Mark Bates - Executive & Business Coach, APPLEBRIGHT Coaching

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Be the BusinessBusiness Mentor

Sep. 2023United KingdomVolunteer mentor to small businesses to support them to grow and to overcome any business blockages that they are experiencing

Association of Business Mentors (ABM)Business Mentor

Mar. 2023United Kingdom · HybridI am a member of the association of business mentors where continuous professional development through the sharing of knowledge, mentoring peer support and networking enables absolutely contemporary, focused and professional advice to be delivered to all clients whether that is paid or pro bono.

Enterprise NationBusiness Mentor

Mar. 2023United Kingdom · HybridI am a Help To Grow Business mentor with a broad range of executive and change management experience in the public sector. I am also a qualified executive and business coach and mentor and I specialise in creating business and personal growth plans to help executives, team leaders and business owners grow and expand. I am a firm believer in working on the strengths of individuals and of coaching the whole person to maximise their potential understanding that true success recognises the need to find balance between the professional and the personal you. I have developed specific work to support you as a leader to greater self awareness. I am currently supporting a number of businesses to address growth in the current economic climate. I will support you to become an employer of choice. I am qualified to help you to grow stronger from any previous trauma you have may have experienced through trauma informed coaching. I will create a growth plan with you for this year and beyond that holds you and I to account for its delivery with annual and monthly goal tracking. This guarantees a return on investment from coaching and mentoring with me. I look forward to working with you, watching you implement exciting and daunting goals and mutually learning more from your coaching journey.

EMCC UKBusiness Professional

Jun. 2021United Kingdom · HybridI am a fully qualified member of the EMCC and I practice to the standards of the Global Code of Ethics

Association for Coaching (AC)Business Professional

Apr. 2021United Kingdom · HybridI am a fully qualified member of the Association for Coaching

Applebright CoachingBusiness Owner

Jun. 2020United Kingdom · HybridMy coaching will combine how the personal and professional you can perform to your maximum potential and recognise that true success is based on a balanced life and personal wellbeing. My coaching emphasises the principle of personal empowerment by enabling a strengths based approach to independent learning, personal reflection, growth and commitment to a development emphasis that will result in improved performance in all areas of your life. So, whether you're at a personal or professional crossroad in life or wishing to focus on a specific area you will find that working with me and enjoying my unswerving commitment to you will ensure that your aims and your ambitions will be achieved through renewed focus, clarity, and motivation. I will ensure that your coaching experience with me will allow you to know yourself better, to see other people more clearly and to respond to your personal and professional life challenges differently and with new insight. Coaching and Mentoring Specialism:- -Business Growth -Business Start Ups -Leadership coaching for ambitious middle managers and upward -Upscaling coaching for SME's to create awesome growth in quick time -Performance coaching that gets to the heart of what success means to you -Strengths coaching using coaching boards enabling 24/7 coaching plan and goals access -Trauma informed coaching developing your strengths from life's challenges -Delivering transformative coaching to enable the leadership of effective change management -Executive and leadership wellness coaching -Career coaching to equip you to grasp opportunity -Life coaching that keeps you in balance and gives you consonance -Skills profile coaching, such as EI, MBTI, 16 personalities, DISC, strengths and many others -Team Coaching - 3 tailored packages to drive success for the team and the business -One hour masterclasses on many subjects like assertiveness, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, change management and many more. Get in touch for more info

BeCommunityFounding Trustee and Executive Officer

Jul. 2017 - Jul. 2019StaffordshireBeCommunity is working in partnership with key public services to support vulnerable young people and families and we want our volunteers to be accessible to those people who need it, when they need it.

Lancashire ConstabularyAssistant Chief Constable - Territorial Policing

Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2017Greater Preston AreaTerritorial Operations - What a fabulous place to work with such incredible people committed to the Lancashire Community. Lead for all of the Operational and Investigative resources of the Constabulary based across its 3 large policing divisions delivering high quality policing services from emergency response to problem solving and engagement through neighbourhood policing teams. Command - Strategic firearms commander, gold public order commander, post incident commander, siege manager. Managing multiple serious incidents and a fatal shooting investigation. NPCC Lead - National Policing Lead for the development of CCTV in Policing North West Chief Officer lead for Evidence Based Policing - engaging and commissioning academic study to further the quality of policing services Force Control Room - managed project transitioning from 6 control rooms to a single force control room. Performance Approach - this lead activity supported the development of non target based improvement of service delivery. Enhancing discretion for police officers and encouraged focus on high victim impact policing issues. Early Action - Constabulary lead for the delivery of 'frontline early action' in partnership to develop a broader Public Service Lancashire. This focused on high intensive users of service across a range of agencies aiming to improve lives by developing solutions and pathways that address vulnerability Chair of multi agency early action board enhancing a prevention partnership Chair of Children's Trust Board across Lancashire with responsibility for risk assessment of safeguarding Force Lead on Citizens in Policing - developed engagement, intelligence and capacity across the County through neighbourhood policing from the support of 800 Police Cadets, 500 Special Constables and over 600 community based neighbourhood volunteers. Force Lead on Digital Engagement creating an ambitious plan to transform the way that the public do business with the Constabulary.

Staffordshire PoliceChief Superintendent

Jul. 2008 - Sep. 2012North Staffs BCU & Police HQDivisional Commander, then followed by a period of time as Programme Manager for the Force change programme entitled Communities First. This programme transformed the Force and took £38m from the base budget. In this role I also stood as Head of Corporate Services in order to introduce benefits management throughout the organisation.

Staffordshire PoliceSuperintendent

Jan. 2005 - Jul. 20081999-2008 - Programme Manager for 3 key change programmes that restructured the Force and delivered stronger approaches to neighbourhood policing, public protection and a methodology to track and effectively deliver transformed resource management. 2002-2012 Crash Course Partnership Reducing casualties from road traffic collisions - developing Crash Course as a means to offer input to young people, risk taking groups and offender drivers to change their approach to taking risk through greater awareness of the consequences and outcomes for victims and survivors of collisions.

Staffordshire PolicePolice Constable to Chief Inspector

Oct. 1987 - Jan. 2005Performed numerous uniformed and plain clothed duties and undertook Command in Public Order, Firearms and the management of post incident procedures.

Barclays UKSecurities Investment

Aug. 1983 - Oct. 1987