Steve [MSc. Change Agent Skills and Strategies, BSc (Hons) Psychology and HNC, Mech. Eng.]. Steve is an international organizational, leadership and team consultant, coach and facilitator with over 12 years experience.  He focuses on assisting businesses, leaders and their teams develop sustainable peak performance and results.  

To address current business challenges such as:

• aggressive deliver goals e.g. for an IPO
• Integration of leadership and businesses following M & A’s
• projects behind schedule
• loosing crucial staff
• teams or different departments not working well together
• a new leader or team needs developing
• people working too hard and long to deliver results

Steve has worked with internationally diverse teams across the UK, Europe, US, in the Far East and in Africa and utilities a leading edge on-line high performance team system assessment tool and / or Corporate Transformation Tools assessment where appropriate.

The foundation of his work is the “Essentials of Peak Performance” - a simple understanding of the human experience underpinning the capacity for leading organisations and of working consistently to the best of our abilities as individuals and in groups.   He has been trained in Europe and North America by the world’s top practitioners in this approach to people development and is the leading facilitator of this understanding in the UK.

Previously his work included an organisation-wide culture-shifting programme at a major car manufacturer as well as serving as the principal consultant at a B-2-B technology services business, providing coaching to the management team.  Prior to this he was a high and low ropes course instructor for three years.
Steve has worked in both the USA and UK and his experience also includes various leadership positions at Scientific Atlanta, Schlumberger, and Monsanto in Project Management, Sales, and New Business Development. He has focused for the last 10 years on bringing his warmth and understanding of people, teams and leadership back into business.

Clients worked with include: Air Products, AON Risk Services, Borealis A/S & GmbH, bp British Olympic Bobsleigh Team, British Airways Co-Pilots, Citigroup, Cisco Systems, Dell, Electronic Arts, Frito-Lay Europe, Jaguar, Mars, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Thames Water, United Utilities, Vodaphone.

Steve is a strong, compassionate and inspirational individual, programme leader, coach and speaker, a creative and motivated professional, committed to business success through the development and encouragement of excellence in people.

Recent testimonials

I have worked with Steve Sharpley during the past 2 years being a senior lawyer in the Legal Department of Borealis. I have seen him in action both as a team coach and as a coach for individuals.  He has a truly deep understand of how we function as individuals and in group interactions.  He is able to apply some simple and fundamental principles which help me and others understand our behaviour and how our lives are shaped.  In my mind there is no doubt that he has been, and still is, a strong contributor to the development of an efficient and powerful Legal Team in Borealis. 

JOL Legal Counsel Borealis

I have no doubts that the work we did with Steve made a significant contribution to creating the strong team spirit we later enjoyed, which in return helped us integrate the new members into the team very efficiently and deal with the changes we had to go through individually and as a department.

JU, Senior Lawyer Borealis A/S, Denmark

Leadership - Team and Performance Facilitation and Coaching
Steve supported the European Business Optimisation (EBO) Leadership team in general, the Market Team and myself throughout the life of Innovene’s EBO from Q4 2005 to the end of 2006. In terms of performance this was a phenomenal year for Innovene and EBO both in terms of financials (Innovene $1.7bn EBITDA versus $1.3bn plan and EBO $150m versus $84m plan) and in terms of personal growth of the leadership – Steve played an important role in facilitating this growth. This support continued Steve’s work with the Chemical’s team over the past few years.
The greatest impact I have felt from coaching is that I now have a much heightened consciousness of my impact upon others and recognition of how my mood and personal state can impact my performance. This has aided my balance between work and home life.
DJ  Commercial Director, Innovene


BP – Industry recognised: Global First Level Leaders Leadership Programme, external facilitator – 2001 to present.
We are very proud that FLL won a Helios Award.  We would like to thank you for your contribution to the success of the programme, in our view the most successful intervention that the new BP has made to date.      
CM, Grp VP People (HR)

 

Syngenta (Ex Astra –Zeneca)
I’m not joking when I say it’s been incredibly valuable to me, really valuable.  I just wish I’d found it 20 years ago.  Everything has slowed down. It's like I've gone from fifth gear to about second.  It's all still happening, but I'm not having to rush round in order to achieve the things I need to achieve.  I've become a lot happier with what I'm doing and am a lot more content with what I'm doing.        
SB.  IT Manager,