Paul Turner is a coach and consultant in Leadership and Team Development. He is the LMG Leader for the Coaching & Mentoring and the Training & 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.
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
Preferred Activities
Coaching individuals and teams to enhance organisational effectiveness in cross- or multi-national environments.
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–date
- 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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