Jeremy Cross

Senior Consultant

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Jeremy Cross is a Senior Consultant at Lane4 whose belief in human potential enables him to facilitate improved business performance across a variety of sectors. His approach is drawn from his experiences as an elite performer, a sport psychologist and business consultant. His personal experience and research in the field of elite sport and sport psychology are expertise that have been successfully transferred to the commercial world in his time at Lane4.

Coaching for Performance

Jeremy specialises in developing and embedding coaching cultures for sustained performance. His coaching expertise fall into a number of categories: development of line managers as coaches, developing internal coaches, the development of external coaching and the implementation of a coaching culture. He is responsible for directing the Lane4/Middlesex University Coaching Performance Excellence Programme which is run bi-annually. He is committed to raising the standards and professionalism of business coaches across all sectors, has spoken at The Association of Coaching Annual Conference and is regularly sought after for comments in the media around the subject. More recently, Jeremy also supervises coaches to ensure quality and best practice for the organisations engaged in coaching, protection for their coachees and to provide education and support to the internal coach.

1:1 Coaching

Jeremy is an experienced executive coach and is continually fascinated by the significant impact well executed coaching can have on the performance. He has worked with business leaders, board members, line managers, sports coaches and colleagues across a variety of sectors including investment banking to manufacturing, health care, engineering and professional services. His coaching relationships occur across many business functions and he works with individuals to facilitate sustained individual development through goal setting, giving and receiving feedback, effective questioning and generating self belief.

Leadership Development

Jeremy is an experienced leadership consultant having delivered bespoke leadership programmes in the retail, leisure and financial sectors. He has worked with high performing associates at a leading investment bank to challenge their ways of working and develop the personal leadership required to maintain high performance in high-pressured environments. The programme's key objective was to increase retention and in the eighteen months following the programme and measurement demonstrated increased retention levels of participants. In addition, he has facilitated the delivery of sustained performance through developing effective leadership skills at a FTSE 100 supermarket and a successful Sales Manager Programme at a leisure company.

Team Development

Jeremy has worked with teams at varied business levels to clarify purpose and vision and develop authentic relationships. This has included facilitating Action Learning Groups for top teams, off-site events and team development programmes within the retail and construction industries.

Work at Lane4

Dr. Jeremy Cross joined Lane4 in 2004. He specialises in performance coaching and is responsible for directing the Lane4/Middlesex University Coaching Accreditation Programme.

Clients include:

1:1 Coaching

Accenture
Royal Mail Group
Honda
St Mary's NHS Trust
Olympic Delivery Authority
BT
National Grid

Coaching Accreditation Programmes

Sainsbury's - Masters Coaching Accreditation
Currys - Accreditation Programme for Leaders
Royal Mail Group - Coaching Accreditation Programme
easyJet - Coaching Accreditation Programme

Coaching for Performance

Roche Pharmaceuticals - Coaching Workshops
Eversheds - Coaching Workshops
Yell - Coaching Workshops
Mothercare - Coaching Workshops
Bourne Leisure Group - Coaching Workshops

Leadership

Sainsbury's - Making Sainsbury's Great Again
Centrica - The Leader's Journey
BT Operate - The Difference is You
Fitness First - Leadership Development
National Grid - Performance for Growth
Honda - Leadership Development
Lloyds Banking Group - Leadership Development

Team Development

2012 Olympic Construction Tender Bid - (Capita Symonds, Bovis Lend Lease and KBR)
Dixons Store Group - High Performing Team Development
LOCOG - Team Developement (all staff away day)
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - Team Development

High Performance Environment (HPE) Scan

Fat Face - Employee Engagement & Performance Diagnostic Scan

Background

Jeremy is a Senior Consultant and executive coach who uses his belief in human potential to aid learning and development. He draws upon his experience and research in elite sport to specialise in Performance Coaching, Leadership Development, High Performance Environments and facilitating team and individual performance.

Jeremy has raised money for the children's charity SPARKS through participating in various events and challenges. These have included running the London Marathon and climbing the UK's highest three peaks in 24 hours. In 2004, Jeremy volunteered as a UNICEF leader at the Athens Olympic and Doha Asian Games Youth Camps.

Jeremy has played tennis full-time, competing in the qualifiers for Wimbledon and was the Great Britain Universities Team Captain. A qualified performance tennis coach, Jeremy has also worked with regional and national champions, including the former British women's number one.

Jeremy received a Ph.D in Sport Psychology from Loughborough University in 2004. He is an accredited sport psychologist having consulted with numerous sporting bodies. Jeremy was chosen as sport psychologist for Jersey at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and will travel with the team again to New Delhi this year. In 2009, Jeremy worked closely with the GB Men's Hockey Team in the lead up to their European Championship win.

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