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Mandy Merron
Level Two Training
Barry
Morris
Level Two Training
Shan
Preddy
Presentation Skills, Level One, Level Two and Level Three
Training
Michael Thomson
Level One Training
James Woudhuysen
Level Two Training
Jane Bainbridge
Jane Bainbridge is a freelance business journalist, editor and trainer. She has been a journalist for 15 years and before going freelance worked on Marketing magazine for eight years, latterly as deputy editor. Jane writes extensively on marketing, media and business issues for a range of magazines including Marketing, Media Week, The Marketer, Business Sense and Campaign. She also writes for The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer. Her other work includes ghost writing, corporate writing and the training courses include writing training for businesses and media training.
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Jan Casey
With over 25 years experience in the creative
industry, Jan has substantial expertise from both a business
and consultancy perspective. As a board director and shareholder
at Lambie-Nairn, she was responsible for the development
and direction of multi-disciplinary teams originating
and implementing complex, large-scale projects across
a variety of market sectors for clients such as ITN, BBC,
Boots, O2 and Channel Four.
As an independent consultant for over seven years, she
has delivered a unique set of skills for clients and consultancies,
combining her experience as a brand consultant, project
director, business advisor and coach and psychotherapist
to build brands, implement projects and facilitate organisational
change. Recent business clients include NHS, Land Securities,
BBC Broadcast, HM Revenue & Customs, Sky, Royal Mail
and Red Cross and design consultancy clients include hat-trick,
Pentagram and True North. Jan has chaired seminars on
the creative industry and is a fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts.
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Lorna Dallas-Conte
Spanning both design and business through her professional qualifications and her portfolio career, Lorna is well placed to support the DBA Professional Practice Programme. A first degree in Banking followed by a Masters in Design Management, Lorna has first hand experience of project management from a variety of stand points. Her own consultancy Views Limited has been commissioned by the Design Council and the Arts Council as well as Business Link regionally and nationally to conduct research and develop tools and services for the sector. Business clients include Awarding Bodies, Design and Branding Consultancies as well as micro businesses and individuals. Lorna is currently working on several projects linked to the regeneration of East Kent through creativity.
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Fiona Myles
Fiona originally trained as an architect and then after a Cranfield MBA decided to specialise in branding. She has worked as a senior brand consultant at both Wolff Olins and Elmwood, where her experience has included developing the brands for BTopenworld, Buster, Durex, Gazeley, NCR, Richardson Sheffield and GNER's catering brand Go Eat. Fiona currently works as an associate of Viadynamics and as an independent consultant. Recent clients include the Royal Mail, the Tabletop Group, RSPCA and she has worked with the Design Council for the past four years on the Manufacturing Campaign, which is now part of the Designing Demand programme.
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Henry Lydiate
Henry Lydiate is a legal and business consultant specialising in the creative arts. An experienced lawyer, manager, educationalist, strategist and change specialist, with a life-long commitment to the arts and to the support of creative practitioners and organisations through innovation, people development and co-creation. Over twenty-five years experience of international legal and business consultancy work in the creative arts, alongside work undertaken in other content-led industries such as sport, the legal professions, higher education, and public administration. Extensive experience as a public speaker, lecturer and trainer; published writer and journalist with broad experience of media liaison. Sustained commitment to supporting creative arts practice that has been recognised nationally and internationally, most recently by appointment as Visiting Professor to the newly designated University of the Arts, London (formerly The London Institute).
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Liz Lydiate
From a pioneering starting point in
the mid 1970s, Liz has been influential in the introduction
of professional practice teaching in art and design colleges
nationally. She devised and acts as course director for the
DBA Professional Practice Course, and established and managed
BA and MA Design Management Programmes at The Surrey Institute
(now University of the Creative Arts). She is course director
for MA Enterprise and Management of the Creative Arts programmes
at the University of the Arts London, where she specialises
in career and practice development for creative individuals.
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Mandy Merron
Mandy Merron is a partner who works with design and other creative businesses of all sizes and at all stages of development. She has lectured and written on management and financial issues in ?people businesses? She has lead responsibility for developing our services to design businesses. Mandy writes sections of the annual survey "Financial Performance of Marketing Services Companies" and contributes to the quarterly publication ?Marketing Services Monitor." She is a director of WKS Results. Prior to joining the firm Mandy was at the West End office Spicer & Oppenheim (latterly Touche Ross & Co) where she worked with a number of marketing services businesses at all stages of development. During this period she also spent time specialising in taxation and working with the firm?s corporate recovery department on marketing services assignments. Mandy is also a director of Women in Film and Television and the Direct Marketing Association. |
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Barry Morris
Barry Morris is an experienced business consultant with a strong financial and general management background, who has specialised in working with smaller companies and charities. He is a former finance director of Lambie Nairn & Co. and has been an independent consultant for the last five years.
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Shan
Preddy, Partner, PREDDY&CO
Shan Preddy
is a business adviser working exclusively in the design
sector. She delivers business development consultancy
and skills training, helping management teams to improve
performance and profitability. PREDDY&CO's
clients are large and small, UK and international, and
from all design disciplines. Their consultancy
uses a combination of new business and client relationship
methodologies, and their training covers Presentation
Skills, Conference Speaking, Credentials Meetings, Pitches,
Sales, Negotiation Skills and Client Relationships.
In addition, they carry out expert client and prospect
research surveys using proven qualitative techniques.
Shan is an
accredited consultant on the DBA Experts Register.
She sits on the UK Design Skills Advisory Board and
regularly speaks at and chairs international design
conferences. Her professional memberships include
the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Marketing Society.
She is an Elected Associate of D&AD and a Fellow
of the Royal Society for Arts. Her book, How
to Market Design Consultancy Services, published
by Gower for the Design Council, has become an industry
standard. A companion book, How to Run a Successful
Design Business, will be published in 2010.
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James Woudhuysen
James Woudhuysen
is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. He helped install Britain1s first computer-controlled car park in 1968, before graduating in physics. He was editor of Design magazine, 1979-82, and a co-founder of Blueprint. Director of research at the designers Fitch, 1986-91; associate director, the Henley Centre for Forecasting, 1991-5; head, worldwide market intelligence, Philips Consumer Electronics, 1995-7; director, product designers Seymour Powell, 1997-2001. His 320pp attack on outdated techniques in homes and offices, 'Why is construction so backward', was published by Wiley in 2004. |
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