Romaine Millington MA, CFCIPD
Founder and Principal Consultant

Romaine’s honest and transparent style enables her to quickly develop a rapport with clients and facilitates an open and real exchange from a very early stage. She has a positive approach, encouraging individuals to capitalise on their strengths, in addition to addressing their personal challenges. She specialises in assessment and development centres, individual coaching, team building, assessor/coach training, soft skills training and personal development planning

Romaine has spent nearly 20 years in the field of human resources, much of that time being dedicated to developing expatriates worldwide, and has spent most of the last 25 years living and working in multicultural environments, including several years in France, Italy, and USA. She speaks fluent French and Italian.

A Certified Practitioner of both MBTI® and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Romaine also has significant counselling experience, including general and relationship counselling, understanding eating disorders and working with the sexually abused.

David Evans BA(Hons), BEd, PhD

With an impressive academic background in intercultural management, as well as hands-on experience as Head of Export, David’s specialist areas of expertise are intercultural management, diversity management, global leadership, multicultural behaviour and international business communication skills.

Residing in France for 30 years, David has enjoyed positions as professor and director of international business schools, managing multicultural teams across teachers, administrators and company executives as well as providing cultural, team and language training. His managerial responsibilities have included strategic planning and implementation, budgetary control, international representation and public relations.

David is a frequent speaker at international conferences on intercultural management, and has been a visiting university professor to Mexico, Finland and USA. He speaks fluent French, German and moderate Spanish and holds a Post Graduate Degree and Doctorate in Intercultural Management from the Universities of Le Havre and Lille.

Gwen Booth ACIS MCLC

Specialising in mentoring, high performance coaching and performance improvement, Gwen holds a number of coaching qualifications and has been trained in a variety of approaches to support organisations and individuals achieve positive change.

With a background of 21 years in local government and over 8 years in the private and consultancy sectors, Gwen has extensive experience supporting local authorities in the initiation and implementation of change and performance improvement development programmes, including major strategic public-private partnerships.

Gwen is a Licensed NLP Business Practitioner, a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and an external mentor on the National Graduate Development Programme in local government. She is also a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a registered Interpreter for The McQuaig System™, a licensed user of the ACE (Achieving Communication Excellence) Model and an Accredited Coach for Index360©.

Philip Moon BSc, MA, MSc, MCMI, LicCIPD

A lively and often amusing presenter, Philip is one of the UK’s most experienced management development consultants, designing and presenting courses on personal effectiveness, communication skills and organisational behaviour. He works internationally (particularly in the Middle East) with organisations from all sectors of the economy and with people at all levels.

With a career background in general management, sales and marketing, Philip has worked in training and consultancy services across a wide cross-section of industries. Prior to developing his management career, Philip spent three years as an education officer working for the Nigerian government and taught in schools in the UK and France.

Philip is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, a Licentiate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute. His publications include ’Appraising Your Staff’ (Kogan Page 1997) and ‘Training for Time-Management’ (Gower 1994) as well as numerous articles in professional journals.

Paul Duncan CFCIPD

Paul has an impressive background as a senior board level human resource director in multi-national companies with turnovers of £1.5 - £2 billion, and 10,000 -14,000 employees throughout Europe and the USA. At varying times during his career he has been based in the UK and France and has led major business restructuring projects.

An experienced senior human resources practitioner, Paul understands the issues and priorities facing organisations. His specialist areas of expertise encompass organisational and management development, coaching and counselling, HR Strategy formulation and implementing, leading and managing change - all in an international setting.

Paul speaks fluent French and has a direct and practical approach – which is summed up in the phrase “employee care = customer care”.

Christopher Nelson BA, MCIPS

Chris uses his extensive management experience in the European manufacturing industry to share his leadership and organisation skills and provide winning business tools for successful team development within global businesses.

After training in organisational analysis and systems development, Chris held a range
of management positions in a variety of functions, including production control, stock control, operation planning and manufacturing – before ultimately specialising in purchasing where, as well as introducing a more ‘global’ approach, he enjoyed a particular reputation for developing teams to full potential and raising their profile within the business.

Chris continues to make his people development experience available to the international business sector and, besides his work with international manufacturing industries, has just completed a review of all purchasing activities for The Royal Society.

Jonathan Gunner BSc (Hons), CFCIPD

Jonathan is an experienced human resource professional and trainer specialising in business coaching, people development, team building and counselling applications. A natural and easy communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, he enjoys engaging and motivating people in creative and conceptual thinking in order to generate ideas, solve problems and deliver desired outcomes.

Jonathan has 14 years’ experience at senior level within the human resource sector at international level and is qualified in the application and feedback of psychometric testing. Jonathan's own psychometric profile indicates that he has strong managerial skills coupled with an empathetic and diplomatic style. He is trained in NLP and transactional analysis.

In addition Jonathan has considerable knowledge in the area of redundancy counselling and the setting up of related job shop agencies. He speaks intermediate level French.