Jon Riley

 

Job title & Responsibilities
Senior Consultant with Impact which means that I get to work with people from the full range of Impacts participant groups, from “shop floor” to senior management level, my focus is on high quality delivery and facilitation, pre and post programme coaching calls, programme design and client management.

Your best day at Impact (so far...)?
Working really hard with a graduate group from KPMG in Romania at an orphanage and seeing the children’s faces as they came back after a weekend to see there play area painted with amazing artwork. Not a dry eye in the house!

How do you deal with stress?
Painstakingly dismantle my motorbike “Emily”, clean every part and reassemble, stand back and admire for an hour or so … simple!

What makes Impact a great place to work for you?
Anywhere you can have this much fun, meet as many diverse thinking colleagues and work all over the world with interesting people has to be a desirable workplace.

Your heroes include...?
James Dean Bradfield, Steve McQueen, my Dad

Favorite line from a film?
“It's been emotional” – Vinnie Jones, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Who makes you laugh?
My Fiancé, Eddie Izzard, Frankie Boyle, Ricky Gervais and Lu Bound

Last journey you took?
Emotional journey – 5 Day detox Thailand in the new year
Physical journey – Chiang Mai to Pai on a rattly old CB400, my fiancé riding pillion wearing tupperware pots for helmets and shorts on jungle mountain roads – focuses the mind.

Favorite place?
Gordlae Scar and Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales where I first found a love for the countryside

3 people you’d have dinner with (dead or alive)?
My Great Grandfather - Albert, Ernest Shackleton and Joey Dunlop