Lynn Davidson

Lynn Davidson

Associate

Overview
Lynn has worked with leaders and teams in a variety of organisations within the private sector in the UK and Europe. Lynn has been an Associate of Values Based Leadership for the past three years and has worked with VBL on numerous programmes with a variety of clients.

Lynn has worked within learning and development since 1990 during which time she has set up and managed two Learning and Development functions in national organisations and worked as an internal consultant in a European Manufacturing Group. She qualified as a professional coach in 2003. She has always been passionate about developing the Emotional Intelligence and interpersonal skills within leaders and managers. She regularly coaches and supports new managers and leaders during the early stages of their new role.

Representative Client Engagements
  • Working with a division of a construction business to develop the interpersonal skills of all sixty staff.
  • Coaching a finance manager into the role of managing director.
  • Taking a senior sales team of sixteen key managers through profiling and upward feedback exercises.
  • Three year consecutive programme to develop interpersonal and leadership skills with high potentials across four sites within the print industry.
  • Developing the presentation skills of an executive team.
  • Developing an in house cascade coaching programme within the improvements industry which reached the regional finals of a National Training Award.
Areas of Expertise
  • Development of New Leaders and Managers
  • Leadership and Management Development
  • One to one coaching from 1st line managers up to Senior Executives
  • Use of psychometrics and feedback tools including MBTI 1&2, HBDI, Belbin, FiroB
  • Thomas International and Cultural Transformation Tool
  • Accelerated Learning and Neuro- Linguistic programming
Client Types/Levels of Experience
Executive Teams, Senior Management Teams, High Potentials, First Line Managers

Industry/Functional Experience
Construction, manufacturing, leisure and entertainment, audio visual, recruitment services
Representative Clients
Skanska, Polestar, IPC, Teaching Personnel, Pfizer, Everest

Professional/Corporate Experience
  • Associate Consultant for Values Based Leadership
  • Head of Learning and Development: Everest Limited
  • Divisional Head of Learning and Development: Harman Pro Group
  • Divisional Training Manager: Rank Organisation
Education
  • Diploma in Learning and Development from CIPD
  • NVQ Level 5 Learning and Development from CIPD
  • Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring
  • Coaching Supervision from Centre for Coaching Supervision
  • NLP Master Business Practitioner – Society of Neuro Linguistic Programming (Bandler)
  • Certificate in Psychology of Leadership from CIPD