John V.
Innovation, Teamwork & Leadership Developer & Facilitator
Professional Value
John is a governance and meeting‑culture specialist who helps senior leadership teams eliminate unproductive meetings and streamline board operations. He delivers a ‘chairman for hire’ service that cuts meeting time by up to 30% and provides executive speaking reviews that sharpen senior communication, drawing on his chartered secretary credential and Logovisual thinking methodology.
Executive Profile
John is a coach, consultant, and facilitator to senior managers, management teams, and ordinary members of many organisations, from multi-national corporations to community groups. A popular guest speaker on change and learning, he is regarded as a leader in the field of creativity and innovation.
His work consists primarily in developing the attitudes and beliefs of management, changing relationships and behaviours to define and achieve organisational goals. It embraces inter-company collaboration, strategy innovation, teamwork, authentic leadership, thinking methodology, and creativity through team and personal coaching. He is pioneering the application of visual thinking methods to enhance education and organisational effectiveness.
An inspiring coach and facilitator, John works with senior management to develop strategic dynamism and manage cultural changes. Aspects of his work include personal development, leadership development, and teamwork to sustain effective performance. He runs public workshops, presents to various societies, is a speaker at conferences, and has articles published in several management journals.
John's clients have included ALSTOM, TNT GNO, Carillion, Cameron, Atkins Global, Yorkshire Water, CFS, and many others across all sectors.
John is an inspirational facilitator with extensive experience developing strategic leadership teams and high achievement cultural change in all industries and sectors. He designs, resources, and runs highly effective bespoke programmes, events, workshops, and conferences.
His specialties include:
- achieving attitudinal shifts and inspiring personal change to achieve organisational aims
- originator and expert in LogoVisual thinking methodology
Core Competencies
Team Building
John develops teamwork cultures at every level, focusing on senior teams, to achieve clarity of purpose and vision.
He addresses dysfunctions using interactive processes and experiential learning.
This approach helps teams align and work towards common goals.
Strategic Thinking
John applies his expertise in Logovisual thinking methodology to develop strategic understanding and thinking capability.
He facilitates group interactions to elicit shared outcomes and uses a range of frameworks to develop strategic perspective.
This helps organizations achieve excellent results in strategic thinking.
Leadership
John has extensive experience in leadership development, particularly in distributed and authentic leadership.
He uses interactive experiential methods to help senior managers understand and perform their leadership roles effectively.
This enables them to commit to and grasp their roles, leading to improved leadership outcomes.