Founder and CEO of Rialto, Richard has 23 + years experience working with Senior Leadership teams to strengthen their growth mind set, originate strategy and build more adaptive organisations. He has been described as a trusted game changer, skilled collaborator, and one of the best connectors, innovators & opportunity catalysts for today’s disruptive environment.

Background & Experience

• Richard is a highly acclaimed and well-respected practitioner in his field, listed in Cambridge Who’s Who of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs; Strathmore’s Who’s Who for Global Leadership & Achievements in Management Consulting; and recently recognised as Professional of the Year within the Global HR consulting profession.
• During his successful career, he has made nine major career changes including a move from strategic HR to line management, and periods in sales, marketing and commercial roles.
• Richard has operated at Main Board level for 23 + years and is currently awaiting evaluation by Harvard Business Review for possible inclusion in a book of World Class Leaders.

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An Executive Coach who partners with leaders to support them building confidence, self-awareness and an effective leadership approach whilst moving ‘up’ the organisation. He has specific expertise in working with leaders who are looking to develop a more flexible, situational style and are challenged with letting go of their functional expertise whilst stepping into strategic, visionary, leadership roles.

Background & Experience

• Tony has held country and regional General Manager/CEO positions in multinational FMCG, and Life Sciences businesses in Switzerland, Brazil and Australia as well as the UK. Most notably, he held senior leadership roles at Novartis, where he was a member of a divisional Global Executive Committee and successfully implemented significant revenue growth and organisational change initiatives.
• He provides coaching and mentoring support as a ‘Visiting Executive’ at The London Business School and as a Career Coach at Cambridge Judge Business School.
• Tony holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School and is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme.

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Jayne is an experienced Executive Coach. She has a proven track record in supporting executives and organisations in cultural change, engagement, executive and organisation transition with very positive results, in both the private and public sector.

Background & Experience

• During her Executive career as Group HR Director she worked at Board level, in Retail, Leisure & Hospitality, Construction, and the NHS.
• Jayne is a Non Executive Director for London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Trustee and Chair of the Remuneration Committee for St John Ambulance, and Trustee of MEI Mathematics in Education and Industry.
• She has a Certificate in Coaching from Henley Management College and also an MSc in Human Resource Development.

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Ray’s experience over the last 14 years covers a broad range of clients from FTSE companies, privately owned organisations and NGO’s. This includes working with international clients based outside of the UK from different cultural backgrounds including Europe, India, North Africa, Central Africa and the Middle East.

Ray’s executive coaching is focused on enhancing the learning, development and performance of his clients. He combines his commercial experience and understanding of the psychology of individuals and teams to help create action plans that have “buy in” and are sustainable for his clients and their organisations. He supports existing, and emerging, executives to become more effective leaders able to develop teams and organisations to deliver results.

Ray has delivered leadership development and training both across a broad range of leadership subjects and draw upon contemporary ideas and models in working with clients.

Background & Experience

• Ray has over 20 years of international business experience working with large multinational organisations.
• His work as a senior finance executive in these organisations has allowed him to build a broad commercial knowledge and a wide ranging network.
• He was CFO of Global IT Solutions at Electrolux
• Ray also held several International Finance Director posts with Diageo Plc
• Ray holds an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies and is an active member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

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As an Executive Coach with over 14 years’ experience, Tricia has coached CEO’s, C-suite executives & senior business leaders from a wide range of professional functions & industry sectors.

Her expertise covers all aspects of executive career development & transition (including new role assimilation & building an NED portfolio), executive branding & market positioning. She has worked extensively in coaching effective board room relationships & navigating organisational politics.

Tricia has had considerable success in helping clients to understand & communicate what they do best & support them to develop their future capability to meet the increasing challenges of global markets.

Background & Experience

• Tricia has a commercial background gained in the finance sector where she ran businesses in retail & corporate finance. Latterly, her blue-chip career focussed on mentoring & coaching at senior levels.
• As a full-time Executive Coach, she has worked with senior individuals in FTSE 100/250 organisations, public & not-for-profit sectors ; CEO/MD, Finance, Operations, HR, Marketing, Commercial, Legal, IT, Supply Chain, Sales, & Customer Experience
• Tricia is a Qualified Member of the Career Development Institute, Member of the Association for Coaching and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

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Janet is an experienced executive coach, learning consultant and facilitator of leadership, change and culture programmes, management development and all aspects of learning linked to step up performance. She was a core member of the team who were winners of the  organisational culture consultancy of the year, won by Rialto in 2016 consultant awards for culture.  She has a reputation for a business focus with the energy to cut through issues to seek our improved engagement of employees to deliver enhanced performance

Background & Experience

• Janet has many years of senior leadership experience working within the public sector, supporting business focussed learning. She has executive board member experience within government. For the past seven years she has focussed on mainly private sector clients working as part of the Rialto Transforming the Performance Culture team .
• Janet has a passion for people and career/talent development and coaches senior leaders some of whom are participating leadership and talent schemes.
• She combines her consulting and coaching expertise with a range of diagnostic tools including 360 degree and psychometric tests and personal feedback, where relevant, to provide clients with insight and perspective in the handling of their organisational, performance and career challenges.
• Janet works with clients across the wider public sector in addition to international and private sector clients at senior and management levels to build capacity and capability.

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Nici is Founder and Managing Director of Talent Gateway, a Rialto Partner in executive search and talent insights, with a social conscience. Having spent over a decade in business within various executive roles including business development, marketing, commercial and corporate due diligence, Nici made the decision to build Talent Gateway focused on cultural fit.

Nici believes that more than ever before, people are the key to business performance, due to the fast-paced constantly changing environment. Those businesses that focus on their people will outperform the rest.  Attracting and developing the right talent that matches an organisation’s aspirations, values, motives and culture is essential in delivering outstanding business performance.

Background & Experience

• Nici has worked in Charity, Telecoms & IT and FMCG holding various executive and board member positions.
• She has also held numerous non-executive positions in both public and private sectors, most recently at her local CCG within the health service.
• Nici has developed and run numerous events focused on women in business to inspire success through ambition, drive and self-belief.

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A highly specialised Career Coachwith over 25 years experience of delivering career programmes up to Board Level, Mike is committed to empowering individuals to make informed decisions about their future goals, needs and aspirations.  He is skilled at bringing people and resources together to realise and develop personal potential. His clients enjoy concrete and tangible outcomes in their chosen fields.

Background & Experience

• Career Coaching individuals to recognise their talents, consider suitable alternatives and explore the consequential outcomes, helping them build the confidence to make the right choices
• Performance Coaching Senior Executives, covering areas of leadership, influence and personal impact.   Assisting clients to set out clearly defined goals aligned to business and personal objectives.
• Developing and delivering ‘Career Management Programmes’, facilitating career assessment training exercises to optimise redeployment opportunities. Using on-line career management tools to increase the effectiveness of self assessment/self insight, leading to better informed future decisions.
• Mike is experienced in e-learning, designing content and co-authoring on-line career management web portals. He has acted as “Job Doctor” for the market leading job search website, monster.co.uk, using his experience to provide guidance and answer career questions to UK job searchers.

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Lynne has over 20 years’ experience in psychometric profiling, and is qualified in a wide range of assessments. She is currently Co-Chair of The Psychometrics Forum.  She works with clients in transition in their careers to help them identify their strengths and the kind of work and organisational culture that suits them best.

She is an accredited executive coach and coach supervisor, and works with both individuals and teams to address development areas and enhance effectiveness at work. She also helps organisations in their hiring decisions by using psychometric assessments as part of the selection process.

Background & Experience

• Lynne has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour, an MA in Coaching and Mentoring, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Coaching Supervision.
• She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society.
• After completing her first degree in English and History, Lynne worked in publishing before moving into training and development. During this time, she was introduced to psychometric profiling, which sparked her interest in behaviour at work, and her decision to pursue business psychology.
• She is an accredited coach with the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision, and has published a number of papers and articles on coaching and personality.

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A Career Coach, Trainer and Mindfulness Practitioner offering unstinting enthusiasm and energy supported by long standing market experience. A Member of the Association of Coaching, postgraduate qualified and quoted in many highly acclaimed publications as well as local and national media. Worked at all levels, consistently producing robust results even in the most resistant of markets.

Background & Experience

• Coached at Board level during critical times and through ongoing development. Entrusted to deliver in the most sensitive of situations
• Supported across all industries at all levels and around the globe via Skype
• Developed and delivered masterclasses on all aspects of career development and outplacement including LinkedIn. Assessed after every delivery and performed consistently ahead of all trainers
• Researched and collaborated with industry leaders to develop and deliver Mindfulness and Wellbeing courses in the City
• Invited as Guest Speaker by clients including Harrods, Deutsche Bank and Westminster Council delivering to large audiences including additional Skype audiences with full audio visual set ups, across multiple international sites.

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Gails expertise covers all aspects of executive career development and transition (including new role assimilation and building an NED portfolio), executive branding and market positioning.

An ‘out of the box thinker’ who truly stimulates thinking for senior Executives in what they might achieve with alternative approaches. Not a coach to remain with ordinary approaches and thinking, someone who can ‘reach the parts which others cannot’. Able to challenge appropriately without leaving the client deconstructed, but truly energized.

Specialist in ensuring clients have the ability to not only understand, but are able to articulate clearly their value and offering to the market.

Background & Experience

• Her career has been based on accreditation and expertise in Marketing which then, combined with recruitment, provided a most robust platform for the delivery of first class career advice.
• Gail has a very strong commercial background having been instrumental in start-ups and contributing to successful disposals and acquisitions for clients. This support has resulted in the completion on a variety of transactions.
• She has worked with key staff in public and not-for-profit sectors in addition to individuals wishing to gain entry into this sector, operating across most functions.

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Mike is a chartered management accountant who holds a number of executive and non-executive roles within a number of fast-growing businesses in the technology and professional services sectors.

He has been Director of Finance at Rialto since 2006, where he is responsible for financial management and administration.

Background & Experience

• Following a successful exit from his telecommunications business in 1998, Mike has been advising businesses on fund-raising, business planning, strategic development and financial management with a particular focus on building towards a high value exit route.
• He has taken the lead role in acquisitions, disposals, and company reconstructions as well as the management of complex customer and supply-side contracts.

John is a successful entrepreneur with a leadership background in staffing and recruitment. He has worked as a director for several of the top global staffing companies and founded Best International Group which grew to £130million turnover in 18 months.

As a Chairman of Rialto, he contributes to the overall corporate strategy and continues his reputation for creating shareholder value in fast growing environments.

Background & Experience

• John holds significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, fund raising and IPOs.
• He has 30 years experience in recruitment in senior roles at Ajion (UK) Ltd, trading as Computer People, Best International and Spring Group Plc.
• He is currently a non executive chairman and strategic advisor to eight companies in the Talent and Recruitment sector.

Christopher is a deeply experienced and versatile customer experience consultant possessing over 15 years of putting the customer first. He is driven to accelerate client profitability by providing customer insights and developing the best customer engagement solutions.

Background & Experience

• Christopher writes the ‘CX Leaders Interview’ series for the CX Magazine, as well as publishes the monthly ‘Customer’s World update’ bulletin.
• He also regularly speaks on CX topics at industry events, guest lectures (including The International University of Monaco) as well as holding significant roles as a judge at several Customer Strategy Awards.

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Jan’s career provides a pragmatic base for training, coaching and mentoring senior level leaders before, during and after effecting significant corporate or personal change. She also uses her experience in an advisory/facilitative capacity with organisations on their business growth and transformation strategies as well as guest lecturing at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Background & Experience

• Jan’s career over the past 25 years has comprised senior corporate roles including Head of Zurich Corporate Pensions, Global Sales Director and Executive Committee member, Barclays Private Bank and Resident Vice President, Consumer Lending, Citibank.
• She is past Vice President of UN Women UK, and past Chair of the innovative women’s sector funding charity, Rosa UK Fund for Women and Girls. She was a Commissioner of the Women’s National Commission (WNC), with a special remit for its Women on Boards policy.
• Jan is a qualified Level 7 Executive Coach and Leadership Mentor (from the Institute of Leadership and Management, Europe’s leading awarding body), and a Fellow of ILM. She has been recognised as one of “100 Best Global Coaching Leaders Award” by the World HRD Congress.

Rob is passionate about connecting talented people into pioneering organisations in which they can thrive.

He has been a director of  Rialto executive search sister company, Talent Gateway since 2012 working with clients to think creatively about talent acquisition.

Background & Experience

• Rob’s early career spanned over two decades across a range of sectors including Telecoms and IT, business services, financial services and the public sector.
• He has worked with many clients in his career from WPP, AT&T, NTT, Vodafone and Orange
• Rob originally qualified as an electronic engineer, and now holds professional qualifications in marketing and an MBA from Henley Business School.

Leslie is an Advisor to Rialto bringing a wealth of experience from her 25 years marketing and strategy experience. She is a strong advocate of the use of customer insight to inform strategy and measure its success.

Background & Experience

• Lesley has 25 years marketing and strategy experience across B2C and B2B companies.
• She has held senior and board level marketing roles at Williams Lea, PaperlinX, Hertz and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines working in the UK and abroad and in national, regional and global roles.
• Lesley is also a Trustee of Revitalise, specialists in breaks for disabled people and their carers.

A chartered clinical psychologist and PHD scholar, John has been assessing and coaching c-suite executives and their teams in leading organisations for 24 years.  Assignments have taken him to 20 countries around the world working in the areas of leadership development, managing stakeholder relationships, the management of power, organisational politics, influence and personal impact.  He has a reputation for considered judgement, insight and rigour when it comes to assessing individuals and teams, pragmatism when it comes to coaching and development.

Background & Experience

• John started his early career in the NHS working as a Senior Clinical Psychologist.
• He has since held Director-level roles at Kiddy and Company, Kaisen, Cedar International, Quality Forum and Misura Consulting. John has also worked as a Managing Partner of The Oxford Consulting Group.
• He has a BSc and PhD in Psychology from London University, is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a founding member.
• John  has been a guest lecturer at the IOD, INSEAD and The Cranfield School of Management. He has published on the topics of leadership, relationship development and emotional resilience.
• John’s research, The DNA of a Game Changer and The DNA of a Game-Changing Team, focuses on the premise that organisations are neglecting the very talent, which has the potential to transform the future.

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George leads both our Advanced Management Consulting and Transforming the Performance Culture practices. Working within both public & private sectors and with associated bodies, George partners with organisations to deliver measurable and sustainable business transformations and culture change with a keen focus on ROI, increasing enterprise value, and the creation of step change such that organisations are better placed to deliver their strategic goals.

Background & Experience

• George has predominantly worked in the private sector throughout his career including nearly 18 years in two high service level FTSE25 organisations.
• George’s ‘blue chip’ years are sandwiched between a short service commission in HM Forces in the 1980’s and since 2006.
• He has owned 2 companies, one in the education sector as a school owner, and the second in HR consultancy.
• George is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development with expertise in High Performance Culture development, High performing Team development, Organisational design and  Leadership Behaviour development.
• Since 2006, he has built two independent businesses whilst simultaneously working as a change management specialist supporting clients to focus on reaching their objectives effectively and efficiently, by dynamically bringing together teams’ know-how and creativity in the pursuit of step changes in performance.

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Chris Roebuck is a Senior Director at Rialto, Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School and advisor to a select group of forward thinking organisations. His passion is helping organisations improve performance through their people, by working with Executive Directors to help them understand how they can contribute to organisational success via developing leadership, engagement, high performance and alignment on to key deliverable.

Background & Experience

• Chris was formerly Global Head of Leadership at UBS, where his work is now part of a Harvard Business School case study.
• He has worked with organisations as diverse as HSBC, RBS, the UK National Health Service, international law firms and London Underground.
• He has been on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list annually since 2010, been interviewed over 200 times on TV and quoted in many global publications on leadership issues.
• His new book, Lead to Succeed, on his new Mach 2 leadership model was published in May 2014.This sets out a new perspective delivering successful leadership and transformation in the 21st century described as a “breakthrough in thinking” about leadership

With over two decades’ experience and a refreshingly practical sensibility, Peter Ryding gives CEOs, MDs, and other business leaders the inspiration, guidance, and support they need to thrive. This can be as an executive coach, mentor, strategy advisor, NED or chairman.

Background & Experience

• A serial CEO and Chairman whose career included Exxon, Mars, EMI and 3i before becoming a turnaround and transformation specialist and a top coach to CXOs.
• He has generated over £1billion of profit and shareholder value and won awards for his turnaround and coaching work.
• Peter has a Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial College, an MBA from London Business School. He is a keynote speaker, conference chairman, author of 6 books and has been voted BBC interviewee of the year.
• Turnaround & Transformation Credentials include, National award winning turnaround and transformation expert, Main Board Director of the Institute for Turnaround, 100% track record for turning around (15) companies and blue chip divisions. Coaching & Mentoring Credentials include, Professional Coach since 1999 & Master Coach since 2005, Voted Top UK Coach to CXOs (Ernst & Young), Ran Europe’s biggest coach training business.

With a long-standing capacity for excellence in education and leadership programme design, Terri creates and delivers leadership development programmes, bespoke strategic management training and creative workshops to address specific workplace demands in public and private sector.

Background & Experience

• Terri brings to her role over a decade of successful consulting experience, having specialised in strategic human resources leadership work with private enterprise, Australian state, federal governments, industry associations and public entities.
• She has delivered workforce and workplace research to inform government policy and broad ranging investigations into labour, skills and capability needs across multiple sectors.With a long-standing capacity for excellence in education and leadership programme design, she has created and delivered development programmes, bespoke strategic management training and creative workshops to address specific workplace demands in the public and private sectors.
• She is the co-author of the world’s only Master’s level course in Data Centre Leadership and Management and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
• Terri is listed in the Power Women 50 – the world’s most influential women in the data economy who are leading data centres, cloud, edge computing and data through charting new innovations or technological breakthroughs, sheer investment or business acumen.

Simon is an expert in future of work and leadership.

His particular interest is the impact of technology and social media on the world of work and business, and in how this affects behaviours, effective leadership and organisational design.

He also draws from other first-hand leadership experience both is extreme sport and business.

Background & Experience

• He has led teams on arctic expeditions and round the world yacht races, most notably as skipper of Toshiba in the BT Global Challenge round the world race where he finished second, the youngest skipper in the fleet.

David has 25+ years in top executive roles leading enterprise strategy, execution, turnarounds, and improvement initiatives that generated hundreds of millions in bottom-line results, improved morale, and won top awards from the US White House, US Senate, and others.  Employee engagement for the New World was always key to his success.

Background & Experience

• David the author of a best-selling book Creating You, Inc. which helps people to find a niche they are truly passionate about, and one that they can excel at. Additionally, it helps them to create and follow a plan to become a thought-leader within their niche
• He provides executive workshops to worldwide audiences on how to find your sweet-spot, and on creating highly engaged cultures
• He recently chaired World Strategy Week where he brought together thought leaders from around world to discuss critical forces changing global economies. Included top government advisors (e.g., U.K. Prime Minister, U.S. White House), scholars from top universities, best-selling authors, and top executives from private, public, and non-profit sectors
• David has worked as senior management adviser to top government officials and consulted extensively with federal organisations, Fortune 100 companies, small-medium sized businesses, and non-profit organisations

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