Understand : dare : thrive
SLI is a diverse team of highly commercial people with a contemporary and refreshing view on leadership. We’ve successfully run businesses, functions and teams, and managed customers as well as budgets. So, we’re clear that getting to the what to do is the relatively easy bit – we focus on the critical differentiator of success - the how.

We have a transformation passion. A determination to contemporise leadership because we’ve seen
• too many execs watch performance decline because of the corporate obsession with today’s numbers obscuring long term imperatives;
• too many up and coming leaders sink under high profile initiatives that become millstones around their neck;
• too many great women are side-lined.
  • The Association for Coaching: Continuous professional development, professional standards + ethics
  • Aquila -Emotional intelligence (EQ) assessment
  • Business DNA -Commercial strategy, leadership mentoring, Commercial capability training, leadership mentoring
  • Ozone HR - Performance management and development 
  • Daniel Pink “A Whole New Mind”
  • Eagly & Carli “Through The Labyrinth”
  • Malcolm Gladwell “Blink” and “The Tipping Point”
  • Edgar Schein “Organisational Culture And Leadership
  • Loehr & Schwartz “On Form”
  • Tom Peters “Re-imagine!”
  • Nancy Kline “Time To Think”
  • www.ted.com
  • Binna Kandola "The Value of Difference"
 
Diana Parkes, is highly commercial and performance driven having held front-line senior management positions with Mars, Coca-Cola, Carlsberg and Glendinning Management Consultants before establishing Synapse Leadership Innovation. Beyond the vision for success Diana has for leadership teams and individuals, her defining force is to enable women to achieve all that they aspire to and merit. Diana is an authority on women in leadership.
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Deborah Mudway, is a specialist in strategic marketing and customer insight, working in the UK and internationally for organisations including IBM, KPMG and Barclaycard. With over 13 years experience in commercial leadership positions, she's built and lead multi-cultural teams spanning Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia. She believes the key to success is in unlocking the potential of each individual - and being
bold enough to take decisions and action to explore people's capabilities and talents.
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Gerard Gaughan is a creative business facilitator focussing on bringing positive change to businesses and individuals. His diverse career has included engineering in the construction industry, commercial strategy development with Mars Confectionery and InBev, and leading the capability development practice, as well as global client management, for Glendinning Management Consultants. Gerard is committed to challenging the norms that so easily stifle growth and effectiveness within the
individual and their company.
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Heather Shearer’s 10 years in management development and training, was followed by directorships in commercial and public organisations, consistently improving organisational and social processes along the way. She describes herself as a verb, not an adjective; she uses her fascination and skill with language to connect with people and help them work through problems and political situations. Seeing people realise their potential is her happiest reward.
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