The team

Steve Bather Director and Founder of Realise

Steve is a Professional Facilitator who specialises in the use of Group Engagement Tools in his client work. He has over 20 years experience working with European and North American organisations and has designed and led over 1200 workshops, meetings and conferences across almost every sector and with international groups.

Steve is passionate about how the right technology can help transform the quality of individual contribution, insight and actions generated during meetings. He has witnessed striking transformation during meetings whereby initially reticent participants become interested, involved and animated contributors.

Steve is most proud of the work Realise has done with UK and US-based police forces. He regards his work with work with Hertfordshire Police on their ACPO award winning Choices and Consequences (C2) programme to be some of the most interesting and meaningful work of his facilitation career.

Steve’s work life is founded on an ability to build strong relationships with clients. He takes great pride in the longevity of those relationships and how the right facilitative process with the right people can radically improve organizational performance.

In his personal life, Steve is a keen outdoorsman who wrestles his professional agenda with family, sailing and mountain time, combining all of these when he can. He is an active member of the local sailing club (a keen amateur Hobie Cat sailor), helps coach at the Rugby club, and rises to the challenge of an annual mountain bike tour to tick off some of the UK’s significant multi-day off-road rides.