Our Senior Team
Barry Bailey
The owner of Mobile Team Challenge (Europe) and has 35 years experience in building and leading teams to achieving great success. His expertise in leadership and management have been utilized by companies all over the world ranging from SME’s to International, Blue-Chip empires as well as the RAF, Army, Navy and HMP. Barry is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.
A graduate of Ashridge Management College and London Business School, Barry has successfully “walked the talk” and led International Teams and organisations to peak performance. He worked for global conglomerate 3M for 25 years and as European Vice President of 3M’s Electronics Division he built a $500m business from a base of $12m. It was during this time that Barry’s close relationship with Disney was formed and he was thrilled to get a personal insight into Disney’s Service Excellence principles. Barry is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM), a Master NLP Practitioner, Myers Briggs (Type I, II and Team) Practitioner, a member of the British Psychological Society delivering Emotional Intelligence Profiling to individuals and teams, a qualified Life and Business Coach. As a qualified Lean / Six Sigma Practitioner, he is frequently quoted as being “inspirational and fun” in his unique experiential delivery style.
“Unleash the Potential of Your People” is the Mobile Team Challenge strap line and is also Barry’s mission in life!
Lee Layton-Matthews
Learning and Development Director
Lee is a highly experienced, learning and development facilitation specialist with a wide range of experience in numerous sectors and in a number of countries. After completing military service in South Africa he worked with various NGO’s (Non-governmental organisations) mediating and working with aids orphans and street children in combatting the widespread HIV epidemic.
Lee has also worked on social development projects for NGO’s in Zambia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. His involvement in these countries ranges from training leadership, entrepreneurial skills and self-development and implementing sustainable community projects.
Lee has also been significantly involved in youth work over the years and has facilitated outdoors activities for the past 10 years and is a qualified Archery, Air Rifle, Climbing, Mountain Boarding and Mountain Biking instructor. His work with young people, especially disaffected young people, helped grow one of the largest youth works in the country. He is a qualified youth worker, has a diploma in theology and he has also recently qualified as a hypnotherapist through the National Hypnotherapy Council.
Lee utilises his vast experience in Leadership and Emotional Intelligence when working within the public and private sectors in the UK. As a Master Practitioner in facilitating training interventions, Lee is currently delivering Leadership, Team Building, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution, Change Management and many “behavioural and attitudinal change programmes” across all sectors with clients such as the RAF, NHS, BUPA, HMP, Group 4 Security, Siemens and Lotus F1 team to name a few.
Lee has a passion for developing people and helping them realise their true potential.
MTC Facilitators’ Accreditations / Qualifications
- Emotional Intelligence – British Psychological Society
- Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management
- Fellow of the Institute of sales and Marketing
- London Business School and Ashridge Trained
- Experience as European Vice President of Global Corporate Electronics and Telecoms Business responsible for a $.5bn business
- Lean / Six Sigma – Champion / Master Black Belt
- NLP Master Practitioner
- Accredited as UKRLP Registered Learning Provider
- ILM Level 7 Leadership
- Business / Career / Executive / Leadership / Senior Leadership Team Coaching – ICF, EMCC, ILM Level 7
- Myers Briggs – Master Practitioner
- Blanchard – Hersey Situational Leadership Practitioner
- Patrick Lencioni’s – The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team – Master Practitioner
- Thomas & Kilmann Conflict Style Practitioner
- Edward DeBono – Six Thinking Hats Master Practitioner
- Stephen Covey’s – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective; People, Teams & Leaders Master Practitioner
- Strategic and Business Consultancy – CMI Accredited
- All Workshops are CPD Accredited
- DBS Safeguarding Checks in place for all Facilitators
