Mark Ridley professional bio

1. Business is elemental, rather like the wind. The wind is
capricious and thoroughly inconsistent. Just like business, it rages
and then softly murmurs all in the same breath and all on the same
day. You can’t see it. You can’t capture it. You can’t hold it. But you
can feel its effect and harness its energy.
The wind changes everything. Season by season, it blows warm
and then icy cold. It twists and envelops, dances and bites. In all of
its various shapes and guises the wind blows through every
business. Yours included. You can feel its force in the way your
leaders inspire others, in the way creativity and innovation take
hold and in the way your people and teams communicate and
collaborate, but are you harnessing talent to its full effects? Taking
charge of the wind that blows through your business can help you
to take better control of your business. Here’s how it’s done…
Harnessing
elemental
talent...

2. Mark Ridley is a founding Director
of Transform People International.
He is a driving force behind a
highly successful UK based training
and consulting organisation that
has, for the past decade, worked
globally with major corporations
to deliver sustainable performance
improvement through wide-
ranging engagements with senior
personnel and executive
management of many of the
world’s best-known organisations.
For over 25 years, Mark has
worked with senior management
to help companies define
strategies, improve leadership and
boost performance, He facilitates
regularly at major conferences and
events worldwide and has become
an acknowledged expert in
innovation techniques and
collaborative excellence. His vast
knowledge and considerable
business expertise guides
individuals, teams and
organisations to achieve optimum
business success.
Mark has delivered his unique
brand of excellence from Tokyo to
Sydney in the Asia Pacific Rim and
from Buenos Aires, Santiago, Chile
and Mexico City in Latin America
and in cities too numerous to list,
across the USA and in Europe.
His experience has been sought by
the likes of Anglo American,
Carlsberg, Cisco, Coca-Cola, HP,
LloydsTSB, Microsoft, Morgan
Stanley, Reuters, Unisys and many
more. Mark has also facilitated,
presented and been a keynote
speaker for a number of
prestigious City of London
Investment Houses, academic
establishments, technology giants
and other experts in a wide variety
of business fields. Recently Mark
has been presenting to corporate
audiences on the value of change
and the fast emerging
technological future. Roles are
changing rapidly and learning
methodologies have become
increasingly personal. New
learning and skills development
needs to take place primarily “on
the job” rather than in the
classroom and effective new ways
of presenting information and
expanding knowledge have to be
found and used.
Collaboration and communication
are vitally important skills in this
brave new world as companies
struggle to manage change
effectively. Is your company
really ready for the world that’s
already here?
Engaging Mark will ensure a
challenging and dynamic
“experience”, where a succession
of goals and expectations will be
routinely exceeded, whether the
engagement is boardroom,
classroom or stage-based. There
are many who will testify to his
outstanding ability to engage
people effectively and deliver
meaningful results from
worthwhile events. His clarity of
thought and precision of focus
create the aura necessary for a
dazzling and spectacular success.
02 +44 (0) 1488 658686 www.transformpeople.com
About Mark

3. 03 +44 (0) 1488 658686 www.transformpeople.com
Mark’s core expertise is in effecting
business improvement through
transforming people’s skills and
abilities. Specifically, this means
developing and redeveloping
attitudes, skills, behaviours and
cultures, as well as collaboration
and communication skills at all
levels across an enterprise.
His vast experience as a recruiter,
trainer, manager, coach and career
developer working at the very
highest levels of sales and
marketing has given him a unique
and compelling insight into the
business imperative of developing
trust-based relationships alongside
collaborative excellence.
He understands innovation and
the need to harness skills in a
company-wide web of
commercial excellence.
Mark’s focus is in identifying
leadership behaviours,
transforming skills into sales
excellence and creating
collaborative, cross functional and
virtual teams equipped to use any
available technology and delivery
method to secure consistently
impressive business results.
A highly experienced practitioner,
Mark makes learning memorable,
focused, functional, engaging
and fun. His understanding of
today’s technology makes him a
valuable presenter and very
knowledgeable facilitator and his
one on one and one to many
coaching workshops designed for
sales teams through to CEOs are
inspirational, motivational and
results-focused.
Recently Mark has been concentrating his expertise on Sales
Transformation programmes with global technology companies who
are looking to change their relationship with customers and change
their style of people leadership.
He has also been working closely with major financial organisations that
need to make serious changes to their internal engagement procedures
and develop better forward facing processes to earn an extra edge of
competitive differentiation. This has involved a range of blended
activities and skills development, from face to face interaction, team
communication and collaboration, creative exploration and the use of
emerging Web 2.0 technology.
Mark’s major skills
and expertise include:
Chair/Facilitator
Communication
Creativity
Innovation
Inspiration
Leadership
Loyalty & Retention
Motivation
Organisational Change
& Development
Organisational Culture
Personal Development
Sales
Team Work
Skills
Focus
Recently

4. What Has Been Said
Thank you again for the
creative thought, the vision
and the ultimate experience.
It was a huge success. It
doesn't get any better when
the Sr. VP of the theatre
takes aside my boss and my
manager's boss (who was
also there) and says "This
was brilliant! Absolutely
well done!”
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In Mark’s own words “The focus of any business
is all about being successful, but success is also a
highly personal experience. Recently, a female
conference attendee was inspired to pick up the
phone and talk to her most difficult customer
using new skills and techniques she had learned.
Difficulties were confronted and resolved and in
the spirit of an entirely new engagement the
client’s orders have since tripled. Speaking of
success, a Russian delegate at a recent seminar
was able to effect closure of a contract down from
typically 18 months to just 6 weeks using the
armoury of new techniques he had acquired.
It’s these snapshots of personal successes, linked
to business performance improvement, that make
everything we do pleasurably worthwhile and
immensely rewarding.”
Snapshot
‘‘Congratulations on a
great first delivery. I really
appreciate how you stepped
into this role and worked to
create an engaging
programme. You have been
a great team to work with
and I appreciate all the effort
you put into developing and
delivering this for us.”
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Contact
Mark Ridley
Lower Woodspeen Court,
Lambourn Road, Newbury,
Berkshire, RG20 8BL
United Kingdom
+44(0)1488 658686
sales@transformpeople.com
www.transformpeople.com
The feedback is that the
programme was life
changing – well done!”
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