The Team
 Katie is a communications coach and TV reporter for BBC Click. She helps individuals, teams and organisations to communicate in a compelling way that has a high impact on audiences. Drawing on her experience in the media and corporate life, she provides services in presentation coaching, hosting and producing conferences and creating business presentations that people remember.
Katie spent 12 years working as a news presenter for Five News, ITN and the BBC. She has also done extensive coaching and conference facilitation work in companies such as Microsoft, X-Box, HP, 3 Mobile, Sony, Waterstones, Thinc Insurance, NPIA and The Police Federation. She is therefore well-equipped to help people to get to the heart of the matter and communicate clearly in high-pressure situations. Katie enables people to feel at ease, be true to themselves and yet be able to share their messages in a memorable way.
Katie has created a portfolio career in the last few years and as she believes there are no more "jobs for life", has written a book (published October 09) "And what do you do? 10 steps to creating a Portfolio Career" with Barrie Hopson. Check out their blog. 
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 David is a coach and facilitator who helps individuals and teams to deliver concrete results. A specialist in enabling individual and organisational change, he asks tough questions that allow people to evaluate options with regard to the challenges they face in their work and build the confidence to deliver on agreed commitments.
David began his working life teaching Physical Education, spending three years in Malawi, and two in Portugal, working in International Schools. He then moved into the hospitality business in Hong Kong, where the challenge of working in a new industry in another radically different culture, taught him a lot about himself and the demands of leadership in a results driven environment.
Back in the UK, David became Operations Director for a health and leisure club start-up. Over the course of five years the business was created, developed and sold with 6 operating Clubs and over 300 staff. David then joined Tom Peters Company where he helped individuals and teams deliver change and overcome personal and organisational challenges.
Over the last seven years he has worked on projects for both large and small organisations, including: Texas Instruments, Rolls-Royce, Applied Biosystems, Orange, M&S, Cybex International, Nautilus, CPP, Experian and Aerofill Dawson. This work has covered UK, mainland Europe and USA.
David has an MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice, is an accredited Master Facilitator of The Leadership Challenge Workshop and is a Full Member of the Association for Coaching. |
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Mike has spent the past 40 years helping people to build on their strengths and also build super teams. His many books include The Strengths Way, The Art of Mentoring, The Mentor's Book, The Super Teams Book, The Magic of Work, The Class Act Book, The Strengths Toolbox and Strengths Coaching in 90 Minutes, the latter co-authored with Sue Moore. Mike’s early work was captured in the 1972 BBC documentary Escape To Fulfilment, which described the therapeutic community he ran for young people. In 1974 he set-up his own company dedicated to helping people to build on their strengths. Invited to work in Scandinavia, he spent over a decade there running open programmes and educating leaders in schools, business and sports. Returning to the UK in 1986, he has since focused on mentoring, strengths coaching and building super teams. His clients include Microsoft, Sony, Digital Outlook, Waterstone’s, Harvest Digital, Three and The Search Works. Mike’s style has been described as positive, pioneering and yet immensely practical. Well-known for his generosity, his website provides tools that people can download and use in their own way. You can access this know-how at: www.strengthsacademy.com . He can be reached at:
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 Dr Barrie Hopson is Chairman of Axia Interactive Media, a writer, speaker and consultant. He has a long history of involvement in the area of career development. He established the Counselling and Career Development Unit at Leeds University in 1976 and subsequently went on to found Lifeskills International. He has written twenty-five books including the best selling 12 Steps to Success Through Service, The Lifeskills Teaching Programmes and Build Your Own Rainbow. His latest book is The Rainbow Years: the Pluses of Being 50+ and an accompanying website . Barrie has worked widely as a consultant to commercial and educational organisations in the UK, USA, Asia, Canada and Europe. |
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What our clients say
“Over the past 18 months David has coached me through a crossroads in my career and life. I have found him to be very supportive, motivating, inspiring and an excellent counsellor.” Allan Swan Purchasing Operations Executive, Rolls Royce North America
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