Lets Talk about Personal Resilience

Speakers

Brigid Whoriskey

Brigid is a consultant, executive coach and non-exec board director. She has worked with a wide range of organisations across private, public and third sectors. Prior to setting up her own business, Envision Business Solutions Ltd, she was Head of Research and Innovation at RBS and previously was Marketing Director or Lloyds UDT. Brigid is an accomplished conference speaker, adept at communicating and influencing at board level. She is an experienced coach of senior leaders and is passionate about making a difference and future proofing organisations. Brigid is a non-exec director of AWL Ltd and a Trustee of Tong-Len UK – a charity helping destitute families of Northern India. Brigid is also an experienced consultant specialising in Strategy & Planning, Change, Decision Making, Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement. Her pragmatic, hands on approach focuses on outcomes and ensures results.

David Maltman

David has a background of leading Facilities Management teams within the public sector and has extensive experience of change management, leadership development and negotiations with trade unions. During his time working for a PFI for the NHS he led several change efforts and restructured services to the client. He also ran training courses on a variety of topics from customer service, specific IT systems and Health & Safety. In addition, David has also worked with Future Proof Learning on a freelance basis for the last few years, assisting us with facilitation and delivery of client events as well as delivering assessment centres. Since David joined the business full-time, has worked directly with several of our clients and on a range of projects including training delivery and product design as well as focusing on business development.

Mike Stevenson

Mike is a tour de force who surprises and delights in equal measure. Few are better at moving people to greater things and from the art of reinvention to stepping boldly into the future he never fails to inspire. His own journey from homelessness to award-winning entrepreneur is filled with remarkable people and events. His stories amaze and shock, his humour captivates and his insights will inspire. More than that, he lifts, he motivates and he shifts mindsets. He is founder of Thinktastic, an innovations agency, voted Scottish Small Company of Year 2008 and acclaimed for its unique approaches to stretching people and organisations beyond the ‘apparently’ possible. With more that 30 years in Marketing Mike has worked with a number of leading brand names including M&S, British Gas, Sky TV, SSE and Standard Life with each – the original brief was exceeded. Mike’s motivational work with schools was given special recognition on three successive years with a Business in the Community award for Raising the Attainment of Young People while his community investments made him one of only 21 UK company directors to be awarded the inaugural Community Mark. In 2011, he picked up New Start Magazines Better Places Award. He was a founder member of Glasgow’s Wise Group and then of multi-award winning creative agency, Design Links. Chucked out of school at 15, Mike spent many months sleeping on the streets of London, then racked up 29 jobs before his 26th birthday – his CV includes steelworker, wine bottler, hod-carrier, hospital orderly, biscuit packer and community worker. He also enjoyed a stint as a musician and actor. He is a TEDx and Leadercast speaker – recently joining the likes of Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder in a Transatlantic leadership event. He is a regular media commentator on leadership, modern marketing and innovation, an occasional columnist for the Sunday Times and a two-times host of Disney Institute Master classes.