raising the bar llp is a partnership dedicated to performance behaviour improvement. Offering facilitation and executive coaching, we also train coaches and have sales and management training designed specifically for professional services and financial services organisations, and for 'areas' that traditionally have not been sold.
I have specific expertise around: training consultancy and design; sales prospecting and acquisition; relationship sales; performance coaching; leadership; top team development and team-working; action learning; presentation skills and facilitation skills.
Industry knowledge extends to financial services, telecoms; oil & gas; professional services and consultancies.

• Responsible to the Regional Managing Partner (North) for the successful execution of Ernst & Young’s (EY’s) priority account strategy in the north region covering an area from Inverness to Manchester, Belfast to Hull. This strategy involves the concentration of the firm’s resource on FTSE 350 non-audit clients and delivering to them the widest range of our services which include strategic tax consulting, tax assurance, corporate finance, business risk service and strategic finance.
• I led a team of 7 Account/Sales Directors and 5 Sales Coordinators to deliver £15m in sales in 2003/4 through major non-audit accounts.
• Personally accountable for 5 of these priority accounts, managing relationships at board level and delivering £2m in revenues.
• Targeting the next generation of priority accounts and leading, coaching and supporting major (£250k - £9M) pursuits which fall out with the priority account structure.
• A member of the National Sales Board, I helped formulate and drive the sales strategy for EY UK.. I was responsible for coaching all regional Account Directors.

TMI, Time Manager International, is one of the largest management training organisations in Europe. Best known for their Time Manager training programme, they deliver a wide range of training solutions to large organisations on over 30 countries.
• I negotiated and ran the franchise to sell and run training programmes throughout the Middle East, both to local companies and supporting programmes running in multinational clients. The territory included Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

• Specialised in running the Time Manager programme and also delivered training on presentation skills, creativity, speed reading and organisation-wide customer service programmes.
• Key accounts included Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Mars, Lloyds Bank and HP.