Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI),
Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Past President,
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Past Chairman,
South East Hampshire Young Enterprise Area Board, Member of The Infinity Group of Coaches,
Member of the Coaching Foundation.

Diploma in Business Performance Coaching, Time Line Therapy Practitioner

Past 5 years (most recent first)

Organisation: Ashridge College
Department: Virtual Learning Resource Centre
To whom reported: VLRC Product Manager
Work undertaken: To produce assessments as integral part of several existing VLRC Learning Guides followed by a review of further existing guides to bring them to a common standard.

Organisation: SI Group
Department: Sales
To whom reported: Account manager
Work undertaken: Bid management of competitively tendered contract within the Public Sector

Organisation: CIPD
Department: In-company Solutions
To Whom Reported: Account managers
Work Undertaken: Bid management of several competitively tendered contracts within the Public Sector

Organisation: Market Makers
Department: Senior Management Team
To Whom reported: The managing Director
Work undertaken: Tailored Learning & Development intervention to meet the needs of some members of the Senior Management Team. Initial work to be followed by organisational process mapping exercise and then Executive Coaching of Managing and Operations Directors. In tandem to conduct Learning and Development interventions with key members of staff through to December 2006.

Organisation: University of Portsmouth
Department: Psychology
To whom reported: Senior Divisional Lecturer
Work undertaken: Currently jointly conducting research into employability and retention of graduates in their 'first destinations' workplaces. Involves gathering and analysing data to understand employers' expectations of graduates in their first post-graduate positions and graduates' expectations of their employers. This work will highlight the gaps and enable the university (and other HE institutions) to better equip graduates for the workplace. It is hoped that this first study will lead to a fuller ESRC funded study.

Organisation: 3CCCs
Division: Coaching
To whom reported: Head of Coaching
Work undertaken: Conducted a further number of coaching interventions with Senior Managers to improve their own performance and to enable them to coach their staff to better performance.

Organisation: Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Division: MBA
To whom reported: Head of MBA Programme / Manager, Executive Education
Work undertaken: Designed, developed and delivered two 2-day workshops: Emotional Intelligence for Leaders; Coaching with Emotional Intelligence. Also two one-day public courses: Effective Teams; Entrepreneurship. Feedback on workshops was excellent and demand exists to deliver again in 2006.

Organisation: Ashridge College
Division: Virtual Learning Resource Centre
To whom reported: VLRC Product Manager
Work undertaken: Have further designed and developed a number of Learning Guides for inclusion on the colleges Virtual Learning and Development Centre, including e-learning and remote working. More Learning Guides are in the pipeline.

Organisation: SI Group
Division: Sales
To whom reported: Senior Accounts Director
Work undertaken: Designed, developed and delivered performance improvement workshops for two sales managers and their teams. Covered entry meetings with clients, ways to increase awareness and interest in change management programmes, covered new products and associate services developed on a separate project with SI Group.

Organisation: The Learning & Skills Council for Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Division: Operations
To whom reported: Development Manager
Work undertaken: Project managed, designed, developed and delivered TNA Workshop for local FE colleges to acquaint them with the TNA process and the LLSC's approach to TNA. Contract extended to conduct survey to establish degree of uptake of TNA tool and need for further workshops. These further workshops were undertaken in early November 2004.

Organisation: 3CCCs
Division: Coaching
To whom reported: Head of Coaching
Work undertaken: Conducted a number of coaching interventions with Senior Managers to improve their own performance and to enable them to coach their staff to better performance. Feedback is 'brilliant'.

Organisation: Edge Hill College of Further Education
Division: Senior Management Team
To whom reported: Head of Learning & Development
Work undertaken: Designed, developed and delivered 1-day workshop on Leadership with Emotional Intelligence to CE, Directors and Senior Managers of Edge Hill College of Higher Education as part of their Management Development Cohort 1 programme.

Organisation: The Learning & Skills Council for Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Division: Workforce Development
To whom reported: Project Manager, WfD Partnerships
Work undertaken: BTR Project Consultant. Conducted an analysis of the effectiveness of the organisation's current Business & Training Review tool used for determining SME's skills gaps based on PEST and SWOT models. This tool is the basis of the decision making process for approval of fund-aided workforce training and development in SMEs which would otherwise be judged 'reluctant' to embark on training and development interventions. . On completion of the analysis phase, undertook research into current best practice and evolved BTR to reflect this.

Contract extended to enable design, development and publication of SME toolkit to enable them to maintain best practice approaches to a continuous process of Workforce Development.

Organisation: The Learning & Skills Council for Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Division: Workforce Development
To whom reported: Director of Workforce Development
Work undertaken: First work was as Interim Learning and Development Adviser with responsibility for managing a series of process workshops, redesigning the staff induction process, organising staff training and development interventions according to their assessment needs and all associated budgets and the design, development and implementation of various strategies required to support recognition under the IiP programme. Initial contract for this work twice extended.

Further contract with responsibility for reviewing, revising and implementing the local management process for the national reshaping programme including role matching, competitive selection, outcome notification and voluntary severance programme. Provided information, advice and guidance to Senior Management Team including Executive Director on local implementation process and to individual staff on the processes, their impact and their entitlements. This contract was twice extended.

Further contract with responsibility for managing the fledgling Local Skills for Productivity Alliance. He project managed the establishment of the LSfPA process and its first meetings, liaising with the other key funding partners: BLW, JobCentre Plus abnd SEEDA. Derek was considered for the rol eof project manager for this body but funding constraints subsequently meant that a secondment approach had to be adopted.

Organisation: Ford Motor Company
Division: Employee Excellence Summit
To whom reported: Head of Learning & Development
Work undertaken: Undertook two sessions on Emotional Intelligence as part of the Ford Motor Company Employee Excellence Summit. Feedback at the event was very positive with words such as 'Inspiring' used by delegates to describe how they felt about the sessions.

Training Officer 702 Naval Air Squadron

Command of ship's helicopter flight

Command of HMS GUERNSEY

Completion of Naval Staff Course

Aviation Staff Officer to Captain in command of squadron of 8 Frigates

Central Staff Officer within Ministry of Defence Operational Requirements department