Nick Corbo
Principal Consultant
A highly commercial, strategically-oriented & experienced L&D Leader, internal consultant & Coach. An accomplished L&D career, underpinned by substantial (28 years) multi-sector operational experience in senior leadership roles. An outstanding developer & facilitator of real world, highly impactful, leadership development programmes, team facilitation & coaching – focused on driving high performance/ behavioural change for Leaders at all levels of an organisation. Last 4 years as Director of Learning & Development with the Saga Group. Now available for a new interim / permanent engagement.
My Background
Director of Learning & Development
• Internal coach & mentor to leaders across the business – as part of talent management strategy
• Design & delivery of senior leadership development programme to 300 senior managers across the Group; generating a cost benefit of circa £400k
• Alongside a cost-saving initiative; designed & delivered a continuation of the (above) programme to first line managers – following outstanding positive feedback across the organisation
• Led the introduction & facilitation of Rapid Results methodology* into the Saga Group
• Designed & led new graduate management programme for Saga Group
• Led a cross functional team of 35, to provide L&D support & development to 4,000 colleagues
• Delivered YOY (L&D dept.) cost savings; reducing operational costs by £700k – year 1 / £500k – year 2
• Responsible for strategy for implementation & use of group apprenticeship levy
• Bespoke internal consultancy to drive team performance & cohesiveness
• Internal consultancy to design & deliver / drive sales performance in subsidiary travel company
• Set strategy for L&D support to major systems implementations in Insurance & Travel divisions
• Re-designed / delivered new corporate induction programme in line with new corporate brand
My Specialities
• Leading a L&D function in a FTSE 250 company across 4,000 colleagues
• Project managing design, delivery & implementation of leadership development programmes
• Certified & experienced executive coach, used to working with leaders at all levels of the organisation
• Team building and team facilitation for executive & management teams
• Experienced people leader & internal consultant, in fast paced, cross functional teams / organisations
• Over 20 years operational leadership experience responsible for delivering results to the P&L
• Extensive experience working with first line managers & customer facing colleagues to drive culture change