About Us
Our purpose is to inspire and empower individuals, teams, and organisations to achieve sustainable growth, foster a culture of excellence, and lead with confidence in dynamic and complex environments, through our corporate training programmes.
Our Values
INTEGRITY
We strive to live up to our reputation as reliable, trustworthy, honest and authentic professionals who take responsibility and are accountable for our action.
DILIGENCE
Always determined, energetic and meticulous in all of our work.
RESPECT
This is simple. Respect for others, treat people as you expect to be treated yourself.
COURAGE
When in doubt or fearful, act through deliberation and careful thought.
Our Team
Our Founder
Daniel Neil is a professional Leadership Development Facilitator, Trainer and Operations Manager with a wealth of experience. Daniel’s experience comes from a full 25-year career within the Royal Artillery, British Army, attaining the rank of Warrant Officer, and serving operationally in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and with the United Nations in Cyprus in a Humanitarian role. During his career he was responsible for the design and delivery of soldiers’ career progression technical trade courses and Junior Non-Commissioned Officers leadership development for promotion programmes. During a resettlement period Daniel studied for, and achieved, a level 4 Adult education teaching certificate with City and Guilds and a Diploma in Administrative Management with the Institute for Administrative management.
On leaving the Army, Daniel’s second career continued in a similar vein, lecturing on Public Uniformed course, particularly Communications and Signals, at Gateshead College. Then joining a performance management organisation at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he enjoyed 14 years of successful programme and project management, Leadership and Team Development programme delivery in the UK and internationally. Daniel is a licensed practitioner in a range of psychometric tools such as Insights Discovery, DiSC, Team Performance Scan and MBTI.
A coach with a proven record for the design and delivery of bespoke development courses and for working with teams and individuals from a wide range of high-profile companies and organisations from the public, private, sports and education sectors.
Daniel is also a fitness and nutrition trainer, keen footballer, he enjoys and delivers bootcamp fitness sessions, likes surfing, body boarding, skiing and motorcycling.
Our Associate Consultants
Our team consists of dedicated nutrition and diet coaching professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their health goals. With a focus on personalised support, our experts are here to guide you on your journey towards a healthier lifestyle, through our tailored corporate training programmes.
Emily Edmondson
Emily is an associate consultant with Red on Blue who has 12 years’ worth of experience designing and delivering a broad range of leadership development programmes for audiences ranging from graduates and youth to chief executive level.
Working for a performance management organisation working out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oman, she has delivered programmes to a broad client base, including the financial and government sectors and has delivered programmes across the
globe as well as in the UK.
Emily’s previous work experience was in the legal sector. She is LPC qualified and has a degree in History and Law from the University of the West of England.
Emily is qualified to use the MBTI and the SDI psychometric profiling tools.
Clients appreciate Emily’s energy and enthusiasm when facilitating and her honesty when it comes to giving individual and team feedback. They also appreciate her cultural awareness and ability to appropriately challenge when delivering a global intervention.
Outside of work, Emily is very active and enjoys demanding physical challenges, her latest
being a 54-mile trail ultramarathon.
Martha Foley
Martha is a leadership development consultant and coach with extensive experience leading teams across the public, private, and charity sectors. With a background in policing, including intelligence, covert operations, and high-risk investigations, she brings a strategic and resilient approach to leadership. Martha helps leaders gain clarity, confidence, and impact, delivering coaching and development programmes that drive real-world results.
Mark Byerley
Mark is a dynamic and committed associate consultant specialising in leadership and management development and the design and delivery of impactful training programmes.
Following a distinguished 23-year career in the Royal Artillery, where he gained exceptional leadership, planning, and adaptability skills in high-pressure and dynamic environments, Mark transitioned into a 15-year career in Further Education.
Mark’s passion lies in empowering individuals and organisations. He employs coaching and mentoring approaches to cultivate resilience and foster excellence. With expertise in the delivery of training, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and innovative training design, his solutions are both practical and sustainable. He combines his military and educational experience to deliver exceptional results for RedOnBlue Ltd’s customers.
Richard Mann
Richard is a former Royal Marine (RM) and Special Forces operator who served with the Special Boat Service (SBS). His career in the RM/SBS spanned 14 years with worldwide operational and training experience on numerous conventional and counter terrorism interventions.
Underpinned through the study of psychology and the key drivers of human performance, his unique military experience, and that as a Mental Skills & Peak Performance Coach, enables the professional combination of these skills for development of high performance teams in high pressured environments, and to train elite athletes, teams and business leaders to reach their full potential, so they can perform on demand, under pressure and win.
Tony Borgnis
Tony Borgnis was an Infantry Officer in the Army from 1993 to 2012, he served in a variety of operational theatres, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Afghanistan. During his military career, Tony was also a leadership instructor and trainer at several different postings in the UK, including the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Warminster, Westbury and Shrivenham.
Following his military career, Tony has worked in the simulation and training division of Thales and at Equiniti, promoting quickly to Director level in Group Operations and Transformation & Change respectively.
He took the lead on all things Leadership, including the development and roll out of an Equiniti Leadership model in 2018. Tony brings a vast base of knowledge and experience to the leadership and team development delivery capability of RedOnBlue Leadership in Action Ltd
Nicky Clough
Nicky is an associate consultant with Red on Blue, with over 25 years’ experience in Learning and Development. She is a Chartered Accountant specialising in financial and commercial awareness training and leadership and management skills development.
Nickyis a director of a bespoke training and development consultancy that specialises in financial and commercial awareness and business skills.
Nicky’s key skills are facilitating learning by designing and delivering focused and practical workshops which are stimulating, and as an Executive Coach, is passionate about the use of a coaching style to promote individual development. She is qualified to use a number of psychometric instruments, including MBTI, DiSC and Strengthscope and is an accredited executive coach.
Nicky has a B.Soc.Sc (Economics) from the University of Birmingham, is a Business and Finance Professional, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Zoe Taylor
Zoe has over twenty years’ experience delivering commercial awareness and leadership development programmes for a range of audiences. Clients include professional services firms, accounting bodies, global banks and leading retailers. Zoe has extensive experience helping people and organisations achieve their goals by developing more effective behaviours. She is a qualified coach, Strengthscope and DiSC practitioner and recently completed a PQ programme in Positive Intelligence.
Zoe is a qualified chartered accountant, and trained with PwC after gaining a first-class honours degree in Commerce and French from Birmingham university. Zoe has a track record of operating strategically as MD of a professional education business, and was part of a senior leadership team which led a management buyout and the subsequent integration of a major competitor. She also develops qualifications and assessments for professional bodies in banking and finance.
Zoe is particularly interested in facilitating personal development and change through workshops and experiential programmes. A skilled facilitator, perceptive listener and challenging coach, clients value Zoe’s ability to help individuals and teams understand themselves and their values, address their pre-conceptions, and realise their performance potential. Zoe is also able to leverage her considerable financial skills to help clients understand the commercial impact of their decision-making. She is respected for her ability to build excellent relationships and is credible operating at all levels, from apprentice to senior leader.
In her spare time Zoe works on behalf of bereavement charity Cruse, using her coaching skills as a bereavement support volunteer and a lay member of their Audit and Finance Committee. She also plays golf and padel tennis and is a keen dogwalker.