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Nigel
Cutts was born Yorkshire towards the end of the Second World
War, he was educated at Scarborough High School for Boys, Leeds
College of Art and Kingston College of Art.
His career in the design world spanned more
than forty years. His first job was as an assistant to Don
Ashton, the hotel and film designer of the Fifties and Sixties
who designed the original Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong and won an
Oscar for "Bridge Over The River Kwai". At his second firm he
was made their youngest ever Associate. During the late
Seventies and through the Eighties he ran his own substantial
design business and latterly set up the UK office of an
international firm of architects, ending up as an International
Director before retiring from main stream business in early
2009.
Nigel is someone who has always believed that
to be the best you need to be with the best – even in his
childhood days, when he learned to water ski with the Cambridge
University Water Ski Club. From this he became a founder member
of his local club where he was chief instructor and club
champion for several years, teaching people like Dickie
Henderson and Nicholas Parsons.
The natural progression of his life has been
towards a combination of excellence and people. He now brings
all this knowledge and experience together and runs, with his
wife Gilly, Cutts & Cons, a consultancy specialising in
coaching, counselling and mentoring business leaders
specifically in the area of improving the quality and
independence of their thinking and giving that full expression.
Nigel and Gilly live in Surrey and between
them they have seven children and nine grandchildren.
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Love at Work |
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Nancy Kline
is President of Time To Think, an international leadership
development and coaching company. She is also a published author
and public speaker.
Nancy created and
pioneered the development of the theory and process called The
Thinking Environment®.
This model allows people to turn their teams, organisations and
relationships into Thinking Environments in which people at
every level can think for themselves with rigour, imagination,
courage and grace. The process increases the quality of thinking
in, and thus of concrete results from, all human interactions,
both in pairs and in groups, and decreases the amount of time it
takes to achieve them.
Nancy and the other Time
To Think Consultants and Coaches do Thinking Environment work in
companies, universities, human resource organisations, Coaching
organisations, legal networks, government agencies and voluntary
organisations. Thinking Environment work is active in the UK,
Ireland, the United States, Spain and South Africa.
Time To Think began in
1984 and grew out of Nancy’s consulting and teaching work near
Washington, DC, where she had served as a Founding Director of
The Thornton Friends School for twelve years and as Director of
The Leadership Institute for six years. She is a Fellow of
Ashridge Management College, UK.
Nancy was born and
raised in New Mexico and lives in England with her husband,
Christopher Spence.
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Rick Armstrong & Rob P. Brown |
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Rick Armstrong has a
background in advertising, management consultancy, training and
marketing. For nearly two decades he lived and worked in the
Middle East, mainly in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates.
Rick was CEO of Gulf based
Mentor Group providing management and consultancy services to
companies and organisations such as: Saudi Aramco Oil Company;
Gulf Air; Reebok Middle East; Middle East Development Company;
Volvo; and Emirates Airline. Rick also worked alongside various
UK government agencies throughout the region.
When he returned from the Middle
East in 2000, Rick acquired and created various business
interests including a design agency and for a number of
years he was Chief Executive of a law firm with a special
interest in anti-terrorism, covert policing and matters of
national state-based interest.
Rob P. Brown, Rob is a freelance
trainer, consultant and coach and works throughout the UK &
Ireland.
He has a first degree in Business Studies, an Associateship in
Corporate Administration, a Post Graduate Diploma in Public
Health and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
His career began in the private sector where he worked for four
large public limited companies. His roles included: training,
organisational development, project management, mentoring,
accountancy, customer service management and acting as company
secretary.
He went on to work for the the NHS where he was latterly
Training and Education Manager with the Primary Care Trust. His
role included commissioning and delivering local and national
training and conference programme and organisational development
across the Trust and with partner organisations.
Rob is co-author of "Boys Own" a book about self-esteem,
emotional resourcefulness and young men and regularly delivers a
two-day course across the UK and Ireland which accompanies this
work.
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The Little
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Morag Higgins
has been riding for over thirty five years and teaching for
almost three decades. She has had the privilege to have known
and worked with many, many horses in her career having
participated in several disciplines such as jumping, dressage,
one-day eventing, showing and western riding.
Traditionally trained, Morag was herself a very traditional
trainer and rider producing many horses to top level in a
variety of disciplines, but through it all she was always
seeking more. She began to study with the Intelligent
Horsemanship Association in 1999. After qualification she was
made the Recommended Associate for Scotland in 2002 and
continued in this role for four years.
In 2005 Morag had the good fortune to ride on a clinic with top
American trainer Mark Rashid. A fellow Martial Artist, she
instantly understood his ethos and he has been the real
inspiration that guided her down the path leading to the
development of the Equido Training system. One of the first
Natural Horsemanship systems to be recognized as a National
Qualification.
Morag trains from her yard Ross Dhu Equestrian in Quarter,
Larkhall, Scotland and continues to grow and develop as a
Natural Horsewoman and Trainer.
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Bruja |
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While searching for a new
energy and optimism following several sudden and untimely young
deaths within his circle of friends and family, including those
of his fiancée and sister, James Mackenzie Wright started writing short stories
in an attempt to define and crystallise his feelings.
During two decades as a
teacher and performance coach, James has delivered hundreds of
talks and workshops around the world, accumulating a hoard of
insights into the challenges and choices associated with
personal achievement and peak performance.
He is committed to the
work of Amnesty International and speaks regularly in schools
and colleges around the UK on their behalf.
James divides his writing
time between homes in the UK and the south of France.
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Seven
For A Secret |
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