Sally Vanson, Managing Director of The Performance Solution, works with clients in the areas of Organisation Development, Leadership Development , Modelling Winning Performance™ , Strategic Human Resources, and Executive Coaching at Board Level, she brings grounded, commercial insight into all her work and her pragmatic style ensures early translation into business environments and ensures transformational results. Current client assignments include The London Stock Exchange, Astra Zeneca, Glaxo, European Golf Brands Holdings, Bevan Brittan LLP and Avon and Somerset Police.

Sally has enjoyed a broad career spanning the hospitality and retail industries, management consulting and automotive, having worked for Hanson PLC and Mazda Cars. With a Masters degree in Management, Sally is also a Chartered Member of the IPD, has a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Direction and is a trained Trainer of NLP. She is the author of three books and designed and now directs the first NLP based Masters degree in the world. Sally speaks regularly at international conferences.

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Dr Allan Parker is Operations Director at The Performance Solution and works with clients in the areas of project and process management, New Product Introduction and Innovation, Modelling Winning Performance™ and Executive Coaching. His unique approach enables organisations to maximize their productivity and performance. Current client assignments include GSK, Bevan Brittan LLP, Universities of Warwick and Bristol, and the IEE.

Allan has followed an international career, living and working in Texas for five years and more latterly as a Director of Lucas. He has PhD from London University, is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Certificate in Advanced Coaching Skills

Carl Taylor From his foundation of internal consultancy within the Shell Group of Companies, Carl moved to independent consulting in 1990.  Since then he has provided consultancy, coaching and training services to an extensive client list that includes Earls Court and Olympia, Hays PLC, The Royal Brompton NHS Trust, The British Standards Institute, Kent Aerospace, Medway Ports, Viridian Biotechnology, Capital Radio Group and Reuters.

On the ‘lighter’ side, Carl occasionally lectures in psychology and runs personal development weekends.  This reflects his long-standing interest in developing the potential of others. He also sails – usually around UK shores, but once across the North Atlantic!

Joy Ferguson, Joy’s passion is in enabling leaders to excel at work, helping them make major breakthroughs in achieving change and the powerful resolution of issues. She uses her extensive coaching skills, understanding of business dynamics and psychological depth to help senior people extend their capability, unleashing personal and organisational success.

With a blue-chip background in business and internal consultancy, clients include British Telecom, ACNielsen, Johnson & Johnson, Dun & Bradstreet, Philips,Sun Microsystems, and the University of Reading.

Joy is an NLP Master Practitioner, Fellow of the CIPD and holds a ‘Business Excellence’ Certificate, leadership for the future’ Certificate and a Masters degree in counselling.

Clare Gallagher has an established track record as a coach to a number of blue chip industries across a range of industry sectors. Clients include AstraZeneca, Abbey, AMEC, Avecia, Arla Foods, Bradford School of Management and Huddersfield University, Sainsbury’s, Syngenta and The Telegraph Group.

Clare’s own career path reflects her values of continuous improvement and lifelong learning. Originally trained as a professional engineer, she worked first for ICI in a wide range of line management roles, moved into Zeneca as a senior human resources manager and then became an internal consultant in AstraZeneca before starting her own business. She has worked in many different locations including two years in Brazil, as Assistant Works Manager on a Colours Manufacturing Site. This required fluency in Portuguese and the flexibility to adapt to a very different culture in order to be truly effective. She was runner-up in “Business Woman of the Year”

Flamina Fazi comes from a diverse early background in as PR, sales, employee in an insurance company,  actress, teacher and event organiser.  Since she started working in the organizational development sector she has been developing significant skills as presenter and change facilitator and trainer, before directing her attention and focus on coaching.

For the last 15 years Flamina has been intensely committed to her personal and professional development specializing in different tools and techniques of modern psychology applied to personal and professional development. She has intensive experience in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and counselling, holding qualifications in both disciplines. In the past five years she has successfully given her contribution to the development of the people, at different levels, of the following organisations:Accenture, Baxter, Consip, Vodafone, Telecom, Poste Italiane, DHL, Premiere Farnell, The Walt Disney Company Italy, Ferrovie dello Stato, Banca Generali, Capitalia – Banca di Roma, Cardiff Paribas, RAS, FedEx.

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Barbara Adamson is a successful executive coach and facilitator with a wealth of experience in the field of personal and professional development gained from working in a range of industries and projects in the UK, Europe and the USA.  Before becoming a consultant she worked in the airline industry in a variety of customer service and leadership roles; for the past 7 years she has been a successful personal and professional development coach.

She coaches from manager to VP level, her main areas of focus are: leadership, career planning & transition, communication, EQ & Personal Mastery.Barbara’s coaching client base includes senior executives and managers in blue chip organisations; sectors include Telecommunications, Banking, Travel, Insurance, FMCG, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, and IT.

Jackie Smith started her career as an Occupational and Counselling Psychologist with the Further Education sector in Sydney, Australia. On her return to the UK she set up a Greenfield site and developed a National Management Development Centre for a group of companies. She subsequently joined one of the major global management consultancies as a Principal Associate and was involved in launching and implementing a mentoring programme for partners, as well as coaching Senior Executives driving Change Programmes.

Recent projects include: facilitating workshops for executive teams on defining a values based culture, coaching team members to become champions of the change process and consulting with change agents during the implementation (IT, Manufacuring, Banking sectors); facilitating action learning sets and 1:1 coaching as part of a leadership development programme; providing psychometric feedback to senior managers (Publishing, Health) and to newly formed teams (Telecommunications); conducting coaching and internal consulting courses (Manufacturing, Telecommunications); and facilitating a 3 year business planning process (Arts).

Alan Chambers After joining the Royal Marines in 1985, Alan lived and worked around the globe in the most extreme climates, including the arctic, desert, jungle and remote mountains, for sixteen years. He qualified as a diver, parachutist, paramedic and ski survival instructor.

Alan led the first successful British team to walk unsupported from Canada to the Geographical North Pole. Alan was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s 2000 New Years’ Honours list for determination and strong leadership in such adverse conditions, and became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, England.

Since returning from the North Pole, Alan left the Royal Marines to focus on delivering inspirational team management and leadership talks to a global audience of executives from a broad spectrum of businesses and non-profit organisations. These talks are delivered on their own or by working in conjunction with management consultants to deliver high performance business lessons in a practical way. Alan found that the values that brought success to the North Pole journey are directly applicable to the business world. The presentation can be adapted to suit a company or organisation’s specific learning focus.

Sue Barley was a research leader in the chemical industry before moving into business management. She was an area sales manager and facilitated successful cross-functional business teams. Sue moved into consulting, training and coaching originally with the change consultancy, The Coverdale Organisation

She has many years experience as a consultant and trainer in the field of behavioural change for blue chip and public sector organisations. Her clients have included Orange, hp (formerly Compaq), Guinness, Woolworths, several business media organisations, Bass and South West Water. She has developed and devised strategic trainings in alignment with key business issues to enhance leadership skills, team-working, project and programme management and behavioural change workshops.

Sue has facilitated new teams at Board level to enable them to be rapidly high performing and develop vision and values, role and strategy and discover innovative solutions to business issues.

Michel Rener is Business Development Director of The Performance Solution and based in Paris. He is an experienced executive coach and trainer with more than 20 years of international exposure.

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