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   Nigel Cutts  


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.

Click on the following link to read about: Love at Work

 
   Nancy Kline  


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.

 

Click on the following link to read about: More Time To Think

   Rick Armstrong & Rob P. Brown  


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.

 

Click on the following link to read more about: The Little Book of Positive Thoughts

   Morag Higgins  

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. 

Click on the following link to read more about: Bruja

 
   Michael Scott  

Dr. Michael Scott has had overlapping careers in biology, business strategy, and the arts.

Michael is the author of several books, he is also a prolific painter  and shares his passion for the arts by encouraging and supporting others in their craft. His latest novel. 'Siren Voices' has recently been released. A book of Michael's paintings, 'Inward Eye', is also available. Michael is currently working on his next novel due for publication in 2008.

Click on the following links to read more about Michael's titles:

The Quest of Oswin Anfortas

Siren Voices

Inward Eye


Mystikos

 
   Eileen Scott  

Eileen Scott has had an amazing career. In the male dominated world of business of the 1960's she fought her way up through the ranks of senior executives at ICI.

Like her husband Michael, Eileen has had overlapping careers in biology, business strategy, and the arts.

Among her prolific creative output Eileen has authored several books, she is a painter. Her latest work 'Being Visual'  is a sampling of paintings spanning some twenty years of her work.

Alasdair The Red Of Troon is written with Michael and its illustrations are based on paintings by the two artists.


Click on the following links to read more about Eileen's titles:

Being Visual

Alasdair the Red of Troon

 
   James Mackenzie Wright  

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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