Heather White - Speaker, Coach and Trainer
Heather White is the Founder of Smarter Networking. She is a highly sought after speaker, coach, trainer, facilitator, connector and author.
Heather is described as a networking architect because of her unique ability to strip down and then build up extremely successful networks. She works closely with individuals, teams and companies. She specialises in helping businesses and professional individuals create networking strategies which enable them to find and break into new sectors, form internal & external collaborations and secure new business opportunities.
Heather also coaches business leaders on how to use business networking skills to achieve their individual and business performance targets. Her focus is on creating confident, engaging and willing individuals who each enjoy networking their own way.
She has been asked to pass on her networking skills to thousands of people from across sectors including: private, public, charities, voluntary groups, membership organisations, business schools and entrepreneurs. She has worked with sales teams, back office staff, international groups, lawyers, accountants, business owners, sole traders, senior management teams and many, many others. People and relationships are a way of living life to the fullest and through consideration and sharing the rewards are infinite.
In Action: National everywoman Conference 2009, Smarter Networking...Be authentic, Be profitable and Do it in style by Heather for 300 business women, Video Link...
Read more: Online interview with Heather White with We Are The City. Open link....
Stephanie Peckham - Trainer, Coach, Speaker and Facilitator
Following a long career in the finance sector primarily focused on learning and development, Stephanie became a career coach in 2001, starting her own business and becoming a lead consultant for a global career consultancy. She met Heather White (founder of Smarter Networking) in 2004 (through networking!) and joined the Smarter Networking team in 2005.
Stephanie understands how people tick and this underpins all of her work, whether coaching, facilitating or speaking. In her workshops she creates a lively and positive atmosphere in which people can work and learn together about the art of networking, as well as other "people" skills such as presenting, influencing, leadership, self-awareness and team building.
She has worked across sectors, functions and at all levels - from senior police officers to students, scientists to salespeople, bankers to small business owners - from the UK and around the globe. The diversity of her clients has given great depth to her experience and plenty of different scenarios to draw upon.
Stephanie is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and holds an MSc in HR; as well as being a "seasoned networker" she is a qualified performance coach, mediator and an enthusiastic and experienced administrator for a range of personality tools (MBTI, MBTI Step II, 16PF and WIS).
Michelle Brailsford
Michelle Brailsford's primary focus is "adding life back into work" by helping organisations build authentic relationships.
Michelle has been able to apply her considerable blue-chip experience, gained in a wide variety of human resource roles, to make a real impact on the people side of her clients' businesses. She worked as an internal organisational consultant, trainer and manager for MCI Telecommunications for twelve years before leaving to set up her own boutique consultancy.
Michelle has consulted across various industries in both the US and Europe including a number of FTSE 100 companies.
She holds a BA in Business and an MSc in Organistional Behaviour and is certified to deliver a number of cutting edge programmes including Organisational Savvy ©, The Leadership Compass ©, Positive Politics for Powerful Female Leaders © and Better Buyer Relationships ©
Simon Card OBE
Simon Card quite simply is a connector, an introducer. He is an expert on relationship management and executive networks. He is also a non-executive member of BT's South East Regional Board, is a member of the SEEDA (South East England Development Agency) Corporate Cabinet and is involved with The Briefing Circle, a high-level briefing programme for directors of FTSE 250 companies and their peers in the public and not for profit sectors.
Until recently Simon was Head of Strategic Relations - Pan Government at BT, responsible for developing high-level relationships between the company and the UK Government. He has held a series of senior marketing and relationship management roles during his 14 years at BT both in the Global Finance and Government sectors and at Concert (the BT / AT&T Global venture).
Simon's career has included experience of the retail sector at J Sainsbury, commodity trading and senior sales and marketing roles in the financial services and technology sectors.
Apart from his family, Simon takes a keen interest in politics, countryside pursuits and local, national and international affairs, is chairman of the Ambassadors at Merlin (www.merlin.org.uk) the British medical aid charity and Honorary Town Crier for a local village in Buckinghamshire!
Len Lord
An energetic and enthusiastic networker, Leonore's network is as diverse as it is strong and her networking skills and approach reflect her very genuine interest in how people can develop their careers and businesses through trusted relationships.
Leonore specialises in providing motivational support and business advice drawing on her experience in business development and account management in areas including Financial Services, Fashion, Travel & Tourism, Charities, Training & Education and Recruitment.
She has over 15 years' experience in providing coaching and training to a wide range of organisations and individuals. An NLP Master Practioner and Psychology Masters student, Leonore is an experienced consultant with a wealth of experience supporting business development and growth. She is also very active within the community, serving on the boards of a number of charities and community groups.
Dexter Moscow
Over the last 40 years Dexter has gained substantial expertise working and coaching at the highest levels in property, advertising, sales, and entertainment. As a superb networker, much of his work is focused on passing on the key skills and knowledge required to network authentically and successfully, with great results for organisations and individuals.
Working with major organisations, he has positively impacted turnover and profitability. With individuals he has greatly improved their ability to positively influence others. They have heightened communication skills, new insights and increased confidence in 'selling', themselves and their business proposition. He motivates his delegates to think outside the box, develop original ideas and have the confidence to implement them
Participants in Dexter's courses and coaching programmes are empowered to persuade, engage and develop instant rapport with a diverse audience resulting in effective communication, 'buy in' from colleagues, more sales and greater brand recognition.
Michael Vincent
Michael Vincent is a professional magician and speaker. His expertise in the arena of presenting magical illusion is linked to the art of building rapport and communication with others. He has worked with audiences from all over the world and this has given him a unique perspective on people, life and how we communicate. Consider the skills of a magician – they have to be able to build instant trust and rapport in order to distract people from the trick. How do they do that?
His three passions in life are magic, people and communication. These three components have allowed him to explore how best he can serve and authentically liberate others in the process. One of his key presentations is called The Tapestry of Communication and Rapport Dynamics © and gets audiences to look that much deeper inside themselves and how they choose to develop their relationships.
Kate Walker
Kate has been described as "having an uncannily accurate understanding of people" which is why she is so good at what she does - training, coaching and recruitment. It also makes her a great networker.
Kate's skills lie in a natural ability to build and maintain relationships with a diverse mix of people. Her values and passion are about supporting, developing and motivating others to perform to their potential. She is an ardent advocate of the natural process of networking for enhancing the sharing of information, personal credibility and visibility.
With over 9 years experience managing the supply and demand of circa 600 people for Barclays in central London, Kate has an outstanding track record of hiring and developing successful key business leaders. More recently, she specialises in supporting clients hit by the recession, including managing change, the importance of networking and presentation skills.
Kate is BPS accredited - Level A and B, Occupational Testing and Personality Profiling (SHL); she is a Member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (MREC) and holds a Certificate in Recruitment Practice (CertRP), Distinction.