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Rob Johnson – MSc, MCIPD
Rob Johnson has over 20 years’ learning and development experience
specialising in leadership and management development. Rob worked in several
Public Sector businesses as Head of Learning and Development roles before
joining Instep in 2002 as Consultant at the Award winning Vimto Academy. He
left the business in April 2014 after a highly succesful 3 years as Managing
Director of the business to set up his own business,Triangle Learning and
Development. Rob’s Consultancy work sees him utilise his practical leadership
experience to support leaders to achieve their potential and influence. Working
with managers of all levels Rob has a very informal delivery style, and uses a
wide range of anecdotes and examples when facilitating groups or delivering training. On a one-to-one
basis Rob has provided Executive Coaching to Senior Leaders in a wide range of businesses.
Rob’s main area of expertise lies in Performance Management (where succesfully completed an Msc in
2004) and he has a real passion for working in partnership with clients to achieve results at every
opportunity and support learners to transfer their learning back into the workplace. When working with
clients Rob’s aim is to challenge thinking, and offer alternative views or ideas that help a client to achieve
results from any training and development delivered. Rob’s recent design and delivery projects have seen
him work with a range of clients including Trafford Housing Trust, Warburtons, Moy Park, Translink,
Eastlands Housing, John West, MW Brands, Chorley MBC, Burnley MBC, Vestas, Booth Ventures and
Eddie Stobart BrandVista.
SpecialistAreas Qualifications
 Leadership Development
 Performance Management
 Personal and Performance Coaching
 Change Management
 Presentation Skills/Facilitations Skills.
 Designing innovative training sessions
 MSc – Training and Performance Management
 Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development
 Neuro-Linguistic Programming Business Practitioner
 LEAD Programme – Manchester Metropolitan
University (MMU)
 KAN - MMU
RecentProjects
 Executive Coaching for the Senior team at John West Foods
 Design and managementof Coaching programme for over 60 Managers at Trafford Housing Trust and design
and delivery of Performance Management and Change Management training for the group
 Complete review and redesign of Warburtons national leadership programme to introduce latest best practice
tools in supporting transfer of learning
 Design of an Accredited Coaching programme for Burnley Borough Council (winner of North West National
Training Award)
 Development of Sales and Marketing strategy for SME targeted to raise national profile of the business and
double company turnover in 3 year period.

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Client Recommendations
“I have worked with and alongside Rob over a number of years and would recommend him without
hesitation. Rob has an immensely engaging and impactful style backed up by a principled desire to share
great thinking and good practice in a practical and value adding way for his clients and colleagues alike. I
believe any organisation would benefit from his time and expertise”.
Carl Fitzsimons, HR Director, UK, Ireland & Netherlands - John West Foods
"I have worked with Rob for years on various management development programmes. His natural ability
to get on with people, yet challenge and push individuals at all levels to reflect and improve, meant we
could use him not only supervisory training, but right up to senior board level coaching. A real find.
Liz Dowd, Assistant Director, People and Governance – Trafford Housing Trust
“Rob is an extremely focused individual who demonstrates a great deal of drive and commitment. He
provides a wide range of experience and knowledge regarding a number of subjects, his attention to
detail ensures that any task or activity is given as much input as required in order to ensure a successful
outcome for all key stakeholders.
His style and manner at which he establishes client’s requirements make it so clear and easy to respond
to, he has the ability to make everyone feel at ease by the way he builds rapport with his openness and
honesty. I’ve worked with Rob on a number of activities and his sense of humour coupled with his high
level of business knowledge, always make it a pleasure to work with him”.
Graeme Hall, Development and Capability Manager – BAE Systems
“Rob is an honest, business-focused person with a passion for delivering practical solutions that transfer
learning to the workplace. Down to earth and straight talking”.
Sheridan Webb, Director of Training Services – Keystone T & D Ltd
I have worked with Rob on training projects in my current role and feel very fortunate that Rob has agreed
to be by mentor to assist my development in our shared passion of training design and delivery. Rob has
approached the mentoring with great enthusiasm and has coached me through some development areas
helping me to focus on what I want to achieve in my career.
Rob's passion and good humoured approach to everything that he does make him a pleasure to work
with and I would recommend Rob for both his training design and delivery expertise and one-to-one
coaching and mentoring ability.
Tim Roberts – Training and Development Manager - Eddie Stobart Logistics
Having recently met Rob through a personal recommendation (always the best start in my opinion) and
only six months into a new role in a new company myself, we met up to discuss a training development
need. I was impressed with the way Rob listened and probed to truly understand our needs to ensure he
delivered the right solution for us. His flexibility, attitude, experience and personable style got all of us
thinking and we were very pleased with the end results and the direction he led us in to get there. We will
definitely work with Rob again and I'd highly recommend him.
Paul Roberts, Senior Consultant - BrandVista

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RecentParticipantFeedback – 2015
BrandVista
‘Very helpful, I liked the style, pragmatic and challenging. Very helpful and generated the
results’
‘I liked the anecdotes, they were real and relevant and again, thought provoking’
‘He knew us better than I would have expected given his length of exposure to us’.
Brose
‘Interesting, motivating, useful, enjoyable and relevant’
‘This is a great course, loads of interaction and im now ready and able to give constructive
feedback to my team and conduct effective 1x1’s
Eddie Stobart
‘Rob had a great, relaxed vibe about him. He talked through each and every question asked. I
felt I was being coached rather than being trained as a group member’
‘Brill course, absolutely loved it, very useful for work and personal lives. Rob was amazing and
really got you to think and analyse’
‘Rob was a very good trainer. He is able to mix humour with seriousness and was able to relate
what was being taught to real examples’
Esendex
‘Rob is a really good trainer whose style provided a really good learning environment’
‘Brilliant, really good trainer, challenged you in the right way and kept the course flowing’
Trafford Housing Trust
‘The pace, relaxed approach and flexible style were all right for us. I also liked the way he
challenges without seeming to do so’.
‘Excellent course again from Rob, I now feel able to adapt my influencing style, listen and
engage more’
Warburtons
‘Rob ensured all participants were engaged and his passion for leadership shone through’
‘Best course I have ever been on, thanks Rob’