Welcome to Brefi Group
Brefi Group is the management development consultancy founded by Richard Winfield in 1983.
We provide an integrated package of strategy consultancy, facilitation, executive coaching and training, designed to improve corporate performance.
Brefi Group online learning and development is provided through ThreeTicks Academy.
“I am Richard Winfield and I would like to welcome you to the Brefi Group. With three decades studying corporate change and talent management internationally, we provide an integrated package of strategy consulting, executive coaching, facilitation and training of the highest quality.
We look forward to discussing how we can help you and your team become more confident, more effective, more quickly.”
Brefi Group was launched in 1983. We are now more than 35 years old and operate internationally, serving new directors and boards, and reviewing corporate governance practices and behaviour.
We provide one to one executive coaching, individual workshops and residential integrated programmes. We also teach coaching.
Our approach is to provide practical hands-on workshops and courses; underwritten by research but easily accessed and applied by busy executives.
We have delivered management and director development workshops for organisations in the USA, UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Clients have included blue chip companies, smaller companies, public sector and third sector; and we provide courses for regional training companies.
We have also worked for many smaller organisations and charities that you might not have heard of. We offer special rates for charities and social enterprises.
We specialise in developing and delivering bespoke programmes in-house. This means that delegates get experience that is directly relevant to their needs and to the context of their work. Learning together also means that there are team building and corporate benefits from a critical mass of managers or directors sharing the same experience and learning the same processes, models and language.
Our programmes are interactive and combine behavioural psychology, executive coaching and management consultancy processes.
Brefi Group live delivery services are supported by the on-line portal ThreeTicks.com, operating 24/7. This enables us to serve clients around the world by making available training materials we have developed for past clients, as well as new materials under continuous development.
These courses and resources are designed at diploma level rather than degree level. They are based on current practice and latest thinking, and designed for practical application.
Since they are multi-media, they are suitable for clients for whom English is not their first language.
Boards of directors providing strategic, moral and ethical leadership to transform the world's economy.
To provide directors, boards and secretaries with products, services, events and information to enable you to make your most effective and satisfying contribution to your organisation and to society.
With the right leadership each and every individual has the potential to achieve more.
As individuals and organisations are aligned and discover their potential, corporate performance improves.
As individuals are aligned and discover their potential, they impact positively on the wider society.
"We approached the exercise with an element of cynicism - after all, we know the business better than others right? How wrong we were. Through careful and thorough pre-meetings and detailed analysis thereafter, Richard brought together the strengths and exposed the weaknesses in the organisation. The resulting clear actions have improved business no end."
Nigel Payne, Chairman, Hangar8
"Thanks for the two days if your valuable assistance and expertise. The structure was most successful and in your quiet and diplomatic way you kept us on track. It was a most worthwhile exercise and we really progressed our strategic thinking."
Kevin Foo, Chairman, Victoria Oil and Gas
“Thank you for facilitating our meeting last week.
It's amazing how much clarity and harmony can be achieved by an hour or so of quality interaction and reflection. Great feedback from the team and raised levels of enthusiasm for new monthly meetings. Neil has already organised the next one in the Midlands. Thanks again for your expert intervention.”
John Skivington, Director, LHC
“Richard was a very capable facilitator who understood the brief that we set. He facilitated from a position of knowledge and experience, but did not impose this on the group; he kept the meeting flowing and managed the time well.”
Ann Bentley, Director and member of global board, Rider Levett Bucknall
“Having an external facilitator enabled people to say the things that concern them that possibly they would not raise normally. Everyone felt listened to and that what they had to say mattered. By agreeing processes/the way forward and having individuals take ownership and others supporting that person in their ownership has really helped move the organisation on.
“It has brought things to the surface, made difficult conversations easier to have and really cleared the air, if not necessarily on the day with all the follow up work that happened after. “Our direction, operationally and strategically is a lot clearer now that we are all singing from the same hymn sheet!
Paula Fowler, Managing Partner, Fisher Jones Greenwood
“This project was well organised with the right mixture of internal and external input. All member feedback has been positive and for the first time we have individual and organisational development plans, which are already being implemented.
“Richard Winfield listened to our requirements and delivered a quality process, which he managed professionally from beginning to end.
“The fact that we have positive feedback from all our members and effective outcomes speaks for itself. A very well managed project.”
Chris Almgill, Chairman, Worcester Community Housing
“Thanks for a stimulating two days, which has resulted in my senior management team reviewing the way they work, plan and implement. The biggest change has been in how they work together as a team! We are now already using 10 minute brainstorming sessions very productively. We are very pleased that a number of important business issues have been identified and already worked upon with the next steps clearly identified. In summary, excellent.”
Roger Randall, Managing Director, Biomet UK.
“Thorough, competent, knowledgeable and an excellent communicator capable of articulating his knowledge in a well paced manner.”
Richard Pearce, Birmingham City Council
"The retreat organised by Oando PLC and facilitated by Richard was extremely professional. The team enjoyed the retreat and followed through actions has changed their behavior. The facilitation style was very easy to follow and interesting. The outcome of the retreat was also used to develop the outline of the Quarterly Management retreat."
'Demola Ogunbajo, Manager, Avaizon Consulting, Nigeria
"Thank you very much for delivering the training for NF Gold team."We enjoyed working with you, and I was personally very happy to see how responsive you were in adjusting the program when required. We went through a lot of material, and I am convinced that the participants will be able to recall and hopefully apply many of the techniques presented in the sessions."
Dejan Popovic, Director, New Frontier Group, Austria
"The day exceeded our expectations and a great deal emerged which will be very valuable going forward. You brought a refreshing and innovative approach to the day and the personality profiling which you did in advance and used to illustrate board behaviours was inspirational."
Peter Maskell, BHSF, UK
Brefi Group Limited
42 Holton Road
Barry CF63 4HD
United Kingdom
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