Trainers
Rainmaker – Trainers – Making Success Happen
 Rob Biggin (the rainmaker's coach)
Rob has been in the business of selling and marketing of products and services for over 30 years. He spent over 24 years at Hewlett Packard and was promoted through the sales and marketing ranks to become the UK category Managing Director for Healthcare Solutions. He then moved into a pan-European role as Director of Marketing for the Multi $Bn Services business.
In 2001 he formed Rainmaker Coaching to bring his particular brand of coaching, people development and business development to the UK marketplace. He carried out the bulk of the interviews with the existing rainmakers to find out their secrets and ensure their knowledge was shared with others.
He individually selects each of the coaches that work for Rainmaker Coaching and ensures that they all maintain the high standards the clients demand of them.
Kate Burton
Kate’s business experience lies in enabling people to communicate clearly and with confidence – which in turn delivers results in corporate performance.
She managed corporate advertising and marketing campaigns with Hewlett-Packard. Over the last twenty-five years, she has consulted on communication and change with organisations across industries and cultures – corporations such as KPMG, GlaxoSmithKline, SwissRe and Waitrose, as well as leaders in the public sector, SMEs and entrepreneurs.
Her recent book on communication excellence ‘Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for Dummies’ is the top selling book on NLP. ‘Building Self-Confidence for Dummies’ was further launched in January 2006.
As a professionally qualified coach, Kate works with a range of leaders and executives bringing about lasting change that adds to the quality of their lives. The coaching agenda comes from the client, and may range across business or team set up and performance, stakeholder relationships, career transitions, international assignments and personal well-being.
Kevin Howes
Kevin has spent more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs. Much of his experience and successes have been in the financial services, IT, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.
His clients tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach and his knack of quickly pinpointing where performance can be improved. He is happy to roll-up his sleeves and get dirt under his fingernails and build enduring relationships at all levels based on mutual trust, personal credibility and a passion for achieving agreed results.
Distinctive experience
Board/ executive-level coaching, fast-track in-boarding and development
Accelerating the performance of individuals, teams or the whole enterprise
Business process improvement and accelerating performance
Pre-acquisition commercial due diligence and post acquisition integration
Building and implementing enterprise-wide talent management and development policies and processes
Kevin has achieved a solid track record of delivering results in companies like Accident Exchange, Barclays, Britax, BT Cellnet (now 02), DaimlerChrysler, EPSON, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Nortel, Oracle, Sankyo, TMP Worldwide, and Zurich Financial Services.
He employs a powerful mix of on-line behavioural profiling tools that enable him to quickly discover the things people do to accelerate or sustain business performance. Likewise, quickly pinpoint the things people do that hinder individual success and block business performance.
John Gloster-Smith
John has been developing leaders in business for the last 15 years since he transformed his own career from being a senior manager in private-sector education. He’s been a management consultant to almost every business sector of international and FT 100 companies.
He’s worked at developing leaders, coaching one on one, and facilitating teams at all levels to board level, as well as organisational development. This has been supported by his own extensive investment in personal growth and in training in Gestalt and other process methodologies for personal and business transformation.
His style is focused and results-orientated but informal, with a strong ability to ask exactly the right questions that pick up the key issues and get to the heart of the matter, and to work with process, both in individuals, reporting lines and teams to help organisations bring about the desired change.
Allan James
During the last 25 years, Allan has delivered consulting and facilitation services to leaders and managers in a range of businesses in Hewlett-Packard. This has included the telecom, electronics, consulting and IT sectors as well as functional organisations such as HR, Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to this he worked in the FMCG, Retailing, Telecom and Construction/ Civil Engineering industries.
He has focused his expertise in a number of areas: business strategy and planning; organisation design; managing organisational change; executive and manager coaching; team development; business process improvement. What Allan’s clients have valued about working with him is his ability to help them cut through complexity and find a practical way of moving forward.
He helps them to measure their results in terms of improved individual and organisational performance. In particular he builds his clients’ capability and confidence in their own ability to deliver strong business results and meet their aspirations. Leaders and managers who want to increase their business, team or individual performance would benefit from speaking with Allan and where appropriate, engaging his support.
In addition to experience as a manager and consultant in Hewlett-Packard, he has a Master of Science degree in Organisation Consulting and a Diploma in Management Studies. He takes a practical approach in working with clients and it is backed up by a sound knowledge of relevant theory.
Allan is married with two grown up daughters and is a practicing musician and digital photographer.
Tony Bulleid
Tony has an excellent track record spanning 25 years delivering top line and bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs, growing to levels such as, Managing Director, Vice President and Senior Vice President of EMEA.
Most of his experience and successes have been in the ICT, Defence and Video sectors with growth achieved through both direct and indirect channels and across diverse geographic regions and complex product lines.
Tony has developed particular skills in energising sales and marketing, operations and support which have led to achieving sustainable revenue growth and profitability.
Amanda Cahalane
Amanda has a health care background gained as a nurse followed by 13 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry where she built, coached and lead a series of teams. She has worked for a number of global pharmaceutical companies and most recently she headed a large global department within drug development for Hoffman La Roche.
Her experience and successes have been in the areas of leadership, team and staff development, regulatory compliance, process improvement and running regulatory inspection teams. She has a belief that learning should be fun and has a passion for people and creativity. One of her fundamental beliefs is that people can achieve their wildest dreams, when they know what they are!
She sees the potential in others and enjoys working alongside individuals and teams helping them develop and achieve their goals through individual coaching, facilitation, team workshops, psychometric profiling and NLP.
Bella Mehta
An executive and career coach with a strong track record in business as well as a highly skilled facilitator of individual and team change. An engaging speaker on equality and diversity issues, as well as the co-author of a best-selling business handbook, Bella appears often as a business commentator on television and radio.
Bella has a Diploma in Advanced Change Management, Facilitation and Coaching from the Institute for the Development of Human Potential and trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling at the Metanoia Institute. Prior to launching her own company, she was a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting and a Project Manager for BBC News.
Recent successful projects include:
- Co-authorship of a business handbook for women, Make It Your Business (2006). The book was voted “Best of Its Kind” by Management Today and was first reprinted three months after publication
- A private one-to-one coaching practice guiding women and men to advance their careers and build their professional, emotional and entrepreneurial skills
- Development and delivery of custom training programmes and facilitated workshops for management teams within organisations e.g. Giving Difficult Feedback (BBC Senior Managers); Getting Back to Work (Business Link for London); Assertiveness at Work (Pilotlight)
- A series of 8-week open workshops for participants looking to Start a Business or Grow a Business
Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.co.uk
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Rainmaker – Business and Executive Coaching – for Success
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