Carrs Brook, Morton Street,
Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6JH
About CDL
The business was established by two senior managers with 37 years experience gained in a variety of businesses. Chris has spent the majority of his 16 years working in Learning & Development. Debi has spent 12 years in operational roles with 9 years in training and development. This combination of roles and experience provides CDL Development with a broad range of knowledge, skills and expertise that is used to underpin the development of services and solutions for your organisation.
Chris
As a senior manager Chris has led teams of people both operationally and in the Learning and Development arena. He has solid experience of leading and managing having had responsibility for a function of over one thousand people. He is commercially astute and has effectively and efficiently managed significant budgets, sales revenues and P&L accounts. Whilst in Learning and Development Chris has initiated, designed and delivered a range of interventions specialising in Leadership and Management Development.
Chris has worked with Board members individually and collectively as Executive teams and has led cultural change programmes. His roles have included responsibility for Organisational Design and Development as well as Talent and Performance Management. His last position, prior to establishing CDL Development, was a global role as Head of Learning & Development. Chris now provides a range of professional consultancy services relating to Learning and Development, facilitating learning and development interventions and working as an Executive Coach. His approach to coaching is to build trust and establish a meaningful relationship from where individuals can be challenged and supported, enabling them to realise their potential and achieve their personal best.
Debi
Debi is an Executive Coach and Learning and Development practitioner. Prior to establishing the company Debi was a senior business leader having gained over 21 years corporate experience. She has led and developed a number of management teams in several different functions. Her roles have included accountability for over 1500 employees, management of remote teams, a front line customer service operation, and the development of the culture and service standards for an airline. She combines an extensive customer service background with solid commercial experience and an approach centred on achieving results through people.
Debi has initiated, designed and delivered learning interventions across a range of functions including safety, customer service, management development and sales. She has brought about considerable change by engaging, developing people through inspirational leadership. Debi is able to bring a unique combination of operational and commercial experience to the field of learning and development. She has initiated and driven cultural change, within a heavily unionised organisation, and successfully improved employee engagement and business results. She passionately believes that there is always opportunity to improve and her philosophy and approach is centred on recognising the potential in everyone, raising self awareness and enabling people to be more effective in what they do. Her approach to coaching is centred on the individual; she is passionate about working with others to build a positive relationship to achieve the results that they truly want. This is achieved by creating the space for people to think, the freedom for them to choose, the opportunity to change and the belief to make it happen.
