've worked with Ian since 2005 within numerous teams to unlock potential and change culture - each time this has led to a real change in delivery for customers. On a personal level, Ian fundamentally helped me understand what was important to me in life, both at work and more importantly at home. Put simply, working together I've become more confident in being myself."
Jonathan Gardner, Managing Director, Boots Opticians
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“Ian and I have worked together since 2005 unleashing new and different possibilities... The essence of every conversation was about one thing and that was building the level of belief and, most importantly, confidence required to achieve personal and team breakthroughs.
Ian is a great guy to spend time with.... He brings people together and helps them discover the way through on what can seem impossible.....so that afterwards everyone is thinking that was no problem and with my new found confidence anything becomes possible.”
Simon Roberts - Executive Vice President of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. and President of Boots UK
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GKN Plc
Group and Divisional CEO’s and their leadership teams
Group, Driveline, Aerospace, Powder Metallurgy, Land Systems, Additive Manufacturing.
"My executive team colleagues and I had the privilege to go through engaging discussions with Ian Lock as our team prepared to tackle the future strategy of the corporation .
I had attended a number of behavior science courses in the B-School and innumerable team building exercises, seminars over the span of my 36 year career in business. The approach of Ian was with no power points or books or handouts but simply asking simple questions for us to explore with each other, search within our self the drivers and values that we either inherited or influenced by life experiences and look at how they translate into our day to day actions. Organized by a methodical approach over several sessions it left me with a deep appreciation of my coworkers of over 20 years and the openness of discussions was made possible with respect and dignity.
He transformed our corporation to face the future as a team."
Dr. K. (Sim) Narasimhan, FAPMI, FASM, Sr. Member IEEE, Vice President, Business Development, Hoeganaes Corporation - GKN
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Pizza Express - Mark Angela CEO, Julie MacDonald HRD, Emma Woods Marketing Director, Nick Young Ops Director and Jackie freeman FD:
“I first got to know Ian and his work through working with him as a coach but this turned into an enormous personal journey for myself and our senior team. Ian has a special quality that enables an individual to truly reflect on what they stand for, believe in and aspire to be. It is only then that they can discover the greatness that is within.”
— Julie MacDonald, HR Director, Pizza Express
“I have worked with Ian for the last 10 years and he has helped me come to appreciate that there is no perfect formula for life or leadership: it's about getting in touch with who you are and what you want and then reveling in this, your own, greatness. His insightful framing of the way to consider things has helped me grow. I would strongly encourage anyone sitting there thinking ‘is this as good as life gets?’ to work with Ian.”
— Emma Woods, Marketing Director, Pizza Express
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London Business School - Susie Balch Vice Dean Advancement
“Ian has been an important part of our team’s transformation. By getting us to look inside ourselves and be honest about our own weaknesses and the larger team issues, he was able to help us chart a course to becoming a more successful, high performing team. He really got to know us and was able to push all the right buttons to get the big stuff out on the table.”
— Susie Balch, Vice Dean Advancement, London Business School
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E.ON - Derek Parkin, CEO Shared Services - David Bryson Vice President Operational Performance at E.ON Generation GmbH
“I felt quite secure in my leadership style, although like most people I had those nagging doubts in the back of my mind, which surfaced at the worst moments. Ian’s approach has helped me explore those doubts, place them in context so I understand what they mean for me and enable me to manage them. I am better for the experience, clearer about what I stand for and importantly my family and colleagues have noticed the difference.”
- David Bryson, Vice President Operational Performance, E.ON
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Make a Wish (UK) - Neil Jones CEO
“Ian has the ability to make sense out of ‘stuff that you thought you already knew but weren’t really using properly’. Working with him hasn’t been about learning a big new theory or having to embrace the latest idea in management thinking – instead it’s been about re-ordering thoughts, making sense of what you already knew, being clear about where you’re going and knowing what you need to do to get there. Supposedly, it’s very simple – surprisingly, it’s very effective.”
—Neil Jones, CEO, Make A Wish UK
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Macmillan - Claire Singlehurst - Head of Regional Fund Raising and her great team of Regional Fundraisers
"It has been and continues to be a pleasure to work with Ian Lock and Anthony Landale on the FED programme for our regional fundraising team at Macmillan. From the moment they responded to our brief, for a leadership development programme for our mid to senior level leaders, we knew we were dealing with something different and exciting. During the programme that they delivered over 3 sessions, our leadership team became exactly that - a team of leaders who are building bigger relationships, making bigger asks and leading their teams to deliver better results. I have genuinely never seen a culture change happen in such a dramatic way over such a short space of time. FED has become 'the way we do things around here' and we're so much the better for it."
- Claire Singlehurst - Director of Regional Fundraising, Macmillan
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Bleistahl Productions
"Forget everything you have heard about coaching and leadership development so far. By having experienced the workshops with Ian Lock we have:
• Much more clarity and focus on our leadership and the future of Bleistahl.
• Worked on a “stop to do list” which has freed up so much more time.
• Chosen our own way on how to proceed instead of feeling like a victim of the circumstances.
• There is much more to explore but …only if you and your team are committed to it. There is no good or bad, wrong or right, there is only your attitude based on your values and beliefs- this is nothing that you didn’t know already, but a great way to become a better leader and have better teams in place where everybody is really committed to the success of the other team members and the future of the organisation.
The work we have undertaken with Ian in last few months has transformed our approach to leadership and to our future."
- Dr. Ing. Ekkehard Köhler, Managing Partner, Bleistahl Produktions-GmbH & Co. KG