John Frost

John Frost

Managing Director

Overview
John is Managing Director of Values Based Leadership. He works with clients to design and deliver tailor made leadership development solutions that underpin and deliver their strategic intent. John has worked with Senior Executives in global organisations for the last 16 years to enable them to develop their leadership style, impact and lead significant cultural change in their organisations. He is an experienced coach and mentor to Senior Executives and has worked in numerous sectors. John is currently delivering leadership development programmes for FTSE 100, 250 and Global clients in the UK, Europe, North America and China. He has extensive experience of working with groups of cross cultural leaders.

Representative Client Engagements
  • Designing and delivering senior management and high potential leadership and team building programmes for an IT Service division of a Global Organisation.
  • Team Coaching with a Senior Leadership Team in a global engineering company.
  • Working with the CEO and senior team of a Division of a FTSE 100 Plc to develop a values implementation programme.
  • Working with the Managing Director to design, deliver and evaluate a senior management and team building programme for a Global Packaging company.
  • Designing and developing a high potential leadership programme for a global engineering business.
  • Coach and mentor to the Managing Directors, Presidents and Vice Presidents in numerous global organisations.
Areas of Expertise
  • Coach and mentor to CEO’s, Directors and senior leaders
  • Board development
  • Facilitating strategic organisational change
  • High potential leadership programmes in global organisations
  • Values based leadership culture implementation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Use of psychometrics and feedback tools including ECI and Firo-B
Client Types/Levels of Experience
CEO, Board & Functional Directors, Senior Management Teams, Emerging Leaders, Cross Cultural Leadership Groups

Industry/Functional Experience
IT, Engineering, Retail, Media, Construction, Banking, FMCG, Not for Profit.
Representative Clients
Weir Group plc, Balfour Beatty WorkPlace plc, SCA Packaging, Mars Inc, Hamworthy plc, Lucite.

Professional/Corporate Experience
  • Managing Director: Values Based Leadership
  • Director of Design and Development: Leadership Trust
  • Change Management and Organisational Development: Somerfield Foodmarkets
  • Managing Director: Frost Fasteners
  • Graduate Management Development: National Westminster Bank
Education
  • BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations
  • MBA – The Open University
  • Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring – The Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring