Rosie Tomkins
Co-founder of Natural Capital Consultants Ltd
Undoubtedly Rosie’s greatest gift to the business arena, is her entrepreneurial flair and creative leadership skills. She started her own lifestyle company in 1989, which she successfully led as Managing Director for over 10 years. It offered adventure, sporting breaks and specialist holidays to both high-worth individuals and corporate clients.
Rosie then researched and pro-actively targeted likely buyers, with the positive outcome of negotiating the sale of her business to one of the UK’s fastest moving and dynamic PLC’s. She was subsequently invited to join the board of directors and launched an innovative range of products nationwide to over 120,000 members across 42 health clubs.
Throughout her career Rosie has amassed a comprehensive knowledge of learning philosophies, technologies as well as experiencing the practical implementation. Throughout her busy career and family life, Rosie has always had a life-long love of horses, and plays competitive Polo. It was from the fusion of these two worlds that the idea for “Natural Capital” germinated. Her curiosity led her to investigate how horses could assist people to be better leaders in the business arena and in their own personal lives. This extensive knowledge of horses and entrepreneurial skill makes Natural Capital a unique offering, and is truly life-changing for people from all walks of life.
Joe Constant
Co-founder of Natural Capital Consultants Ltd
Co-founder of Natural Capital Consultants Ltd Joe is a Business Consultant specialising in examining the culture and values of an organisation and how these influence every aspect of business. Whilst traditional business consultancy focuses on the financial capital of an organisation, Joe is one of a growing band of experts who believe that this is not enough. For an organisation to function at an optimum level one must also focus on the cultural, emotional and spiritual capital of the organisation. This is what Joe calls the “natural” capital of the organisation. Only by including all capitals can the leaders of organisations in the 21st century fully engage high performing employees who are loyal and who are able to find meaning and purpose in what they do, as there is an alignment between the organisation goals and mission and the values of the individual. By measuring and understanding the corporate culture can managers see where there is any alignment or misalignment between the organisation values and the values most important to the employees. Having this information will lead to attracting and retaining the best people and increasing the creativity and productivity of staff.
Previously Joe has gained over 15 years experience in management, successfully leading teams responsible for up to 2000 people in some of the major multi million pounds blue chip companies. Joe later changed careers to become a South West regional trainer of one of the leading training company in the UK. Using his experienced gained here in the UK and abroad; Joe later went on to become a lecture on leadership and management at Colleges in Bristol. During this period, Joe also qualified as an inspector of training and quality for one of the leading training and award bodies (OCR) whilst developing new methods of delivery of work-based learning meeting government and QCA new initiatives and directions.