The Support Network is here for you
Your source of support during the Coronavirus pandemic
An Offer of Support
A Collective of Experienced Coaching Professionals
Amidst all the alarming stories about panic buying and selfish behaviour in light of the current Covid 19 pandemic, there have also been wonderful stories of generosity, community spirit and the desire of people to be decent and kind.
Chatting with colleagues over the past few days, we feel a strong urge to do something useful when, for a whole host of different reasons, many people are struggling. That’s why we have decided to form a collective of like-minded people, with the experience and skills to provide support. We call it the “Support Network.”
We are a group of experienced business coaches, who have worked together for many years and are now offering support to leaders, managers, partners and others on a wide range of challenges arising from the Coronavirus pandemic, from the simple to the complex, the technical to the behavioural.
Coaching is powerful. It can help people maintain focus and keep going, even when it seems as though everything is coming apart.
So, as a public service to you and those you know, we offer our coaching support - whether it’s to help you with running your business, managing your people, coping with the challenge of working from home with the children there too, or just trying to figure out what “normal” will mean in the future - so that when the current turmoil has passed, you are well placed to spring back into action, as the economy begins to grow again.
We are being told to keep social distance, and we must; at times many of us will need to self-isolate, but we don’t have to ‘support isolate’! Whatever mode of communication you prefer - phone, skype, teams, hangouts etc., we are here and available to talk.
If you would like to take up this public service offer of support, please get in touch - you can find each our contact details below.
Team
Who We Are
Alistair Aitchison
Support Coach
Alistair is a change management practitioner and business coach with over 30 years of experience in a breadth of industries and geographies working with ICI, Air Products and Chemicals and Novell before co-founding the change management consultancy, Emenex, in 2001.
At Emenex, Alistair worked with a wide range of clients including: Jaguar Landrover, The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Tetra Tech International Development, Philips Healthcare, Intel, Molson Coors, Extreme Networks, Ciena, Capita, ADCO, DeLaRue Dubai Properties and MAF Ventures, supporting clients in the achievement of their strategic change initiatives through the delivery of tailored, people-orientated, change management and leadership development solutions.
Alistair also works within the primary care network of the NHS, supporting practices in the development of their leadership and clinical capabilities and in the development and delivery of services within Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
Educated at Edinburgh University (BSc Hons in Chemistry) and the BYU Marriott Business School (MBA) Alistair is an experienced leadership coach, co-authoring “The Employee Engagement Mindset” (McGraw-Hill) in 2012.
He was awarded the Oxfordshire Football Association Coach-of-the-Year Award in 2018 for his 20 years dedication to embedding the FA values while coaching within the grass-roots game.
Alistair lives in South Oxfordshire with his wife and 5 boys, is a single-figure handicap golfer and enjoys a wide range of activities including: running, swimming, walking and cycling.
Mob: 07802 356983 Email: alistair.aitchison(a)emenex.co.uk
Ann Diprose
Support Coach
Ann is an experienced leadership and management coach, committed to supporting individuals in developing strategies to overcome ‘interference’ and achieve their potential in both their professional and personal life.
For the last 20 years, Ann has worked in designing, delivering and assessing personal leadership and management development. This has included individual and team development, executive coaching and career support and development for a range of clients (including JLR, GE Aviation, AWE, WMFS, Schools, Aston Martin, Turning Point).
She has also delivered longer programmes enabling an evidence-based and theory-informed approach to learning and development and is experienced in applying a range of approaches and relevant diagnostic tools through a person-centred approach to enable personal change and development.
Ann’s qualifications include: BSc in Hotel & Catering Management Studies, MSc in Occupational Psychology, PostGraduate Teaching Certificate in Higher Education and Coaching, Training, Assessment & Verification, NLP Diplomas. She is also a teacher of Mindfulness and Compassion Based Living courses
She is also a member of the Hereford and Worcester Branch CIPD coaching subgroup, the Federation for Holistic Therapists, the British Psychological Society and an associate of the Higher Education Academy.
Ann lives in the Midlands with her husband and two children (both currently at University) and several rescue pets. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, yoga and walking her dog.
Mob :07896 708821 Email: anndiprose(a)btinternet.com
David Evans
Support Coach
David has over 25 years of sales, consulting and management experience. He combines his business development expertise with a career long interest in the competitive business impact that results from engaging staff in personal leadership and development. He has worked with the UK movement, Engage for Success, since its inception.
He is a founding partner with Emenex Ltd, and today leads the company’s work in Adoption Change Management (ACM) - coaching clients to plan, deliver and measure the people side of large-scale change programmes. He is an accredited practitioner for ACM specialists Prosci, and their affiliates such as Microsoft.
With Emenex David has worked with clients across a variety of industries, including IT, professional services, manufacturing, oil and gas, creative agencies, government and the not-for-profit sector.
As a graduate civil engineer, David’s career began in R&D with the consulting firm, W. S. Atkins & Partners. Later, PDA Engineering of California invited him to open its first European operation supplying (CAE) software and professional services, principally to tier one multinational aerospace, automotive, defence and energy manufacturers. Through acquisition in 1994, David moved to the U.S. firm, The MacNeal Schwendler Corporation as Director of Sales, Marketing & Support for the UK and Nordic regions
David lives in Dorset with his wife, and has four adult children, one of whom provides a London base for his work.
Mob: 07930 417419 Email: david.evans(a)emenex.co.uk
Chris Rowles
Support Coach
Chris has 30 years of practical leadership and management experience in the armed forces, police and consultancy arenas. Chris completed his undergraduate studies (BA Hons) in Cardiff, and his post graduate Certificate of Education (Cert Ed) through Canterbury College. Prior to Education Chris served in the Royal Marines and post graduation as a senior civilian manager within the Police Service.
Chris went on to work at Ashorne Hill, which from 2006 has been a Tata Group facility, Chris became the Director of Learning Solutions with responsibility for the marketing, sales, operations and consultant teams. Chris also worked with a wide range of clients both in the Tata family and beyond. Assignments were hugely varied but results through people were the consistent theme of each project. Interventions ranged from 1:1 coaching, to large scale performance improvement initiatives, from facilitating management team meetings to running group wide culture change programmes.
Client’s included:Tata Steel Europe, Tata Steel India and SE Asia, Jaguar Landrover, Tata Technologies, Tata Global Beverages, Experian, T-Systems, Aggregate Industries, Tarmac, Woolley and Co solicitors, Gestamp, Liberty Steel, British Steel, Volker Vessels, Geberit, PWC. Chris has undertaken assignments in MLE, Northern Europe, India, the Far East and the UK.
In 2018 Chris set up Learn to Change Ltd, and continues to work across a range of organisations and sectors. In 2019 he became a Trustee of Education for Health, a charity supporting the health care sector.Chris is married with two children in higher education, he has a passion for activity and runs his local farmers market.
Mob: +44 7493 592 995 : Email: chris(a)learn2change.co.uk
Steve Short
Support Coach
Steve has over 20 years’ experience as a training consultant and facilitator, specialising in helping managers and team leaders develop the skills that enable them to maximise their team’s contribution and productivity.
A passion for helping others learn, rather than simply teaching them, drives Steve. His philosophy on learning is that people learn best when having fun (even when the issues are difficult) and he works hard to ensure that all his workshops are enjoyable as well as stimulating and effective. He is one of the co-collaborators behind Emenex Ltd., a company specialising in change management consultancy and development.
Steve has an MSc in Strategic Leadership, from Salford University, that supports his experience in training and management roles. He has worked with a wide range of public sector and private sector clients, in Pharmaceuticals, the NHS and private healthcare, quarrying, law, drinks manufacture, oil production, commercial refrigeration, creative agencies, housing, finance, shopping mall construction and management, higher education and motor manufacturing.
He started professional life as a police officer, serving for eight years initially as a beat constable and then as a detective constable. Then an opportunity arose to get involved in the training sector, working as a trainer with a UK-based training consultancy called Lindley Educational Trust. He progressed as a trainer, training manager and finally becoming a member of the senior management team.
Steve lives in Northamptonshire with his wife, and has three adult children and a growing family of grandchildren. He loves motorcycle touring (both in the UK and abroad) and is a keen skier and mountaineer. He also enjoys watching rugby.
Mob: 07768 492915 Email: steve.short(a)emenex.co.uk
Anthony Warren
Support Coach
Anthony is a serial entrepreneur and business coach who helps entrepreneurs, their spouses and entrepreneurial couples to put family first, prosper in business, and enjoy an abundant life.
Prior to his current activities, Anthony spent two decades as a Financial Director in Multi-national organisations including the USA, France, Germany and the U.K.
Anthony resides with his wife in Berkshire from where they nurture and wrangle a multi-generational family spread across two continents. He enjoys jamming on guitar and piano with fellow blues and rock musicians.
Mob: 07865 479698. Email: anthonydewarren(a)gmail.com
Desiree Warren
Support Coach
Desiree is an experienced business manager and coach with a specific interest in supporting businesswomen and female entrepreneurs to grow and develop their business. She is passionate about learning and empowering individuals and teams to be successful in all aspects of their lives.
She spent a decade working with City Institutions in the UK buying and selling companies and raising venture capital before raising a family of four and developing a coaching business.
For over the last decade Desiree worked in primary healthcare as a GP Partnership Manager. In her work in the NHS, Desiree supported both partners and other key stakeholders though both clinical and non-clinical aspects of the practice, creating a clear future vision and working environment that was conducive to high performance from both partners and employees.
Desiree has a BA Hons degree from London University, along with post graduate diplomas in finance and business management, team, business and life coaching.
She resides in Berkshire with her husband and has a transatlantic family of four children and seven grandchildren. In her spare time Desire enjoys history, art, film, reading, walking and socialising.
Mob: 07578 385196 Email: desreswarren736(a)gmail.com
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