martin loxton

A Wealth of Experience

Martin is a change implementation specialist, executive coach, facilitator and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in commercial, research and industrial organisations. He works with senior leaders and leadership teams to help them create their vision, and then with the often challenging process to ensure that the vision is realised. He has led and participated in large-scale organisational change implementation programmes.

He has worked with clients in the UK, continental Europe, Japan and North America including Akzo Nobel, Astra Zeneca, 3Com, Lawson Mardon, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, the Government of Finland, Kvaerner Oil and Gas, Siemens, Japan Steel and Nycomed.

Illustrative Assignments and Activities

• Supporting the US leadership team of a research organisation to make a radical business and culture change in collaboration with the European parent organisation. In order to change from a failing large-global-player strategy, to a highly successful medium-sized-international-company strategy. The US organisation exceeded all expectations
• Supporting senior management team members through the successful implementation of new structures and a new leadership culture, maximising the synergies and benefits from the merger of five companies in the Norwegian oil and gas industry
• Supporting a project leader and his global pharmaceutical development team to transform their performance, from mediocre, to outstanding. They were able to bring the planned submission date to the US regulatory authorities forward by 5 months, with a potential sales increase of $600m. The team members included Britons, Swedes and Americans
• Supporting a very senior leader and her executive team of business leaders to establish a values based culture change programme to improve profitability and the quality of working life in their chemicals plants. The plants were in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, USA, Brazil and Indonesia
• Supporting leaders, key professionals and teams to help them change their attitudes, behaviours, performance and business processes to make the merger of two culturally distinct pharmaceutical companies successful. The merged organisation has been extremely successful
• Participating as a member of the project team that evaluated the potential future for a site, and designed and implemented the transition plan for transfer of documents, skills and knowledge from the site to the headquarters. Coached senior leaders from the headquarters, and the site leadership, with change and people issues during the many phases of the site closure
• Leading and participating in diagnostic audits of organisations, ranging in size from 10 to 2000 personnel, to identify key issues, both supportive and inhibitive, at times of strategic importance. On the basis of these analyses designing with the client, change strategies to deliver successful implementation, often including supporting the key teams and individuals, global workshops and structured team interventions

Qualifications

Martin has a BA and MA from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and Social and Political Science. He also has a post-graduate Diploma in Social Administration from the University of York. He completed three years counselling training with the Institute of Psychosynthesis. He is licensed in the Team Climate Inventory team feedback tool, with ASE. He is also licensed in The Organisation Workshop (a simulation that deepens understanding of processes in organisations), with Power and Systems Training.

Individual approach

Martin worked for many years developing his professional skills, exploring a great number of techniques, methodologies and models to help him support business leaders to implement their visions. Having internalised these methodologies and models his approach now is to focus on quickly forming and then maintaining trust based relationships with leaders, founded on integrity.
                                    
Having formed such a relationship he works with a leader, and often their team, to explore and define their vision, to develop their strategy and then to implement it. In the course of the implementation Martin supports the leader through the business challenges that arise and with making the personal and attitudinal changes that may be needed by them and their team. Martin has so often see that when people find the way to align their business vision with their personal values they usually discover great energy, commitment and creativity.