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Our Facilitators:
Lisa Brice is the founder of Horses for Courses® and our lead facilitator. She is an experienced and highly regarded trainer, executive coach and business consultant. She specialises in working with senior executives and top teams. She is passionate about helping individuals and organisations achieve their true potential. Since 1994 she has been working with a wide range of private and public companies both in the UK and internationally to provide training interventions to increase performance and profitability. Lisa has been running her own very successful training and consultancy company (choose2b ltd) since 2000. In addition to the experiential style training of the Horses for Courses® programmes, choose2b ltd (www.choose2b.co.uk) offers a wide range of traditional style training solutions.
Lisa started riding at the age of two, having inherited the love of horses from her mother. Prior to going to university to study History and Law, Lisa did her British Horse Society (www.bhs.org.uk) riding instructor examinations. Having obtained her BA(hon) degree from Leicester University, she entered a management development programme and was rapidly promoted to an area manager role. She moved into training in 1994 and gained her qualification with CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)(www.cipd.co.uk). Lisa has continued to gain qualifications throughout her career and is a QCF Assessor, Internal Verifier and External Verifier, as well as an NLP Business Practitioner and Master Practitioner and a certified Trainer of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). She also has an NLP Coaching Diploma, a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Diploma in Business Support and Diploma in Strategic Business Coaching.
Through her Horses for Courses® programmes, Lisa combines her two greatest passions; people’s potential and horses. Lisa first encountered her form of “natural horsemanship or horse whispering” at the Lazy M Ranch in Ontario, Canada from trainers Lane and Margie Moore. (www.lazymcanada.com). Subsequently having attended training programmes with Chris Irwin (www.chrisirwin.com) and Mark Rashid (www.markrashid.com), Lisa has spent many hours observing horses in the wild and in domestic situations, testing new techniques and exploring different theories about how best to communicate effectively with horses.
Jacqueline Harris
Jacqueline is an experienced trainer, facilitator and coach. She initially spent sixteen years in the banking industry and since 1998 she has been working with a variety of clients from multi-national corporates to owner-managed businesses.
Jacqueline specialises in all aspects of sales, client service, communication and relationship skills and uses high impact communication and relationship building skills to work at all levels from senior management/Board level to new recruit. As well as being an excellent consultant, trainer and speaker, Jacqueline is also an experienced Team and Executive Coach.
Through her facilitative, pragmatic, inspiring and gentle yet challenging coaching and facilitation style, Jacqueline helps her clients to deliver business and personal results through aligning business and personal vision and values, translating objectives into practical action plans, uncovering and releasing potential and inspiring teams and individuals to take action.
Dawn Bentley
Dawn has a breadth of management and commercial awareness through exposure to a variety of business situations and has managed several organisations through change processes. Having worked for major UK and Global companies in both the private, and public sector, her experience has focussed on managing change where she has successfully led and developed individuals, and teams, to achieve results.
She is familiar with the speed required to deliver a growth scenario and the need to retain margin in a downsizing operation. She has personally led downsizing programmes, and managed the communication programme for a major reorganisation covering 400 sites, 6 regions and over 60,000 people. This enables her to understand the differing challenges facing organisations, teams, and individuals in changing circumstances.
Her aim and commitment when working with teams and individuals is to enhance their performance and recognise their true capability, ensuring there is some knowledge transfer in the process.
She has a passion for inspirational leadership, individual excellence, and unstinting pursuit of the best possible solutions for her clients. She is incisive, with impeccable judgement, and is a committed and passionate champion for all those with whom she works. She will challenge, support and work consistently and creatively to get the very best outcomes for her clients. Her personal style conveys her clear thinking and penetrating insights. She has a curiousity and adventurous quality which lends a light, fun side to the relationships she has with her clients, balancing and complimenting her professionalism.
In addition to her commercial experience, she brings over 10 years experience of facilitating on a highly effective Leadership in Management programme, is an accredited coach with Strathclyde University, and has an MBA from Sussex University. She is qualified to use a variety of psychometric tools, a Master NLP practitioner, and Somatic Coach. She is also an accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation.
She offers executive coaching and facilitation to individuals and teams that are designed to create lasting and sustainable change and allows individuals to be the best they can be.
Joanna Jesson
Joanna co-runs a management consultancy called Business Pulse, which specialises in executive coaching, culture change, leadership, teambuilding and key account management. Joanna believes that one of her roles is to help clients manage the “ups and downs” of business life. The “ups” include creating increases in profitability, boardroom clarity and focus and customer retention and the “downs” include reducing costs, staff turnover and inefficiency. One of the many hats that Joanna wears is as Chairman of one of The Academy For Chief Executives Director Forum Groups.
With the challenges of the future in mind, Joanna believes that her role as Chairman is to help Academy members keep up in a rapidly changing world, convert best practice into common practice and to keep asking the questions that will help deliver both personal happiness and business success
Joanna is also an excellent coach and facilitator and has had extensive training in several different coaching techniques, including Voice Dialogue, and being an NLP Business Practitioner and Master Practitioner (NLP = Neuro Linguistic Programme). She is well qualified to help people increase their confidence, self-esteem and commitment to achieve fulfilment and life goals.
Joanna is passionate about helping people to ‘reach their stars’ by aligning their personal visions and aspirations with practical action plans. She loves nothing more than to spread some magic and metaphorically walk the journey alongside her clients as they move forward to achieve their longed for outcomes.
She also has a clear focus on her own life goals and her purpose and to that end she wears a piece of jewellery which has been specially designed to reflect the 4 key aspects of how she and Phil, her lovely husband, choose to live their lives together.
When not at work Joanna loves to feel the sand between her toes or the fallen autumn leaves beneath her wellies, or even better to float above the world in a hot air balloon.
Inge Fisher
Inge is a seasoned management consultant, with specialist expertise in the assessment and development of people, across a wide range of industries, in both private and public sectors. She has run her own consulting practice since 1997. In August 2008 Inge joined Harpum Consulting full-time as Leader of the People Practice.
Inge initially gained her experience of coaching and training people over a period of 20 years through her career in Human Resources, in which she specialised in the assessment of people for jobs, promotion, potential, and development. These roles often necessitated the coaching of people for selection processes, new roles, and in overcoming career setbacks and disappointments, and the training of managers in, for example, interviewing skills.
Following completion of a Masters in Career Management and Counselling, Inge shifted her focus from assessment to development, and has undertaken a number of highly bespoke coaching and training assignments alongside her work with career counselling clients. Coaching assignments include: development coaching with high potential Police Officers; supporting middle and senior managers facing difficulties at work; accelerating effective performance of new appointments in highly complex matrix environments.
Inge makes judicious use of psychometric instruments in achieving self-awareness in individuals and groups, including FIRO-B, MBTI and 16PF.
In addition to working with individuals, Inge also relishes the dynamics of group interventions, and has designed and facilitated many training and development programmes, including coaching and mentoring skills for managers.
Whether working with groups or individuals, Inge’s driving motivation is to help people discover, on their terms and in their way, their potential for real growth and development.