What our clients say about us

What our clients say about us
 
"Working with Banana Park enabled our team to find a new level in being productively honest with each other. They brought a great combination of business sharpness with smooth facilitation and lively humour whilst being seriously focussed."
 
Richard Lynch, Partner, SA Partners LLP
 
 
"I have worked with Banana Park over the last four years - they have helped us to shape our customer focused vision and strategy. They combine clear strategic thinking with a solid process to bring the best out of our management teams."
 
Simon Grantham, Chief Executive, Miele.
 
 
"Banana Park has been instrumental in supporting a paradigm shift in how clinical services are led and delivered in Hampshire Community Health Care. Ranging from running a comprehensive leadership development programme to equip our clinical managers to lead their teams to executive coaching with the executive team, they have been instrumental in deriving demonstrable performance improvement and cultural change in the organisation. The organisation has been transformed in the last 2 years and Banana Park have been part of it’s success. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them in the future, their skills in working with organisations, teams and individuals to optimise performance and behaviour is unique."
 
Katrina Percy, Chief Executive, Hampshire Community Health Care.
 
 
"Your coaching and advice to me over the years have been invaluable – always incisive and supportive."
 
Nick Todd, past Director Axa Insurance.
 
 
"The process of working through potential approaches to internal organisational development can be tedious and unrewarding without the right input and support.  Banana Park have always managed to create an atmosphere of challenege whilst at the same time making the process enjoyable and the product of value."
 
David Sowden, Dean Director, East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery.
 
 
"One of the biggest barriers to growth is when management teams do not have common goals or work together effectively.  I have found Banana Park to provide exceptional value by unlocking management potential through their Boardroom programmes.  The end result has been a more unified and confident Board which has had a direct effect on the bottom line."
 
Don Elgie, Chief Executive, Creston plc.
 
 
"Finding Banana Park Consulting was a refreshing, inspiring and liberating experience. I learnt to think and act differently with greater confidence in some very challenging circumstances. Through their vast knowledge, experience and skilful handling I became more adept in leading and managing my organisation that produced noticeable benefits and encouraged my senior team to adopt new ways of working. Looking back, I can really appreciate the value they gave which has had a truly lasting effect."
 
Elaine Best, past Chief Executive, East Surrey NHS Primary Care Trust, now 
Programme Director for the NHS Surrey on Transforming Community Care.
 
 
"We like to think of ourselves as having a very progressive mould-breaking organisational model, so when we needed to expand and deepen the organisation in response to continuing growth we were determined to preserve the best aspects of it, and to avoid introducing negative behaviours and unwanted bureaucracy.  Banana Park respended to this with a sensitive yet challenging process for developing the right model for the future. The emphasis that they put on understanding our people and working with them to drive behavioural and organisational change undoubtedly contributed to a very successful outcome."
 
Chris Joly, Exploration and Production Director, The Vitol Group
 
 
"Chris and David have developed their change management work and support to make a real difference to our team and the way we manage our business.  They build the right relationships with our teams to deliver real tangible improvements."
 
Lee Soden, Director of Facilities Management,
Canterbury Christ Church University.
 
 
"David is a tremendous business consultant, confident yet sensitive to all the aspects of a business situation.  Exceptionally perceptive and passionate about companies and brands, David works very well in a strategic team to help make things happen in an efficient yet subtle manner.  I really enjoy working with him and recommend him wholeheartedly."
 
Kathering Passerieu, Director, forward thinking inc
 
 
"Organisational development and enhancing performance in the NHS is complex and often fraut with difficulty. Banana Park have provided not only an extremely knowledgable input to our OD thinking, but they have  supported us with tailormade solutions that allow a flexibility of approach that has been invaluable."
 
Alexis Hutson, OD Lead, East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery.
 
 
"David and Chris manage to diagnose your development needs and then bring their expertise to bear in a way that is professional but with a warm and empathetic approach that enhances the learning experience and guarantees success"
 
Denise Farmer, Director of Organisational Development and
Leadership, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust