About Our Management Trainers

Trainer Experience and Qualifications

As a training provider we can benefit your organisation because of the quality and breadth of experience of our training team: Mark Walsh, Dawn Bentley, Francis Briers, Dr Martin Egan, Dr Adrian Harris, Andy Mason, Clare Myatt and Chris Tero. We work from conveniently located bases in Brighton, Sussex, Birmingham and London.

Mark Walsh - Lead Trainer (Brighton)

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Mark Walsh has dedicated his life to studying embodied training. His experience and qualifications include:

Bsc (Hons) Psychology (Leeds University)
Extensive training and facilitation experience with large and small organisations in the UK and abroad, e.g. Harrow Primary Care Trust (NHS London), The Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, Brighton) and Brazil's national oil company - Petrobas
Three years organising projects, training and conferences for the international organisation Aiki Extensions Inc. This included leadership training, stress management and conflict resolution work in the Middle East alongside the UN, in the slums of Brazil and with an HIV awareness charity in East Africa
13 years of aikido training and teaching on five continents and an internationally recognised black belt
Periods of intense residential training with respected bodymind teachers
Residential training in Somatics (the study of the conscious body) and Embodied Leadership at Strozzi Institute, California, with Wendy Palmer and with Being In Movement founder Paul Linden in Ohio, USA
Experience of training in numerous other physical systems such as yoga, tai chi, Feldenkrais, tango, contact improvisation, judo, Five Rhythms and Systema
Training in integral theory (Ken Wilber et al)
Four years in the outdoor education industry, training climbing, abseiling, team building, orienteering, fencing, archery, snowboarding, trampolining and leadership
Five years Non-Violent Communication training, including residential training and study with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg, and pioneering work with "embodied NVC"
Training in the linguistic coaching system of Fernando Flores
Coach Training with several organisations - most recently graduating from Newfield Network's "Theory and Practice of Ontological Coaching"
Numerous training courses on meditation and mindfulness
First aid training courses, most recently with the British Red Cross
Associate Member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Writes Google #2 ranked management training blog
Based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK

Dawn Bentley - Leadership Consultant (London)

Founder of Aurora Consulting
(recent clients include Eurostar, Argos, Metropolitan Police, DTZ, Zurich Insurance, Carbon Trust, GB Airways
A breadth of management training and commercial experience spanning public and private sectors, including extensive work managing change and in leadership coaching
Over 10 years experience of facilitating a Leadership in Management programme
Accredited coach with Strathclyde University
MBA from Sussex University
Qualified to use a variety of psychometric tools
Master NLP practitioner and Somatic Coach (Strozzi Institute)
Member and accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation
Based in London and Buckinghamshire, UK

The Reverend Francis Briers - Team Building & Management Trainer (Brighton)

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Extensive experience designing and running training courses for BUPA International
BA (Hons) Theatre Arts (Acting) - including work with the Alexander Technique
Training and Ordination as an Interfaith Minister and Spiritual counsellor with the Interfaith Seminary UK.
Foundation Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry
Sole UK certified trainer of The Samurai Game®
11 years training and teaching in various Martial Arts including Karate, Tai Chi, Capoeira, Iaido, and Medieval weaponry
8 Years training in 5 Rhythms movement practice
8 Years experience leading workshops on personal and spiritual development
4 Years training in shamanic healing and initiation
Hawaiian Temple style massage practitioner
Numerous other shorter personal and professional development training courses covering various kinds of meditation, healing, conflict handling, communication, etc
More on the training and coaching of the Reverend Francis Briers here
Based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK

Dr Martin Egan - Management & Leadership Trainer (London)

Leadership development specialist
Author of Coaching for Integral Leadership in Leadership Coaching (Kogan Page 2010)
Trained in numerous assessment tools such as Myers-Briggs, LSI, Hogan and 360 feedback
Accredited Psychotherapist (MBACP Accred)
Past clients include: SEB Bank, AXA, BestInvest, Wyeth, McKinsey, Alchemy Leadership Ltd, Sector Group/Capita, Oxford Leadership Academy, Gnosis, Borough of Merton, Surrey County Council, MotivAction, Nations Healthcare, Addelshaw Goddard
Previously Principal Consultant with Axialent and now Axialent Faculty Network Member
PhD in Analytical Sciences
MA in Analytical Psychology

Dr Adrian Harris - Leadership & Stress Management Trainer (London)

PhD (thesis on embodied cognition)
Editor of the leading on-line resource for embodiment research,
www.embodiment.org.uk
Certified trainer of William Bloom's Core Energy Management
Presents at conferences in the USA, Cuba and across Europe
Manager of the Interdisciplinary discussion on human embodiment list
Trained in NLP and Focusing
Yoga practitioner for 10 years
Based in London, UK

Andy Mason - Communication & Conflict Resolution Trainer (Brighton)

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Masters Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Sydney)
Internationally accredited mediator (Regents College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling - London)
Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Co-founder of coaching and training organisation Mason-LaPorte Conflict Transformation
Intensive training in Nonviolent Communication in the USA with NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg.
Ten years in community, mental health and acute parts of the UK National Health Service as a trainer, coach and management consultant
Three years with The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) as an organisational development specialist
More than three years as an independent training and development consultant. Corporate training clients included Lambeth Mencap, &Equant, Infocorp Ltd, R Griggs Group Ltd, Computer 2000, Kingsway College
Extensive experience of relationship and peacebuilding outside the UK particularly in Sri Lanka among tsunami-affected communities and non-profit organizations.
Based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK

Clare Myatt - Management Coach & Leadership Trainer (Birmingham)

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Founder and principal of Coaching International.
Degree in law
Extensive experience in Human Resources, coaching and leadership training with a number of nationally and internationally known corporate groups.
Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and licensed marriage and family therapist (US qualified currently practicing in Birmingham)
Certified Master Somatic Coach and Associate - Strozzi Institute
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D.'s 2003 book "Being Human at Work" includes her chapter "The Power of Somatics in Sobriety."
Author -"Unwinding the Trauma / Addiction Bind: Engaging the body, mind and spirit in healing trauma and addiction"
Based in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

Chris Tero - Team Building and Arts Trainer (Brighton)

BA (hons) in Related Arts (Chichester University)
Working in corporate sector since 1997
Associate facilitator at Henley Business School 1997- date
Post Grad from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Professional musician since 1990
Studied traditional dance and music in Senegal (1992)
Member of West African dance company (95-98)
Leads drumming and team building workshops
Currently involved in CSR/Community Engagement projects
Based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK

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Andrew Cain - Associate Stress Management Trainer (Brighton)

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Founder and director of Bright Ideas Training Ltd. teaching health psychology and stress management to doctors, dentists and other professionals working in busy environments
First-hand experience of the joys and challenges of setting up and running a small business
Ten years experience helping people feel better and improve their lives with cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy
Twelve years experience designing and delivering training people from businessmen to NHS GPs and dentists
Worked as teacher in Japan and as a translator in World Bank, Minsk
Degree in Russian & French (MA Cantab.)
Based in Brighton, UK
Skilful communicator of simple, memorable ways to make change that sticks

Steve Stark & Curtis James - Associate Time Management Trainers (Sussex)

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Directors of People Who Do - time management specialists
They work with the health sector (Department of Health, Home Care Homes); media (Virgin Media, Discovery Channel, Heineken, Orange, BBC, BMG, TNT); crafts people (Julian Stephens, Nordik Light); digital agencies (Home Made Digital, Clearleft, Nixon McInnes, Crunch); Legal and finance (One Crown Office Row, Herbert Scott); local authorities (Brighton and Hove Council)
25 combined years director level experience in creative SME's and not for profits (digital and terrestrial radio, audio production, festivals, online classifieds, events, home wares)
5 years consulting on business strategy
6 years designing and leading workshops on productivity, planning and creativity
Specialise in helping creative people do the things they really want to do with a practical common sense approach
Runner, father, Likemind host, Samaritan, book binder, purveyor of collections (Curtis)
Bee keeper, small holder, father (Steve)
Based in Brighton, East Sussex

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