Charles Greenwood
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Charles has 25 years’ senior management experience with a background in manufacturing, retail and consultancy.
Most recently, he has undertaken 1-1 Executive Development and project work with a diverse range of organisations from social housing (Housing Hartlepool, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust) to major commercial enterprises (Homebase, Bettys and Taylors Group).
Background
Charles has worked for 30 years within the commercial sector gaining experience in a number of disciplines and sizes of organisations from multi-nationals to working as an interim consultant and project manager.
This experience has broadly been at functional head and director level in a wide range of commercial roles. This has frequently required overseas travel and working with businesses in the Far East, Africa and throughout Europe.
Throughout this working period, a number of common themes have emerged:
- The critical nature of team building and collaborative working to help build clear personal and business objectives
- The importance of providing, building and sustaining long term relations with colleagues/customers/suppliers/stakeholders to drive great service and valued outcomes
- Dealing effectively with the constant impact of change on individuals and organisations.
Currently
Charles works with large and small organisations using a highly personalised approach built on mutual trust and need to understand the effects of change and challenge. Often, the request for support is driven by the need to ‘fix’ something or make something happen; however Charles finds it is more often about helping individuals find the fix themselves, by adapting to new initiatives and establishing effective relations with colleagues who share the impact of the challenges or strategic developments.
He has been an Oasis core associate since 2011.