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Go MAD Thinking
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR WORLD - We partner with organisations around the world that are seeking to accelerate results and enable change through empowering and engaging people to "Go Make A Difference". This requires our talented team of "Thinking Engineers" (yes, it’s a real job title) to design and facilitate a wide range of leadership, innovation and business transformation programmes that are both inspirational and practical in helping people think differently. Most importantly, they get results and that is something we are passionate about - helping our clients achieve measurable differences.
Rob Huntington
Rob joined Go MAD Thinking as a Thinking Engineer, having had extensive experience over that last 20 years in senior positions within the public sector. This included leading multi-disciplinary teams on high profile reviews of service delivery within local authorities, emergency and health organisations. His passion for innovation, the creative use of resources and the generation of possibilities to improve the quality of services in all sectors remain his key drivers. Rob is also passionate about helping people to develop, and his role at Go MAD enables him to apply his practical knowledge around the three key areas of efficiency, leadership and transformation. He uses his knowledge and a combination of the Go MAD Thinking System to encourage organisations and individuals to make a difference. Rob’s extensive background in business and cultural transformation has helped clients such as QBE Insurance, Co-Op, Cisco and numerous Central and Local Government Departments develop their organisations and culture to achieve measurable results.
Mark Perkins
Mark has more than eighteen years’ experience in the Retail, Financial, Leisure and Sports industries, spending the past six years in the Learning and Development sector working with a major communications company. His role was key in supporting the creation of a culture of ‘Service and Sales’, whilst delivering fantastic results which led to the company being nationally recognised for their contributions to customer service. To drive forward the organisation’s talent management strategy he provided development for future managers to enhance their goal defining and results focused thinking abilities. His passion and enthusiasm when working with clients results in enabling individuals, teams and leaders to make a difference in their roles, their organisations and for themselves. Alongside his role at Go MAD Thinking, Mark’s other passion is sport. He is heavily involved in indoor and beach volleyball around the country in which he plays, coaches and also commentates. In 2012 he achieved his own personal goal of commentating at the Olympic Games, beach volleyball held at Horse Guards Parade in London. In his spare time he can also be found on the golf course working on his handicap.
Kathryn Colas
Kathryn Colas is the go-to expert when it comes to menopause. She set up as a result of her own distressful experiences, resigning from her job as she felt she couldn’t cope. “If only I knew then what I know now!”. Kathryn now shares that information and provides support and a helping hand through the minefield that is menopause and helps to make menopause manageable. Kathryn has appeared on national BBC Breakfast TV, ITV This Morning, Sky TV Real Lives and speaks regularly on BBC radio across the length and breadth of the UK.
Paul Crittenden
LeadWell Director – Schools Advisory Service
Paul is the Director of LeadWell, the leadership development division of the Schools Advisory Service. He is a passionate advocate of personal leadership and accountability, and believes that success goes hand-in-hand with wellbeing and happiness.
He has a strong track record of helping leaders thrive in highly pressurised environments, and has achieved great results with school leaders over the last twelve years, developing leadership practices that help people succeed - and stay well.
Paul has been a top leadership coach and transformation specialist for almost twenty years, working in the voluntary, private and public sectors in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, the USA and Mexico. He has lectured and trained at prestigious academic and business institutions around the UK on leadership and transformation, including the Institute of Directors, Derby University, and Cranfield Business School. He is a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming, and a Fellow of the Institute of Human Development.
Paul splits his time between helping people explore the complex and often challenging terrain of personal and organisational leadership, and exploring the most inhospitable and remote areas on Earth. He has over 70,000 miles of expedition experience, and has crossed eight of the world’s major deserts. His insights on life gleaned in challenging circumstances, and in remote places, have been published in his first book, “Sights and Insights”
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