Jeremy Francis, Managing Director

Jeremy Francis has worked in human resource development for over twenty five years.

From a background of human resource management within British and American banks, in 1982 he became a self-employed human resource consultant and in 1985 he founded Rhema Consultants Ltd – later Rhema Group - with a company name derived from the Greek word Rhema meaning inspired word. His goal was, and remains, that of creating and delivering very specific, tailored solutions to meet the needs of its clients in the areas of Management Development, Performance Management, Sales Force Development, and Skills Development.

He built a roster of over 40 consultants in the UK, and Rhema can now deliver a global service through and with 15 International Partners via their offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Sydney, Johannesburg, Brussels, Paris, Milan, Dusseldorf, Madrid, Lisbon, Prague, Warsaw, Vilnius and Copenhagen.

Fulfilling Jeremy’s vision, Rhema now provides an expert resource in support of learning and development functions– all on a 24/7 basis – in 10 languages to clients in 20 countries. Through its networks and a global community of people development professionals, Rhema has identified and linked with proven best practitioners in each region. A “flexible logistics” approach enables these partnerships to channel Rhema training programmes, diagnostics, learning materials and software to clients (Rhema’s or their own) with local cultural adjustments as well as precise language translations where appropriate.

Global companies are therefore offered extremely rapid roll-out in all their territories of any centrally–mandated training or people development programme, with consistency of content and quality plus uniformity of messages – as well as cost effectiveness and ease of management.

The best of original products from international partners are also used and distributed by Rhema in the UK.

Jeremy and his team of directors and consultants have also built and impressive Client list including multinationals Microsoft, The BOC Group, Royal Bank of Canada, Société Générale and Reed Business Information; leading Dutch vendor lease organisation De Lage Landen; and UK companies including Transport for London, Oxford University Press and an increasing list of Banks/financial services companies and legal firms.

Jeremy's main involvement with organisations is at Chief Executive and Senior Executive levels, providing both consultancy and advice on human resource development and the management of change. His very practical approach to the development of people has enabled him to make a significant impact on organisations and the behavioural changes they wish to effect in their people.

E-mail jeremy@rhemagroup.com