Purpose-driven comms consultancy Second Mountain is supporting a leadership development business with its ambitious expansion as it looks to build on a reputation for excellence achieved over nearly 25 years.
Resilient Leaders Elements (RLE) believes everyone can be a leader and is deserving of world-class leadership development.
It directly supports individuals at all levels of their careers to develop the confidence and capability to lead themselves and others though increasingly uncertain times.
Pictured: Ben Veal of Second Mountain, left, with RLE’s Rachel McGill and Richard Greatorex
Since it was founded in 2000 by Rachel McGill and Dr Jeremy Mead, its Resilient Leaders Development Programme has helped thousands of professionals across the UK and beyond to grow and thrive.
As it gears up for significant growth, it has appointed Second Mountain to drive forward its media strategy, with a focus on heightening brand awareness across multiple channels to reach a far wider pool of professionals in multiple sectors.
Both firms are based at Glove Factory Studios in Holt, near Bradford on Avon.
Rachel now leads the team as CEO alongside Richard Greatorex, commercial and marketing director, and creative and innovation director Nina Dannan.
Rachel, who served as an Army officer and made history as part of the three-woman team that broke the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe in a car, has almost 30 years’ leadership development experience and specialises in the development of resilience in leaders and the tools they need to succeed.
Under her leadership, RLE’s courses have now helped thousands of people through training on pragmatic approaches to leadership development.
She said it was during times of uncertainty when resilience mattered more than ever.
“Our world has certainly experienced more than its fair share of uncertainty in recent years, and with the next societal or economic crisis always just around the corner, building resilient leadership skills is essential to moving forward with purpose and achieving goals, whatever happens,” she added.
“Empowering future resilient leaders has been the mission of RLE ever since we first founded the business — and through our new partnership with Second Mountain, we are focused on building the strongest global community of incredible leaders possible.”
RLE commercial and marketing director Richard Greatorex said: “Second Mountain has a proven track record of helping organisations to communicate in engaging ways with the right audiences in a highly-focused, purpose-driven fashion — and is now joining with us to help our very clear future direction become a reality.”
Second Mountain Comms was launched by CIPR Chartered PR Practitioner, content creator and by Ben Veal during the 2020 pandemic with the aim of helping good people do good.
Ben also runs and hosts Good Journeys with Ben Veal, the Creative Bath award-winning podcast and YouTube show that has partnered with RLE since 2023 to share purposeful conversations with inspiring guests.
