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ASSOCIATES
Peter
Hobbs
Specialist Areas: Project Management, Time Management, Team
Planning, Consultative Selling
Peter is an experienced and enthusiastic consultant with outstanding
communications skills. He has a deep knowledge of his field and
is able to offer practical ‘jargon-free’ advice based
on sound theory.
After a brief spell in the Army that included two specialist training
roles, Peter worked for six years as a consultant with the MaST
Organisation. He then spent two years in a human resources and operations
role in a large market research agency, Research International,
where he had overall responsibility for staff development.
Peter went to Southampton University where he gained a First Class
Honours Degree in Classics, is a member of the Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development (MIPD) and a Member of the Association
of Project Management (MAPM). In 1999 he wrote a book on ‘Project
Management’ which has been endorsed and marketed by Video Arts
and Amacom.
Sarah Barnes
Specialist Areas: Commercial Awareness, Finance for non financial managers, Leadership Development, Team Building and Executive Coaching
Sarah is a mature and competent training consultant with a background in accountancy and outstanding interpersonal skills.
Having recently returned to the workplace after a career break to care for a young family Sarah has quickly attracted the attention of a number of established training consultancies as a conscientious and capable associate. She is a skilled networker and always receives outstanding feedback from clients.
After graduating with Joint Honours in French and German from Cambridge University, Sarah Barnes trained as a chartered accountant with PWC.
Her initial specialism was corporate tax work and although her progression was rapid to a point where she was advising multinational organisations on international tax planning, her passion for learning and self-development soon led Sarah to a national training role within the Firm.
After a career break Sarah set up her own training business and has worked with firms of solicitors, insurance companies, retail groups and a housing association using business games to aid financial and commercial awareness. Other assignments have focused more on team building and interpersonal skills. In the past two years she has extended her training expertise into executive and life coaching.
She continues to develop her own skills and has recently qualified as an NLP, hypnosis and time line therapy practitioner. She has also attended Anthony Robbins' Mastery University programme.
Jeremy Cox
Specialist Areas: Cultural Change, Leadership Development,
Team Building and Executive Coaching
Jeremy is a highly experienced consultant specialising in the development
of people in commercial organisations.. He is qualified (BPS full
level B) and experienced in using a wide range of psychometrics
and has developed 360 degree feedback instruments both for individual
improvement and for providing cultural analysis.
Jeremy studied the piano at the Royal College of Music and his first
career was as a professional musician. He then joined the army,
was commissioned into the Life Guards and served throughout the
world, ending his career teaching leadership at the Royal Military
Academy, Sandhurst. On leaving the army he spent three years as
a head-hunter before joining the Vector Group, a consultancy specialising
in Leadership, Change, Team Development and Project Management.
He left there two years ago and has since been working in partnership
with Peter Hobbs.
Gerard Hargreaves
Specialist Areas: Stress Management, Work/Life Balance, Communication
Skills Managing Change and Executive Coaching
Gerard is an independent Training and Development Consultant and
Executive Coach with an impressive track record of helping individuals
and organisations achieve maximum performance in a fast moving and
demanding business market.
For 11 years he held senior appointments at MaST International before
joining the Director and Board Development Department of the Institute
of Directors in 1998. There he developed a highly successful one
to one executive coaching programme for directors and senior executives.
Gerard has broadcast on BBC television and radio and has consulted
on the production of BBC Training Videos. He is the co-author of
the BBC Books publication ‘Making Time’ and the author
of a book on ‘Stress Management’ published by Marshall
and marketed in Europe by Video Arts.
Sue Codrington
— The Learning Partnership
Specialist Areas: Writing Skills — Grammar, Letter Writing,
Business Writing, Report Writing, Minute Taking.
Sue Codrington’s particular expertise is in helping people
to feel more confident about their business writing, at whatever
level.
For those for
whom the word grammar poses something of a threat (probably because
they weren’t taught any), Sue transforms understanding and
attitude in a friendly, lively way. She wrote the Effective English
course for the Cabinet Office, a programme now adopted by several
government departments and many leading commercial organisations.
This course plugs any gaps in grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Sue also designs
and delivers a range of writing courses for everyone from recent
joiners to board members.
Judy Salmon
Specialist Areas: Personal Effectiveness, Communication Skills,
Executive Coaching, Negotiation Skills
Originally a training manager with a large firm of stockbrokers
Judy is now an experienced consultant with an impressive client
list both in London and around her base in Bath.
Judy specialises in general communication skills with particular
expertise in helping people become more confident and self aware.
She is comfortable working at all levels within organisations whether
this is 1:1 coaching for board members or training courses for new
recruits.
Judy has excellent listening skills and an uncanny ability to ask
well timed and incisive questions to unlock performance issues.
Denise Taylorson
Specialist Areas: Personal Effectiveness, Communication Skills,
The Business Application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Train
the Trainer
Denise is an accomplished coach and trainer with extensive experience
in the design and delivery of traditional and innovative training
solutions to increase individual effectiveness and organisational
performance. During her career as a training consultant she has
worked in South Africa, Switzerland, the USA and Canada as well
as in the UK.
Denise is a Certified NLP Practitioner and a Certified Life Coach.
She is also qualified in a variety of psychometric instruments.
She is currently working with Shell, the London Development Agency
and Mastercard.
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