Rachel Stone
- Advocate for the “Kindness Economy”: Promotes a balanced approach valuing People, Planet, and Profit.
- Inspirational Leadership Focus: Encourages leaders to “breathe life into people.”
- Transformational Leadership Expertise: Guides organizations to build uplifting, influential teams.
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About Rachel Stone
Become an Even Better Leader – all coaches are leaders, but not all leaders are coaches, yet!
Passionate about growing business through expert leadership – Rachel’s experience across a variety of sectors in business comes through in her ability to offer you a different perspective when facing business challenges. She is down to earth and insightful. Her practical approach when looking at issues cuts through the fog and hits at the heart of the matter with clarity. Practical and straightforward – Rachel likes to see things through and imparts this determination to her clients. She looks at issues with the outcome in mind – which gives you that structure to see your vision and guides you towards it.
Rachel is engaging and challenging (in a good way). She creates movement and action.
Enjoys life and loves people – Rachel’s deep understanding of the power of beliefs underpinning behaviours drives her ability to help you resolve the common challenges surrounding people and performance. She is all about transformational leadership.
Business Experience
Building on her experience in the electronics industry as a commercial buyer, then a retail manager for Safeways PLC, she needed to change track to become main financial provider, as her husband became seriously ill, just as she settled to raise a family. She studied for her Business Degree and PGCE whilst raising 2 children, working part-time and supporting her husband.
She taught Business Studies at all levels and age groups, whilst progressing quickly to Senior Manager roles, but it was always her ambition to apply her business knowledge and experience in the real business world. In 2012 she qualified as a Business Coach in her spare time and began working with business owners and leaders.
Michael Gietzen
CEO, Forbes-featured entrepreneur, international speaker, industry spokesperson, awards judge, ranked in Sunday Times Fast Track 100, Queen’s Award winner, recognized among Telegraph LDC Most Ambitious Leaders, and a C&IT A-Lister
“We have been working with Rachel for several months and really starting to see all the benefits! We all loved how she ‘gets’ the company and our vision. She has worked across a variety of areas in our business, working with staff with varying skill levels and roles but using her training tools and focused 1-2-1s the progress has been great. A real asset to any fast growing business!”
Peter Parker
Managing Director at Birchwood Group, Chichester ŠKODA, Destination Triumph Group & Pronto Car Cosmetix Group
“Over the last six years Rachel has delivered leadership training to Birchwood management team members on a rolling basis. Pragmatic, logical, coal-face leadership combined with traditional models and cues from the likes of Maslow and Drucker. Psychometric DISC profiling and team dynamics were included and for me, a most critical element being ‘how to hold a colleague review’. She cares beyond simply delivering the course and she holds individual sessions to consider strengths, weakness and specific traits and real life quandaries. She’s a live wire with high energy which helps take a cohort through the course journey with her. Somehow leadership training, for senior persons gets overlooked, which is nuts given the critical nature of the role. So for grounded, common sense, inspiring training tuition I couldn’t recommend Rachel more highly.”
Rachel kept everyone engaged and held them to account, an absolutely fantastic outcome. I will definitely be engaging with Rachel again.
Qualifications
- Published Author “Spend time with me – A story t Inspire Transformational Leaders 2024
- IFC Accredited ICQ Global DISC Profile and Growth Zone Practitioner 2023
- Accredited ActionCOACH Business and Executive Transformational Leadership Coach (2021-2022)
- IMI & CMC Accredited Mediator (2021)
- Autism Awareness L2 Certificate of Occupational Competency 2023
- Business Coaching Diploma –The Coaching Academy (2012-2013)
- Accredited New Levels Results Business Coach (2014)
- MD Bespoke Training Eastbourne (2012)
- BA (Hons) Business Studies with QTS 2:1 – University of Brighton (1999)
- HNC Business Studies – Mid Kent College of H&FE (1987)
- A Level Business Studies, Grade A – Park College (one of the top 5 highest exam paper scores in the country) (2003)
- Invested in excess of £55k on my personal development and have applied this learning to inspire others
- Started my own leadership training and coaching business in 2012, from scratch having left my job as a successful college manager/business studies teacher
- Coached over 130 companies, 250 leaders, CEOs, MDs, managers & business owners
Rachel Stone's 2024 talks & topics
Coaching
The benefits of using coaching skills as a leadership technique. The fundamentals of how and why coaching works, when it works best and quick wins to bring coaching into your leadership style immediately. The journey of learning to be a coach.
Communication
What makes an effective communicator? What do you need to know about yourself to help you get over your own communication flaws? The impact of effective listening and how to do it. The difference between communicating and connecting and why that matters. Classic examples of poor communication and the effects. Great examples of great communication and the difference it makes. Top tips and stories to emphasise the need to become an effective communicator. The cost of poor communication. The quick wins to improve your communication overnight to deliver results.
Conflict Management
What is conflict? Understanding why it happens- the human brain and the three brain model. Red brain/Blue brain and how to lead from red to blue. Understanding your conflict pattern. Accepting the benefits of conflicts. The quick wins in negotiation. Handling challenging people in challenging situations. Taking the positives from handling conflict.
Corporate Culture
What is a culture, how does it manifest itself? What impact does a culture have on performance? Why this matters? How do you create a great culture to drive results. You are the culture and it starts at the top! Improving a culture – some quick wins to take on board immediately. Measuring a culture – how and why you must do this. Culture and performance are inextricably linked so how do you lead for a great culture. How can culture be built in a modern hybrid workplace?
Leadership
What is a transformational leader? Why you need to understand this – especially NOW. What transformational leadership creates and what it solves. How does transformational leadership improve staff retention, quality, innovation, resilience? When is transformational leadership not appropriate? What are the first steps to developing a transformational leadership style?
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why does this matter more now? What are the benefits? How do you engage your team and your customers in CSR? How does CSR save you money?
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Is it time to call out the rot in diversity? Wat does good practise look like? What tools can you use to build great DEI and overcome the “tickbox” approach? Why is inclusion so much better than diversity for results, engagement, retention and culture?
Employee Engagement
How do you get your people to engage? Wy is engagement at such a crippling all time low? What is engagement anyway? What can you do (personally) to improve employee engagement? Is burn out realy what engagement is and what to do about it. What quick wins can you achieve to increase engagement overnight?
Managing Yourself
You can never mange time – you can only ever manage yourself. How significant is your own level of self-worth when managing yourself? If you can’t manage yourself, how the hell will you manage others? What are the simple, yet effective steps to self-management, which will take you forward? What is the difference between self esteem and confidence?
Mental Strength
Where does mental strength come from? How did I build some mental strength despite the challenges? How you can build more mental strength from regular habits, rituals and routines. It’s not what happens to you that matters it’s how you respond. How can you learn to deliberately respond in the right way to build mental strength.
Motivation and Inspiration
What is inspiration anyway? What is the difference between operational leadership and inspirational leadership and why does this matter? How is inspiration linked to motivation and what is the latest thinking on motivation. Where does motivation come from? What can you do to be more motivational and inspirational? What quick wins can you achieve immediately to build inspiration and motivation as regular features of the leadership in your organisation?
Resilience
What affects resilience? Why are some people more resilient than others? What factors are at play and what can you do to teach people to be more resilience? Is building resilience the most important responsibility for any leader? How can you further build your own resilience quickly?