I have been running meetings, delivering conference sessions and providing workshops for over 30 years. My clients range from the international blue-chip companies (such as Kraft, Novo Nordisk, Lloyds TSB, Continental Airlines), to universities and colleges (including Bristol, Dundee, U.W.E, Cheltenham Science Festival), to charities and the Healthcare sector (Housing Associations, the NHS, Oxfam, NACTHPC, and others), and to the very experiential end of the spectrum like Glastonbury Festival.
Naturally, each event is customised though a common theme tends to be good-natured, appreciative communication.
My work in organisations stimulates positive engagement, wellbeing and high energy workplaces, which helps clients have resilient, good-natured and enthusiastic teams. My experience with the themes of leadership, teamwork and motivation encourage people to come alive, ‘step outside their box’, and create positive, upbeat working environments.
In 2006 I set up the UK's Laughter Facilitation course, to teach others how to use this material. In 2000 I co-authored 'The Holistic Workspace'.
In the personal development field, I encourage people to explore the values of lightness, spontaneity and creativity which develop their confidence, and so start pushing back the boundaries of words like 'impossible', 'unthinkable' and 'unimaginable'. When we change for the better, so does the world.
I was a Director of the mould-breaking Pierian Centre in Bristol and am an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England in the fields of leadership, empowerment and health promotion. I also trained in ‘Laughter Yoga’ with Dr Madan Kataria, founder of laughter clubs international, and run regular NLS: Natural Laughter Skills sessions for organisations and the general public.
My work regularly appears in the public eye, including BBC 2's 'Don't Die Young' with Dr Alice Roberts, Points West, BBC 1's Inside Out, Discovery Health Channel, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, Nursing Times, Bristol Evening Post, and on the Johnny Walker Show, among others.
In the late 1990's I ran novel stress management programmes which were accredited by the BMA.
My initial career was in the forest industry where I learnt my conference, meetings and team skills. In 1992 I was awared a 'Centres of Excellence' award by the Forestry Authority for my management at Stourhead (Western) Estate.