BUSINESS leaders worldwide are learning vital skills from a former RAF squadron leader and high-risk diver from Malmesbury.

Entrepreneur Gareth Lock is applying skills that he learned during a 25 year career in the air force to teach business leaders how to perform better.

 

Gareth Lock uses his experience in high-stress environments to teach business leaders

And during his spare time he uses his knowledge of human behaviour in exceptional conditions to work with extreme divers.

Gareth’s company, Human In The System, uses academic theory and simulation programmes developed for high-risk industries to help people understand each other’s behaviour in the business world.

 

The former squadron leader travels internationally with his work

“The skills I am teaching help people deal with uncertainty and complexity,” Gareth said.

“Whilst in diving this can mean the difference between life and death, in business it means developing an understanding of people’s behaviour.

“The corporate environment can be extremely stressful too, and I use my extensive military and high-risk diving experience to help people work in those situations too.”

Shortly Gareth is heading off to Lisbon to work with a project management team to help them become better leaders and work better under pressure.

 

Gareth speaks about his approach at professional events all over the world

Then, this autumn, he is travelling to Mexico to help a team of deep cave explorers with their non-technical skills – something which can get missed when a team are learning technical and functional skills that can be a matter of life or death.

“Learning technical skills is one thing – however learning how to work as a team, to cope under stress and to react when things go wrong unexpectedly, is of vital importance in keeping each other safe.

A sought after expert in his field Gareth will travel to Los Angeles to lead a one-day forum on human factors in scientific diving as part of a larger event by the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.

 

The Malmesbury extreme-diver also helps dive teams to work together in stressful situations