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Stuart Gray MSc
Stuart Gray Quick Facts
Main Areas: Leadership, Teambuilding, Organisation Development, Training, Management Development, Developing Leaders, Outdoor Development Training, Business Process Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Strategic Management, Mountaineering, Photography, Personal growth, LearningCareer Focus: Speaker, Trainer, Facilitator
Affiliation: Key associate of John Adair,
An experienced organisation and management development specialist. My background includes teaching to post graduate level, research and corporate business life.
I have managed a number of start-up training organisations in both the private and public sector. I have trained, consulted and researched in the field of organisation and management development for 20 years. This includes significant time with large organisations moving from a traditional mechanistic culture to a more customer focused, team working culture. Throughout my professional career I have established close partnerships with my clients by demonstrating an ability to develop interventions that have a measurable effect not only with programme participants but on the organisations bottom line.
I have worked with a number of organisations across a range of industries and the public/private sectors including Harrods, Citibank, London buses, London Underground, The NHS, Local Government Organisations, Haven Warner, Allied Domecq, Yorkshire Electricity, Forestry Authority, DTI, Carlsberg Tetley, Stagecoach, Airlinks, National Express Group, Argos, American Express, Rank Organisation, Royal Mail, Hewlett Packard, BICC, British Gas, Transco, Reed Publishing, Compass Services, Metronetrail, Midland Mainline, Silverlink Trains, TRW aerospace and HM Treasury.
At a strategic level I have worked with directors and senior managers to develop and translate mission, vision and values into practical outcomes. At an operational level I have developed organisation members to deliver bottom line business improvements in line with the organisations mission, vision and values.
My credentials include MSc in Organisation Development a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning, a board member of the Adair Leadership Foundation and a member of the International Association of Facilitators.
Specialties:
Organisation change, leadership development, team development and business process improvement. My approach is to work with clients to improve business performance at both a strategic level and an operational level. More recently I have worked with a number of organisations to develop a partnering approach with their supply chain.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Stuart Gray
Some proverbs and sayings of wisdom from around the world
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behaviour.
Behind an Able Man There Are Always Other Able Men.
Chinese Proverb
Better to Light One Candle Than to Curse the Darkness
Chinese Proverb
Better to Lose the Anchor Than the Whole Ship.
Dutch Proverb
Beware of a man of one book.
Latin Proverb
By Learning You Will Teach; By Teaching You Will Learn.
Latin Proverb
A Closed Mind Is Like a Closed Book; Just a Block of Wood
Chinese Proverb
Deviate an Inch, Lose a Thousand Miles.
Chinese Proverb
Do Not Push the River, It Will Flow by Itself.
Polish Proverb
Don't Speak Unless You Can Improve on the Silence.
Spanish Proverb
Don't Think There Are No Crocodiles Because the Water Is Calm.
Malaya Proverb
Fall Seven Times, Stand up Eight.
Japanese Proverb
Follow the River and You Will Find the Sea.
French Proverb
A Guest Sees More in an Hour Than the Host in a Year.
Polish Proverb
He Who Asks Is a Fool for Five Minutes, but He Who Does Not Ask Remains a Fool Forever.
Chinese Proverb
He Who Doesn't Risk Never Gets to Drink Champagne.
Russian Proverb
If You Must Play, Decide on Three Things at the Start: the Rules of The Game, the Stakes, and the Quitting Time.
Chinese Proverb
If You Suspect a Man, Don't Employ Him, and If You Employ Him, Don't Suspect Him.
Chinese Proverb
If You Want a Crop for One Year, Grow Grain; If You Want a Crop for Ten Years, Grow a Tree; If You Want a Crop for a Hundred Years, Grow Men.
Chinese Proverb
The Journey Is the Reward.
Tao Proverb
A Lean Agreement Is Better Than a Fat Lawsuit.
German Proverb
Learning Is a Treasure That Will Follow Its Owner Everywhere.
Chinese Proverb.
Learning Is Like Rowing Upstream; Not to Advance Is to Drop Back.
Chinese Proverb
No One Can See Their Reflection in Running Water. It Is Only in Still Water That We Can See.
Taoist Proverb
A Single Conversation With a Wise Man Is Better Than Ten Years of Study.
Chinese Proverb
There Is No Economy in Going to Bed Early to Save Candles If the Result Is Twins.
Chinese Proverb
Those Who Lose Dreaming Are Lost.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
To Know and to Act Are One and the Same.
Samurai Proverb
To Know the Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back.
Chinese Proverb
Vision Without Action Is a Daydream. Action Without Vision Is a Nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
When in Doubt, Gallop!
Proverb of the French Foreign Legion
When You Have Only Two Pennies Left in the World, Buy a Loaf of Bread With One, and a Lily With the Other.
Chinese Proverb
You Must Climb the Mountain If You Would See the Plain.
Chinese Proverb
Getting Started With Stuart Gray
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