{"id":74,"date":"2025-11-24T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/mesmerize\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:22:39","slug":"mesmerize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-1\" class=\"content-12 content-section content-section-spacing\" style=\"background-color: #f5fafd;\" data-label=\"Content\" data-id=\"content--1\" data-export-id=\"content-12\" data-category=\"content\">\n<div class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div class=\"row text-center\">\n<div class=\"section-title-col\" data-type=\"column\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" title=\"Artwork\" src=\"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-image001-2-e1764002325154.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following an international career based in Europe, Singapore and then the USA with global responsibility for a US international company (NYSE SXT), in 2008, Ralph Pickles returned to the UK and founded Helmsway Ltd to provide non-executive services to companies supporting on strategy and execution (Compass and Clock)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is currently on the Boards of Polyphotonix (Noctura.com \u2013 therapy for diabetic eye disease); Sapient Sensors (Instant local analysis\/diagnosis); Tees River Users Trust (Water based sports); and Outwood Grange Academies Trust (30,000 students in 42 schools).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is also Vice-Chair of the Institute of Directors, Yorkshire and NE, and a recent member of The King\u2019s Trust NE Development Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After delivering coaching activities in various organisations, he has compiled those thoughts into a book- \u201cWinning Leadership\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Winning Leadership is available at no charge if accompanied by a contribution of \u00a320 (or more) to the King\u2019s Trust Achieve Program in the NE \u2013 successfully building resilience and employability skills in young people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Currently 1 in 7 young people in the UK is unemployed and many lack the confidence and basic skills needed to win and hold down a job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Target \u00a310,000 for Achieve \u2013 \u201cTake a book \u2013 Change a life!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row center-xs middle-xs\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-9\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-type=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an international career based in Europe, Singapore and then the USA with global responsibility for a US international company (NYSE SXT), in 2008, Ralph Pickles returned to the UK and founded Helmsway Ltd to provide non-executive services to companies supporting on strategy and execution (Compass and Clock) He is currently on the Boards of&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/homepage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmsway.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}