About Me

Yvette Elcock - Director

Yvette has had a career in people development spanning over 25 years. She believes that personal development is critical for delivering high performance business results and as such, her strong commercial acumen and business understanding enables her to put personal development in a business context. This gives her style some edge. She strives to build and sustain strong, trusting relationships with her team and clients which she considers essential to Moonraker Development helping clients achieve their successes.

Before founding Moonraker Development, she held a variety of training, development and consulting roles and also spent time as an HR Director. Her early career roles were eclectic in that she held sales roles in a variety of different fields including agriculture and line management roles in leisure and department store retailing. Her mid-career included senior international roles working in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the US in communications and management development. She currently travels to Europe and Africa on regular assignments.

She studied Business Studies and is a registered practitioner of Myers Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO-B, Strengths Deployment Inventory, OPQ, and Level B Occupational Tests and holds a licence to use The Influencing Spectrum Model from SRS – The Development Team Limited. She has recently become a Trained Facilitator for the Leadership Challenge from the work of Kouzes and Posner and has also undertaken continuous professional development in Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Resilience coaching. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and trained as a Coach Supervisor with the Coaching Supervision Academy.

Yvette and Moonraker Development are in Gweek, Cornwall not too far from her Wiltshire roots. She is a keen gardener and loves the Cornish ‘vibe’!