Speaker Links
Andy Smith: www.practicaleq.comEmotional Intelligence, executive coaching, and NLP training in Manchester. Andy is the director of NLP training institute Coaching Leaders Ltd and author of Achieve Your Goals: Strategies To Transform Your Life (Dorling Kindersley 2006).
He is also the organiser of the Manchester Business NLP and EI Group.
Gavin Ingham: www.gaviningham.com
Gavin is considered by many to be the leading expert on sales performance and motivation in the UK today. He is a true expert, having touched thousands through live programs and reaching every corner of the UK through his online newsletters and articles. Gavin's programmes combine both attitudes and skills and will inspire you and your teams to go out and take action right away.
Gavin is the author of 'Objections! Objections! Objections!' - a superb sales 'how-to' book.
Darren Good: www.itmakesgoodsense.co.uk
Darren Good is an NLP Practitioner and is studying for his Master
Practitioner training.
Darren has 3 Black Belts in different martial arts and has studied for over 23 years travelling to Hong Kong, Thailand, Brazil and America to train with the best in the world.
He has been teaching conflict training within the NHS for 8 years and his training company GOOD SENSE has many contracts with PCTs and Councils.
Tony Dunk: www.cdaperform.co.uk
Tony Dunk is Principal of cdadevelop and is a Master Practitioner of NLP. Tony will be accompanied by his colleague Lisa Michelangeli who is a business psychologist.
Don Smith: www.mindstyle.co.uk
Mindstyle: Accelerated People Development, delivering outstanding personal and business education and development programmes. Including; diversity awareness, project management, business soft skills, advanced communication and interpersonal training. Mindstyle promotes a practical approach to working and living, through deliberately managing our thoughts and actions with a positive outcome in mind.
Joan Callaghan: www.joancallaghan.com
A former Sales and Services Director for one of the UK's largest computer dealerships, Joan is also an ex psychiatric nurse. She is a business skills coach with a particular interest in social phobia and networking - delivering presentation skills courses to the very knock kneed!!! Joan is also an NLP practitioner and National Phobics Society registered therapist.
Adam Sargant: www.personnel-development.co.uk
Adam Sargant has been providing training to private, public and voluntary organisations for over 10 years. A manager, registered nurse, nlp practitioner and qualified hypnotherapist, he provides communications training including: the management of difficult or awkward clients; sensitivity in communicating with multi-cultural clients; creative thinking skills; team working and problem solving.
Ros Hunter: www.perfect-synergy.co.uk
Ros is an NLP consultant and trainer with extensive experience in business and people management, having participated in the transformation of the Body Shop from small beginnings into a global retail organisation. Over recent years, as a development consultant and professional coach and mentor, Ros has developed a solid business base that includes projects from private and corporate businesses, the media, the professions, environmental organisations, manufacturing, education, the charity sector, local government and the care industry.
She is one of only a handful of consultants in the UK who apply The Language and Behaviour Profile (LAB), which determines innate motivation traits to individuals for their professional development.
Ken Buist: www.personal-transformation.com
image of Trust Me by Ken Buist Personal Transformation are regarded as Leaders In Human Resource Transformation with offices in UK & USA. We are dedicated to releasing people from the place of mediocrity, in order to reach the greater dimension of fulfilled potential. Our specialist development team is led by our founder, Ken Buist, an author, frequent speaker and renowned innovator in the field of Trusted Relationships.
Peter McNab: www.excellenceforall.co.uk
Peter's NLP institute, excellenceforall, introduced NLP to the north west of England in the early nineties. He is the only certified Core Transformation trainer outside the US and is one of only three people to be personally certified as an NLP trainer by Connirae & Steve Andreas. He has also trained with John Seymour & Joseph O'Connor and assisted Robert Dilts. He has taught NLP on four continents in over a dozen countries. He is also a founder member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute.
Peter is also the author of "Towards An Integral Vision: Using NLP & Ken Wilber's AQAL Model To Enhance Communication" with a preface by Ken Wilber.
Derek Jackson: www.nlpand.co.uk
Derek has spent most of his working life as a training consultant fascinated with systems - systems within organisations, teams and within individuals. In a past life, he was a clockmaker! When he heard that NLP was the study of the structure of experience, he was hooked.
His involvement in NLP and modelling has greatly expanded this understanding and his ability to describe the dynamics involved. As a result he has been able to combine his NLP learning with the accrued wisdom of our contemporary systems thinkers.
Derek is co-founder of The Northern School of NLP and The Professional Guild of NLP. The Northern School of NLP are an innovative centre for the practical study of NLP, operating from a unique and inspiring learning facility in the North West of England. We offer NLP training courses from a free Introduction, NLP Foundation Level and NLP Practitioner through to an NLP Master Practitioner training course and beyond.
Jane Douglas and Darren Anglesea: www.learningtoinspire.com
Jane and Darren are co-directors of Learning to Inspire Ltd a consulting and training firm with an excellent reputation in designing and delivering, leadership development, train the trainer, and personal development seminars. The company aims to make a positive difference in the world through the strands of Leading Learning and Living.
Their vision, they say, is simple - to help chosen clients to realise theirs.
The company says it is passionate about enjoying work and making a real difference to businesses, communities and individuals. According to Jane and Darren at the heart of their work is the desire to develop a person’s capacity to learn and grow in such a way that they continue learning long after a course ends. Why? Because they believe for the business that is serious about success in the 21st century, learning, is the only real competitive advantage to becoming more efficient, increasing retention of good staff and profitability.
Andy Preston is a speaker and head trainer with Outstanding Performance. Prior to becoming part of Outstanding Performance, Andy was one of the top salespeople in his industry. Andy went from getting virtually no business from Networking at first, to getting more than twice his previous annual salary from networking referrals! [Details of Andy's March 2006 session]
Peter Freeth, leading business coach and author, worked in the IT and telecoms industry for 17 years before leaving to set up his own consulting and coaching business, which now has around 25 coaches working with all sizes and kinds of organisations in all market sectors.
You can learn more about Peter's company, excellerate, at www.excellerate.org, and about his books at www.ciauk.com [Details of Peter's April 2006 session]
Ian Walton started his career as a research scientist with a PhD from Manchester University in England, and spent the next 25 years working for Unilever in a variety of research, product development, and senior management roles. Ian’s involvement in new product development took him to over 30 countries around the world, including 3 years working in Japan, and the last 7 years working in Thailand.
During his time in Thailand, Ian was the R&D Director responsible for developing new products for Unilever’s Hair Care products throughout Asia – a business with a turnover of over $1 billion. This involved leading multifunctional product development and market research teams, and working in partnership with local company Chairmen and Marketing Directors to define and implement brand development strategies. During his time in Asia, Ian either led, or was member of, Unilever’s global brand marketing teams for Organics, Sunsilk and Clinic.
Ian has now applied his unique insights and experiences of Eastern and Western cultures, and his experience of marketing, innovation, leadership, and coaching of multicultural teams to the challenge of helping people to identify creative solutions to problems. Ian coaches people, and works with companies to help them generate and implement new ideas.
Ian is also a Master Practitioner of NLP and a Member of the International Coach Federation. [Details of Ian's May 2006 session]
Julian Russell’s life vision is Personal Transformation – helping people make psychological break-throughs that create a step-change in self expression, personal effectiveness, leadership and quality of life. He is a well-known executive coach helping senior executives greatly enhance the value they bring to their organisation. He has nearly 30 years’ experience as a personal development expert, is an author, trainer of executive coaches, and the sponsor of a key international professional network for coaches.
He helps leaders develop 3 key attributes of leadership: creating a compelling vision matched by concrete action (visionary leadership); motivating and influencing the people around them so that they engage wholeheartedly (mobilising people); and developing a high level of personal congruence so that people are inspired to follow (personal presence). Since 1995, he has been the Managing Director of PPD Consulting Ltd, a coaching and development firm for senior executives, which specialises in helping good leaders become great. Since 1984 he has been helping to bring best practise from around the world into business consulting and pioneered the application of Neuro Linguistic Programming in the UK, first in psychotherapy and later in executive coaching. He teaches internationally and speaks regularly at professional conferences. His clients include major global financial services and banks, the telecommunication sector, pharmaceuticals and public utilities. He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist; has trained in NLP, humanistic, cognitive and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy; was a trustee of the Psychosynthesis training charity, Re.Vision; and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Neurolinguistic Programming in its early development.
More information at www.lifetalent.com [Details of Julian's June 2006 session]
Gary Outrageous: www.garyoutrageous.com
Gary is a well-known and entertaining speaker around the UK who regularly attracts large and enthusiastic audiences - come expecting something a bit different from the norm!
Gary's keynote presentation “Be Outrageous and Be The Best!” is filled with solid principles and outrageous philosophies that will show you and your teams how to achieve success, incredible wealth and total happiness both personally and professionally.
Gary’s speeches are full of ‘How To’s You Can Use’, stories and practical information that will keep you entertained as well as teach you valuable tools for living more successfully. In fact you’ll leave his presentation feeling more ‘inspired’ and more energised to achieve all you that want to be, do or have!
Caitlin Walker: www.trainingattention.co.uk
Caitlin Walker specialises in applying systemic thinking to professional development. Combining the modelling processes developed in Neuro-linguistic Programming with the discipline of 'Clean Questions' and the common sense of coaching, she has developed leading edge processes that result in whole system sustainable change.
Helen Nicolson: www.herunic.co.uk
Helen Nicolson is an experienced freelance trainer, facilitator and mediator. Her goal is to facilitate excellent, heartfelt communication through supporting the development of skills in good listening, clear writing, negotiation, and managing conflict. In her training workshops she aims to create a relaxed and unstressed environment for participants to share experiences from their own lives, as a basis for learning and practising new skills. She also offers coaching, particularly for writers. She is on the bank of action learning facilitators for the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action.
Fran Burgess: www.nlpand.co.uk
Marcus de Maria: www.investment-mastery.com
Marcus de Maria is the founder of Investment Mastery and brought his flagship workshop “The Wealth Workout” up to Manchester specially for us.
Vivienne Mee: www.viviennemee.com
Manchester-born Vivienne started her career for George Davis at Next, the retail master behind ‘George’ and ‘Per Una’ clothing brands, before embarking on a series of extensive studies into Business, Finance, Human and Organisational Development, Personal Transformation, Values and Executive Coaching.
At just 21, Vivienne subsequently became one of the youngest Police trainers and Head of Civilian Training for the Greater Manchester Police. In 1994, Vivienne was enlisted by Government agencies to lead a special project to bring about the first standards of performance into Local Government.
Three years later, Vivienne Mee Associates (VMA) was established, winning a contact to support Jack Welch’s GE global culture change in its first year.
Since then she has assisted a considerable number of ‘blue chip’ organisations in the private sector to bring about change. Working with CEO’s and Senior Management has led to the establishment of a unique reputation within the fields of Vision, Leadership and Transformation.
Today Vivienne is the ‘bleeding edge’ practitioner of Transformation and Presence within both public and private sector organisations due to her ability to develop a Vision for an organisation and show how Transformation can be successfully implemented.
In June 2007 Vivienne turned to the stage creating a One Woman show that she wrote, produced and performed at a theatre in Central Manchester. Her vision was to combine her knowledge of transformation with theatrical presence to take her audience on a journey to their authentic self.
Gill Best - Caelum Coaching
Gill Best, Caelum Coaching is a Career Coach, NLP Practitioner, a Lab Profile Consultant and Trainer (one of the few in the UK) and Managing Consultant for John Lees Associates. Gill has recently returned from training the LAB Profile to NLP Master Practitioners in Mexico, standing in for Shelle Rose Charvet herself.
Max Watts - Kanousei Ltd
Kanousei Ltd is a NLP training company committed to delivering the highest quality NLP training nationwide including ABNLP Approved NLP Certification Training Programs including NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification, plus result focused NLP Business Trainings, Accelerated Personal Development Programs, Time Line Therapy™ Certification, Hypnotherapy Certification and 1-1 Coaching and Therapy.
Bev Holden and Kate Hargreaves - Clear Thinking Partnership
Bev Holden and her business partner Kate Hargreaves set up the Clear Thinking Partnership in February 2007, specialising in behavioural training and development. As professional trainers, facilitators and coaches, they work with clients across a variety of industry sectors, with individuals and with teams, helping them to get a better return on investment for their training by discovering ways to “make learning stick.”
Having had successful careers in corporate environments where training was given great importance, Bev and Kate realised that there was a need to support businesses with the implementation of learning into the workplace. The Clear Thinking purpose is to create a shift in thinking and behaviour so that the primary intention and desired outcome of training interventions are fully achieved and organisations enjoy the transformation in performance and results they need to maintain competitive advantage.
Jeremy Lazarus - The Lazarus Consultancy
In addition to running NLP courses, Jeremy coaches and trains business people and athletes to perform more effectively. His business clients and students range from Blue Chip organisations through to successful entrepreneurs, and his sporting clients range from top amateur athletes to Premiership football clubs.
He regularly speaks at workshops, conferences and seminars, and has appeared on television and live radio several times.
Jeremy is the author of Ahead Of The Game: How To Use Your Mind To Win In Sport.
Jeremy can be contacted as follows:
jeremy@thelazarus.com
www.thelazarus.com
020 8349 2929
George Harris - Life Engineer
George is a Kinesiologist, Fitness consultant, Metabolic typing advisor, Life Coach and Tai Chi instructor. To make things easier he decided to call himself a Life Engineer. Life Engineering is the process of designing, creating and living the type of life you have always wanted, through artful and skilful means.
When he is not presenting seminars or attending them, George works out of GL14 The Health Club in the centre of Manchester. He works with clients who have a diverse range of needs such as: living a pain free life, having more energy, regaining fitness and health and decreasing their (normally very high) stress levels. His clients come from big city organisations, law firms and solo businesses, amongst other.
After all that is finished, he spends time with his new family (always a source of learning and development!), practicing taichi and reading (strictly for the purposes of devising new workshop titles, obviously).
George can be found by:
Emailing George @ lifeengineer.net
Phoning 07973 830 845
Or going to his website www.lifeengineer.net
Aboodi Shabi - The Newfield Network
Aboodi Shabi is one of the UK's most senior coaches, and a pioneer and leader in the UK and European Coaching community. He was a founding co-President of the UK ICF, and has served the profession at all levels internationally. He has worked in the field of personal development and human potential for over twenty years, and in coaching since 1996. In that time, he has worked with hundreds of coaches across the world. Aboodi is a Newfield Network Certified Ontological Coach, and is currently manager of European Public Programmes for Newfield Network. He teaches in Newfield programmes in North America and Europe. He has been an invited presenter on coaching mastery at several European coaching schools, and works with business leaders in Europe and the USA on leadership and presence.
"You are
very knowledgeable about coaching in my opinion and you
express your knowledge with clarity and humility. You are
great at holding the attention of your audience too. That
seems a lot like emotional intelligence, the bedrock on
which all good coaches must stand." - Sir John Whitmore
– author of “Coaching for Performance”
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