Meet Bankie, our experienced Learning and Development Associate here at Ashorne Hill.

Specialising in designing and delivering interactive, engaging and impactful development programmes, creating learning environments where learners can feel empowered, challenged, and share thoughts and experience.

Bankie Williams

Learning and Development Assoiciate at Ashorne Hill

Bankie has a ‘lifetime’ of coaching experience beginning in 1977 when his sporting ability clashed with his responsibilities as an Army cook. This was when he began his journey to become a fully qualified Army Physical Training Corps Instructor. The two-year journey qualified him as a ‘coach’ in a wide number of sports disciplines from Boxing Referee to Basketball Coach from Swimming Teacher to Abseil Instructor!

Bankie is an ILM 7 qualified senior executive coach and in 2009 joined Vistage International, the world’s foremost coaching organisation for the development of Chief Executives, where for 12 years he ran two CEO peer-to-peer private advisory groups. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Leadership.

I was concerned about not being a line manager but was optimistic I would be able to get a reasonable amount from this course. It exceeded my expectations.

Anonymous, Transition to Management Programme Participant, Tata Steel

Bankie’s Accreditations

MA in Personal & Organisational Development (Middlesex University Business School 2000

MBA (Coventry University Business School) 1996

Post Grad Diploma in Management Studies ( University of Central England) 1993

University of Bristol ‘Human Technics ILM7 executive coach

Fellow of The Institute of Leadership

BPS Certificate of Competence (Level A)

‘Achieving Service Breakthrough’ IESE/ HBS International Graduate School of Management GENEVA

Programme for Management Development – Harvard Business School. USA

Creativity & Innovation Programme – Stanford University (SRI) USA

Vistage International Coach 2009 – 2021

OPP Trained Business Coach

OPP Myers Briggs Group Dynamics

OPP MBTI assessor

OPP 16PF

OPP FIROB

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