Biography
This roundtable discussion will be moderated by both the directors of the company, Sara Lodge and Mark Sykes.
Mark Sykes is a director of Beehive Management Development Ltd and has over 20 years of experience in coaching and facilitating leadership and organisational development in a wide range of businesses, both private and public sector.
At the centre of all the work that Mark does is a firm belief that organisations can sustain themselves by growing and developing their most valuable resource – people. As Henry Ford once observed, ‘whenever you employ a pair of hands you get a free brain thrown in to the bargain’.
Sara Lodge is director of Beehive Management Development Ltd. Apart from a couple of breaks, one working in marketing and one on the Leadership Fast Track of the West Yorkshire Police, she has been in the field of learning and development since 1985, working in places as diverse as Japan, Africa, Canada, Austria and France. She is passionate about organisational learning and the importance of learning to leadership, and sees action learning, coaching and mentoring as two of the most important elements of developing both.
Working with leaders and teams from board level to supervisory managers, in organisations as diverse as multi nationals such as Siemens, GSK, Conoco (UK)Ltd and Serco to local authorities SME’s, Mark and Sara find that the same issues occur at all levels and in all types and sizes of organisation - how do you get the best from that free brain and how do you nurture it to feel wanted, needed, respected and valued? It's one of the toughest things for managers and leaders to accomplish.
Mark and Sara beleive passionately that the principles of sustainable education - where people are taught to solve their own problems and through that develop the motivation to learn, are the key to a thriving, responsible and accountable organisation.