Deborah Pascoe has partnered with Cheetham Salt since 2015 in the areas of organisational development, strategic planning, leadership coaching and leadership effectiveness. Deborah has worked with all levels of leaders; from our Executive Team at strategic retreats, to our front line leaders at our major manufacturing site.

Since 2018, our senior leaders from across three countries have attended an annual leaders' forum, designed and delivered by Deborah's team, where the strategic intent of these forums is to empower leaders and to leverage the scale of group. Due to COVID in 2020, the forum shifted to an online event and the way Deborah designed and delivered content via Zoom, was truly inspirational. She has an understanding of business dynamics and leadership styles which means she is able to better diagnose issues and create effective programs. Her facilitation skills are extraordinary and she is able to give voice to all types of leaders.

Deborah and her team were instrumental in developing and aligning the Group values, as well as helping us to articulate a common purpose, across these businesses. Along with a clear and solid strategy, this work has had a significant impact on the alignment and engagement of our employees, and our success as an organisation overall.

Deborah asks insightful questions and effectively coaches leaders to affect transformational change. She is a true partner, which enables her to gather information from various parts of the organisation and apply learnings to be a highly impactful leadership coach.

Deborah and her team stay at the forefront of organisational and leadership development through an impressive network of global collaborators. We have seen the benefit of this in the last 12 months with regard to the use of Lectical assessments in the placement and development of senior leaders.

Deborah draws on a large range of concepts, models, theories and assessments in her work with us and is able to tailor the optimum approach to our requirements. Our people and their teams have been exposed to a range of highly beneficial approaches and tools. Deborah has been a key partner to our organisation and has made a significant contribution to the development of leaders across the business. Thanks to Deborah, leaders are better equipped to engage employees to understand the purpose, deliver on the strategic priorities and live our values.

I engaged Phronesis to design and facilitate a 12 month leadership development program for our emerging, mid-level and senior managers. The brief was for a modular approach that would address the differing leadership development needs of these three groups and provide a framework for ongoing development as individuals progressed in their career. Importantly, the program needed to demonstrate understanding of our industry context and alignment with our business strategy.

Having worked with a number of leadership development experts over the years, the Phronesis team is a standout for their ability to quickly get to the heart of the specific industry, business and leadership challenges of the client and design a customised program that directly addresses the organisation's needs. During our year long engagement, I also observed their ability to deal with complexity and change, thinking on their feet to tailor the workshops in real time, resulting in a high degree of participant engagement and tangible leadership skills progression from session to session.

Specific outcomes of the program included:

• A tailored program that was aligned with our purpose, vision, strategy, values and business plan

• Highly engaging, relevant and practical content and tools and with a focus on real-life skills each leader could immediately put into practice

• Enhanced confidence in the participants' ability to lead the strategy and business plan in their work area

• Improvement in participant self-awareness, communication, performance management, problem solving and conflict resolution skills

• A shared leadership language that enhanced teamwork and communication across each management level

I would not hesitate to recommend Phronesis to any organisation considering investing in the capability of their leadership team.

I have worked with the Deborah's team for several years now. Their involvement has been across a range of projects from helping me create and engender a spirit of personal responsibility, creating a high performing leadership team (including what the behaviours of such a team would look like), to one on one intervention and coaching of individual senior managers. I have personally grown having worked with Deborah. The difference Deborah's team has made not only in terms of culture and leadership skills but also in terms of quality and quantity of business outcomes has been significant and I am grateful for this.

Over the past three years Deborah's team has partnered our organisation to facilitate our highly regarded leadership programs. Their commitment to our people's development has been paramount to the programs' success. Overwhelmingly, our people have come away from the leadership programs feeling they genuinely got a great deal out of it. This is without a doubt linked to the ability of Deborah and her team to relate to a wide variety of individuals and to make the programs relevant for each participant's specific needs. Perhaps most importantly, Deborah and her team take a real interest in each participant and go above and beyond in their coaching of our people. We greatly appreciate this approach and look forward to continuing our positive relationship.

As a result of the program, all the teams I lead have made significant improvements to their team dynamics, raised the bar on their operational performance and best of all, now work far better together than they did before and I am confident this will continue to improve. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this program to others.