As a qualified and experienced skills trainer, facilitator and coach I can work with individuals and groups to unlock potential and support students and staff into more confident and productive behaviour.

I can offer a range of services ‘off the shelf’ or create bespoke activities along similar themes.

Training expertise:

• Support for aspiring, emerging, or early-stage entrepreneurs and freelancers in all aspects of business model development and start-up planning
• Productivity training including goal-setting and time-management
• Personal and Professional communication and collaboration skills: teamwork, communication skills, presentation and pitching
• I am a qualified MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Index) practitioner
• I am a qualified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner

Facilitation expertise:

• I have extensive experience facilitating large and small groups in a variety of settings:
  • Open Space Technology – based sessions with up to 300 professional conference participants
  • Informally coordinating professional meetings
  • Formally chairing committee and board meetings
  • Guiding hill-walking and outdoor activities groups

Dave is one of the most responsive, insightful and engaging facilitators we have worked with. He combines both an understanding of the academic sphere and how to work with research ideas to encourage the translation for a commercial element. Dave works with myself and others closely to understand the key aims of this platform that allows for ideas to be fully explored and tested in a safe space. He has engendered an environment that gives academic confidence in entrepreneurial thinking, which means it can be applied to many contexts. Dave is a key element to the programme’s success.

James Woodhams – Commercialisation Manager for CRoSS (University of Exeter)

Coaching expertise:

• Providing career-planning and career-change coaching support
• Providing coaching support to experienced professionals seeking personal or professional development
• I am a certified Life Coach

Through his career coaching Dave has supported me during the transition from academia to practice. With his wide ranging expertise he has helped me to rethink different ways in which my unique, and interdisciplinary, skills developed during my PhD can be rebranded to reach new (and paying) audiences. His experience working with a broad range of actors allows him to quickly connect and cross-fertilise between areas, such as identifying key words and phrases in how I articulate my message, which has allowed me to connect to new audiences (potential clients) otherwise inaccessible to me and develop an entrepreneurial way of thinking. Furthermore, he is very responsive and adaptive to designing the coaching sessions in a way that maximises benefit to the client. 

Client Testimonial (2023)