Bobs Background
Bob Hayward, a committed Christian and father of four is Managing Director of two companies OPC (UK) Ltd an internal communication / employee engagement consultancy and Timepower Ltd a management training company.
He has designed and delivered a number of mission critical internal communication and employee engagement projects for companies like Vodafone, Peugeot, Husqvarna, Somerfield and SEB a Global Bank through his company OPC while his training company has run many skill development programmes, including a Sales Training Programme for all 1500 BMW UK Dealer Sales People in 2005-2006. Bob is a highly experienced trainer, facilitator and speaker, specialising in employee engagement, productivity and sales. His style, heavily influenced by the work of Eric Jensen on Brain Based Learning, is highly energetic and passionate which tends to generate enthusiasm, commitment and ownership amongst the participants on his courses and the audiences he speaks too. Feedback on his work is high in both levels of delegate satisfaction and of tangible impacts on business results.
He has had quite a journey from humble beginnings near Broadwater Farm in Tottenham (yes he is a Spurs fan) failing his A levels and even the entrance exam for a Postman. But a bad motor bike accident changed the course of his life forever. The six week stay in hospital and the one year on crutches it took to recover led him to become a nurse. First a Registered General Nurse, then a spell in Intensive Care before taking a second degree course in Psychiatric Nursing. After a 12 year career in nursing he took up selling and built a nursing agency from scratch to a £5.6 million turnover in five years! It was during this time, 1984 in fact, that he became a Christian. In 1992 he become an instructor for the famed Dale Carnegie Training he learned the art of inspiring individuals to achieve much more than they could imagine. He ran programmes in areas such as leadership, management, presentation skills, team and personal development. During this time Bob also trained as an assessor in The European Foundation for Quality Management and Jack Phillips ROI methodology for measuring the "return on investment" from training.
In 1997, Bob set up Assessment Coaching and Training Ltd with Andy Collett to apply best practise in talent selection, alignment and development three vital areas for any business. By his coaching of individuals and training of teams at all levels clients have noted tangible skill and process improvements. Bob is renowned for turning potential into actual performance.
In his business career Bob has started five businesses from scratch and built four of them to £1M turnover or more, he has a raft of practical knowledge and experience that make him a natural and informative speaker with a complete understanding of the needs of employees and problems facing business owners and managers. From a sales point of view he typically sells over £1M of training and consultancy each year across his companies. He has clients across the UK, Europe and as far afield as Sri Lanka.
Bob hit the national headlines in 2001 when he ran 33 marathons in only 40 days to get from Lands End to John O'Groats in aid of a burns victim called 'Podge'. He continues to raise money for charities close to his heart through marathon running and completed a further major test of endurance in October 2005 by running 6 marathons over 6 days across one of the hottest places in the world ~ Death Valley...This time in aid of Swindon Foodbank tackling issues of poverty and deprivation on our own doorsteps. Bob only took up running to loose weight and get fit after loosing a very short swimming race to his two young daughters in 1999! That year he did the Great North Run, in 2000 completed the London Marathon and hasn't stopped running since... In January 2009 he will be running 150km across Fuerteventura in 5 days as part of his drive to raise awareness to poverty in the UK and to raise funds to fight it.
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