Robin Lawrence
Programme Architect
Coach
Facilitator
Robin has been professionally helping others develop their leadership skills since 2004 and enjoys working with individuals and teams in both private and public sectors.
Robin has 22+ years experience in the corporate world working initially in Williams and Glyn’s Bank and then for BT. This has helped develop his business, management and leadership skills, and has seen him build high performing teams, run successful projects and work closely with some large companies such as Philips, Microsoft, Sage and Apple as well as many UK small and medium enterprises.
His corporate career involved product and project management roles which led to him delivering a world first, and then headed up a marketing department within BT during which time revenues increased from £40m to £750m. He left in 2003.
In 2004, Robin served a year on the Board of the London Borough of Waltham Forest’s Housing organisation, Ascham Homes, as a non-executive director which helped build better bridges between the residents and the staff.
He is a director and founder of Matrix7 Ltd, a company he set up in 2004 to provide coaching and development services to professionals, specialising in leadership, personal effectiveness, team development and communications.
Robin created the highly regarded Every Teacher Matters® Programme providing leadership development and personal effectiveness for teachers. Schools included Plumstead Manor, Wanstead High, Wormley, Broadfields and Christ College Finchley.
Robin supplemented his coaching diploma at distinction level by being an accredited executive coach with The Leadership Trust. He is also one of John Adair’s Accredited Trainers for ‘Action Centred Leadership’.
In 2017 he became BPS accredited in the use of Psychometric profiling tools, in particular the TalentQ suite of Dimensions and Elements. In 2018, he qualified as a mental health first aider.
In 2019, Robin became an Associate for CIPD and has delivered open courses on ’Introduction to People Management’ and ‘Building Resilience’. He has moderated multiple times the ‘People Management skills’ MOOC on the Future Learn platform and designed and delivered bespoke courses on leadership and coaching for CIPD.
In the same year, Robin’s leadership development material has been incorporated into the Business Organisation, Issues and Skills Degree course at Kent University – another first.
Robin’s Course Directing work with The Leadership Trust led to the creation of the high impact 1-day ‘Leadership Foundations’ open course as well as co-development of the 3-day open course ‘Leading with Impact’ aimed at senior managers.
Robin has designed and delivered courses and programmes for a number of clients including, Indigo Vision, Peak Scientific, NHS Scotland, The Haven, Arts Council, Williams Medical, NHS Salisbury, National Aids Trust, South Gloucester and Stroud College, Emirates Foundations, Creo Medical, Kent University, CSL Behring, Harmonics, CTG, Middx Uni, MWUK Ltd, British Wheelchair Basketball, Network Rail. Housing Quality Network, Prodrive, Bird Luckin, GE Healthcare, Medtronic. Vanderlande, Hughes electrical, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and BPK Audit Board Republic of Indonesia.
Robin also created and delivered masterclasses at the request of NHS Salisbury, The Leadership Trust, International Compliance Association and has run taster sessions at the CIPD L&D Shows at Olympia.
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