Yvonne Barham-Plummer

Yvonne has always found people fascinating; self-discovery exhilarating; releasing clients’ potential incredibly rewarding; and she’s rejuvenated by learning. She simply LOVES her work!  Yvonne has been fortunate enough to have worked in learning-related roles for most her 20+ year career.

Initially she worked as a Technical Author writing technical reference manuals and the associated training materials.  From there, Yvonne moved into more traditional Training and Development roles, including many years within Unilever UK where she co-managed the T&D programme to build the professional expertise of the 320-strong Sales & Marketing team.

In 2007, Yvonne set up Results Through YBP.  She now freelances as a Trainer, Coach and Team Bulider. Her client base spans both the private sector (with companies such as Unilever and Johnson & Johnson) and the public sector, where she's undertaken projects such as:

• providing leadership coaching within a county council
• delivering both Myers Briggs (MBTI) team-building events and individual MBTI profiling sessions within one of the UK's sector skills councils
• teaching careers to 11-18 year olds
• being accepted onto BIS's roster of approved coaches (BIS is the Dept within Central Government responsible for Business, Innovation & Skills.  It was formerly known as the DTI).

 

Qualifications

Yvonne has accreditation in the following psychometric tools:

1. Myers Briggs
2. FIRO-B
3. Work Styles Analyzer

Yvonne has also been approved as one of Politics At Work's IPQPro psychometeric report writers. 

Yvonne’s Speciality

Through structured questioning techniques, Yvonne diagnoses situations very carefully before recommending routes forward.  From her vast experience in the training world, Yvonne can then draw on a whole host of learning models, theories, techniques and approaches, in order to find creative and effective learning solutions to support her clients achieve their most challenging business goals.