Turning development insight and advice into more meaningful action.
Creating clearer, more motivating goals. Enhancing core development, productivity and wellbeing competencies. Optimising performance based on skills development data. Building new habits through the latest behavioural science, development techniques, exercises and workshops.
Resolving everyday stresses, reducing anxiety and preparing people for the big challenges, changes and opportunities that lie ahead.
Unlock your talent through more meaningful action.
Unlock your talent through more meaningful action.
We do this by sharpening goals and improving performance across a set of development competencies, which are designed to meet the challenges of an ever-changing, and often anxiety-inducing, world.
Our approach improves ROI by creating more engaged employees, driving higher productivity, building competitive advantage through upskilling and reducing reputational risk.
Our talent development services:
Create clearer, more motivating goals and action plans.
Enhance understanding, knowledge and skills related to our 12 development competencies.
Optimise performance based on ongoing analysis of skills development data.
Build new habits using the latest behavioural science insights, development techniques, hands-on exercises and transformation workshops.
Prepare organisations and employees for macro changes in the workplace, such as the effective integration and everyday use of AI.
Helping organisations and their employees improve their productivity, progress and wellbeing.
Helping organisations and their employees improve their productivity, progress and wellbeing.
We do this by sharpening goals and improving performance across a set of development competencies, which are designed to meet the challenges of an ever-changing, and often anxiety-inducing, world.
Our approach improves ROI by creating more engaged employees, driving higher productivity, building competitive advantage through upskilling and reducing reputational risk.
Our talent development services:
Create clearer, more motivating goals and action plans.
Enhance understanding, knowledge and skills related to our 12 development competencies.
Optimise performance based on ongoing analysis of skills development data.
Build new habits using the latest behavioural science insights, development techniques, hands-on exercises and transformation workshops.
Prepare organisations and employees for macro changes in the workplace, such as the effective integration and everyday use of AI.
Today’s ever-changing world is a uniquely challenging one. We’re facing big, brain-wrangling headwinds such as climate change and the rise of AI. Many individuals are facing more everyday stresses – information overload, disconnection from other people, job insecurity, life uncertainty, unclear goals, low self-confidence. And there are increasing pressures in the workplace – employee churn, skills gaps, low motivation, costs pressures
Our mission is to help individuals, teams and organisations resolve this unique blend of challenges. To unlock their potential. To unlock their talent.
The everyday challenges we face
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The everyday challenges we face
Today’s ever-changing world is a uniquely challenging one. We’re facing big, brain-wrangling headwinds such as climate change and the rise of AI. Many individuals are facing more everyday stresses – information overload, disconnection from other people, job insecurity, life uncertainty, unclear goals, low self-confidence.
And there are increasing pressures in the workplace – employee churn, skills gaps, low motivation, costs pressures
Our mission is to help individuals, teams and organisations resolve this unique blend of challenges. To unlock their potential. To unlock their talent.
Our talent development programmes help people take more meaningful action, focusing on 12 core competencies, which create positive impact and drive sustainable change. These include goal clarity, self-understanding, resilience, empathy, big picture thinking, relationship building, habit development, leadership and change management.
We read, listen to, discuss and synthesise as much of the latest behavioural science, thinking and development techniques as possible – to identify what’s most important to our clients’ needs and goals.
The right ingredients to meet these challenges.
The right ingredients to meet these challenges.
Our talent development workshops and programmes help people take more meaningful action, focusing on 12 core development competencies, which create positive impact and drive sustainable change. These include goal clarity, self-empowerment, resilience, empathy, big picture thinking, habit development, leadership and change management.
To create, manage and deliver our talent development programmes, we use a blend of profiling, coaching, training and habit development techniques.
Profiling to improve understanding. Coaching to explore options and goals. Training to provide new skills. Habit development to sustain positive change and improvement.
Delivered through personal guidance and accessible technology.
Delivered through personal guidance and accessible technology.
To create, manage and deliver our talent development programmes, we use a blend of profiling, coaching, training and habit development techniques.
Profiling to improve understanding. Coaching to explore options and goals. Training to provide new skills. Habit development to sustain positive change and improvement.
We improve organisations’ performance by designing and managing talent development programmes, focused on driving more meaningful action by employees. In a world which is changing more than ever before, our programmes create more alignment, more action and greater flexibility – resulting in a culture which enables both the organisation and its employees to grow.
For organisations: building employee alignment, performance and advocacy.
For organisations: building employee alignment, performance and advocacy.
We improve organisations’ performance by designing and managing talent development programmes, focused on driving more meaningful action by employees. In a world which is changing more than ever before, our programmes create more alignment, more action and greater flexibility – resulting in a culture which enables both the organisation and its employees to grow.
We work with teams to improve alignment, collaboration and performance, by dealing with the challenges posed by today’s working environment. Virtual working. Skills gaps. More change, happening more quickly. Our team development programmes improve motivation and create clarity around goals, ways of working, future skills and training requirements.
For teams: creating alignment, building motivation, optimising performance.
For teams: creating alignment, building motivation, optimising performance.
We work with teams to improve alignment, collaboration and performance, by dealing with the challenges posed by today’s working environment. Virtual working. Skills gaps. More change, happening more quickly. Our team development programmes improve motivation and create clarity around goals, ways of working, future skills and training requirements.
We help individuals better understand their challenges, their motivations and themselves - to define motivating goals, create clear plans, take meaningful action and build the habits that will result in sustained change and self-improvement. Our individual development programmes are tailored to each person’s needs, circumstances and learning styles, drawing on the most relevant topics from our Talent Development Curriculum.
For individuals: defining purpose, prompting action, building habits.
For individuals: defining purpose, prompting action, building habits.
We help individuals better understand their challenges, their motivations and themselves - to define motivating goals, create clear plans, take meaningful action and build the habits that will result in sustained change and self-improvement.
Our individual development programmes are tailored to each person’s needs, circumstances and learning styles, drawing on the most relevant topics from our Talent Development Curriculum.
Regardless of whether we are working with individuals, teams or organisations, we are always trying to build the same competencies, apabilities and qualities.
Resilience, self-belief, clarity, connection, focus…Developing and sustaining these qualities enables people to achieve their goals and live a more rewarding life.
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What we build together.
Regardless of whether we are working with individuals, teams or organisations, we are always trying to build the same competencies, capabilities and qualities.
Resilience, self-belief, clarity, connection, focus…Developing and sustaining these qualities enables people to achieve their goals and live a more rewarding life.
What we build together.
Meet Iain.
I am the founder of What Now? What Next? As a qualified coach and skilled transformation consultant, I have over 30 years’ of hands-on experience helping organisations, teams and individuals work better - understanding what to change, how to change it and making the change stick.
I’ve worked in marketing communications, business consulting, start-up management, data, technology and AI - including some time running my own company. These roles spanned a variety of organisations, including multinationals, start-ups, tech companies, consulting firms, marketing agencies and media/entertainment companies.
Meet Iain.
I am the founder of What Now? What Next? As a qualified coach and skilled transformation consultant, I have over 30 years’ of hands-on experience helping organisations, teams and individuals work better - understanding what to change, how to change it and making the change stick.
I’ve worked in marketing communications, business consulting, start-up management, data, technology and AI - including some time running my own company. These roles spanned a variety of organisations, including multinationals, start-ups, tech companies, consulting firms, marketing agencies and media/entertainment companies.
We offer a variety of different Talent Development Programmes to make them as accessible to as many people as possible. Each programme is made up of different services, based on each client’s needs, circumstances and goals.
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Our services.
Our services.
We offer a variety of different Talent Development Programmes to make them as accessible to as many people as possible. Each programme is made up of different services, based on each client’s needs, circumstances and goals.
“I am so delighted that I was introduced to Iain when I was - at a critical point in my career and a pivotal point for my self-esteem.
Over the period we worked together, I have changed my thought processes. I feel more confident to have difficult conversations and I am in a place I really didn’t think I could be in – a good place!
Iain really helped me get to the crux of the problems I am faced with and to figure a way around them, over them or through them.”
“I am so delighted that I was introduced to Iain when I was - at a critical point in my career and a pivotal point for my self-esteem.
Over the period we have been working together, I have changed my thought processes. I feel more confident to have difficult conversations and I am in a place I really didn’t think I could be in – a good place!
Iain really helped me get to the crux of the problems I am faced with and helps me figure a way around them, over them or through them.”
— Recent client.
To book an introductory chat, or find out more, email hello@whatnowwhatnext.co.uk.
In that chat, we’ll discuss a little about what you want to achieve and your current circumstances. It’s a chance for us to get to know each other, see how we get on and share some initial thoughts on how we might work together.
Get in touch.
To book an introductory chat, or find out more, email hello@whatnowwhatnext.co.uk.
In that chat, we’ll discuss a little about what you want to achieve and your current circumstances. It’s a chance for us to get to know each other, see how we get on and share some initial thoughts on how we might work together.