Extensive experience working with British and American firms and businesses helping them win new business and accelerate sales performance. Associate Partner with sales performance acceleration specialists Collaborate Sales Performance, offering advisory services and world class, research-based workshops specifically designed to enhance and transform your sales performance. We work with our clients and customers in:• Creating strategic approaches to “Rainmaking” and business development for professionals; • Conducting deal reviews, improving opportunity management and creating win plans to boost win rates;• Improving your pitching and presenting and communications skills; • Developing negotiation skills and neuroscience-based approaches to deal-making;• Growing business with existing customers using strategic account management skills, tools and know-how; and• Fluency coaching in conversations that count What is fluency coaching? Fluency coaching provides you with opportunities for risk-free practice in conversations that matter with your customers, clients, and colleagues. As a highly experienced professional corporate role-player, I create, write and produce realistic and immersive role-play-based simulations designed for effective performance improvement in difficult conversations, for executives, managers and professionals in general and for sales & marketing teams in particular. I am also the UK Commercial Consul (honorary) for the State of New Hampshire, USA, appointed in 2002 to represent the State’s business community in the UK.Earlier career experience includes senior management and leadership roles, advisory roles in business and economic strategy & planning, and the best part of two decades spent working as a corporate lawyer in London. I frequently write and speak on technology innovation and envisioning possible futures for business and society in a digitally transformed world, as seen through the lens of science fiction in film & TV. I have created, produced and hosted ‘future of technology’ events at the London Science Museum.I am a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Commerce and Manufacture (RSA) and also a Fellow of the British American Project, a high-level transatlantic leadership network.