Martijn Sjoorda
Martijn has been fascinated by how relationships and dynamics work - or rather- not work between people since his youth. David Ogilvy, the godfather of strategic marketing, has also strongly influenced his deep interest for future visioning and entrepreneurship. He focuses his professional practice on the human dynamics of change, with a keen eye for broad strategic issues. As an independent advisor & trainer, he works intensively with the life-changing work of Dr. David Kantor, the master of family therapists.
While working with large corporate clients such as Unilever, Nuon, Lucent & Deloitte, has developed a consulting practice that works at the intersection of dialogue, strategy, leadership & execution. Martijn speaks six languages and works in Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
M: +31 614 90 88 30
Lolly Daskal
Lolly Daskal is a strategic business coach for individuals, corporate leadership and entrepreneurs. Her life path, breaking away from her restrictive background, reinventing herself as an accomplished and celebrated artist and as a business coach and mentor with 30 years of experience make her an expert at rapid transformation and unlocking the real potential of leaders, teams and organizations. She has advised Fortune 500 corporations but is particularly fond of working intensively with start-ups and growing businesses.
She works through aligning core values, asking coureagous questions and driving strategic focus. She is an acclaimed keynote speaker, workshop leader and a serious voice in social media with over 170,000 followers on Twitter. She hosts a weekly Tweetchat on Leadership that is one of the best attended in the industry.
She is the lead partner for the New York practice of dialogic* and well versed in the company’s core offering of building high performance teams and sustainable change. In her spare free time she contributes actively to a wide range of charitable causes including Sloan-Kettering Hospital, homeless people and the arts. She lives in the City with her three kids.
Cor Schagen
Cor Schagen (42) attended Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands for several years. He started his career as a project manager for one of the largest employers' organizations in the Netherlands, Deltalinqs, leaving the organization as assistant General Secretary. He represented the organization in Brussels on all European Affairs. He created one of the first e-commerce platforms for information and cargo exchange,www.portofrotterdam.com He subsequently became a partner in a consulting firm specializing in program and project management, working on several large scale government and PPP projects.
He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, founding a leisure and hospitality group encompassing several restaurants, a museum and an innovative lodging concept. He is an angel investor and a partner in a well-known seed capital fund. He also works as a business coach and facilitator, helping businesses innovate and accelerate their growth.
He is father to two daughters and in his other spare time he enjoys travelling, reading, cooking and the arts. He contributes to his local communities through board positions in various organizations.
Stuart Turnbull
Stuart is an experienced organization change practitioner, consultant and coach who facilitates learning and alignment within organisations that are changing. Having led projects in many countries, sectors and organisations, he brings a versatility that clients find helpful. Recent clients include African Development Bank, Barclays Bank, British Red Cross, Deutsche Bank, FCO, Levi Strauss and Co., the ILO, Nokia, SABIC, Vodafone and the World Bank Group. Stuart has lived and worked in the UK, Belgium and the United States and is now based in Barcelona.
Born in the UK, Stuart was educated at Loughborough University, gaining a Bachelors in Technology (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering. He holds a certificate in Training and Development from the Thames Valley University and is registered to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. In 2000 he completed the Ashridge Masters in Organisational Consulting (AMOC) and in 2002 the twelve month Leadership for Collective Intelligence (LCI) Program in dialogue facilitation, offered by Dialogos Inc. He is a candidate on the Ashridge Doctorate in Organisational Consulting where he is undertaking an inquiry into the qualities of working relationships in organisational life, based on his consulting practice.
E: Stuart Turnbull
M: +34 663 412 112
Floris Rommerts
Floris has been a business trainer, facilitator, and consultant/coach since 1990. Floris conducts his own open trainings on Structural Interview and Vision Forming alongside individual and team sessions on these themes.
Floris has worked intensively with Polish Airlines, Philips Electronics International, Nerefco (a Dutch joint venture between BP-Texaco-Amoco), BP International, and a variety of Dutch companies. His work has taken him around the world, from Shanghai and the Phillippines to Georgia and Azerbaidjan. In these diverse contexts, he has supported managers’ ability to lead change, innovation, and organizational learning.
In the 1980’s, Mr. Rommerts worked as a manager within the Dutch broadcast system, during the shift from a state-guided organization toward a commercial company.
To his work in the business world, Floris brings a unique background as a professional classical concert singer, musician and teacher. He has taken journeys of study and personal exploration around the world and has lived in Scotland as the head of a department of Dance, Drama and Music. His artistic background gives him singular insight into the creative process, and helps him brings tremendous life and energy to his work in supporting people’s growth.
M: +31 654206476
Tania Watson
Tania is an executive coach and group facilitator supporting business leaders and senior teams to accelerate personal and corporate performance.
Her clients operate in the professional services, IT, legal, education and communications sectors, and include Fujitsu, Linklaters, KPMG, Cedar, BP, Entire Direct Marketing, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bromley Education Business Partnership, Surrey County Council, Oxfam and Energizer Wilkinson Sword, Deloitte and Danone.
Tania coaches clients working to accelerate peronal growth, build a sense of team, prepare for promotions, increase their presence, manage difficult conversations, shift cultural behaviours, create an entrepreneurial edge, and in doing so dynamically change profitability both personally and for their business.
Her work is totally biased towards the client and is challenging, insightful, incisive, experiential, outcome focused, fast acting and centred on supporting her clients to achieve their goals.
Prior to qualifying as a professional coach Tania worked for over 20 years in the design and communications industry, the last 10 years of which was spent at main board level. She continues to operate at board level and is a non-executive director for The Generating Company (the UKs leading circus company) and an advisory board member for Future Foundations (a business dedicated to coaching and skills training for gifted and talented students going in to university or a place of work). Her approach has its foundations in an understanding of what it takes to lead organisations, manage teams and the delicate nature of people development.
Tania is a qualified coach, certified master practitioner and trainer of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), a certified clinical hypnotherapist and a member of the Association for Coaching, the British Clinical & Strategic Hypnosis Association and the Professional Guild of NLP.
E: Tania Watson
P: +44 1959 534 530
Martha Morris Graham
Martha is fascinated by the head and heart of businesses, and how people and organisations interact. She has a remarkable facility for building warm and responsive relationships through listening to, and challenging leaders’ strategies and patterns. She discovers new energies in people and helps them transform the way they think, and develop positive chemistries that result in long-term change.
Martha has over 20 years experience consulting to corporate clients in many industries across Europe the Far East and the US. She manages large scale systemic change projects, engaging multiple sub-cultures inside complex client organisations to revolutionise business performance. She coaches individual senior leaders, facilitates transformational team development and does extensive work at the values level. Through removing barriers in team dynamics and creating alignment across the larger organisation, she enables her clients to achieve remarkable results.
P: +44 207 7792 4702
Ian Sanders
Ian Sanders runs a business and marketing consultancy focused on potentialising clients to help boost their success and stay ahead of the game.
The theme of reinvention is at the heart of Ian’s business; he advises clients on making organisational and marketing changes to grow their commercial success. Throughout his 20 year career Ian has worked with brands and clients including Benetton, MTV Networks Europe, The Financial Times, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Gala Bingo and BBC Radio. More recently Ian has worked with small and medium size businesses in the creative industries including Deluxe Digital London, All In Media, Splice TV, Duke TV and Karrot Animation.
Ian is the author of ‘Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim Your Life’ (Capstone, 2009) and 'Leap! Ditch Your Job, Start Your Own Business & Set Yourself Free' (Capstone 2008). Prior to launching his current business, Ian’s expertise was in the development and launch of new ventures. From 1993 to 1999, Ian was part of the management team at The Unique Broadcasting Group then the UK’s largest independent radio production company. As Managing Director of Unique Facilities he led the company’s entry into new markets such as audio facilities, outside broadcasts, media training and in-store radio.
Ian lives by the coast in Leigh-on-Sea.
E: Ian Sanders
P: +44 (0) 1702 483783
