About Hugh Todd, Coach and Trainer | ||
Click the 'Women's Program' button on the left to find out more, and to find a link to an interview that will tell you much more about who I am.
On this page you will find testimonials, material about my work with key clients (NATO and others), my employment history, educational achievements and more. If you insist on the detail, here it is!
Coaching and Mentoring Testimonials
“Women in leadership” has been an issue for me since I started working on gender and diversity issues. I have known about the glass ceiling and what it takes to be a woman in a male domain. Unfortunately, when it was time for me to take a management position in Human Resources, I failed to transfer this knowledge. Hugh has helped me see that I was ready for a leadership role just the way I was and that I have all the tools available. Hugh has inspired me and coached me to a point where I am very comfortable at my place in the management team, surrounded by male colleagues who are older than me and come from a military background where women in leading roles are still the minority. I have come to know my strengths and weaknesses and how to use both to my advantage and in the spirit of my company. I can only recommend Hugh and his seminars to any woman who wants to discover the leader in herself. Petra BENDER, MBA Head of Personnel & Administration, NATO Airlift Management Agency - NAMA
'You did a fantastic job! Congratulations! The way you pronounce the word "stress" is relaxing in itself' ...NATO Officer, Luxembourg
‘The benefits will keep coming for 40 years if I’m lucky ... I’ve enjoyed this and it has totally changed my life,’ ...Construction Manager, Bellway Homes West Scotland
'What you offer people is really very special and I am 100% certain you'll grow from strength to strength as a phenomenal, ...inspirational coach.'Anne-Marie Grams, Principal, Communicate
'I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of ideas I can take away from this course and put into action with my team.' Scottish Environment Protection Agency Officer
‘You keep pushing us to make decisions and to try things, so we don’t just sit and listen all day. This gives us the confidence to try things when we go back to the site.’Comments from staff piloting a course in ‘Managing For Peak Site Performance’
'…it has been a valuable investment … [Hugh] does not recommend a course of action so much as enable you to see what you would like to happen and provide you with tools to achieve it' Sally Beattie, Quest International
Coaching and Mentoring Key Clients
NATO: I have been this Agency’s management trainer and coach for its management and administrative base [NAMSA] in Luxembourg since 2001. I have worked with a wide range of Programmes, Branches and Sections in tailoring and coaching specific success strategies for individuals, teams and businesses. NAMSA clients have included Finance, Engineering, Logistics, Personnel, Information Systems and Corporate Planning departments.
Through common interest courses such as ‘Leadership & Management’, and ‘Managing Time & Pressure for Peak Performance’ I have been able to build up unparalleled awareness of the challenges facing staff and managers across the Agency while building bridges across functional boundaries. I have also designed, implemented, analysed and reported back a staff survey for one of the major Programmes within the Agency.
The House-Building Industry:
As well as coaching people up to Director level in ‘blue-chip’ companies including Taylor Wimpey and Bellway Homes in the UK I have helped to develop benchmarks for high quality site teamwork, an appraisal and personal development planning system, inter-departmental training for future Board of Directors members, and training for emerging managers. These companies have seen massive results in customer satisfaction, target achievement and profitability through increased skill, capacity and commitment. Staff turnover is lower and there is greater career advancement through succession planning.
In 2008/09 the industry is facing massive challenges due to wider economic factors and it is heartening that those I have worked with seem much better prepared to survive these challenges.
Other Client Experience Past clients include: Baillie Gifford, SEPA, Organon Laboratories, Shell Financial Operations, Diageo, St Andrews, Dundee, Napier & Aberdeen Universities, Edinburgh College of Art, Quintiles, National Trust for Scotland, NHS Trusts, Link Housing Association, WM Company, and various individual clients.
My experience ranges from work with teenagers ‘at risk’ to lecturing in higher education, public sector management and as owner/manager of a business which was a winner in the national Small Business Awards (Scotland) in 2004. In recent times my main clients have been NATO’s management, administration and supply agency in Luxembourg and two of the largest house-builders in the UK. I am affiliated to the AR Group, one of the top coaching and mentoring agencies in Australia - www.argroup.com.au - and am an accredited online coach with Coaching Interactive, www.coachinginteractive.com .
I coach management teams, natural work groups and individuals through a process of identifying their challenges, their chosen success indicators, choosing the areas for attention that would bring the greatest benefit, and then exploring real and sustainable strategies for development. Nail down and follow through are key themes when ensuring that value is being created.
I train people when this is appropriate and will lead to sustainable, valuable outcomes. ‘Training’ has to be interactive and needs to lead to reflection, active experimentation and the implementation of better strategies by clients.
Education History
2008: Accredited Online Coach, www.coachinginteractive.com
Employment History
At present: Freelance coach, trainer and public speaker based in Sydney, Australia. September 2004 to present: Principal of The Todd Coaching Company Ltd, and partner in Impact Training, which currently specialises in work with the house building sector in Scotland. April 1998 – October 2006: Owner/Managing Director of Rosemount Nursery Schools Ltd (infants, nursery school and out of school care).
April 1998 – September 2004: Senior Associate, Communicate (an Edinburgh based training company)
August 1990- April 1998: Lecturer, Dept of Community and Continuing Education, Northern College of Education, Dundee.
1985-August 1990: Area Manager, Community Education Service, Drumchapel, Glasgow.
1985 [July-Oct]: Internal Consultant, participant research project investigating conflict among youth work agencies, Gorbals, Glasgow; Strathclyde Regional Council.
1980- 1985: Project Manager, Urban Programme Community Education Project in Maryhill, Glasgow.
1982- 1985: Company Director, Maryhill Community Business Ltd, including periods as Hon. Treasurer and as Company Secretary.
1977- 1980: Social Groupwork Officer, (working with teenagers at risk), Mearns Centre Project, Social Work Dept, Greenock and Port Glasgow.
1977 [June-Sept]: Outdoor Education Instructor, Dalguise House, Perthshire, MSC Community Programme Project.
1974 – 77: While a student, worked during the holidays as plongeur in French restaurants and in 1976 as a waiter in a seaside bistro for the summer season – at this time was able to communicate fluently in French.
Membership of Professional Associations Accredited Coach, Coaching Interactive
Personal Background I have been married since 1980. My wife is at Director (Vice President) level, managing large scale change and integration projects in the financial sector – in the last 5 years this has involved work in Amsterdam and Sydney.
We have two daughters, one with a BA degree in Technical & Production Arts from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, and the other is studying Zoology at Aberdeen University.
As well as supporting my family I am learning to sail keelboats and to golf, I try to keep fit, and I follow rugby. Before moving to Sydney my main sport was curling. And I miss it!
I have lived (as a child) in two East African countries - Uganda and Somalia. I have a reasonable working knowledge of the French language.
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