Helping organisations to create a healthy and positive workplace culture by developing their Leaders, Managers, Teams and Individuals to be brilliant.

Kandoo Development

contact@kandoodevelopment.com

+44 07789 876514

What we offer :

We offer bespoke solutions tailored to your needs, as well as standardised programmes

Individual Coaching

The focus of our one to one coaching is on helping the individual unlock their potential and build self belief.

Coaching programmes are flexible, offering a 6 - stage framework, or a pay as you go option, either in person coaching, virtual or a hybrid mix of both.

Additional tools such as the TLQ 360 feedback where the focus is on behaviour, or Insights Discovery can be provided to add additional support.

Team Development

On a scale of 1 - 10 how effective is your team ?

Is your team in shape to deliver their goals or going through change ?, Do they need to create a vision ?, Are they clear on their purpose, their roles and their ways of working ?.

Team programmes are carefully tailored and facilitated to suit your needs, helping your team to grow, build trust and deliver a higher performance.

Programmes for Leaders and Managers.

Businesses need Leaders and Managers to navigate through an ever unpredictable world.

Chat with us about bespoke training solutions that help meet your business needs.

We also offer 1 day, 2 day or 90-minute programmes that are practical and equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver results.

Organisational Change

Are you looking to evolve or transform the culture and capabilities of your organisation to create a more mature, healthier and sustainable business ?

We can work with you in either a consultancy, project management or practical operational capacity to help bring about strategic and systemic change.

We have experience in areas such building and deploying processes and practices for Talent Management, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Values & Behaviour frameworks, and Large Scale Interventions.

About Kandoo Development

Kandoo Development was originally created in 2015.

We are a consultancy business which specialises in providing Coaching (Executive and all levels), Leadership & Management Development workshops, Team Effectiveness interventions and Change Management Strategies.

With over 20 years of multi sector, executive level and global experience, we help organisations transform their culture and capabilities, ultimately leading to a healthier, more engaged and inclusive workforce, delivering better results and a more sustainable business. All our work is tailored to your needs.

Our Clients

Some of the clients we have been fortunate to work with

Meet the Team

Simon Burton (MCIPD)

Founder & Director

Simon's area of expertise is in developing leaders and managers, high performing teams, coaching at all levels including Executives and change management – he is experienced in creating healthier companies by helping them evolve their culture and improve their overall people capabilities.

Having grown up within a family wholesale distribution business, Simon originally began his career in France. He returned to the UK in an operational capacity before moving into HR where he held various senior roles in Leadership Development, Organisational

Development & Change, Learning & Development, Talent Management & Employee Engagement.

Simon has over 20 years’ experience of working in some well-known FTSE and AIM companies, franchised and privately owned family businesses. He has worked across a range of sectors, including Pharmaceuticals, Facilities Management, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing & Distribution and Hospitality.

During his career Simon has worked globally with experience in Europe (particularly the Nordics), Asia Pac and also the Channel Islands. He has operated at Executive level and worked directly with Boards. He has been responsible for managing teams across complex matrices, accountable for setting visions and strategies, and putting in place key people infrastructure to elevate business maturity and prepare organisations’ readiness for future growth.

Simon has worked both in businesses that are either in growth or preparing for growth phases and businesses having to operate in survival and under immense pressure. Simon has experience of working on rightsizing and business review projects to save cost and help raise funds from investors.

Simon is a member of the International Coaching Federation, is an Accredited Executive Coach (AoEC) and trained in Somatic Cognitive Coaching. He is a Real World Group Licensed Facilitator, an Insights Discovery, Clarity4D and a Neurolinguistic Programming Business Practitioner. Simon is also accredited to practice Emotional Intelligence and Firo B. He has been a TEN network leadership panellist, Training Awards judge, presented on “Leadership” for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (for whom he is a member) and he holds the Graduate Certificate in Organisational Development Sussex University.

Simon is interested in systemic change and behavioural science, he is passionate about inclusivity and developing individuals and teams to believe in their own abilities to perform at their best.

Away from work he loves time with the family, being outdoors, walking the dogs, playing team sports and yoga. He is a qualified ski technician and volunteer Bell ringer.

Viki Wadd

Principal Consultant and Associate

Viki is an experienced facilitator and Organisational Development (OD) specialist. She is passionate about integrating health and wellbeing into OD interventions and enabling everyone to bring their unique perspective. She believes this holistic approach enables people and teams to deliver at their best.

Her first career was in the NHS. Roles included managing complex stakeholder relationships, delivering community engagement, programme management and leading organisational development and health and wellbeing. She has worked with Boards and Senior Leadership Teams in thriving organisations and those in survival mode. She has also volunteered on several Management Committees.

Viki has a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Leadership and Management (Warwick Business School), Certificate in Organisational Development (Roffey Park) and qualified in Managing Successful Programmes. She is a Myers Briggs Type Indicator Practitioner and a certified Affina Team Journey Coach.

Additional areas of interest and development include Compassionate Leadership for Inclusion and Cultural Intelligence.

In 2017 Viki undertook a Fellowship in Leadership in Global Health in Eastern Cape, South Africa. She subsequently became the Senior Fellow for Education and Leadership for the Improving Global Health Programme.

Most recently she has been the Partnership Link Lead for the Thai Public Health Research programme.

Viki is an Action for Happiness volunteer facilitator and is currently training to be a Health Coach. She will use these skills to continue her holistic approach to organisational development and leadership development programmes.

Client Testimonials - we are delighted to share comments from some of our clients

CEO, Springboard UK

Chief Information & Transformation Officer at PortmanDentex

Director of Programme & Change, Specsavers

Human Resources Director (DACH), Bencard Allergie

Simon's calm manner and intelligent insight into learning, developing and coaching is second to none. He instils trust and gets results. I would highly recommend him for team building, developing leadership skills, coaching people through challenging experiences or simply to help get the best out of individuals and teams at any level.

Simon has a super ability to really listen to the brief at hand, show his understanding of this and challenge my own thinking while always remaining commercially focused. My first session with the whole team was a really important intervention and through Simon's facilitation skills and his "on the money techniques" it enabled myself and my team to become really clear about our team purpose, a purpose that everyone was 100% committed to and also through Simon's persistence everyone became absolutely clear in a collaborative way on who in the team did what (role identity)

Simon worked with us and added tremendous value in our quest to create a high performing team. I was very impressed with his understanding of the business and my needs, his knowledge of teams, and his differing perspectives and high level of empathy. Through his strong ability to facilitate and with a very commercial compass he enabled us to work through a vision for future finance and a common set of "way we work" principles where each senior team member had to hold each other to account. Simon's style was refreshing, and though he had done thorough preparation ahead of this he has an ability to change direction as required to bring the best out of the team and out of individual conversations. He created a challenging but safe environment.

I would highly recommend Simon for his Coaching Services, we recently commissioned Simon to undertake some Coaching with one of our Senior Leaders and the unsolicited feedback I received from our Leader about their coaching experience was immeasurable. I cannot underestimate the value Simon brings with his coaching style. As well as positive feedback, what was even more noticeable was the positive difference that I and the Line Manager observed in their confidence, all round being and behaviours, Simon's coaching has enabled them to fulfil potential we knew they had and improve their team’s performance and engagement in a time where the business is experiencing huge challenges.

Our 5 step approach

1. Discovery

We will always work with you in a collaborative way. We make time to listen and understand your world, learn about your organisations context, it's culture and have clarity on the goals you want to achieve. We are agile and practical in our approach and able to deliver work quickly where needed.

2. Analyse

Where it adds value we can undertake analysis work, this approach could involve on line survey's with employees, virtual or face to face focus groups and interviews. Any of these types of interventions can help provide a richer picture to help support more informed next steps, action and decisions.

3. Propose

At this stage we would share feedback and propose some solutions with timings all based on the discovery and analytical work for you to consider. Be prepared as proposals may sometimes challenge the organisations thinking. We do this in the spirit of achieving positive outcomes.

4. Deliver

This is where we deliver the solutions and interventions that we have collectively agreed on. We will continue to work in collaboration with you, making adjustments along the way where needed, adapting to the business climate and any organisational changes.

5. Stickability

We will check in with you and evaluate how well our work has been delivered and what effect it is having, providing additional support if required and to see what we can do to help you continue the momentum as an organisation.

Get in touch for an informal chat.