WORK

• Twenty five years experience in the field of team and personal development
• Owner, Director, In Touch Development Ltd
• Former Senior Consultant Lane 4 Management Group (4 years)
• Senior tutor at Outward Bound & Impact Development Training Group (10 years)
• Lead Psychologist British Swimming World Class Performance Programme 2002 - 2009
• Lead British Swimming Psychologist, Beijing (2008) & Athens (2004)Olympic Games
• Psychologist with Rugby Football Union 2002 – 2006
• Team development - British & Irish Lions Rugby squad 1997, Scotland 1997 - 2000
• Served in Royal Air Force and Fire Service

QUALIFICATIONS

• M.Sc. Applied Sport Psychology, University of Gloucestershire, 1999-2003
• B.A. Human Movement Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, 1989-1991
• I.P.D Diploma in Training Management, Certificate in Training & Development, Wolverhampton University, 1992-1993
• Chartered Member C.I.P.D.
• Qualified practitioner M.B.T.I. and FIRO-B psychometric profiles

ADVENTURE/SPORT

• Former Master of the "Bounty" (400 ton fully rigged ship, full scale Ocean going replica of the original)
  
• 90,000 miles sailed round the world on various Square Rigged sailing vessels (including Sydney to Liverpool around Cape Horn) as Master/First Mate
• Senior instructional awards in mountaineering, canoeing & sailing
• Two Arctic sea kayaking expeditions Alaska (solo) & Norway
• Former Wales International – Athletics (400 mts.)
• Competed in 15 full marathons, 5 ultra-marathons
• Great Britain & England mountain running team, selector & manager, British Athletics

In Touch

After fifteen years of working for training organisations in the Lake District and London, delivering development programmes and team builds around the world, I set up my first business, in 2002, called Pinnacle.  It was about achievement, ambition and had a focus on success.  

After much reflection (and some years working with the RFU), I renamed my company 'In Touch'.  

Partly because, in rugby, when a ball goes in touch it is a chance to stop and realign, it is both an attacking and defensive option.  But also because in order to perform we have to be, on many levels, in touch with a number of crucial components; our goals and objectives, our roles and expectations, the needs of others, our various relationships and, most importantly, in touch with ourselves.  Our habits, our patterns, our drivers, our perceptions, our flaws, our strengths, our thinking.

With that clarity comes energy, focus, a sense of belief, and whether a team or an individual, we are put in touch with the best of ourselves.