Paul Turner is a coach and consultant in Leadership and Team Development. He is the LMG Leader for the Coaching & Mentoring and the Coaching & Development Practice Area.
Practice Areas
Primary Capabilities
- Genuinely committed to developing the value of individuals and teams for organisations
- Relishes a challenging context or environment, whether practical or intellectual or both
- Creative thinker and recognised internationally for outstanding listening skills
- Delivers integrity in an assignment relationship.
Preferred Activities
Coaching individuals and teams to enhance organisational effectiveness in cross- or multi-national environments.
Core Offer
A very experienced and energetic Learning & Development professional with four core offer areas:
- Coaching of executives, managers and potential managers in leadership behaviours
- Coaching of individuals in work-related behavioural skills
- Consultancy in formulating learning and development strategies, the design and delivery of related processes and programmes for leaders and teams
- Part-time interim management of progressive Learning & Development organisations
Other disciplines offered:
- Establishing and developing cross-cultural business relationships – a niche area of expertise
- Learning, design and delivery of interpersonal skills programmes
- Mentoring
- Comprehensive learning needs analyses
- Development and Assessment Centres
Primary Sector Experience
Paul has spent over 35 years working in the corporate centre and many constituent businesses of a multinational oil company; these included Engineering, Coal, and Exploration & Production. He has lived and worked in the UK and a number of developing countries in the Gulf, South-East Asia, Africa and the former Soviet Union.
Since becoming an independent consultant, he has worked in the following sectors:
- Professional support services for the public sector
- Engineering
- Information Technology
- Telecommunications
- Oil & Gas
Areas of Distinctive Performance and Value-Addition
Consistently successful in using his particular skills in:
- Managing cross-cultural studies and projects
- Enabling leaders and teams to improve their business performance
- Design and facilitation of learning in support of organisational change
- Establishing and developing relationships in Joint-Venture and Alliance companies
Qualifications and professional memberships
- BSc(Hons) Applied Chemistry
- Diploma in Personnel Management
- Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD)
- Member of the Association for Coaching (MAC)
Accreditations and Licences
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Insights Discovery Profile
- Team Management Index (TMI)
- Emotional Quotient (EQi)
- System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA) Coaching Process
- Apter Motivational Style Profile (AMSP)
Employment Summary
| Independent Coach & Consultant | 2003 - present |
| Leadership Coach/Senior Business Adviser,BP Africa | 2002 - 2003 |
| Manager, Learning for Change,BP Africa | 2001 - 2002 |
| Regional Learning & Development Manager,BP Africa | 1999 - 2001 |
| Principal Learning Consultant/HR Manager, BP Angola | 1996 - 1999 |
| HR Manager,BP West Africa | 1994 - 1996 |
| Special BP Representative & Admin. Manager, BP Azerbaijan | 1992 - 1994 |
| Roles of increasing seniority in L&D and HR, BP (various Businesses & Countries) | 1971 - 1992 |
| Chemist roles, BP Research UK | 1966 - 1971 |
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