Vision Learning and Development

		Graham Shaw Graham is the founder of Vision Learning and Development. He has extensive business training experience and is a former training manager at British Airways. He specialises in training trainers and presenters and in business applications of NLP. He has trained thousands of people around the world and is known for his use of fast cartoon drawings during presentations. He teaches these skills along with advanced trainer skills in his Master Classes for trainers. Graham also takes his skills into schools to teach Accelerated Learning to students and teachers. He is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP.
		Chris McCloskey Chris specialises in the psychology of advanced personal communication in business. He is a Chartered Psychologist and experienced trainer with a focus on the application of psychology in training and one-to-one coaching. He has delivered training workshops to a wide range of professions within the business sector, local government and the Health Service. Chris has had significant senior management experience within a leading Public Authority, playing a major role in policy development and directly managing multi-million budgets. Chris’s past lives include; Carmelite friar, teacher and educational psychologist! Chris has a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology and is a Certified Trainer and Master Practitioner in NLP.
		Jan Boyd Jan has extensive business training and consultancy experience and is a former HR, and Learning and Development Manager at British Airways and Mars. She specialises in resourcing (including designing and implementing effective recruitment processes, and training others in recruitment and assessment techniques), and performance management (from how to implement review processes to developing performance management skills). She loves helping managers develop their people management skills and enjoys facilitating consultation groups, business planning workshops and at conferences. Jan has also worked with villagers in Lesotho and as a management consultant for Ernst and Young. She has a BA degree in Development Studies, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a qualified user of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and other profiling and assessment tools.
		Neil Mullarkey Neil Mullarkey co-founded Britain's top improv troupe, THE COMEDY STORE PLAYERS in 1985 and continues to improvise with them twice a week at London's famous Comedy Store. His many credits include Austin Powers movies (International Man of Mystery and Goldmember), Whose Line Is it Anyway, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, QI, Have I Got News For You and Just A Minute. Neil runs workshops using improvisational theatre to enhance people's skills in communication, leadership and innovation. His training clients include the BBC, Ashridge, \|Deloitte, HSBC, KPMG, Cass Business School at City University, Saatchi & Saatchi, Umbro, Leo Burnett, Astra Zeneca and BP. His award-winning alter ego, L. Vaughan Spencer (The Gangsta Motivator), has played theatres and conferences across the world with his show, Don’t Be Needy - Be Succeedy. Look out for his book (published by Profile) in November 2008.
		Graham Smith Graham is an international business trainer and coach. His favourite thing to do is performance coaching, helping managers to bring their interpersonal skills up to the standard of their technical abilities – he loves seeing his clients realise that they can learn how to be good with people. In an earlier life Graham was a professional musician and singer, which explains his relaxed, humorous style and his ability to make learning enjoyable and involving. He has performed or recorded with many artists, including Eric Clapton, Al Stewart, Cat Stevens and Emerson Lake & Palmer. He is a Master Practitioner of NLP and a hypnotherapist and has taught NLP at the Universities of London and Bristol.
		Diana Brown Diana is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and experienced business consultant. She has helped individuals and organisations with career and performance issues, designed and implemented assessment and selection methods and provided training and development in many blue-chip organisations. She worked for 10 years in research, and for 13 years in British Airways as a manager and internal consultant before becoming an independent business consultant. She operates both at the strategic level and at an in-depth level with individuals. Diana is a skilled assessor & coach, an NLP Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP. She is the author of ‘Assessment Strategies for Business Advantage’ (Financial Times 1999) and is committed to individual development and to fostering flexible, creative solutions to organisational problems.