LTOur people
At The Leadership Trust, we’re proud of our committed and dedicated people. Here’s a brief introduction to some key members of the team.
Please feel free to contact any of us directly with your enquiry. For further information, you can contact us or visit our centre.
Our Chief Executive
Rob Noble
Rob joined us on 1st February from Goldman Sachs, and after 18 years service in the British Army where he served in a number of operational deployments, including most recently Afghanistan, and in a number of staff roles within the Ministry of Defence. Rob's interests include international affairs and travel, reading and the outdoors (whether mountain-biking, fly-fishing, natural history or walking Rupert the Springer Spaniel), although with two daughters under 6 years he seems to have little time for any of these hobbies.
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Our Leadership Development Consultants
Philip Gilbert-Smith
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Phil was a policeman for six years and a training officer for Cadets. He developed more commercial experience through running his own personal development business. In his role as Leadership Development Consultant Phil manages clients in London. He also runs many of our ‘Open Programmes’ and numerous bespoke programmes. Phil is a family man with four children. He has an interest in education and is active locally with the schools in his area, including being a Governor of a 750 pupil High School in South Herefordshire.
Nick Snook
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John English
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John brings a blend of experience to his consultancy and course directing at The Leadership Trust; from his first career as an engineer and project manager, two years in Ethiopia with VSO establishing a University Engineering Faculty, managing technical and leadership development centres in the UK and consultancy roles for personal development charities in The Lake District. A product of Edinburgh University’s outdoor education school, John maintains a connection to wild places through trekking, sea kayaking, and telemark skiing.
Mike King
After a successful career in the Royal Navy, Mike joined The Leadership Trust in 1992. Alongside business development activities, he is Course Director for a range of open and bespoke courses for clients across private, public and voluntary sectors. Mike has also contributed to the work of the Leadership Trust Foundation supporting many organisations. Mike’s passion is canoeing, the wilder the better! Other outdoor activities range from gardening to family camping and watching his son play football.
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Christine Reijnders
Christine has been a facilitator for the Trust since 2005 but expanded her role in September 2011 to represent the Leadership Trust in the Belgian market. She has 20+ years experience in several business sectors in managing positions relating mostly to international trade. Christine is also a coach and trainer and her other interests include anything related to personal development, traveling, reading and walking.
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Steve Lewis
Steve joined The Leadership Trust in July 2011 having previously for 13 years been General Sales Manager for an agricultural dealership in the South East, prior to this, Steve spent 20 years with Barclays plc first as Area Manager then Regional Sales Manager. Steve's interests include travel, most sports, particularly football, golf and fishing. Steve lives in Kent with his wife Jan.
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Karen Emerson
Based in the North East, Karen has been a facilitator with The Leadership Trust for eight years and is one of their accredited executive coaches. She has over 28 years experience in the construction industry; 18 of these years were spent in senior management and director level positions during which time she provided board level facilitation, coached and mentored individual sales and construction staff, as well as developing the team working skills of large sales organisations in a target driven industry.
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Head of Marketing
Robin Lawrence
Robin has over 20 years experience of working in the corporate world. His roles included Product and Project management and Head of Marketing. Robin has also worked at Board level as a non executive director and has experience in both private and public sectors.
Robin is one of the Trusts' course directors, accredited coaches and facilitator.
Hobbies include photography, badminton and golf.
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Head of Training and Development
Jon Davidge
Based in the South East, Jon's 25 year long business career was spent in the publishing and media industries. He served at board level for 10 years and for the past eight years he has practiced as an independent executive coach. Accredited by Bath Consultancy Group as a supervisor of coaches, mentors and teams, he supervises The Leadership Trust's coaching practice.
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Head of Research
Professor Sharon Turnbull