'10 Minute Tip' by Freddie Guilmard - Award Winning Team Builder - 7am until 9:30am

Frederic Guilmard is a renowned Keynote Speaker.  He has over twenty five years experience of strategic board level communications. This includes change initiatives focussing on employee engagement strategy, building high performing teams. He’s an expert in leadership development, performance improvement, internal communication &, business strategy & execution, conference content and live experiential events.

Prior to starting The Red Thread Partnership in 2011, Freddie
worked at Opus Creates for 7 years as Director of Strategy and
Business Change. Before that, Freddie worked as a Practice
Director for ASK Europe a leading European change consultancy. He was also Director of Strategic Client Development (UK) for Maritz, the world’s largest performance improvement specialists, where he worked on number of large communication projects.

Freddie has been involved in a number of Award Winning medium to large scale change programmes and his ability to focus on both the What & the How makes him a real asset to ensure the successful crafting and implementation of change programmes. With an ability to be both strategic and creative, combined with expertise across a number of sectors and brands, Freddie is able to engage internal stakeholders to enable them to drive effective change and engagement inside organisations.

Over ten years ago, Freddie joined the Engage for Success task force as a Guru. Engage for Success is a movement backed by the then Prime Minister and committed to the idea that there is a better way to work, a better way to enable personal growth, organisational growth and ultimately growth for Britain by releasing more of the capability and potential of people at work.

Key Areas of Expertise

• Business and high performing team Coaching
• Employee Engagement and Change Strategy
• Leadership Development
• Motivational speaking and Conference hosting
• Managerial and Leadership Coaching
• Performance improvement and Motivation

The Red Thread Partnership Ltd, Olney Buckinghamshire MK46 5LY

Sample Projects
• DWP/Job Centre Plus. Top Team Facilitation around influence and Values.
• DWP/Job Centre Plus/Appeal Service – group facilitation around how to keep Values alive in turbulent times.
• Royal Court of Justice – co-delivered board facilitation workshop about team development and how to deliver and implement the business strategy. Two-day Change Conference for 130 employees of the family division. MBTI 1:1 Feedback for Senior and Middle Managers.
Communications Audit - undertook an audit of the PRFD (Principal Registry of Family Division) including one-to-one interviews with key stakeholders, group sessions, reviews of all the communication materials including letters and internal memos.
• DWP and DfES. Community Project and workshops for the International Division. Two day event for 65 employees which included the refurbishment of a day care centre and the development of the strategy for the division.
• Suzuki GB – Values and Engagement programme across 3 Divisions – co-creation of the business values through employee survey, focus groups and 1-2-1 engagement. Creation of the internal communication and recognition strategy for internal ownership. High Performing Team development for the Bike, Boats and Quads Division who have won and
been nominated for several awards
• Nestle Purina – Leading employee engagement strategy for UK leading pet food company. Employee engagement workshops across head-office and factories. Leading content development for conferences. Development of strategic narrative across the UK & I business
• Bupa – leading and internal communication and employee engagement programme for 3,500 employees for 3 years. Senior board facilitation to create a high performing team to support the change. Content development for several senior leadership conferences, management conferences and sales conference
• Kerry Foods – Finance & IT Leadership Team Development and engagement, roll out of the

Vision and development of the behavioural framework, Impact & Influence workshops. On-going board coaching and facilitation.

• Ricoh – Co-design and delivery of 4-tiered Leadership and Development programme for the UK business. Programme won major accolade from BQQ & Princess Trust and was accredited by CMI
• NHS Trust – Keynote presentation to 70 Senior NHS Leaders on Employee Engagement and organisational Change. Current Clients include: Royal Navy, RAF, Suzuki GB, Met Office, Kerry Group, River & Mercantile, MK College, Graze, Arla Foods, Genesis UK
Qualifications
• Technical Drawing Engineering Diploma (France)
• Accredited to use Myers Briggs Psychometric Tools
• NLP Practitioner
• Presentation Skills Coach

The Red Thread Partnership Ltd, Olney Buckinghamshire MK46 5LY

• Awards Achievements – Stevie Awards for pan-European Training launch programme for Lexus 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Internal Communication Award – Bupa Employee Engagement 2010
• Winner of the MKBAA Business Impact in the Community in 2019
• Winner of the UK Employee Experience Award 2021 for Suzuki GB - “Team of the Year”

Other activities
• Non- Executive Director at the Ashridge Group http://www.ashridge-group.com/
• Trustee Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust http://www.delapreabbey.org/
• Co-author of The 7 Steps to Frontier Leadership

http://bookboon.com/en/the-7-steps-to-frontier-leadership-ebook

Contact Freddie here:

https://www.the-redthread.co.uk/contact-us/