2011 Workshop Leaders

Jim Kirkpatrick

Jim’s major area of expertise is the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model and carrying on the work of his father, Don Kirkpatrick, the creator of the Kirkpatrick Four Levels of Evaluation. Jim consults for Fortune 500 companies around the world including Harley-Davidson, Booz Allen Hamilton, L’Oreal, Clarian, Ingersoll Rand, Honda, the Royal Air Force, and GE Healthcare. Jim is a masterful facilitator and conducts workshops on the Kirkpatrick Four Levels, business partnership, and his newest topic, Training On Trial. He also delivers keynote presentations around the world. Show more

Since 1995, Jim has developed and managed a career development centre, worked on senior strategic planning teams, and consulted with organisations all across the world in topics of evaluation, team building, coaching and leadership, and has also conducted executive coaching.

Dr Peter Honey

Dr Peter Honey is a chartered psychologist and founder of Peter Honey Publications Ltd (now owned by EDI). After graduating as an occupational psychologist, he worked for Ford Motor Company and then British Airways before becoming a freelance management trainer and executive coach in 1969. In this capacity he has helped directors and managers in organisations as diverse as the Bank of England, AstraZeneca, American Express, the Automobile Association, ICI, ICL, UKAEA and Ford. Show more

Nigel Harrison

Nigel Harrison is a chartered Business Psychologist and Managing Director of Performance Consulting UK. Nigel works with some of the UK’s leading organisations to implement Performance Consulting skills in their organisations. He provides;
- Performance Consulting Skills workshops
- Executive Coaching
- Team strategy workshops to solve organisational problem
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John Seymour

With 25 years experience, John Seymour is one of the best known NLP trainers in the UK. He has worked extensively with hundreds of top organisations in the worlds of business, health, and education. John has a wide range of experience in using NLP to solve organisational problems from the relatively simple to those as complex as culture change. Show more

Donald H Taylor

Donald H Taylor is the chairman of the IITT, the Learning and Skills Group and the associated Learning Technologies Conference. He is an influential writer and speaker in the field of learning and development, dedicated to improving the standing of the profession. Show more

Donald has over two decades’ experience in L&D, beginning with classroom training and moving on to a range of operational and board level positions. His career has involved a series of successful software start ups and trade sales, leaving him able now to concentrate on developing the L&D profession. In 2007 Donald was the youngest ever recipient of the Colin Corder award for an ‘outstanding contribution to IT Training’.

Steve Read

Steve Read has over 13 years experience as a leadership and management development consultant, coach and trainer.

He began his career with six successful years in the hospitality industry in operational and senior management positions, followed by consultancy and management roles for several training companies. Show more

In 2000 he founded The Helix Consultancy, specialists in leadership development programmes. Steve is a senior associate of John Adair, and in 2009, John and Steve jointly founded Adair International Ltd of which Steve is now Managing Director.

Seven Suphi

Seven is a behavioural change specialist, leadership expert, professional speaker, twice published author, founder and MD of Odyssey Solutions Ltd and partnering with LexisNexis to further equip partners of law firms to win new business.

Seven generally works with Partners, CEO’s, MD’s, Directors and Senior Executives on a one-to-one and workshop basis. Show more

Seven is in demand as an expert in her field and has appeared many times in the national media including being the expert presenter of the Virgin 1 six part documentary series The Naked Office and the coach who assisted Sue Perkins to build her confidence at a critical point on the BBC Maestro - Sue won.

Leon Benjamin

Leon Benjamin is a social media practitioner and has managed a number of successful social software implementations with clients including British Airways, Microsoft & BT. Show more

He is currently consulting with Virgin Media on the deployment of social media in the enterprise. Previously spent 20 years designing and delivering IT transformation programmes in financial services, telecoms, retail and travel, for blue chip companies, counting Union Bank of Switzerland, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Barclays Capital, Andersen Consulting, Airtours, Opodo, BT, Tesco, Argos and Aviva.

Bruce Roberts

Bruce Roberts is an e-Learning professional services consultant with Kaplan Learning Technologies providing services to Europe & India, with more than 15 years of experience in training, distance learning delivery and content creation. Show more

Prior to joining the Kaplan Atlantic Link team, he had considerable experience in BT with Modern Apprentice development, National Vocational Qualifications, assessment and development centres, virtual classrooms, learning management and knowledge management systems. As a senior analyst he was nominated for a British Computer Society Information Management award.

Roger Courville

Roger Courville is author of The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, principal at 1080 Group, LLC, and an internationally sought-after speaker on the use of synchronous remote communication to deliver training results.

His paper “Five Keys to Moving Training Online” won TrainingZone.co.uk’s Reader’s Choice Award for “Top Download of the Year.” His writing and speaking appearances include Training Australia Magazine, eLearningGuild, American Society of Training and Development, LearnX, and Australian Institute for Training and Development. Show more

1080 Group, LLC is a training and research firm helping organisations deliver interactive webinar programs. The collective team experience includes hundreds of clients, thousands of web seminars, and more than a million web seminar attendees.

Jennifer Holloway

With a career including 15 years in media relations and PR, Jennifer Holloway knows a thing or two about promoting a personal brand – she did it every time she picked up the phone to a journalist. The result? She stood out from the ‘press office crowd’ and got her stories on the front page.

Today, she is a personal brand expert, helping executives to define their personal brand before teaching them how to promote that in everything they say and do. Show more

Known as ‘The Antidote to Yes-Men’ her honest, challenging and practical style has helped leaders discover how, by being themselves, they can be even more successful.

Chris Mayers

In an enviable career that spans early video production and editing technologies through to the development of authoring tools, web 2.0 LMS’s and mobile learning techniques; Chris has built a distinguished reputation as a pragmatic problem solver with unparalleled creative application. His work with some of the World’s leading brands including Virgin, British American Tobacco and Peugeot has attracted an impressive array of awards and accolades.

Robin Hoyle

With over 25 years experience within the learning industry, Robin Hoyle is an award winning practitioner who has worked with an enviable list of blue chip organisations. He is a regular speaker at conferences and one of the most published experts in his field. His work combining established methodologies with emerging technologies to deliver positive behavioural change has gained him global recognition.

Andrew Joly

Andrew is Design Director at LINE Communications. He leads the highly creative design and consultancy teams at LINE and, with them, is responsible for defining and delivering innovative and effective learning strategies to an ever-growing range of clients and business sectors. Show more

Having worked in the communications, media and technology area for over 20 years, Andrew brings a unique perspective to the integration of innovative thinking, technologies, creative design and learning methodologies.

Andrew’s career has spanned new media development and consultancy in consumer publishing, corporate communications, e-learning and digital branding. Prior to joining LINE, Andrew spent seven years as Commissioning Editor for new media at BBC Worldwide followed by a spell at Wolff Olins as a digital Brand consultant.

Andrew has a BAFTA award nomination and has won numerous others including e-learning age, EMMA, BIMA and a few Gold IVCA awards.

Gerry Thompson

Irishman Gerry Maguire Thompson MSc BA RIBA is founder of Positive Comedy Learning. Gerry was an architect but turned to comedy as a way of getting his life to work better. He is now a comedian, facilitator, script writer and author of fourteen published books. Gerry trained in facilitation at Roffey Park, the highly respected centre for organisational and personal training and research. He is a member of the Applied Improvisation Network.

Denise Hudson Lawson

Denise Hudson Lawson is Head of ICT Training and Coaching for the Houses of Parliament. Leading a team who’s responsibility is the delivery of learning and support for technology supplied, by Parliamentary ICT, to Members of both Houses and the administration. She has twice won the prestigious blue ribbon award for Training Manager of the year with the IITT and has extensive experience of training both in the commercial and public sectors. Show more

Her mantra ‘Get Out Of The Classroom’ is something she not only believes in but actively encourages her trainers to do. Everyone who deals with Denise is left with a lasting impression of professionalism and understanding. As a manager she focuses on the energy and confidence levels of her team to empower them to achieve everything they can be..

She regularly contributes to publications both internal to Parliament and external trade press and has been both speaker and chair for various conferences around the UK as well as being on the advisory board for the IITT.