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CEQ is an international consultancy specialising in leadership development, executive coaching and change management for global corporate businesses. Our team have deep experience and proven track records of success in both operational roles and training interventions. We understand the unique pressures of corporate life, and we provide solutions that balance compassion with challenge, inspiring leaders to deeper levels of self awareness, and to more confident strategies for themselves and the people they lead.

Our in-house experience as senior operational executives, combined with our world class methodologies in Coaching, Leadership and Change, means we are uniquely equipped to engage with you at the earliest stage of your thinking. Whether you are planning an organisation-wide transformation, or a relatively straightforward L&D curriculum, we will spend time understanding your needs, whilst at the same time adding value through our inputs, even prior to you formally engaging us.

We will help you assess not only the most effective interventions, but which of those interventions need to be delivered by external agents (and therefore which can be delivered through your own internal resources). Our role is to add huge value, not simply to sell you programmes and certainly not to build dependency upon us.

As part of our enquiry process, we will work to understand the context for the changes and developments you are striving for. We work to understand your Mission, Vision and Values and to tie our interventions back to these as guiding goals and principles. We work to understand your business strategy and your operating model, in order to ensure that all L&D activities we design are in support of these guiding plans.

Finally we work with your own proven and trusted people processes, because it is essential that any Coaching, Leadership and Change workshops or programmes we deliver both acknowledge and promote a client company internal processes around people management. We are not in the business of creating bright shiny new fads that implicitly devalue existing people processes, and which will surely be destined to be superseded within a few short months.

Our Coaching programmes are the foundation stone of the consistency of our success in client engagements, and they will be for you too. Our Leadership programmes work because they are both pragmatic and inspirational. Our Change programmes are hugely effective because they deliver embedded cultural change and because they support the operating model.

The CEQ approach simply delivers the greatest embedded change within the most cost effective budget. And the change commences from the moment of first contact with us.

Our team

Meet our leadership team

Gareth Chick

Managing Partner

Gareth has an outstanding track record as CFO, CEO and Chairman in both public and private companies, including private equity. He is a highly sought after consultant working in major corporations around the world; one of the UK’s top Executive Coaches (200+ senior executives including FTSE100 and Fortune 500) and the designer of class leading management training programmes (5000+ managers across 25 countries). Gareth is an acknowledged expert on corporate cultures and corporate psychology, regularly lecturing and presenting on leadership, cultural change and coaching, and travelling extensively across the world to research new leadership models and transformation processes.

Rachel Young

Partner

Rachel is a qualified and highly experienced Integrative Psychotherapist who uses aspects of Gestalt, Existentialist and Transactional Analysis modalities in her work and is a specialist in addictive behaviours and group dynamics. Her appetite for continual learning, research and refinement of her approach and her interventions keeps Rachel at the leading edge of mental healthcare in the ever growing need for solutions in this field. Rachel’s contributes to CEQ with her deep understanding of individual and group behaviour within corporate cultures and teams - in designing interventions that work on the fundamental psychology of sustainable behaviour change.

James Gaby

Partner

James recently joined the CEQ team as a highly respected and results-driven sales leader with over 30 years of experience, driving significant growth across both PLCs and SMEs. He has held senior commercial roles in high-performing organisations, led successful business start-ups, and executed a major turnaround of a mid-sized company. In recent years, James has become a sought-after consultant, advising a diverse range of businesses on strategy, culture, and building high-performing teams. He is also a trusted coach and mentor to a growing portfolio of executive clients, supporting them through complex leadership challenges, sustainable growth, and significant organisational change.

Martyn Haworth

Director - Executive Development

Martyn has a critical and unique balance of a hugely successful commercial operator, with the skills and processes of an expert coach and trainer. He joined CEQ in 2013 and his recent work has included consulting for companies including Google, Total Produce, Centrica, GE Healthcare and Dr Martens. Martyn regularly delivers CEQ’s ‘Coaching Excellence’ and ‘Coaching Masterclass’ training programmes in addition to our Leadership Development course. He also provides 1:1 Executive coaching and is a sought-after facilitator for board meetings and management team off-sites. His other fields of expertise include managing change, influencing skills, and creating high performing teams.

Paul Coombes

Associate Director

Paul is an experienced coach, mentor, and leadership training facilitator with over 25 years in retail, e-commerce, and procurement, including founding and managing his own businesses in retail and education services. As well as driving our business development strategy and managing all of our digital media and marketing content, Paul also provides 1:1 Executive coaching and regularly delivers and facilitates leadership training programmes. His other area of interest is neurodivergent coaching and as an accredited Executive Function (ADHD) Coach he actively engages in ongoing CPD to stay at the forefront of current coaching methodologies and neurodiversity research.

Mike Morrison

Associate Director (International)

Mike is the founder of the University of Toyota – a corporate university he launched in 1998 and led for a decade of differentiating performance. Mike’s passion centers on helping leaders and organizations reach their highest potential. His research has helped organisations grow by developing the necessary leadership & culture capabilities. These insights have been documented in two popular books (Leading Through Meaning‘03 and The Other Side of the Card ‘06) and a wide range of publications including the Harvard Business Review. Mike has designed, developed, and managed dozens of cutting edge business growth & development programs and represents CEQ services Internationally.

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