"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Meet The Trainers
Sarah and Ben are Idevelop's principle facilitators and they have broad experience in applying NLP in business settings. They are an example of diversity and the differences between them bring out their creativity and support them to keep on learning about one another.
All the trainers on these programmes are continuously applying these practices to themselves and endeavor to be an example of diversity@work.
Our Aims
Sarah and Ben feel that if we can communicate cleanly then we can create a community where diversity and differences enhance and contribute more effectively to a self-regulating, self-learning, self-supporting and sustainable system.
Their approach is to help you become more efficient in the way you understand and deal with differences between people. They aim to create sustainable learning through working with the system so that it develops its own solutions.
They realised that at the heart of their work is diversity, becoming aware of it, harnessing it and celebrating it. They decided they would like to develop a comprehensive programme which has diversity at its heart and different contexts to apply it in. They want to develop individuals systems and systems of individuals to generate their own solutions using their diverse skills and experience.
Sarah’s business experience has been gained from over 25 years in the technology industry working on cutting edge projects. She has learnt how to adapt to rapid changes in this industry while still keeping focused on the goals. Her determination, focus and straight forward thinking have been inspirational to her colleagues and business partners. Throughout her career she has mentored and coached individuals to achieve their potential within this rapidly changing environment.
She has worked across many market sectors from Local Government, Further Education and the private sector. Sarah has successfully attracted seed corn funding on a number of projects which she then built into successful businesses with over a million pound turnover. Each project has involved partnerships with outside organisations and Sarah’s ability to listen and understand their needs ensured each projects success.
Sarah has a unique ability to see under the surface and to tap into the resources trapped by habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and actions. Working with such diverse groups she has amassed invaluable experience which she now channels through iDevelop. Sarah’s unique style enables her to make the difference that makes a difference.
Sarah is a qualified Business Coach, Business Mentor, Qualified Trainer and Master Practitioner of NLP.
In one form or another Ben has spent the majority of his adult life working in the field of interpersonal communications, and in the process, developing skills and insights into a wide variety of human behaviours. He studied Social Anthropology at Greenwich Uni, whilst working with street homeless people.
After many years of working for local authority homeless and social housing teams in London he was in a position to share his acquired knowledge and began working as a freelance trainer of housing law for, among others the Chartered Institute of Housing , Shelter, Sitra, Marlow Associates.
He worked for years prosecuting landlords for harassing their tenants and as a result learnt a lot about dealing with conflict and aggression. Taking these hard won skills into his training work he has, over the past 8 years been running popular and successful conflict facilitation courses up and down the country. The combination of dealing with some particularly dodgy characters for a living and teaching others how to do it means that he knows that the material really works.
Ever eager to know more, Ben took his experience and embarked on a period of further training in the wider aspects of communication and understanding human behaviour. Now he is an NLP Master Practitioner, an Authentic Business Guide and Qualified Trainer of NLP who uses his skills with both individuals and organisations, helping them to discover their own capacities for understanding each other and developing flexibility of behaviour to enhance their effectiveness and performance in elegant and measurable ways.
His courses are high on humour and personal discovery and low on chalk and talk. Originally from London he now lives in the West Country where he indulges his twin obsessions for cooking and, more bizarrely, collecting helmets……………..come in Doctor Jung, we’re ready for you now!
Pauline has been training consultant and business coach for the last 10 years. Her clients include the London Probation Service, the National Health Service, the Metropolitan Police and the charity, Shelter.
In the last year, her work involved delivering a Strategic development day for Chief Executives in the public sector. She also was in demand as a speaker presenting at a number of conferences on conflict management, mediation and diversity. She regularly runs a ‘managing people skill’s course for both the private and public sector.
Pauline combines learning practical skills, in a fun and ethical way, respecting that each participant has their own unique view, which contributes to the group dynamic. ‘It's about opening up choices and possibilities, so that people are able to be at their most resourceful, in their work and lives’.
She is a Master Practitioner of NLP and a Certified Trainer of NLP. She also runs open NLP workshops and courses, at Cliff House Hotel and Conference Centre, in Bournemouth where she lives with her family.
After gaining a Bsc Hons in Industrial Business Systems from De Montfort University Neil moved into computing systems management for Kier Western, part of the national company Kier Group.
During this time he has become a recognised teacher of Reiki and practitioner of Indian Head Massage and trained intensively in counselling for grief and bereavement and working with children, before Gaining a Master Practitioners Certificate in NLP and also becoming a Certified Trainer of NLP.
Over the years Neil has specialised in personal change work with individual clients, helping many individuals overcome phobias, limitations, inhibitions and restricting beliefs.
Neil’s approach to training and change work is to work with what the client brings to the table rather than imposing fashionable models or techniques on them, which allows them to develop and process change at their own rate in the manner most comfortable for them.
A humorous and personable presenter he also has a strong interest in working and learning from the behaviour of wolves, for which he is becoming a volunteer trainee for a major UK based wolf support charity.
COURSE DATES
2nd & 3rd June
Their approach is to help you become more efficient in the way you understand and deal with differences between people. They aim to create sustainable learning through working with the system so that it develops its own solutions.
Sarah’s business experience has been gained from over 25 years in the technology industry working on cutting edge projects. She has learnt how to adapt to rapid changes in this industry while still keeping focused on the goals. Her determination, focus and straight forward thinking have been inspirational to her colleagues and business partners. Throughout her career she has mentored and coached individuals to achieve their potential within this rapidly changing environment.
In one form or another Ben has spent the majority of his adult life working in the field of interpersonal communications, and in the process, developing skills and insights into a wide variety of human behaviours. He studied Social Anthropology at Greenwich Uni, whilst working with street homeless people.
Pauline has been training consultant and business coach for the last 10 years. Her clients include the London Probation Service, the National Health Service, the Metropolitan Police and the charity, Shelter.
After gaining a Bsc Hons in Industrial Business Systems from De Montfort University Neil moved into computing systems management for Kier Western, part of the national company Kier Group.
