Imagine a world where workshops contained no fluff, filler, or sheep-dipped, snake-oil.
Recent clients include:
We've all been there. Trapped inside the workshop from hell with déjà vu flashing before our very eyes.
Torturous off-sites are enough to make normally sane, well-balanced individuals reach for a fire alarm and smash the living daylights out of it. And because I've had the misfortune of sitting through a 100 of these teeth-itching events over the years I've cracked the code, and figured out what makes a workshop fall flat on its arse (with the stakeholders investment pissed up the wall), and what makes a workshop something people rave about.
Because if a workshop fails to engage, it'll fail to TRANSFORM. And if it fails to transform, it's of ZERO value to anyone. Apart for the damp squib of a facilitator of course.
I never want to be "that guy". So when a business approaches me to design and run a workshop I never bite the hand that feeds by attempting to palm them off with an off-the-shelf product that's more dog-eared than 1980's Playboy magazine. Or worse yet, try to flog them a shit-sandwich of a syllabus that's been cobbled together from the latest, faddy self-help books and business podcasts.
As a psychologist, master neurolinguist, and forensically-minded ex-creative, I ask questions. Lots of questions. I dig deep. Get to the core of the problem, challenge, or opportunity you're facing. And help you clearly define and articulate the vision, mission, and measurements you need to take in order to maximise workshop success.
Only then, when we know exactly what your people need, will I dive into solution mode and custom design the tools, techniques, frameworks, and workbooks you need to realise your ambitions.
Through intensive bootcamps and 12 month cultural change programmes, I've helped businesses build anti-fragile, high performance teams with a bias towards breakthrough thinking, fearless collaboration, and a monk-like calmness in the eye of a shit-storm.
Some of my most requested subjects include:
As a career creative I've been round the block, delivered the knockout shots, learnt from the bellyflops, and risen from the shit smelling of roses.
Which makes me a real world practitioner who delivers real world content for real world results. Not a robotic management consultant, out-of-touch academic, or snot-nosed grad from a recent eMBA course who'll waffle on in an unrelatable way, bore you to death with 25,000 Powerpoint slides, and have NO CLUE what it takes to survive and thrive in a highly pressured, high-stake, creative environment like ours.
I call it as it really is, not how it theoretically is. And because I know how critical it is that the tools, techniques, methodologies, and step-by-step frameworks I teach don't buckle under pressure, or blow up in someones face when they put them into practice, I NEVER teach anything I'm not highly skilled at, deeply practiced in, and would die on a sword for.
So whether you hire me to unleash your teams creative firepower, pressure-proof their creative brains, and/or ignite, amplify and sustain a culture of breakthrough thinking and emotional wellbeing, you can rest assured that everything that falls out of my lips, gets presented to you in a pitch proposal, or is projected on a screen, is the real fucking deal.
Everything in my arsenal is 100% torture tested in the real world.
100% applicable in the real world.
And 100% different to the snorefests you've slept though in the real world.
But don't take a former adman's word for it.
"One of the best things Iā€™ve ever sat in. You were so engaging and the day just flew by!"
Emma Lane, Brand Communications Manager, Lexus
"Itā€™s stayed with me as one of the most impactful and memorable sessions Iā€™ve attended. And Iā€™ve attended a few!"
Emily Chiverton, Global HR, Selfridges
"The feedback was incredible and definitely an event I want to run again and again and again!"
Marc Lewis, Founder & Dean at SCA 2.0
"Enlightening and utterly brilliant workshop.Ā How to pressure-proof our brains and succeed in today's creative industries. Well worth booking!"
Simon Mannion, Creative Partner, IRIS
"To say the feedback was glowing would be a gross understatement!"
Gemma McCartney, Head of Talent, M&C Saatchi PR
"As someone who finds trainings tiresome and unchallenging, I want to say how incredibly helpful and inspiring I found yours. Thank you!"
Ben Wilsker, Director, 5W Public Relations
"Thank you so much for your recent trainings in Breakthrough Thinking. Definitely the best Iā€™ve been on in a long, long, long, long time!"
Kyle Gardener-Drury, Account Director, Agent3
"Glowing feedback from our agency. We canā€™t wait to have him back in!"
Kenny Townsend, HR Manager, VMLY&R
"Weā€™ve had amazing feedback about your sessions. Your inspiration definitely came through!!!"
Susie Langridge, Senior HR Business Partner at BCW
