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Don Rapley
TYC Transform Your Conversations
About
Personal Profile: I spend my time developing my coaching and training activity between France and Singapore, having lived and worked for most of my career in Paris. Born in the UK, I come from an Anglo Dutch family, have lived in Brussels for 4 years and spent over 5 years in the USA. My recent coaching and training experience spreads across a range of sectors internationally: Banking, Audit & Consulting, Healthcare, Food & Drink, Retail, Hospitality, Oil and Gas, IT services, Travel, Aeronautics and Space Engineering. The programs that I design and facilitate are for diverse organizations such as Société Générale, BNP, Natixis, Barclays, KPMG, GE Healthcare, Pullman Hotels, Total, Technip, SBM Offshore, Air France and Safran, as well as number of companies in the IT Services sector such as Axway, Sage, Criteo and KDS. I was previously with Marks & Spencer, involved in growing and adapting the chain of retail stores for the Continental European market. Among my leadership roles were Divisional Commercial Controller and Store Operations Manager for the French, Belgian, Spanish and Irish subsidiaries.
One Sentence Introduction: As leadership development coach and facilitator, I have wide ranging experience in multicultural and international environments, having worked extensively in Europe, Asia, USA and the Middle East.
Primary Focus: Corporate Leaders & Teams
Coaching Specialities: Business, Change Management, Executive, Leadership
Professional & Life Experience: Consultant, Facilitator, Manager/Team Lead, Trainer
Credential: Member/Trained
Degrees & Certifications: Qualified as an executive Coach in Paris with Transformance and certified MBTI and DiSC practioner.
Website: www.issential.com.sg
Email Address: don.rapley [at] issential.com.sg
Company Profile: Issential creates powerful learning experiences that help leaders to build trustful relationships and deliver outstanding team performance. We focus on developing key leadership skills such as self awareness, careful listening, asking great questions, giving constructive feedback and coaching that are key for leaders to develop motivated, engaged and autonomous teams. We help leaders to take strong ownership for their development, understand what they do best and what they want to do differently. The issential learning experience is creative and hands-on, with a strong dose of reflection and challenge to produce lasting change. Issential was founded by Don Rapley who is a highly experienced leadership Development Coach and facilitator with a very diverse experience in multicultural and international environments. Issential has a close network of facilitators and coaches who bring expertise from 5 continents and dozens of industry sectors, as well as experience of working at all levels in Blue Chip organizations. This means that we understand global and regional leadership challenges and can help businesses with practical solutions and measurable results. We we deliver high impact executive Coaching, as well as designing and delivering programs for. leadership Development. Developing High Performing teams, Leading Change and Transformation, Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts, Training Coaches, facilitators and Mentors. TESTIMONIAL: "I've been working with Don in multiple occasions, both in large, multicultural, group settings and personally as part of my own development. It has been a great experience each time thanks to Don's leadership and ability to push everyone beyond his or her own limits. As an individual, I've been lucky enough to be coached by Don at a turning point of my career a few years ago. This experience has truly been an enabler and accelerator in my own evolution, as Don has been truly stretching my self-awareness, allowing me to unlock new leadership potential and ability to navigate at a the highest strategic level. Though a very demanding experience, I strongly recommend such a journey with Don as he's got a unique way to make it your own work through appropriate questioning, making sure you're always under control of your own transformation" WW hr Director - Commercial Operations & Global Policy & Government Affairs, Global Biopharmaceutical Company