The Springbrook Partnership
- NAVIGATE UNCERTAINTY
- KNOW YOUR UNKNOWN
- BUILD YOUR BRIDGE TO TOMORROW
Expert tailored coaching, mentoring, consultancy and spiritual direction
The Springbrook Partnership
Manage change well
The Springbrook Partnership has built its professional reputation on helping our clients navigate the storms of transition and uncertainty at key developmental stages in their careers.
Our professional values have been forged through years of good practice, not speculation.
Our specialism is in creating connections between the now and the not yet; between the person you are now and the person you both want and need to become. Genuine transition and change doesn’t happen unless we actively prepare and plan for it. The Springbrook Partnership will help you understand your potential and actively map out how you can realise it.
As trusted advisors we provide expert tailored coaching, consultancy, mentoring and spiritual direction to help you find your way forward and traverse between the known and the unknown.
In today’s world we believe that the boundaries between these disciplines need to become increasingly more porous. Dexterity and agility are core to what we offer to our clients.
We are equipped and ready to walk with you in these uncertain days; to identify and maximise your skills, helping you to build your bridge into tomorrow.
Contact The Springbrook Partnership to begin a conversation about mentoring, coaching and spiritual direction.
What we can do
Our Services
The Springbrook Partnership is committed to work to the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. To support this The Springbrook Partnership is a member of the Association for Coaching (AC). It also works within the ICF Code of Ethics.
COACHING
It’s tempting to think that we all navigate through life blindly. But the reality is that we’re each writing a map, charting where we’ve come from and indicating where we’re going.
The aim of coaching at The Springbrook Partnership is to help you control your own map, giving you an understanding of your past and present journey, and helping you to set a direction for the future. Coaching offers the challenge to become more self aware, to take responsibility for your own development and to realise more of your own potential.
MENTORING
None of us have all the answers. There is always more to learn, no matter what your sphere or area of expertise. Getting perspective, wisdom and encouragement from those who have gone before us can help unlock incredible personal development and empowerment.
At The Springbrook Partnership we can draw on years of charitable sector insight and significant leadership experience to help you step up to the next stage in your career – or life. This kind of direct and focussed relationship can be the catalyst in helping you to not only define, but reach your goals.
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
Unconsciously many of us have detached our spiritual lives from the realms of work and family. We compartmentalise and leave our faith out of serious business – or even family – decisions. But, we cannot deepen our walk with God without it also transforming our personal and professional lives.
Giving time and space to reflect on, and deepen, our walk with God is a significant opportunity to discover our true, full potential.
CONSULTANCY
There are times when we need someone to come alongside and help us to get unstuck, to help bring a fresh perspective and a step change to unlock powerful thinking. It is our privilege to be able to come alongside business owners and senior executives to help re-ignite their thinking and work through critical seasons of transition and organisational change. Also, to inspire and shape strategic thought, and to bring an injection of fresh energy to raising and equipping authentic leaders.
Contact The Springbrook Partnership to begin a conversation about mentoring, coaching and spiritual direction.
What we offer
How it works
In practice these disciplines constantly overlap and many people benefit from a combination of approaches, rather than a single focus on one technique. At The Springbrook Partnership we work out these conversations in the following ways.
ONE-TO-ONE TAILOR MADE COACHING
TEAM COACHING
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
CONSULTANCY
MENTORING
Leadership Programme
The Inside Out Leader
Leaders today face a scale of change and challenge we are unlikely to experience again for at least a generation. We can view these as a mountain too hard to climb or we can embrace them as presenting fresh opportunity. At The Springbrook Partnership, we encourage our clients to be embracers of challenge and change, we see our role as enablers to equip leaders as they journey forward.
The Inside Out Leader © The Springbrook Partnership 2020
As leaders, the months and years ahead will require continual navigational course correction as we are required to be adaptable and lead with courage through uncertainty.
We believe this is only possible if leaders are able to lead from the values embedded deep within them – leading from ‘who you are’, in other words, leading from your inner motivations and passions – it’s all about being an ‘Inside Out Leader’.
A central piece of your engagement with us will be working with you to enable you to give description, voice, expression, character and colour to your values as an ‘Inside Out Leader’.
As an example, the graphic here illustrates our own Bridge Partnership ‘Inside Out Leader’ values.
Values are essential equipping for our journey. Values provide the rudder by which we navigate.
- What is the narrative of my journey?
- Where have I come from?
- How did I get here (where I am today)?
- Where am I aiming to get to?
- What have been the key drivers in my journey?
- What impact would I like to make?
- What are my as yet unfulfilled dreams?
- What legacy would I like to leave?
All these components and many more are the areas where we engage with our clients, empowering them to be courageous and adaptable ‘Inside Out Leaders’.
“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t ‘take’”.
William Bridges
Meet the Team
Who are we?
EDDIE LYLE
The Springbrook Partnership was founded in 2016 by Eddie Lyle, who has over 30 years of experience managing organisations in the charitable sector. For 16 of these years he held the position of CEO for two separate organisations, managing change and transformation across large and influential teams. He currently has a significant public leadership role with an internationally known and respected charity.
Eddie is a recognised and strategic thinker, team builder, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He’s also a qualified Coach having gained a Professional Certificate in Coaching at Henley Business School, one of the world’s leading business training centres. He’s a current trustee of Home for Good, a UK based charity focusing on adoption and fostering, and he founded Medic Assist International, a charity providing healthcare to those who need it most.
His unique experience and skills have enabled him to become a significant coach, mentor and spiritual director, providing transformative insight, encouragement and wisdom to many.
IAN SMITH
Ian is a Director of Springbrook Partnership and is an EMCC Accredited Coach/Mentor at Senior Practitioner level. With thirty years’ experience as a senior executive with international organisations in the corporate and non-profit sectors, he brings both depth and breadth of experience to the Partnership. His role in the non-profit sector was strongly cross-cultural, establishing operational bases in eleven countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa with indigenous leaders.
Ian’s heart is to invest in leaders and to equip the leaders of the future enabling them to be authentic, courageous role models and ambassadors. is a core component, helping them make a difference to organisational health and culture, empowering individuals and teams to flourish and realise their potential.
A Chartered Engineer, Ian has experience and skills in strategic planning, leadership development, critical thinking, operational leadership and team building. He has also completed a Diploma at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Ian qualified as a coach through Henley Business School and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and International Coach Federation (ICF). He serves on the board of two European non-profit organisations.
JUDE ELLIMAN
Jude is an Associate Consultant of The Springbrook Partnership and the co-founder of her own executive coaching company. She is an executive coach with over 25 years’ experience of coaching leaders and individuals across a broad range of sectors.
She has trained more than 500 coaches in the UK and internationally. As co-author of The Story so far – an introduction to Transformational Narrative Coaching, she understands the power of story to both constrain and liberate.
Jude, contemplative by preference, knows the deeper call of stillness and spiritual reflection in her own life. She is committed to exploring the mystery of the landscape of soul and knows the wisdom this brings.
Soulhinterlands.com is an expression of this inner journey. Her poems and the images she chooses for this website reveal the creativity and beauty of an awakened imagination. Jude’s passion for discovery, helping others be themselves with more skill, find their purpose and own authentic voice infuses everything she does.
DEBBIE BUTLER
Debs is an Associate of The Springbrook Partnership. She is passionate about enabling and challenging others to be all that they can be; to flourish and reach their full potential.
Her professional career has involved holding positions such as Head of HR for a Global Organisation, Head of Department in Education, along with Art Therapy and Pastoral Care positions in a range of sectors. She is currently working in Leadership Development.
Debs has been awarded a BA degree with First Class Honours in Theology & Leadership from Christchurch and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic and Application of the Arts from The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London. Professionally she is accredited with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Debs has worked as a qualified art therapist and Coach with both individuals and organisations for more than 15 years and is an experienced facilitator, involved with executive leadership teams in both the charity and corporate sector, using a diverse range of communication models utilising both words and images.
Debs regularly leads creative art workshops and spiritual retreat days, giving direction to both individuals and groups. Her blend of skills, experience and academic achievements has enabled her to be a creative and intuitive coach, mentor and leader.
ROBERT BARTON
Rob is an Associate of The Springbrook Partnership. As an executive search specialist, I work on behalf of a diverse range of clients across the public, private and the third sector, and also work by partnering with other specialist companies, providing recruitment expertise and psychometric support as a Thomas International practitioner.
In my spare time I am a non-executive director and a trustee of a national veterans’ charity and local educational charity. I enjoy country life and walking an easily distracted Labrador.
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‘To have people of the calibre of Ian and Eddie available to listen, question, provoke and guide us through a journey of change has been invaluable.’Board Chair, Child and young people mental health and wellbeing charity
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‘In the past few years, Eddie has journeyed with me through some my greatest ‘successes’ and supported me during my most painful leadership season to date. His ability to ask laser-sharp questions enabled me to gain deep insights into situations I was facing. His ability to do this with a pastoral heart meant that even when the insights were challenging – painful even, the environment he created was totally safe and my worth and identity totally affirmed.’CEO, Christian charity working internationally with orphans
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‘I started the coaching journey tired and battle weary. I have found Eddie to be incredibly kind, patient and caring for my well-being as well as trying to explore what boundaries might look like for me as we navigate through significant change. Leadership can be lonely and I have welcomed the encouragement that Eddie has brought.’
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It has been invaluable to be challenged to think through things differently or to maintain perspective… I’m looking forward to continuing to grow as a leader, with Eddie’s help. I’m trusting God to help me make the organisation I lead be the best it can be.’
Executive Director, Africa focussed missional ministry
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Contact
Contact The Springbrook Partnership to start a conversation about mentoring, coaching or spiritual direction.
Email: Use the contact form on the right/below
Phone: +44(0) 7733 225257
Post: The Springbrook Partnership, Unit F02-F03, Cherwell Business Village, Southam Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 2SP.
