steve hobbs

The focus of my work is you and your team. As a facilitator and coach, your issue or opportunity is the agenda. What do you want to do today?

From creating a strategy to agreeing a plan, from innovating to problem solving, there’s always something on the agenda that needs attention and a facilitated process that can help. There are dozens of approaches - models to organise your thinking. They can help you understand how to respond to a situation, come up with an answer and a plan of action. My job is to help you through that process. Much of the time, an answer is already somewhere within you or the team, it just needs teasing out and articulating. We’ll work on this together in a ‘seriously fun' environment. At the end of the process it’s your solution, your actions, your results.

My experience - as a business owner and employer, leader and manager - supports my work with you. Even in the thick of the ‘doing’ over the last 30+ years there has been time to observe those around me lead, manage, plan and execute. What have I learned? Leaders who focus on the ‘Why', then the ‘How' and finally the ‘What' create teams and organisations that get things done.

The tools of my trade are questions. The aim is to ask better questions… Ones that promote thought, challenge assumptions, clarify ideas, enable decision making, inspire action. If you have a question you’d like to ask me, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you.

Together we can knit fog, herd cats or nail jelly to the wall.

Specialisms - in the Private / Public / Non Profit sectors (…or where they all come together).

Leadership, visioning, strategy and planning. Collaboration and partnership. Culture change and team building. Facilitation skills. 1:1 coaching and mentoring.