Mark Crabtree

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About Mark Crabtree

Let's make good performance infectious and truly engage people in change. In today's challenging environment I offer a value-adding, flexible and accessible approach to coaching leadership and organisation development. About me: I am an engaging, expert, award-winning facilitator, qualified coach and work-place mediator with over 30 years' experience in Leadership and Organisation Development. As the pace of change increases and the challenges mount up, I bring a practical, business perspective to organisation development initiatives. As a results-orientated, self-motivated, client-centred, supportive practitioner, I work closely with key stakeholders in complex and diverse organisations to enable them to develop their people and structures in line with their strategic ambitions and values. I am also able to draw upon extensive Higher Education Sector, Private Sector and Local Government experience from the senior positions I held in these areas. Expertise: Organisation, leadership and management development; Team development; Change management, building and maintaining resilience; Executive Coaching; Conflict management, work-place mediation; 360º diagnostics and feedback; Psychometric diagnostics (including Myers Briggs Step 2; 16PF, Hogan, PRISM). Career overview: In 2002 I joined Durham University as Training and Development Manager with specific responsibility for leadership, management development and interpersonal skills development. Between September 2007 and October 2018 I held the role of Assistant H.R. Director (Training and Development). I also co-created the University's mediation service. Between 1996 and 2002 I held the position of Group HR Manager at Benfield Motors, a large motor retailer based in the North of England, providing leadership to the organisation’s H.R and H.R.D. function. Between 1989 and 1996 I worked at Newcastle City Council as Senior Management Development Officer, working with a variety of client departments from treasury and accounting staff to education specialists and school governors. Prior to 1989 I designed and delivered a range of development initiatives for a major U.K. retail chain which I delivered across the U.K.