Martin is a graduate in Psychology, After a brief spell in banking with NatWest in London he joined the computer industry.

Oliver is an international trainer, speaker, performer and consultant.

Oliver is passionate about people, their uniqueness and what can be achieved when our differences are communicated and celebrated collaboratively. His inspiration has grown from his life experiences in creativity and rhythm and from the insights he has discovered working with people throughout the world. "It is all the experiences in our lives up till now, that make us unique. When we choose to engage with this uniqueness and express it and share it with others, powerful music is made. Our diversity breathes life into music. This principle runs through all areas of our life and work."

Karen Bushnell


With over 20 years experience in Training and development, Karen has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience across many industry sectors.
Karen’s career began in sales with two large corporate companies in the U.K, and with the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain, where she enjoyed two years as an expat.  Success here led to her passion for learning, and helping others develop their knowledge and skills base, and importantly to help others become more self aware in order to improve their communication, decision making, and conflict management skills etc within their own team and organisation.
Karen worked as a Sales training manager, and Management development consultant with Yell.com for over 12 years, and has since worked as a Development consultant with companies such as Bryant homes, Red funnel ferries, British Telecom, Reed Business Information Services, and Bendicks of Mayfair Ltd.
Qualified as a Member of the C.I.P.D (Chartered Institute of Professional Development) Karen also specialises in the use of a number of Psychometrics including; Occupational Testing, Occupational Personality Questionnaire(OPQ 32) Motivation Questionnaire (M.Q) and the 360degree profile on Management Competencies by Saville and Holdsworth Ltd, also the MBTI, Belbin, and  Firo. B, these are used in recruitment, Individual and team development, and in development programmes where appropriate.
Karen Designs and delivers programmes in a number of areas such as Team building, Change, Assertiveness, Stress Management, Leadership and Communication skills, and Sales.
Karen believes learning should be fun, her style during training is professional, energetic, and flexible, adapting to the needs of her audience ensuring learning translates to return on investment.

Branko is a sculptor and innovation advisor, founder of a consulting firm based in Italy and Holland serving individuals and businesses to exploit their innovative potential. Since ’93 he worked with numerous individuals, private and public organizations in Europe and the USA.

Branko discovered the strengths of creative problem solving when he was working in the field of integral water management at the Ministry of Water Management and Public Works in the Netherlands through Principles in Creative Problem Solving Facilitation of Group Problem Solving, Foundations of Creative Learning, and Creativity Assessment Methods.
In his business he combines his passion, knowledge and experience to advise, train and facilitate people to switch on their imagination and to create.
Focus on coaching of individuals and groups in processes of change and/or innovation, intervention and transformational skills, Intercultural management & communicational skills; intercultural motivation patterns; time organization and spatial arrangement; language patterns; intercultural intervention techniques.

Senior consultant of business transformation (designing and managing general management workshops / projects) this has included leadership, team effectiveness, communication, customer service / relations and time management, and face-to-face / telephone skills – including proposal writing, negotiation and Key Client Management, with particular emphasis on
 Experiential Team Building programs and Training in the application of creativity techniques acting as advisor in processes to induce an innovative climate or culture in organizations.

Holding Master of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo State College, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, USA

He is passionate about designing & delivering creativity experiential education, and being consultant of advanced tools and techniques

He is Master Practitioner in Intercultural Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Institute of Social Engineering (ISE), Hulshorst, The Netherlands

Branko understand / speak / write German, English, French and Italian

Certified, Advanced Four Sight trainer, Irene has designed, trained, facilitated workshops and courses to nurture skills in creative problem solving and facilitate their concrete application to address real life challenges. Enthusiastic creative problem solving consultant and organizational climate analyst, Irene holds a Master in Political Science, with specialization in Work Psychology and Group Theories and Techniques at the Bologna University. She is currently completing a Master in Creative Studies in New York. She is co - founder and R&D director of a Dutch firm committed in helping, internationally, entrepreneurs and profit as well as not for profit organizations to develop innovative products and services, to measure the effectiveness of CPS training and interventions, to build high performance task forces and to capitalize the value of their organizational assets.
In the past 10 years she has collaborated with many international organizations as: IBM Italy,Gucci Group, Sasib Railway Group, Executive and Corporate Management Training Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna (CTC), Bologna University, Comer Group Industries S.p.A; Thomson Prometric Learning, CLM Research and Advice S.p.A; Ministry of Transportation, Public Works and Water Management (RWS), Institute of Social Engineering (ISE); Creativity European Association, International Center of Studies for Creative Studies, SUNY Buffalo State College;
Royal Mail Innovation Lab.


Rob Stone


Rob is an experienced and highly regarded project and programme manager who has delivered complex, high value projects in the Aerospace, Telecoms and Technology sectors.  Rob is a full member of the APM, is qualified to APMP and PRINCE2 standards and has a Masters degree in International Technology Management from Warwick University.
 
Rob is also an accomplished project management trainer and consultant.  During his four years at GEC’s Management College Rob delivered core project management courses into the GEC businesses.  He worked closely with senior management within GEC, assisting them in the development and roll-out of key processes, such as Lifecycle Management, Risk Management and Earned Value Management. 

Rob also delivered several “open” courses on related topics, such as Software Project Management, Contract Management and Project Planning and Control.
 
Since returning to industry in the late 90’s Rob has maintained his interest and passion in project management development.  He led the development of his company’s Project Management Development Framework, a competency-based development tool for project managers.  He also developed a Project Leadership programme, focused on the development of core leadership and management skills.  He also delivered the “Professional” APM certification programme into parts the UK Civil Service, achieving an 85% pass rate. 
 
Rob is currently a Project Director with QinetiQ, Europe’s largest Science & Technology Company.

Kay Maybin


Kay is an experienced Management Development Consultant with over 15 years experience of working with clients to help facilitate organisational change with individuals, teams and functions to meet business needs. Kay has held Senior Management Development roles within industries from the following sectors; Telecommunications, Defence and Retail with experience of working in a global environment. She has extensive experience in leadership and team development, change management and project management of key projects such as performance management, competency development and coaching for senior managers.

Business Experience; 4 years Tutor/Consultant at GEC Management College, designing and delivering senior management programmes for blue chip companies within and outside the GEC group.
Learning and Organisational Development Manager for Marconi Communications. A consultant to HR business partners and Heads of Business within the Operations Division (18,000 people, globally based).
Human Resources Consultant for Scottish and Newcastle Retail. Responsibility for the design and implementation of the talent and succession management strategy across the Retail Division.
Talent Project Manager for the Spirit Group. Responsibility for design and implementation of talent and succession strategy, including; Development centres, 1:1 coaching, design and delivery of Executive Leadership Programme including a ‘Diploma in Management Studies’.
Part-time Lecturer, since 2005 for Northampton University Business School.
Since 2005, Kay has been working as an independent training consultant with clients in the following sectors; retail, construction, telecommunications, airport group and also in the public sector. She has become particularly known for her work in the areas of design and delivery of assessment and development centres, 1:1 coaching, change management and leadership and team development.

Qualifications/Training; Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), 1988 - Degree (Hons) in Psychology, 2007 - MBA, 2000 - Level A and B qualified in psychometric testing: MBTI (Step 1 and 2), Hogan, OPQ and Firo Element ‘B’ (behaviour profile) - Certificate in Coaching (Linkage International)

Tim has a knack of making the difficult feel easy. His relaxed approach disguises his efforts to create these translations that result in workshops and client engagements that are collaborative, engaging and exploratory.
With a particular interest in deliberate creativity, Tim has worked with organizations large and small, across all levels of seniority from the board room to the shop floor. The common thread in all of his engagements is his ability to connect with the people on a very human level.

His career has been wide and varied, including engineering design and development (Tim is the registered inventor of 7 World patents), design and manufacture of novelty giftware, and production licensing and training which required the World-wide travel that sparked his passion for the potential of diversity of cultures and of thinking styles.
The past 6 years have seen Tim focus his knowledge and skills for the benefit and development of others through 3 predominant channels; 1) Teaching others how to develop their productive thinking capabilities, 2) Facilitating others to leverage their own skills to solve their own problems, and 3) Using his own skills as a “trained brain” to explore opportunities and solve problems for clients. All of which require his subtle blend of practitioner skills and academic knowledge which he draws upon from his Masters degree in Creativity Tim’s workshops are always relaxed, experiential and enjoyable, and he is a regular participant, speaker and leader at international creativity conferences including CREA (Italy), Jamboree (UK) and ACRE (South Africa). He is certified in KAI and a proficient facilitator of online and virtual
groups.
In summary, be it on an individual level or an organizational level, Tim is passionate about people and their potential for creative thinking and transformation.

Olwen is a creativity and innovation consultant with 30 years of experience in culture-sensitive issues in North America, Europe, Japan, Mexico and South Africa.
Olwen initially was involved in market research and innovation for American multinational corporations and advertising agencies in North America and Europe. For five years, she directed Nestlé's qualitative research department in France where she pioneered a number of creative qualitative techniques.
For the past twenty years she has brought her expertise as a consultant, trainer and facilitator to companies faced with culture-sensitive issues in team building, innovation, brand name creation, and creative thinking and leadership, notably for the fragrance industry. large corporations such as L’Oréal, Nestlé, Valeo, Firmenich, Bon Grain, Unibail and smaller yet international and dynamic trend forecasting agencies such as TrendLab-Nelly Rodi and Martine Le Herpeur Conseil.

Olwen regularly leads training programs and presents workshops at conferences on various aspects of applied creativity (notably at Creative Problem Solving Institute in the US, CREA Conference in Italy, ACRE in South Africa and Créa-Université in France).
Olwen holds a Master’s degree in economics and a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Paris. She trained in Creative Thinking and Innovation methods in France and the United States. Olwen is a certified facilitator and trainer in the Creative Problem Solving Process with the Creative Education Foundation, USA. She is also a certified practitioner of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, a powerful personal and organizational development tool.

Jim Ahearne

Jim has 30 years experience in coaching, training and organisation development consulting within the Pharmaceutical industry. His forte is his ability to work closely with people to help them get the best results. He was instrumental in implementing a team based structure in Merck in Ireland and bringing this company to the position of being a leader in training and development in the industry. This resulted in consultancy and coaching assignments in the USA and the Far East.

Business Experience:Provided direction and coaching in developing team based Organisations that led to major organisational change within the Merck organisation resulting in significant improvement in business results.
Worked for many years as a world wide member of a learning and development tactical team devising and implementing training and organisation development strategies across Europe, USA and Asia Pacific
Worked on several projects in Ireland, Europe, Singapore, USA and Puerto Rico involving cultural change and employee involvement and engagement best practices
Specialised in Management and Supervisory development, team development, cultural change and Organisation development.
Set up a core competency programmes for Managers and Team leaders across the Merck organisation.
Provided Organisation Development consultancy and coaching and training support in the following areas; Technology implementation and the cultural impact - Employee Engagement and Involvement - Team Development - Management & Leadership Development
Qualifications/Training; BSc degree - University College Cork, Diploma in Business - University of Limerick, Master Trainer - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey Institute USA, Certified Facilitator - Principle Centred Leadership - Covey Institute, USA, Certified Facilitator - Building High Performing teams - Ken Blanchard Co, Certified Facilitator - Management Development - Interaction Management - DDI International USA 
 

Gerry Ryan

A skilled coach, trainer and consultant with practical operations management experience, Gerry has a track record of leading performance improvement within a variety of business operations through getting the best from people.

Coaching and developing individuals and teams at all levels is a key competency, honed over many years. This is reflected in his PCC accreditation - a level reached by only 3 coaches in Ireland to date.

Passionate about the need for appropriate standards of accreditation for the coaching profession in Ireland Gerry became the founder member and director of the Irish Coaching and Development Network (ICDN).

Business Experience,6 years managing the Training and Development function of a major food Group, 13 years in Operations Management, progressing through a series of roles and businesses, with a strong track record of delivering performance improvement through People and Organisational Development,4 years as a Management Coach within a large Company, coaching senior and line management through organisational change and business performance improvement, in Ireland, U.K. and Mainland Europe. Incorporated within the above is the practical experience of: - Design and Implementation of Performance Management Systems - Coaching and Training of management and operational teams & Developing cultures of Involvement and Participation

Gerry is Currently Providing coaching, training and consultancy support to a range of blue-chip business clients since 2000 as a self employed consultant.

Key areas of work have included: Leadership, employee engagement & involvement, organisational change & change management, management development, personal effectiveness, team development and performance improvement.

Phil Bignold

Phil is an experienced trainer who delivers programmes across a wide range of disciplines including leadership, sales and customer service. Phil has spent over 15 years in training and development and has had senior roles in organisations such as British Telecom and Yellow Pages heading up the training and development strategy as well as designing and delivering training. Phil is able to engage his course attendees with his practical and pragmatic approach to training coupled with a relaxed style that sets the atmosphere for learning. A fellow of the CIPD, he is able to deliver a range of prgrammes that develop leadership skills, create high performing sales teams and the customer service skills essential in todays competitive environment. Phil has been fortunate to work in a wide range of organisations, industry sectors and organisational cultures and brings real world experience to his training that can offer new perspectives on the challenges that organisations are facing.


Bernadette Murray

Bernadette is a skilled coach and Human Resources professional with 25 years experience in the IT and Banking sectors. She has a proven track record of taking major projects to successful completion and inherent in this success has been the development of, and the blending of, systems and people.

Business Experience: As a senior consultant - Provides consultancy, coaching and training support to a range of blue-chip and private business clients in Ireland and the Middle East

Key areas of work include: coaching, performance improvement, leadership, employee engagement & involvement, organisational change & change management, management development, personal effectiveness and team development

As an HR Development manager for Bank of Ireland Life part of Ireland’s largest bank - Provided internal consultancy and project management services on all aspects of training and development for a 1200 strong staff to ensure HR initiatives were aligned with the strategic objectives during the merging of two companies with different cultures and identities. This included: Developing an approach to management training and development that ensured best practice industry standards in management learning to current and potential managers, Designing, developing and implementing Training Needs Analysis tools to study strategic and management needs and job skill and competency needs which helped assure the alignment of individual department training plans with overall company objectives, Developing and implementing Engagement, Personal and Career Development programmes & Implementing feedback initiatives including staff surveys, 360 degree feedback and performance planning and review which ensured constructive, sensitive feedback and coaching for both management and staff – i.e. increasing the retention of knowledge capital in the business
As IT Project Manager for New Ireland Assurance
Managed many projects including the full upgrade and integration of the Human Resources and Training systems.

Qualifications: BSc degree - Computer Science (with distinction) Trinity College, Dublin, Certified NLP Practitioner and Member of the American Board of NLP, Diploma in Life, Business and Executive Coaching – Irish Lifecoach Institute, Certified PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner, Certified Facilitator ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ – FranklinCovey & Certified Facilitator ‘Great Leaders Great Teams’ - FranklinCovey

John Fillingham



A knowledgeable, passionate, engaging and inspirational communicator with a broad business and commercial knowledge, used to working across a wide range of sectors and business levels – a truly flexible individual.  He has a talent for performance improvement and motivation, using the latest accelerated learning techniques/NLP and coaching skills that generate outstanding feedback results. Since 2004, John has been working as a independent learning programme designer, facilitator, coach and systems consultant. Prior to that he spent 13 years in HR and Training Management roles, in organisations such as Sainsbury's. With over 17 years experience in both Corporate HR and Training, he delivers programmes widely across Europe (up to ILM level 5), with a Masters Degree in Strategic and International HR, John’s speciality is in the understanding of international culture and communication. John has a wide consultancy experience designing, delivering training and coaching directors and senior managers using the latest techniques.. A great track record of excellent results ensures John is a high impact performer, with qualifications in Business Coaching, Life Coaching and a Master NLP practitioner. John is CIPD qualified and can administer both MBTI & SDI. 

 Paula Harris




An international Human Resources expert, Training Manager and former HR Director, she brings more than 18 years' experience of formulating and delivering HR development strategy for organisations such as ASDA, the Probation Service, Psion Computers and LexisNexis. Paula has a speciality ensure programmes create an effective change in organisations long after they are delivered. As a project leader on global initiatives in organisational change, she has an outstanding track record of creating impact and lasting results on individual performance, employee relations and corporate culture. Able to deliver a wide range of training programmes, around Leadership and team development, Paula also has a number of senior coaching clients that she works with on a one to one basis. Paula is accredited in MBTI, holds an MA in HRM, is a CIPD Qualified, a Time Line therapist, a Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner.