Dr Russell Thackeray

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Ian Farrar talks with Dr. Russell Thackeray about how to drive change in your organisation. In 30 minutes they cover:

·       The concept of ‘bouncing forward’

·       How hypnotherapy dovetails into the corporate world

·       How to overcome burnout

·       The Importance of men’s mental health

·       How to approach a poor leader

·       What makes a good boss

Dr. Jonathan Westover talks with Dr. Russell Thackeray about:

·       performance

·       accountability

·       building employee resilience in organisations in a post-Covid19 world.

A business psychologist, certified coach, trainer and renowned speaker, Dr Russell Thackeray regularly works with the ‘soft issues’ in business by building the strong culture and emotional and mental toughness that allows people to thrive, whatever life throws at them. He is an expert at assisting people and organisations to drive change, achieve goals and win, in a consistent and sustainable way.

Russell can be challenging! Especially with senior groups when driving sustainable change by creating accountability through resilience tactics and techniques. He deploys extraordinary empathy that allows him to work across levels, genders and hierarchies to ensure people are inspired and seize their opportunities in life and work. His fast-paced, impactful and engaging training, workshops and presentations provide real world, practical strategies and skills that improve the performance of organisations and individuals. With his innovative approach to the evaluation of learning in organisations through a highly practical and analytical method, he also helps organisations backs up learning and development with statistical evidence and proof.

Russell’s Career

Russell has substantial and varied experience working within sales and marketing, operational management (including a spell as a CEO in a UK Law Firm) as well as time as an organisational development consultant and coach. He has worked with a diverse range of organisations including Central and Local Government, the National Health Service, Mercedes Benz, GKN, The Guardian, Hyundai, QinetiQ and Asda as well as for Private Equity and Venture Capitalists. As an entrepreneur, he has grown a number of organisations and has worked in the investment space with a number of UK Private Equity companies, including some major UK universities, to help them build the best people to ‘ramp up’ their investments. He is also a non-executive director of a number of digital businesses including lifestyle transformation and cruise travel companies.

Areas of expertise include

• Personal and Organisational Resilience

• Performance and Change

• Burnout

• Leadership

• Accountability

• Business Psychology

• Mindset

• Managing Stress and Anxiety

• Aligning Culture

• Effective Relationships

• Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Presentations and workshops

Fast-paced, impactful and engaging, Dr Thackeray provides real world strategies and skills to improve the performance of people and organisations. By aligning culture, leadership and people, Dr Thackeray designs and embeds change that reduces personal 'drama' and increases resilience. This drives improvement and accountability in processes, relationships, finances and systems, whilst reducing organisational and individual burnout.Managing Stress & Anxiety

Based in the UK, (and with a base in the US), he works across sectors and geographies ioncluding:

• Private sector

• Not for profit

• Investor led

• Third Sector

• Education

He his happy to run:

• Motivational sessions (blended or in person)

• Skills based sessions

• Awards

• Panel discussions

Russell’s Recent media activity

Contributed to an article on HerCampus
https://www.hercampus.com/career/handle-toxic-positivity-work

Contributed to an article on Happify
https://www.happify.com/hd/how-to-smooth-your-back-to-work-transition/

Contributed to Love after 50, by Francine Russo (page 33)
https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp//members-only/member-benefits/2021/06/love-after-50-chapter-one.pdf

Contributed to an article on InHerSight
https://www.inhersight.com/blog/career-development/how-to-reach-your-flow-state

Guest on the ‘Lets Talk Sales’ podcast with Elizabeth Fredericks
https://criteriaforsuccess.com/defining-resilience-with-dr-russell-thackeray/

Contributed to an article in Lattice Magazine for HR Professionals
https://lattice.com/library/top-strategies-for-managing-employee-performance

Previous Activity

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strive-4-more-lifestyle-podcast/id1473611368?uo=4

• https://industryangel.com/ep192/

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90426781/this-is-what-these-4-vague-comments-youll-hear-at-work-actually-mean

• https://www.oprahmag.com/life/relationships-love/a27790346/benefits-of-being-single/  

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/surprising-benefits-being-single-183200508.html

• https://stewartcoopercoon.com/workplace-strategies/152-resilience-tough-love-superior-performance-in-the-workplace/

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-dividends-of-practicing-patience_2865024.html

• https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-workplace-wellness-programs-can-improve#Not-all-gloom-and-doom-

• https://blog.trello.com/self-care-for-productivity

• https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/feature/6-employee-activism-lessons-HR-needs-today

• http://salesengagement.libsyn.com/the-psychology-of-sales-resilience-w-dr-russell-thackeray

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workplace-burnout-gets-more-attention-000157410.html

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