Chris Gledhill - Associate Profile

	Name:	Chris Gledhill
	Address:	Bramton 19 Church Street Dunton Biggleswade Beds. SG18 8RR
	Telephone:	01767 318824
	Mobile:	07802 862768
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Summary

Chris is a businessman and personal coach with ten years experience at board level, running large successful businesses.

He has several years application and training in personal coaching. For the last two years this knowledge and experience has been applied to business performance coaching as an associate of Catalyst Coaching Group.

His clients cover a wide cross section of business sectors and range from financial services to manufacturing. His proudest achievement of the last two years is nurturing a company to grow their turnover 400% within a period of eighteen months.

Previous Experience

From 1993 to 2002, Chris was a board member of Unilever businesses, each with a turnover in excess of £100m. His functional focus was new product innovation and his greatest achievement was leading the definition and implementation of a new company process for creating and delivering new products to the market place. Prior to this he led a major part of Unilever's research effort. From 1974 - 1985 he had a variety of management positions with Xerox Corporation and Gestetner. These included project and manufacturing management.

Qualifications

Educated in Chemical Engineering, Chris gained his Phd. in 1972.

He has attended a number of programmes on coaching which included a three month programme on "Breakthrough Leadership" and "Advanced Coaching and Mentoring", accredited to the Institute for the Development of Human Potential. He also experienced the benefit of an executive coach for himself over a five year period.