Fiona Yorke

Expertise

Fiona is an enthusiastic, vibrant, innovative learning and development professional, with an honest and transparent can-do solution-focused attitude. She has an ability to diagnose issues correctly and proactively challenge the status quo. 

Fiona utilises a consultative and coaching approach to develop strategy and manage the implementation of cultural change. Learning interventions are developed that are inclusive, empowering, enabling and engaging, delivering sustained organisational improvement and growth. 

She is experienced in retail, commercial, financial, housing, public, private and third sector organisations designing and implementing programmes for organisations of varying sizes.

How do you help clients?

I assist clients with all aspects of leadership behavioural and cultural change. That includes but is not limited to:

• developing leadership capability within the C-suite through to first line manager level;
• helping clients understand how a focus on the mental wellbeing of their teams can impact positively the bottom line;
• working with teams to help them understand how their behaviours impact and provide opportunities for change via supportive challenge; and
• assisting clients to navigate and embed inclusion behaviours.

I help clients diagnose what might be happening in their teams; sometimes clients know that things aren’t working as well as expected and I help them to uncover what behaviours could be damaging their business.

Experience

1. Designing and delivering Senior Leadership Development programme for Intertrust (now CSC).
2. Designing and delivering mid to senior level leadership development for all EDF Renewables people leaders to assist in cultural change and now designing Phase 2 of the programme.
3. Designing and delivering leadership development programme for Derbyshire County Council, including psychometric assessments for C-suite and senior leaders.
4. Designing and delivering leadership development and team cohesion sessions and management conferences for c2c rail. 
5. Designing and delivering three leadership development interventions for Whitbread.