About Andy James
Andy is the founder of flockofcats, which he set up in order help organisations to thrive in a complex and dynamic world.
Andy is a highly experienced facilitator, coach, and consultant, having worked in the field for more than 20 years.
His passion is helping organisations and individuals to thrive in an increasingly turbulent environment.
His experience includes designing and leading major leadership development programmes for a variety of organisations internationally. He also has deep interest and expertise in team performance coaching.
Andy is skilled working at all levels in organisations, and has served clients in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
In December 2021 he achieved his Level 2 Professional Certification the AQme® Adaptability development instrument – one of the first 12 coaches globally to hold this certification.
He is always focused on facilitating learning that has clear outcomes and makes a difference.
He is skilled in working with clients in face-to-face and remote environments.
Andy began his career with British Aerospace, where he held a range of commercial and project roles. He moved into learning and development in 1994, working for 3 consultancies in a variety of consultant, leadership and business development roles.
He has been working independently since 2002, combining his own direct client work with providing services to a small group of partners, including Cranfield University’s Centre for Executive Development.
Away from work Andy plays basketball, cricket and squash. He enjoys hillwalking in the Lake District and Scottish Highlands when time allows. He is a Trustee of St Marys Hospice, which provides care to people with life limiting conditions, and their families.
- Organisational Development and Change; Care Sector: Project included strategic facilitation, executive coaching (including CEO), change management consultancy, and staff engagement workshops. Design and delivery of management development programmes covering a range of topics.
- Leadership and Organisational Development; Care Sector: Design and delivery of modular programme to senior leaders in large UK charity. The programme began with face-to-face delivery but quickly pivoted online. It was developed and delivered in a highly adaptive manner, responding to the changing context and emerging needs of the organisation and its leaders.
- Executive and Team Coaching; Nuclear: Provided 1:1 coaching to senior managers to support transition to more senior roles, within the context of change, operational and budgetary challenges. Supported various teams to deliver enhanced collective performance.
- Technical Specialists – Professional Skills: Development and delivery of 5-day programme for technical specialists within a global multidisciplinary consulting and engineering firm. Programme develops team, communication, collaboration and customer skills for technical specialists. The programme uses a variety of methods including diagnostics, coaching, business simulation and role play using actors.
- Oil and Gas, Middle East: Faculty member of team that designed and delivered major leadership development programme to approximately 600 participants over a 2-year programme in Qatar. The programme, which was delivered to multi-national groups at various levels in the organisation, involved face-to-face workshops, action learning projects and coaching.
- Leadership Development; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Faculty member in the design and delivery of high-profile national programme in support of leadership development in the private sector of KSA, linked to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. The programme comprised two 5-day modules, plus action learning projects, delivered to 36 cohorts. Delivery was initially in-country and was redesigned for remote delivery in 2020.
- Public Sector Leadership Development: Lead faculty member on Leading with Purpose and Stepping into Leadership programmes for Civil Service Learning. The programmes comprise face to face and online modules combined with 1:1 coaching and Action Learning based Application Workshops.
Andy developed a close working partnership with us as client and established and maintained excellent relationships with colleagues across our organisation. He approached some challenging assignments with sensitivity and professionalism. He took great care to listen to our needs and offered solutions to meet these needs. Andy’s work had extremely positive impact, particularly with regards to the engagement of staff during a very difficult period. Participants always provided excellent feedback. I have worked with Andy a number of times over the last 15 years, developing both newly formed and established teams to deliver improved performance. Andy worked closely with me to understand the team dynamics and the desired outcomes. He developed programmes to stretch the teams, and, on each occasion, there were performance improvements both on a team and individual basis. Andy clearly grasped the key issues which needed to be incorporated into the agenda for the two days. Prior to the event he had clearly undertaken the planning needed to identify the training tools required and had obviously thought of contingences to be used if needed.
On the two days he was clearly organised and his personality, kindness and facilitation skills ensured the event met the objectives we set out for the team.
Andy has created and delivered leadership programmes covering a wide range of development areas. His results have been remarkable in terms of individual, team and business improved performance. Many attendees on these programmes have gone onto achieve considerable advancement in their careers to their personal benefit and to that of the business. I found the programme very helpful. It was great to be able to share experiences with my colleagues. and there was a fantastic ambience in the room. Positive Impact
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Remarkable Results
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