I am an experienced executive coach and facilitator/trainer.Specialties incl: Performance Coaching, Presentation Skills, Leadership Development, Women in Leadership, Action Learning, Conflict Resolution, Workplace Mediation, Coaching, Mentoring and SupervisionMy primary interest is working with new and emerging leaders to increase awareness and understanding of the seemingly simple, but in reality complex nature of communication. As a trained mediator I see first-hand the stress, anxiety and amount of lost work hours involved in and because of mis-communication. My mission is to make savings (human/spiritual and financial) for both organisations and their people.I have set up and successfully run 5 different businesses. I am a leader, a follower, an entrepreneur and an artist, a theatre director, educator, and mentor and I have directed and managed a large department with full and part-time staff. I recently directed a major piece of touring theatre - The Cause - which toured the SW region and beyond. 26 quality performances and events over a 9 month period period and all delivered on time! I believe that Art and in particular Theatre, can inform and benefit Business.Teacher at HE level 1993 > 2003Head of Theatre 1997 > 2003HEFCE Business Fellow 2000 > 2005Founder member of Theatre 4 Business 2003Joint Director of the Creating Cultural Leadership South West Programme 2007.Joint Director of Confident and Creative Presentations and Walking Your Talk: High Impact Performance at Praxis, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University(ongoing)Co-Director of Charity - Dreadnought South West 2012 Director of 'Oxygen' & The CauseILM Executive Coach and Leadership MentorOCN Workplace MediatorAssociate at Theatre 4 Business LtdAssociate at Wise Goose School of Coaching