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Roffey Park Institute – An international, independent voice in the world of work Roffey Park’s CEO – Dr Robert Coles – recently won CEO of the Year with CEO Monthly. Having been the CEO that is pulling the Institute through the tumult of Covid-19, he has proven his diligence and professional acumen in meeting the challenges presented to him and is excited to welcome more clients in through the Institute’s doors in the future to continue providing expert business education. Roffey Park Institute, based in Horsham, provides a blend of digital and face-to-face learning underpinned by 75 years of research and practice, provides business education for individuals, teams, and organisations, focused on developing sustainable, healthy work cultures. From leadership and management development, organisational development and HR, executive team coaching, change and resilience, and organisational learning, Roffey Park Institute has continued to work with and enable its clients during the pandemic crisis. After all, during its founding, the world was handling the tail end of World War 2. Fundamentally, this saw its first few years being focused on working with returning war veterans and civilian factory workers and had to assimilate themselves once again into a normal, peaceful working world. Roffey Park became the centre of excellence in helping these people manage and overcome PTSD and stress, enabling them to lead successful, active working lives, emboldened by the constant support of Roffey Park Institute and its outstanding staff. The empathy, sensitivity, and client-first mentality that was developed in those early years has remained central to the values of the organisation and in the 1980s, it used this beating heart to fuel its transition into a management school
Roffey Park Institute is often a client or learner’s stepping-stone towards reaching their next big milestone
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that develops leaders, managers, teams, and organisations to find better ways of working together in a changing, dynamic world. It accomplishes this through its suite of executive education offering, including short courses, tailored programmes, and post-graduate mid-career post- graduate qualifications, as well as OD consulting services. Moreover, being an educational charity, it is one of the last WW2 executive skills schools that remains entirely independent, working with clients from the UK, Europe, and Asia, as well as the wider Asia-Pacific region. With offices in Ireland and Singapore, it takes pride in being able to respond to client needs and priorities quickly and effectively. With clients across a myriad of sectors, its programmes have aided individual learners, corporations, mid-size organisations, charities, and social organisations to change and grow. Attracting learners from all over the world to its
