The Team
David Hewitt
Director
With 15+ years experience as PLC director and 25+ years in the IT industry, David brings a wealth of experience, business acumen and pragmatism to his consultancy assignments. As an experienced general manager, David can coach and mentor at all levels of the sales structure. A natural motivator and team-player, he shares responsibility for client objectives and generates drive and enthusiasm in the people he works with.
Gill Barstow
Director
With more than 20 years experience in people development, account management and managing change, Gill acts as the main architect of our development programmes. Her passion is in engaging hearts and minds through coaching and facilitating training sessions, and she also uses best practice standards in evaluating the results. Clients appreciate her combination of business experience and insightful thinking with the people skills it takes to make things happen.
Helen Chilvers
Director
Helen has 20 years experience working as a performance development specialist, facilitator, coach and change manager at both individual and organisational development level. Her pragmatic, commercial approach combined with honesty and a great sense of fun, generates a high level of personal responsibility and draws out the innate creativity and resources within people to bring about excellent results with greater ease and speed.
Steve Shutts
Director
Steve is widely recognised as a great facilitator of progress in a range of challenging business scenarios. As a trained and experienced marketer he combines a sound commercial appreciation with a clear and objective focus on enabling effective communication; a skill that has been applied with technologists, bankers, retailers, power station managers and car dealers, in the UK and internationally. Steve plays a major role with our clients in developing compelling propositions.
Julie McCann
Associate Partner
Julie has 25 years international business experience in a wide range of markets, and 12 years successful track record as Board Director, responsible for strategic business development, sales, marketing and client services. She is a qualified change strategist, facilitator and executive coach with excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills. She works primarily with Directors, Senior Managers and Sales Professionals to assist them to improve personal performance.
Neil Fletcher
Business Development Manager
With more than 15 years experience in both delivering and advising on direct marketing, Neil's role in our team is to identify organisations that could benefit from Orbit's experience, open up a conversation with the people who need to know about what we do and explore where we could help to improve their business. He can also assist our clients directly with issues such as lead generation, telephone marketing and copywriting.