Rod Willis
Rod specialises in developing coaching interventions incorporating gamification techniques to enhance our awareness and practice with a focus on Collaboration and Mindsets. Rod brings a rare combination of 25 years’ experience in international high tech business development gained at a senior level, a MBA and MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change to complement his coaching practice.
Geography covered:
Based in Thames Valley, UK. Offering Executive Coaching via a face-to-face, telephone and Video conferencing on an International basis. Clients are based in the USA, UK, GCC and Australia.
Experience as an Executive Coach:
Sectors: Senior Executives, CEO and Board Level in Corporate (High-tech Semiconductor, Engineering, Healthcare), Not-for-Profit, SME and Public Sector. He is an active Coach and Facilitator supporting The Windsor Leadership Trust on their various Leadership Development Programmes.
Individual, Group and Organisational Development Experience:
He created the ‘Navigating Collaboration IA3.0’ peer-learning intervention which is part of the Accelerating Collaboration Everywhere® Suite of tools. These tools have been/are used on several MSc Programmes across multiple Universities/Business Schools, and by fellow practitioners (info https://getcollaborating.com/).
Agile Mindsets: As part of the Agile Mindsets tools, he created several interventions to support the Transformational/Vertical Development desires of his clients. The theory and evidence base of his activities stem from the work of Professor Vlatka Hlupic, the author of the Management Shift and Humane Capital and Otto Laske and Professor Jan De Visch, the co-authors of Dynamic Collaboration. In both cases, the work of Robert Kegan and those that went before are integrated into the above, and in the man based on Constructivism Development Theory. Agile Mindsets (info https://getagilemindsets.com/)
Business and Organisational Experience:
He designed and implemented the restructuring of European service organisations following merger and acquisitions, whilst managing teams with international Profit and Loss responsibility supporting companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, Blaupunkt, Siemens, Ford, JLR. Working with such clients has provided global experience working in the UK, across Europe, USA, Middle East and Far East, resulting in the understanding of the importance of both cultural as well as business differences.
Professional Coaching Practice:
With a passion for bringing practice and theory together, Rod helps individuals, groups and organisations to "Grow Through Change". Having sponsored research into "Resistance to Change" he now specialises in supporting organisations with the "people side" of change using a unique combination of coaching, psychometrics and group development interventions.