Glenn Handforth

Glenn Handforth

Facilitator, Coach, Strategist, Designer.

Entrepeneur in Residence Keele University.

Glenn runs The Ideas Facility, a small creatively led consultancy, bringing insights across design, strategy development and implementation for organisations focused on growth. His work usually starts with a problem and there is a theme central to his approach - he works with ‘ideas’ to create solutions and bring the ‘facility’ to translate them into action.

Glenn’s purpose is to enable individuals, teams, and organisations to grow, by establishing the conditions for success so that failure is not an option. He does this through facilitating and unlocking creative thinking to consider new options for growth by listening, coaching, facilitating, designing, delivering.

With a background in design and management consultancies, Glenn has a strong track record in energising brand projects and campaigns with some of the UK’s foremost organisations, within strategic management consultancy, major project, top 10 design group and agency environments.

As a specialist in the identity, transformation and change environment, Glenn brings experience in managing high-impact brand and marketing communications initiatives and leading teams for projects, across Defence, Education services, Infrastructure, Construction, PLC and LA commissions.

Projects include:

• Strategy Director (12 month interim role) in Public Private sector strategic partnership - an £80m turnover Joint Venture

• B2B Brand consultancy role on Ikea multi £m global business initiative

• Senior Employee Engagement Lead (12-month interim role) for Defence Infrastructure Organisation

• Business integration and transformation programme for national TIer Two construction client

Clients include Aecom, AmeyMouchel, Arriva, Balfour Beatty, Capita, Costain, Design Council, DIO, Entrust, Galliford Try, Highways England, Ikea, Keepmoat, npower and Tarmac.

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Gary Pettite

Gary Pettite

MBA MSC

P3M Advisory

Operations Optimisation

Productivity Coach

K2i Ltd.

An experienced Project Leader and accredited Coach with over 25 years’ energy sector experience, working effectively in collaboration with industry, clients, PMCs and Tier1 delivery organisations..

Before joining Travivas, Gary completed over 20 years' service with a leading consultancy and project management business where he gained a wealth of technical skills and leadership experience working at different levels in the organisation.

During this time, he was actively involved in the delivery of some of the largest capital investment programmes within the UK, providing increased resilience to client infrastructure across the energy sector.

Customer focused and people centric, Gary is passionate about elevating performance levels and helping individuals, teams and organisations positively succeed.

In 2018 Gary founded K2i Limited with the primary purpose of supporting clients to shape their future, inspiring change and making their world a better place.

K2i is a coaching-led consultancy that uses a combination of industry leadership experience, current research and breakthrough coaching concepts to work with clients to find strategies and solutions to the problems and challenges they face.

The approach offered by K2i provides the necessary expertise, knowledge and focus to enable clients to clearly understand what needs to be done to implement straightforward action-driven solutions, leading to embedded change and long-term personal and business success.

K2i services offered through Travivas include:

P3M Advisory

• Project, Programme and Portfolio Management

• Bid management and support

• Project controls and risk management

• Stage-gate reviews, peer reviews and project sponsorship

• Turnaround and recovery

Optimising Operations

• Process design and capacity configuration

• Performance benchmarking

• Process re-engineering

• Continuous improvement

• Failure prevention & recovery

Productivity coaching

• Helping people, teams and business positively succeed

• Personal coaching to elevate performance levels

• Leadership coaching to make more of a positive impact

• Team coaching to move beyond team building

• Business coaching to improve productivity and performance results

Gary holds an MBA in Business Administration and MSc in Manufacturing, Management & Technology. He has successfully completed the Effective Leadership Programme, and the Project Sponsors Programme at Cranfield School of Management. He is also an active member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (MIET) and the Association of Project Management (APM) and is an accredited coach.

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Adrian Fenton

Adrian Fenton

BSc CEng MIMechE MAPM

Partner and Founder

LordFenton Associates

Adrian founded LordFenton Associates after a long career in senior positions in various sectors. He joined AMEC in 1999 after 11 years with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. Adrian worked as Global Lead Project Function in developing a role as Project Sponsor as part of the CEO’s Operational Excellence programme. He worked in the transport sector in the 1980’s.

In January 2009, Adrian was appointed Head of Project and Programme Management for AMEC Power and Process Europe, which had an annual turnover in excess of £500m and employed over 5000 people.

Adrian has over 30 years experience in project delivery, leading projects in transport, power, infrastructure and oil and gas. He has performed as the leader on major alliance projects delivering major capital investments, as well as performing management of portfolios of smaller projects, together with major business transformational growth work.

His geographic experience includes 2 years in Indonesia working in a Joint Venture with a Japanese contractor to deliver a $2.5bn refining investment, where he was Lead Engineering Manager on three large process units including an 85,000BPD Catalytic Cracking Unit.

As a Head of Project Management in a large business for several years, Adrian has developed experience and provided sustainable growth by:

• Supporting recruitment and retention

• Developing staff and career paths, including developing functional content for the AMEC Academy

• Producing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the business to execute and manage work effectively and profitably

• Leading the governance of projects by carrying out start up and peer reviews

• Developing relationships with customers through internal and external stakeholder management

• Collaborating across the markets and sectors to share best practice

Adrian is a Chartered Engineer with a Diploma in Engineering Management and bachelors degree from Loughborough University. He was the business member representative with the Association for Project Management, and achieved accreditation from the APM for project management development programmes and coaching.

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