John Matthews

BSC (Hons)

John is an enthusiastic, high-energy, experienced Training and Development Consultant with many years of hands-on commercial experience in manufacturing, design, sales, sales management, leadership and team development.

He graduated from university with an honours degree in electronic engineering. Whilst pursuing his career as a designer in electron microscopy, he also qualified as a part time teacher with City and Guilds Institute and taught mathematics at his local college.

As his career developed he moved into B2B sales with the world's No1 global distributor of electronic components where he was awarded the Sales Person of the year award for 2 years running. This prompted a move into sales management where John was responsible for internal and external sales operations. Following his successes with both team and individual's developments, he was appointed as the training manager for the company's UK operations. Alongside the various training programmes he introduced, he also designed an innovative rotating modular training scheme to enable fast start up of all induction programmes. During this period he was accredited in New York as a certified session leader to deliver Wilson Learning's Behavioural Styles programme.

John decided to take his skills and experience to a wider audience and has worked as a training and development consultant for the last 7 years. He is an accredited performance development coach and an accredited NLP Practitioner from the John Grinder stream of NLP through the NLP Academy in the UK.

As a training and development consultant he has worked with a range of both national and international blue chip clients across Europe, India and the Middle East, in a range of industries including Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Oil and Gas, Media, Travel and Call Centres. He has run extensive programmes to all stratas of clients up to board level.

Making full use of his experience and knowledge, John delivers with a high level of interactivity, regularly drawing high acclaim from his clients.

Specialist areas:

Developmental Coaching
Behavioural styles
Emotional Intelligence
NLP
Influencing Skills
Personal Development Planning
Train the Trainer
Practical People Management
Recruitment and Selection Skills
High Impact Presentation Skills
Time Management
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Leadership and Management Development
Business Writing Skills
B2B Sales
Strategic Account Management
Key Account Management
Direct Sales - door to door
Retail Sales
Inbound and Outbound Call Centre Training
Objection Handling
Negotiation Skills
NCFE Accredited programme writing and delivery

A small sample of John's Clients:

DELL International Services, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, Virgin Media, United response, Scholl (SSL), Axon Global, CSE Servelec Global, Lafarge, John Sisk, Bureau Veritas, Grant Rail, National Commercial Bank Jeddah, British Post Office, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Hasbro, West Ferry Printers, Holiday Extras, Bourns Inc, Telewest, Ricoh, Orange, John Sisk, Hasbro, Airwave Solutions.