Ian's extensive management experience includes working in brand management for a multinational and as Sales and Marketing Director for a leading national contract furnishings and interior design company. He was European Business Manager to a Queens Award for Export winning supplier to the major European automotive and retail markets.

Ian has an enthusiastic approach, facilitative style and the ability to communicate with people at all organisational levels. He seeks to actively engage participants in a learning experience. His work as a coach and group facilitator has also been highly valued by clients. Ian helped develop the organisational development approach used in senior management programmes by The Industrial Society. He has written public programmes on assertive management, project management, written articles and been invited to speak at national conferences on Performance Management and Partnership Building.

He is regarded as particularly skilled in programme development to specifically meet client needs in the areas of leadership and management development, performance management, facilitation of change, competencies development, project management, process improvement, team-building, personality and ability assessment.

Ian has also worked in the education sector, teaching in secondary school and lecturing in a college of further education. He was involved in training and assessing of lecturers for D32, D33 awards and developing EU-funded retraining for unemployed managers and for refugees. In the former programme he worked with partners from Denmark, Belgium and Germany.

Ian's clients include the Learning Skills Council, Wokingham District Council Education Department, University of Birmingham, Metropolitan Police, London Borough Camden, Guide Dogs for the Blind, The Big Foods Group, Waterstones,

Glaxo Smithkine, Kirklees Metropolitan Council, NCAA, National Maritime Museum, Poplar HARCA Westminster City Council, Kerry Foods, Explore International, Barclays Bank, North West London Strategic Health Authority, Haymarket Publications, Hyde Housing Association and Andersen Consulting.

Ian's qualifications include a BA Hons (University of Nottingham), Diploma of Marketing (Chartered Institute of Marketing), PGCE (Institute of Education, London University), D32, D33, D34 (NVQ Assessor training), Level A & Level B Certification - aptitude, ability, personality assessment (member, British Psychological Society). Ian is accredited for Insights psychometrics and PRINCE 2 Project management.