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.
Paul Edgeley
Paul is an IT professional working at CEO level who has been involved in the industry since 1972. In that time he has been running successful businesses, the last one being Lynx Technology, which was sold to BT Business in 2007 having been at the helm for over three decades.
His achievements have been built on engineering smart management teams who are empowered to deliver strong results based on achievable targets. His "light touch" approach means that the teams have to be led by capable managers/directors who thrive on results driven environments.
Since the sale of Lynx to BT he has taken up a small number of Chairman and Non-Exec roles within the IT sector assisting them in their growth and exit plans.
Helen Chilvers
Helen has over 19 years’ performance development experience for blue chip and SMEs. In addition, she has over 12 years as senior manager and Director at the ‘rock-face’ in marketing, operations and HR. Her client work focuses on improving business performance and leadership across sales, service, IT, HR and Finance operations. Helen brings a pragmatic, commercial approach whilst generating personal responsibility and inspirational development of capability. She focuses on drawing out the innate creativity and resources within people to bring about excellent results with more ease and speed.
She is committed to excellence and passionate about the link between leadership development and effective change management with organisational success; creating an environment for people to thrive and achieve outstanding business outcomes. She relishes challenging projects and generates trusting, highly productive and enjoyable working relationships and learning environments.
William Galton
Based on a solid 20+ years of experience in customer management environments, William designs, implements, manages and delivers a variety of organisational and training initiatives with the Orbit team.
William’s skills are particularly strong in telephone based environments and he has undertaken work both nationally and internationally (e.g. South Africa, Portugal and Bahrain). He has masses of ‘on the floor’ experience including account management , direct and telephone marketing, copy writing and coaching/team leading, and market research. He holds an MSc in change management and a qualification in performance coaching programmes. His programmes are enjoyable, whilst purposeful and make a lasting difference to both the individual and the organisation results.
Jonathan Edgeley
With over 15+ years working for channel partner's as a new business sales and marketing specialist Jonathan has gained valuable knowledge and experience in developing innovative go to market strategies for client operating in the IT sector.
Jonathan embraces social media and has his finger on the pulse of new and emerging online marketing services. His expertise in formulating high visibility social media marketing campaigns that stimulate the imagination of a clients target market positions him well as our head of marketing.
Having the ability to understand a clients business and target market is critical, this skill and fresh thinking provides a new dimension to the way a business market themselves and has proved a success with new and existing clients.
