Steve Gynes
Principal Consultant
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Steve Gynes is a Principal Consultant at Lane4 who draws on extensive experience in the people development arena to support individuals, teams and organisations transitioning towards high performance. His consulting style is shaped by his practical approach and desire to see others fulfil and exceed expectations.
Leadership Development
Steve specialises in team and leadership development with more than 12 years consulting experience in this space. He works with leaders to develop a clear sense of shared responsibility across teams, facilitating the balance between individual needs and an organisation's need for a one team vision. From exploring and understanding their team's tensions and dynamics, to communicating a shared vision, Steve has worked with leaders across a range of industries in both private and public sector organisations.
Team Development
Steve works in partnership with clients to develop teams across multiple business areas and levels, including senior leadership teams and company boards and has consulted in the manufacturing, retail, utility, legal and financial sectors. His approach involves exploring what makes a High Performing Team; working with teams that are already high performing and want to sustain their performance; supporting under-achieving or dysfunctional groups; developing newly-formed teams and supporting existing teams with a new leader.
Coaching for Performance
Steve has extensive experience as a business and performance coach. He works with individuals across a range of organisational levels and industry sectors to facilitate improved performance through 1:1 coaching. Steve's role as a Principal Consultant also involves working in partnership with clients to establish development needs and the subsequent design and delivery of international programmes. He has successfully led the embedding of coaching cultures in manufacturing, retail and public sector organisations through experiential workshops, Action Learning Groups and supervised coaching sessions. Working with individuals and teams, Steve focuses on the use of coaching as leadership tool for sustained organisational performance. Creating an environment where people want to do things rather than being made, is central to his approach. Through programme evaluation and diagnostic measurement, Steve works with HR leaders to demonstrate the ROI of their people development interventions.
Organisational Change
Steve works with businesses during periods of significant organisational change to support individual and team performance. His approach is focused on maintaining productivity through engaged and motivated employees, helping retain key executives and staff and preventing revenue loss as a result of lack of customer focus or poor service.
Work at Lane4
Steve Gynes has over 12 years experience in the development and training arena.
His areas of specialism include:
High Performing Teams
Senior Leadership Development
Individual Development
1:1 Coaching
Clients include:
Bourne Leisure Group Ltd - Leadership, Coaching and High Performing Team Workshops
Northgate - Graduate Development Programme
Coca-Cola GB - 1:1 Coaching
Honda - High Performance Environment Scan and Workshops
Currys - Organisational Transformation and Leadership
Post Office - Inspire Coaching Programme
Background
Steve is married and has two sons who take up the remainder of his time. He is a rugby fan and is coach to the U11 team at his local club.
Steve has travelled extensively including trips to the Sahara, Nepal and Pakistan. He maintains an active lifestyle outside his life at Lane4 and enjoys fishing and exploring off the Dorset Coast.
Prior to joining Lane4, Steve established his own outdoor/indoor development business where he taught activities like rock climbing and canoeing to both adults and children.
Steve Gynes became an Associate of Lane4 in 1995 and joined as a full-time consultant in 2005. His career has involved a diversity of roles including working at an outdoor centre, an engineering firm and as Regional Manager at a ski company.
