About Alan Humphries
Alan Humphries is an experienced leadership development consultant who helps leaders and teams to ‘step-up’ and make major breakthroughs. He is a core member of the SRA team.
In my work I help leaders and teams to go beyond the familiar. This step-up includes helping leaders to make more impact, build extraordinary teams and/or drive their organisations forward.
You can count on me to bring a passion for developing people and I’m especially intrigued both by what people want and by what holds them back. I work with energy, compassion and pragmatism and I love working ‘live’ with leaders and teams - generating powerful dialogues to explore where they are now and the future they want to create.
My home and my roots are in South Manchester where I live with my wife. Our children have flown the nest, one fortunately living close by while the other is seeking fame and fortune in London. Away from my work and given the chance you will find me outdoors playing tennis, walking a few Lakeland Fells or skiing. You might even ask me about what it was like to cycle the Pacific Coast Highway from Canada to Mexico – a six week marathon that I took on in 2009 and which certainly got me fit.
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21 November 2011
In this post Alan Humphries highlights the importance of engaging in and enjoying an activity which in the past he grudgingly complied with. In my boyhood, weekends were characterised by two things. Firstly, playing sport at school on Saturday mornings and second by my father climbing into his blue boiler suit and then working constantly [...]
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10 January 2011
I was reminiscing with my sister the other evening about memorable experiences in our lives. Irene trained as a nurse in one of the major London teaching hospitals. She was assigned to each of the various major departments i.e. A&E, gynaecology, paediatrics etc. On arrival she would usually find lengthy waiting lines full of morose [...]
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9 August 2010
Terry always seems to be at the gym no matter what time of day I show up. He came fourth place in the over 65′s World Triathlon Championships in Vancouver last year. A few months ago we were on adjacent machines and I asked him about how often he goes to the gym. “Well last [...]
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4 May 2010
Wilf is a site postman. He delivers the mail to all departments every morning on a large HQ and manufacturing site. And he does so with a smile and a greeting that cheers everyone up – every morning without exception. At a recent company dinner – to the delight of everyone – Wilf received the [...]
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22 February 2010
One of the concepts I struggled with when I started consulting was that of context. I sort of understood it but wondered why it was so important. Help came when I recognised that it’s all about what shapes our mindset and behaviour. Let me explain. Take the case of a Brand Manager who, like me, [...]
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7 December 2009
One of the questions that leaders frequently ask me is: ‘How do you know if FED is working?’ And it’s a really good question that leaders across organisations seek to answer. Many of them choose questionnaires and employee surveys to get feedback on the shifts they hope are occurring. But there’s a more immediate way [...]
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