Benita Cegarra

Benita is an inspirational and emotive public speaker with a penchant for a challenge. A practical and pragmatic business trouble-shooter with twenty years experience under her belt, she is also one of only 35 RFU qualified female Rugby referees in England (there are over 4,000 qualified men!).

Benita’s philosophy is to embrace life, be tenacious and believe that you can achieve anything you want if you care enough about the outcome. Mark Twain’s quote, ‘Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did’, is one of her favourite sayings and underpins her approach to the challenges that life inevitably throws at one.

Benita’s experience in the business world encompasses roles and assignments with blue chip companies such as BP, Shell, Castrol, Vodaphone and Dixons, to name but a few. Her superb communication skills, coupled with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of a problem swiftly, have led to the successful facilitation of major global Change Programmes.

Increasingly over the years, Benita has been asked to impart her business knowledge to a wider audience through a variety of speaking engagements and workshops. Her two favourites subjects, and the most well received, have been ‘The Five I’s to Successful Implementation’ and ‘Get Off the Touchline …and Make a Difference’. At Nigel’s invitation she has now added ‘Zoo Keeping - the New Rules for Communication’ to her subject portfolio.

Fluent in English, French and German, Benita has also been asked to speak and facilitate at a number of European events.

Author of the motivational book ‘Get Off the Touchline … and Make a Difference, Benita is also Chairman of the Gloucestershire branch of the Institute of Directors and has a BA (Hons) in International Marketing.

Testimonials

“The processes Benita and her team helped us create 10 years ago continue to form the basis of how we work today.”
Ian Kennedy,
Global Supply Chain Manager, Castrol

“Benita speaks volumes of sense, it’s a shame our organisation doesn’t work like this.”
Recent Seminar Attendee (details withheld for obvious reasons!)

“When Benita’s involved in a project, I know things will get done.”
John Stone,
Regional Customer Services Manager, BP Marine

“When Benita is the advertised speaker, we get twice as many bookings as normal. She is always interesting and we get some great tips too.”
John Foster,
Breakfast Meeting Facilitator, IOD Gloucestershire

Prydwen Elfed-Owens

Prydwen is an inspirational speaker, trainer and coach who enjoys sharing her expertise with audiences. Her presentations, seminars and workshops are dynamic, inspiring, informative and thought-provoking.

She speaks with authority having learnt through numerous experiences that awesome results can be gained from visualizing success and taking responsibility.

She lives by her mottos '
If it’s to be, it’s up to me (Williams H Johnsen)
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)
Action beats fear. (Michael Fullan)
Capacity is a state of mind.

Prydwen is a highly respected Education Adviser, Professional Development Officer & Inspector of Schools. She is a television commentator and the first woman Chair of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Council.

Through her professional experiences in developing effective leaders, Prydwen knows what it takes to ‘grow’ teams. . She has the ability to translate her experience into a compelling and inspiring philosophy.

Prydwen is available from September 1st 2010

Testimonials

“She is a regular and lively participant at out annual conferences, speaker at our inaugural Wordly leadership Summit and a valued member of our Leadership Forum.”
Nick Snook,
Sales Director, Leadership Trust, Herefordshire

“Her enthusiasm lead to true team spirit. She was our genuine leader, with the necessary emotional intelligence to transform the group into a team in a very short time.”
Ludo de Lee,
Flemish Inspector of Schools

“She spoke with passion and energy, with a powerful message. Her examples, in the form of stories, were brilliant.”
Bernie De Souza,
Speaker, Author, Executive Performance Coach

To contact Prydwen: email - pelfedowens5657@btinternet.com or call - 07788 422 329

Sharon Nicholl

Sharon is a highly skilled communicator who specialises in delivering workshops and seminars with great clarity and energy; she is committed to surpassing participants’ expectations and her enthusiasm and motivation is infectious.

Sharon honed her expertise during her varied career in the public sector and has worked closely with a wide range of clients from Chief Executives and Boards of large organisations to owners of small and medium sized businesses. Client organisations include the Ministry of Defence, North Somerset Council and Reading Borough Council.

Sharon is a qualified and experienced Master Coach who challenges, encourages and supports her clients to achieve powerful results. She is also qualified in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

She is a strong believer in “giving something back”, and undertakes pro-bono work for individual pupils at schools in the West Country, and for Julian House, a homeless charity in Bath. She is also a School Governor.

Sharon is convinced that “our thoughts define our attitude and our attitude determines our altitude” in other words, the sky is the limit providing you believe in yourself.

Testimonials

“You could not ask for a better speaker than Sharon, she brought the subject alive, which helped us all stay focused”
Personnel Manager,
North Somerset Council.

“Sharon is a fantastic coach and since I have been working with her, my business has gone from strength to strength. I would not hesitate to recommend her services”
Helen Dowling,
Managing Director of Exceptional Thinking.

“Sharon is an outstanding coach – experienced, committed, enthusiastic and, best of all, successful in helping her clients achieve their personal and professional goals”
Jennifer Hampson,
Managing Director of Baxter Associates Ltd.

Mikaela Martin

Mikaela is a high energy, charismatic individual with a unique ability for creating vision and unlocking untapped potential. By trade a hairdresser, Mikaela has spent sixteen years working in sales and marketing for companies across the fmcg spectrum; Mars, Cookson Plc Constellation Brands and Henkel professional.

Mikaela is known for her enthusiasm and tenacity and believes excellence is not a skill it’s all about attitude. It doesn’t matter where you come from. If you work smart and hard you will succeed in all you set out to do.

For the last two years Mikaela has focused on coaching and motivation for hair and beauty salons across the UK. Her business philosophy is “back to basic’s” always the best place to start. Once your foundations are in place the rest is about consistency in delivering; marketing, motivation, communication skills, customer service, new clients and last but not least profit.

Training sessions that Mikaela delivers are, reception/front of house, increase your client bill, happy team, happy clients and now “zoo keeping – the art of communication.

Testimonials

“I have found my coaching sessions to be invaluable. They have helped me to look at the business in a new light and enabled me to assess and measure our performance to grow the business for the future.”
Alison Cruikshank,
Salon manager Blu Hair and Beauty, Dundee.

“I remember the first time I met Mikaela,I was expecting the usual, yet another person to tell me how to run my business. Which I have been running quite successfully for twenty years, to sell me something that wouldn’t sell and my team wouldn’t use so I suppose I was a bit of a sceptic. Mikaela was different though for the first time in twenty years someone who “just get’s it” and personalises a business plan that’s easy to follow.”
Simon Mathews,
Salon Director, Simon John group, Birmingham.

“A session with Miss Motivator always inspires your team to deliver your goals.”
Lauren Turner,
Salon Director, Spirit Hair Company, Buckinghamshire.

Ola Odumosu

Ola is an inspirational thought leader and speaker on change, leadership and self development. She has a talent for inspiring trust, creating space to think and unlocking potential in people and the teams/businesses they lead. She has a unique way of blending business understanding with personal insight and critical thinking to help deliver lasting change.

When you think of Ola a number of words come to mind, commercial, creative, dynamic, insightful, playful, challenging and thought provoking.

Before starting her own change consultancy New Chapter, Ola spent over 20 years working in various senior roles in the national/international retail sector. Posts held ranged from Retail Operations through to Head of Organisational Development. Her areas of expertise included advising senior leaders and executive teams on leadership development, transformational change and customer service. For several years, she created, instigated and implemented the training and development offering for one of the UK’s largest retailers with a focus on developing successful business leaders.

Ola now pursues her passion for developing others and understanding personal and business change as an executive coach and by offering inspirational keynotes and training programmes.

One of Ola’s philosophies on life is that we all have everything we need to be happy and successful; we just sometimes need a reminder of how to access what’s already there. Ola’s signature strength is in encouraging people and their teams to be more of who they truly are.

Testimonials

“Ola is an inspirational and creative professional who takes a passionate interest in organisations and people and helps their development in a unique way. Wherever she goes and whoever she meets, Ola leaves a positive and wonderful impression and we are all better off for the encounter. I cannot recommend Ola highly enough.”
Meg Lustman,
Chief Strategy Officer, Mosaic Fashions

“Ola is professional, effective and insightful. She is also experienced and has considerable valuable expertise that has proven immensely useful in times of crisis, change, as well as growth. Her first hand knowledge of how to engage and organize efforts to improve collaboration in organizations makes her a worthwhile addition to any team or company.”
Max McKeown,
Innovation, Change, Leadership & Strategy Coach, Facilitator & Speaker, Maverick & Strong Ltd

“Ola lives with a level of intention that makes you want to explore your own intention, purpose and contribution. Ola helps you tap into the art of possibility. If Ola is in your life then you have a source of support that can only be a blessing.”
Dr Robert Holden
Author and founder of Success Intelligence and the Happiness project.