Maximizing your Personal &
Professional PotentialEmpower your leaders, engage your teams and transform your organisation with the expert guidance of a trusted business mentor.
Inspiration
Orientation
Transformation
Development
Partnering organisations to inspire and enable change.
Now, more than ever, there’s an urgent need to streamline and optimise business, across all sectors…and it all starts with movement!
With extensive experience as a business coach, consultant and leadership mentor, Tony has helped professionals, from workers to senior executives, find the momentum and inspiration they need to realise their full potential, and meet their aspirations.
In facilitating clear communication, people at all levels are empowered to contribute and collaborate with renewed passion and enthusiasm, creating a shared vision for the future.
Together, we partner to change and enhance the culture of your organisation.
About Tony
For over 40 years, Tony has been instrumental in leading and inspiring businesses to fulfil ambitions and attain success across the globe.
Working in close partnership with business leaders and influencers, Tony helps to harness the energy of individuals, and leaders, to bring out their best and achieve breakthroughs in areas that have previously held the business back.
Getting started, is as simple as making that first phone call.
“My belief is that work should be enjoyable. Helping you you rediscover a passion for what you do, and understand why you do will be a great pleasure”.
Client testimonials are a clear indication of Tony’s success but this is also reflected in the achievements of the businesses he partners and the increased productivity of the many employees who turn up to work each day, knowing that they can make a difference. With everyone working collaboratively, you can be sure of achieving great things!
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Client Testimionals…
“I highly recommend Tony as a phenomenal mentor and leader. He played a pivotal role in my professional growth by imparting invaluable knowledge on team dysfunctions, conflict management, and lean principles.”
Laura Hill, National Operations Manager – Medifab
“I worked with Tony when he led a business transfer team very effectively, prioritising their work to achieve identified short and long-term goals in a timely manner which led to a successful transfer. It was a pleasure to work with Tony. He is proactive and organized and with his all-round business knowledge has plenty to contribute. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with Tony again in the future.
Andrew Burrows, Program and Quality Mngt – Johnson Controls
“Tony has long been a mentor to me and other individuals and teams I’ve worked with. He has a great way of helping you create a big picture view of a situation that he then uses to explore with you and coach against, posing great questions and challenging paradigms along the way. I think this is Tony’s super power.”
Charlotte Walshe, Professional Director & Advisor
“Tony has had a significant impact on my professional growth. His ability to provide clarity, valuable insights, and promote effective teamwork is commendable. I highly recommend Tony as a mentor. Anyone fortunate enough to work with him will undoubtedly benefit from his expertise and guidance.”
Daniel Watson, Enterprise Architect, ANZCO Foods
“Tony works with individuals or teams in various capacities (coaching, facilitating etc). If you’re wondering how to get from A to B with your team, or in your career then give him a bell.”
Charlie North, Head of Manufacturing, Dawn Aerospace
“I have had the privilege of working with Tony on a number of projects. He is a very experienced coach and mentor as well as a great facilitator. Tony was instrumental in helping create a strong strategic direction for Kilmarnock Enterprises whilst I was CEO. Tony has a wonderful approach to any situation and is quickly able to build a strong relationship with any team he works with.”
Michelle Sharpe. CEO. UNICEF Aotearoa
“I’ve had a professional association with Tony for many years, during which time he’s shown a great ability to develop high performing teams. He is a thought leader on business excellence and his approach, extensive experience and pleasant personality give him qualities that enable him to be a highly effective coach and mentor.”
Greg Rossiter, Director Tech / Digital Services, AgResearch
“Tony is a self-driven individual and at Caradon he led a revolution in manufacturing that was a decade ahead of the majority of UK operations. He has since gone on to both study and apply operational excellence to a world class standard. His pioneering approach, detailed consciousness and pleasant personality give Tony a unique combination of qualities that enable him to create the right conditions for a zero loss culture”
Phil Bettley. Director. Outlook Consulting
“Tony applied his leadership experience to challenge my strategic thinking as I transitioned into a senior executive role. His coaching style guided me through a process of critical thinking equipping me for tackling the challenges ahead.”
Michael Toothill. CEO. Kilmarnock Enterprises
“Tony is an exceptional strategic motivator and has an excellent nature when working with him. Tony’s vast experience in driving performance in strategy, culture, teams and business is recommended.”
Bruce Mascull, GM Spex, Seating
Inspiration.
Strategic Ambitions
“The time we invest in your organisation, from unlocking hidden potential to maximizing performance, will assist your workforce and business leaders grow beyond what previously seemed impossible” – Tony Wells
Vision
Developing the right organisational strategy that aligns with your values and culture is imperative if you are to succeed as a business.
I work with executive boards and senior leaders to help facilitate and enable them to find a clear direction that advances the organisations purpose.
I challenge business mindsets and cut through the existing paradigms to ensure a growth strategy is established and sustainable.
Values
When you are a member of an organisation you bring your deeply held values and beliefs to the organisation. They co-mingle with those of others to create an organisation or family culture.
In a facilitated exercise we will identify your authentic values, enabling you to weave them into the organisational fabric, creating impact and positioning your company in a stronger position to support the strategic vision.
Purpose
The core purpose of your organisation is an integral part of defining the strategic vision. It does not only define which products or services the company offers but also focuses on what motivates people to carry out the work. What you do as well as why you do it is foundational, and will bring longevity.
Understanding and developing a solid core purpose will help you drive strategy, attract the right employees, and assist them in positively associating to the company and the work they do.
Working with senior leaders and board directors, I can help you achieve clarity of organisational purpose, guide you to think expansively about the long-term possibilities of products, services, markets and industries whilst establishing strategies and long term goals to future success for you, and your company.
Orientation.
Focus on Execution
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory – tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”
Strategy Deployment
Many organisations fail to achieve their strategic goals and a great number of employees are limited in their understanding and awareness of the company strategy.
A goal deployment plan, defines the approach or way of achieving the vision with a focused set of balanced business priorities, ensuring real understanding and commitment at all levels in the organisation.
This facilitated event develops real engagement and ownership, ensuring everyone in the business has clarity and commits to execute their part of the strategy against clearly defined measures and targets.
Leading Change
In today’s complex business environment change is inevitable, yet many organisations fail to implement change successfully. Often leaders simply do not have the skills to navigate their way from `Impact to Integration’ or are not close enough to the root cause of people disengagement or process failure.
Using an established framework I am able to provide a bespoke approach to help your organisation successfully identify areas of dysfunction or concern, giving you the knowledge and opportunity to navigate to the new landscape.
Leadership Development
Executives and senior leaders today are undergoing a turbulent period of stress and change. They face enormous demands and often the more senior individuals become, the more isolated they can become. Having a business coach or mentor can profoundly help improve your leadership team, your company and also your own performance. Good leaders create space for change to occur.
I provide a confidential and supportive sounding board and by asking relevant questions, challenging assumptions in a safe environment, I can help you achieve clarity, provide resources, and , provide experiential advice.
Transformation .
Organisational Excellence
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent but the one that is most adaptable to change”
Culture
Establishing a clear organisation culture that guides behaviours, recruitment, performance and strategy has been identified as the most important factor that contributes to a company’s success, yet most businesses do not have this aligned approach. I can help you build your “Pathway to Success” and ensure your organisation has a safe environment were failures are truly seen as opportunities to learn, your managers become coaches and staff are empowered, but held accountable.
Your people will have a clear direction where values are agreed, and lived, and an environment created within which they can make the best decisions.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is a philosophy that seeks to create gradual and endless change with the objective of incremental business improvement over time. Known as Kaizen, a major component in Lean thinking is a way of thinking that challenges us to identify activities that actually don’t add value to our customers. Whether you’re in marketing or manufacturing, support or sales, this type of thinking has the power to transform, revitalize, and inspire. It can turn a dysfunctional, ineffective group of people into a value-generating powerhouse. As an experienced Lean practitioner, I have a range of options on lean and continuous improvement from workshops and conference sessions to kaizen problem solving events to help align and inspire your team, whether they are based in one location, work remotely or across the globe.
Team Development
A team is not a group of individuals that simply work together, it’s a group of people who trust each other and work collaboratively. They have specific roles and complementary talents and skills that are aligned with, and committed to a common purpose, yet too many organisations find their departments are working in isolation.
I offer a number of options for team development, ranging from team activity events, profiling questionnaires that show team dynamics, to workshops and conference sessions that help align your team.
Team building combines behavioural analysis with self-awareness and most importantly acknowledgement of skills and where there may be opportunities.
Personal Development
Maximising your personal and professional potential
“Leadership ability determines a person’s level of effectiveness. The lower an individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential”. – John C. Maxwell
Coaching and Mentoring
The capability of an organisation’s leadership is often the limit of their overall performance. Incremental increases in an organisation’s leadership ability can generate exponential returns, and vice versa, poor leadership can crush productivity.
Business leaders and managers increasingly find they are so consumed by the day-to-day running of the business that they lack the capacity to develop themselves, and the skills required to develop their staff.
With a unique combination of coaching, mentoring and teaching, I work with Executives and Management to help fulfil potential so they can flourish within the workplace.
Contact me to discuss options for in person or on-line one-to-one coaching.