Andrew Deighton

Andrew Deighton has significant people, team and organisation development, change and talent management experience. This was developed through working for Rolls-Royce plc for 26 years in roles across Aerospace, Naval and Commercial Marine, and Manufacturing sectors and also in corporate positions. He spent over four years based in Singapore. Following an initial career as an engineer, Andrew moved into HR and development roles. He’s led the HR workstream on a £40m new manufacturing facility build, he’s been the Head of Employee Development for a 7,000 people Marine business and the Head of Early Career Pipeline in a business recruiting over 1,000 trainees a year. He led the early career strategy and activities, including education outreach, attraction and recruitment, and school leaver, apprenticeships and graduate development programmes. Andrew has had international experience as the HR Director for a £600m turnover, 2,000 people global services business based in Singapore (for four years) and has an in-depth understanding of working with UK, US, Asian and Nordic teams and cultures. He developed the executive recruitment, development, succession planning and reward strategy and processes in a three company joint venture team bidding for a £7bn nuclear decommissioning contract. Andrew set up his own business, AWD Development Solutions Ltd. in April 2014 so he could focus on the areas of work he is passionate about - developing people and teams so they can grow their business. He has delivered training, workshops, coaching and talks to a broad range of businesses and organisations at different stages in their growth lifecycle and of differing sizes. Andrew’s particular focus is on team building and team member and leader development. He’s created a practical team development framework and has published ‘The Exceptional Team Blueprint™’ book on Amazon. Andrew delivers workshops and careers talks in primary and secondary schools with the Inspiring the Future organisation and the Our Future Derby initiative. He’s a voluntary mentor for students, a supporter of University of Derby Business School events, and a Trustee of the DHA charity in Derby. Andrew is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Professional Speaking Association where he is this year's Regional President for the Staffordshire region. Find out more and connect with Andrew at https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdeighton