The Houston Exchange, Aristo and TalkBack, three boutique consulting companies are joining forces to create a Celtic partnership delivering leadership development that accelerates organisational performance. Don Harris of TalkBack, Andrew Keogh of Aristo and Catherine Thomson of the Houston Exchange have announced their intention to build on their unique approach to Leadership Development by collaborating on the introduction and delivery of an award winning Leadership Development Programme in Ireland.
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Don Harris, Founder of TalkBack
Don brings over 30 years’ experience working with clients on their marketing and advertising needs before establishing TalkBack in 2009 to focus on Engagement and Internal Communication. He is a Coach specializing in Empathy at Work for Leaders and Teams because he says ‘by encouraging dialogue and a better listening culture creativity and productivity flourishes’. ‘Listening to your People is one of the most Powerful Compliments you can bestow upon them’ according to James Burton CEO of Calpers.
Don believes active listening also known as Empathic Communication is the bedrock upon which great working relationships are formed and maintained in the workplace. He says how people interact, listen and talk at work is fundamental to any leadership programme, particularly nowadays with the difficulties posed by overreliance on email in offices. As a broadcaster, facilitator and Speaker, he believes communication through 1 -1 conversation is being stifled, sometimes contributing to Depression and other Psychological Health issues at work. His focus is on leading people towards discovering their strengths and identifying where scope for development may be found. With clients as diverse as AIB and DHL Air (UK) to Enterprise Ireland, St Patrick’s Credit Union (for the ESB) and the Institute for Public Administration he has a wide knowledge of businesses and corporations in Ireland.
Andrew C. Keogh, Founder of Aristo
Andrew’s passion is seeing people grow in confidence and courage while being transformed into engaging, energetic and enthusiastic individuals and leaders. He promotes a unique style of Leadership with the emphasis on developing people’s ability to connect & grow themselves and their business. As an International Speaker and Consultant with over 25 years’ experience around Business Coaching and Personal Development he is acknowledged as achieving results that equate with the very best in the world. Aristo.ie founded in 2006 is recognised as a market leader, helping organisations to identify and articulate their purpose. Aristo’s clients include: Bank of Ireland, IBM, Baxter Healthcare, Com-Reg, KPMG, Deloitte System Dynamics, Snap, Telefonica, IMI, Glennon Insurance, Lennox.
A specialist niche for Aristo is coaching High Potential Startup companies (HPSU) to win sales and investment, leading to engagement with all Universities in Ireland. He is a past President of the Professional Speaking Association Chapter in Ireland and in constant demand to speak and coach both nationally and internationally. His experience allied to a sense of humor ensures that his events are exciting, educational and entertaining.
Catherine Thomson, Founder of The Houston Exchange
Catherine is passionate about helping business leaders and their teams have conversations which lead to deeper trusting relationships between each other; collaborative working across functions; higher customer service and loyalty and more effective stakeholder management. She can transform the mindset and behavior of your leaders whilst delivering tangible benefits to your business.
The Houston Exchange is an organisation development consultancy based in Edinburgh. It exists to help organisations have powerful, profitable conversations that get things done, bring out the best in leaders and their people, and improve people and organisational performance. Trading since 1994, the company has a successful track record in delivering large organisational transformational change projects (from 6 months to 2 years’ duration). With UK-wide and international experience, we have worked in New York, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Tanzania, & Sudan. Her focus is leadership development and coaching at all levels of management in a wide variety of organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Our Unique Approach
One thing we have in common is our unified thinking that for organisational performance to improve, the ability to hold honest face to face communication between individuals and teams is key. We are advocates of working with leaders using “Systems Intelligence”, helping them to go beyond reaching agreements, to reaching new understandings from which to think and act. Our focus is helping leaders at all levels develop insights and new thinking on how to expand their own behavioural repertoire, when working towards creating alignment and meaning in leading change, holding pivotal conversations, and growing people capacity within the organisation.
What’s Next
We will keep you notified about the launch of this new Leadership Development Programme, which we guarantee is different from anything you may have experienced in the past!
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