Maggie Newton

Maggie NewtonMaggie is an experienced personal development professional, business coach and mentor with a wealth of experience in delivering business solutions and effective behaviour change, gained across a range of companies and disciplines. Most recently she worked as a Programme Manager where she designed and delivered a hugely successful market development programme, which included implementing some significant communications campaigns. She also developed a comprehensive programme of team learning to improve overall performance and staff motivation, including the introduction of a high performing teams’ measure. She also project managed the successful launch and development of Nectar, one of the UK’s biggest loyalty schemes.
Maggie is passionate about learning and development and empowering individuals. She has managed both large and small teams throughout her career, taking immense pleasure in watching individuals grow, shine and progress in their careers. Colleagues and clients describe her as:

• An adept and trusted coach and mentor
• A strong team player
• An excellent communicator
• Highly competent, organised, resourceful, calm and responsive
• Open, approachable and fun to work with

Maggie’s main areas of expertise and interest include:
– Coaching
– Mentoring
– Improving team performance and effectiveness
– Communications
– Employee engagement and personal development
– Personality profiling tools, including DISC

Maggie has a pragmatic, collaborative and flexible coaching and facilitating style and is committed to her own personal and professional development, currently completing a Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching with the Coaching Academy.
One of Maggie’s recent projects was a team development workshop, where DISC profiling was used to help the team get to know each other better in order to work together more effectively. Feedback from some of the participants was:
“Great facilitation. Maggie prompted gently through the exercises and gave useful one to one attention when working in groups”. “Really insightful session – self-reflecting and outward facing. Really helped me to think differently about working with our team”. “Was accurate and interesting. Maggie has a pragmatic, calm delivery style that I really liked”.