LMI UK : Mark Tonks on His 21-Year Path From LMI Client to Partner

This LMI UK testimonial captures partner Mark Tonks, a 21-year veteran of the LMI network, describing the path that took him from LMI client to LMI partner. Mark's first encounter with the brand came when he was running another business and used LMI as a supplier for the development of his own people and for his own self-development. He liked the experience enough that when the partnership opportunity arose, he joined the organisation and, in his words, has never looked back.

The testimonial speaks to both sides of the LMI delivery role. Mark says he enjoys the delivery of the programmes; the actual facilitation work with cohorts inside client organisations. He also enjoys the sales side of the role: the conversation with prospective clients about what the programmes will do for their people. He frames the satisfaction of the role in terms of the change he sees in participants, both professionally and (in his words) probably more importantly, personally, the home-life dimension of the behaviour-change work landing alongside the workplace dimension.

The combination of a proven curriculum, a recurring delivery rhythm with client organisations, and the personal-development satisfaction that comes from facilitating cohorts is a fairly distinctive offer in the franchise-services category, and Mark's 21-year tenure inside the network is a useful tenure-and-retention data point.

LMI UK is the British arm of Leadership Management International, a global personal-and-organisational-development franchise active in more than 70 countries. Partners run defined territories with a proven curriculum, peer-support across the UK partner network and an established corporate-client track record.