Leading London based communication & presentation experts

This facilitator is one of the Europe's top communication & presentation experts who can transform the way you present yourself and communicate your products and services to the media and to clients to win more business.

He is also an international conference and event facilitator, presenter & compere; a business, motivational and after dinner speaker as well as an executive coaching & training consultant who works around the world with an interesting diversity of clients.

He is a recognised master in the art of effective and compelling communication, helping businesses raise and maintain their brand integrity and profile, improve customer and staff relations and loyalty and enhancing personal and corporate reputations, all of which help improve profits.


He has been a presenter, reporter and producer on network and regional television and radio, as well as a writer and reporter for the national and international print media. He is a Royal Television Society award winner and his broadcasting and journalistic work has been nominated for three other awards. He started his career at the age of 14 by writing articles for his local paper during his school holidays. He later went on to become the UK?s youngest ever national television news reporter, aged 21, and a year later became one of the youngest ever network television newsreaders. This was despite his journalism college lecturer telling him he might not make it in the profession!

Undercover work

Those he has worked for as a journalist include the BBC, Sky News, ITN, Channel 5, the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, the Sunday Express, Scotland on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday, News of the World, the Sun and various current affairs and general interest magazines. He has also been the editor & managing editor of an online publication. He has covered a wide range of stories throughout his career, from major national and international events to travel and light-hearted and off-the-wall items. He has also had “exclusive” stories published in national newspapers and broadcast on television which include exposures of multi-million pound frauds which prompted investigations by the Office of Fair Trading. Some of this Sean carried out as an undercover investigative journalist.

Spies, near death & cannibalism

He, whose interests vary from sailing, motor-biking and polo to travel and playing the saxophone, has always loved adventure and tackling new challenges and believes in living life to the full. As a schoolboy, he taught himself how to throw the discus, winning junior international honours and several county championship titles. He even became a member of Mensa, the high IQ society. Later, he almost lost his life on a mountaineering expedition to Irian Jaya while under the armed escort of the Indonesian Special Forces because of the threat of kidnap and murder. He has travelled in cannibal inhabited jungles and climbed unconquered mountains among the glacial wastes of Greenland. On one trip through Eastern Europe, he was held at gunpoint in the former Yugoslavia during the conflict there, arrested twice in two days by corrupt armed, plain clothes policemen in Poland and pursued into Asia by an Iranian government agent.

He loves to absorb and share the many funny sides of life, including his own. Some of his more unorthodox professional moments as a reporter and presenter have appeared in various out-take & blooper shows on television in Britain and the USA. They’re just some of the many funny stories with which he entertains his audiences.



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He has worked with many private and public sector organisations, including IBM, Shell, Unilever, Barclaycard, Astra Zeneca, Bank of Scotland, Safeway, National & Alamo Car Rental, the UK Department of Education and the Public Record Office. He has written a variety of books on communicating with the media, making business, wedding and after dinner speeches and presentations, as well as a crime thriller.

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Getting your message across persuasively and productively is crucial if you're to stand out above the competition by getting noticed in the media. So, when you appear on television, the radio, online or in a newspaper or magazine, you have a winning effect on a huge audience of potential new clients and existing stakeholders.

If you can come across with compelling colour in the challenging media environment "the ultimate presentational challenge" then you can use this to great effect in the way you sell yourself in your everyday business dealings.

The Media Training workshops (either 1-day or 2-day for groups or a half-day on a 1-2-1 basis) are highly informative, fun and practical and show you how to present yourself and your organisation effectively no matter how you or your key messages are challenged. The invaluable skills you acquire can be used to help you benefit in a variety of business situations, from making sales pitches and business presentations to handling "live" TV performances and difficult or hostile media interviews.

Objectives & Benefits:
• Improving your personal and company image
• Increasing the chances for a higher and better media profile
• Effective public relations
• Increasing the opportunities for winning over target audiences (like potential clients)
• Enhancing your industry & peer group profile & reputation
• Improving communications with existing clients & investors
• Improving communications with colleagues
• Improving personal and professional confidence
• Creating and establishing a compellingly colourful brand
• Helping to increase market share & profits
• Improved business presentation skills

All interviews are filmed and recorded for analysis.

- The feedback from everyone was fantastic. You really inspired and entertained us all with a mixture of passion, insight and wit about how to communicate effectively to win business. It's not surprising therefore that, after your speech, people were queuing up to talk to you and to ask how to book your training workshops. - Anne Morris, Worcester Business Breakfast Club.

- He has a very witty and engaging manner and uses his energy and charm to manage an audience very effectively. He is capable of grasping a lot of complex detail about our clients' businesses in a short amount of time which adds incisiveness and insight to our seminars which our clients thoroughly enjoy and benefit from as a result.- Helen Ward, ex-Managing Director of Media First Ltd.

- Your informative, encouraging, honest and humorous approach undoubtedly helped prepare us for our launch and beyond. As a result, I believe we at book2eat.com have looked even more polished and that, undoubtedly, will have done wonders for our public and corporate profile. I shall happily recommend you to anyone else who needs this invaluable service.? CEO, book2eat.com.

- He is the consummate professional and a master of his craft. His keynote speech to the Professional Speakers Association's International Convention on how to communicate effectively with the media was enthusiastic, highly informative and very entertaining. Showing us how to work with the media and how those skills can help us in our everyday business was an invaluable revelation. - Frank Furness, President of the Professional Speakers Association.

- His media training techniques are excellent as was the feedback from our staff. He is able to relate to his audiences easily and brings colour and interest to the whole experience. I have huge confidence when working with him in this area of expertise which adds great value to our company's investment in employee development. - Stephen Swain, Communications Manager, South West Water.

- It was a pleasure having you here in Dubai. You inspired and entertained a very varied audience in a way we could all understand and learn from. You showed us by example of how it should and could be done. I look forward to coming on more of your workshops. - Mohammad Ahmad Bazargan, Senior Relationship Officer, National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
 

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Networking is one of the best and easiest ways of expanding your personal and professional opportunities. But, despite this, it is one of the least understood and practised skills. Learning to develop your networking abilities will therefore give you a huge advantage over your competitors.

The Networking a Room for Profit workshops will give you a much better practical understanding of how to perfect these skills as well as the opportunity to actually network with other businesses.

You will be able to expand your personal and professional opportunities by learning practical networking skills like how to "work the room," get yourself into promising and out of difficult situations, understand body language, improve your communication skills, win people over and many more.

Objectives & Benefits:
- Improving your abilities as a persuasive and productive networker
- Improving your communication skills
- Creating & maximising new opportunities with target audiences (like potential clients)
- Seek and prepare effectively for networking opportunities
- Combat fears and anxiety in networking situations
- “Work a room”
- Get yourself into promising and also out of difficult or unhelpful situations
- Understand body language and group dynamics
- Initiate and manage credible and productive conversations
- Sell yourself in a way that’s beneficial to both you and the people you are talking with
- Win people over
- Create a positive and lasting impression
- Build a usable contacts database
- Enhancing your industry & peer group profile & reputation
- Helping to increase market share & profits
 

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Even the most focussed people can have moments of doubt about where they’re going in life and how their business is shaping up. That’s why everyone needs inspiration and encouragement to motivate them to achieve excellence in their lives - not just professionally, but also personally, as both are interlinked.

He can reignite your self-belief with his positive messages with a powerful sense of passion, insight, empathy and quick-fire wit to inspire, empower and motivate you to obtain the success you dream of having and can really achieve.

He believes in challenging himself mentally and physically and has succeeded despite having had to endure setbacks as well as the negativity of those who said “you’ll never make it.” He is proof that, despite this, you can fail, overcome setbacks and succeed as well as enjoy and be enriched by the journey along the way.

He has many inspiring stories like: how he became a member of the high IQ society Mensa after being told at school that he was, at best, “just average” and flunking some of his exams; how he became a UK junior international athlete after his athletics teacher dismissed his dreams; how he became the UK’s youngest ever national TV news reporter, aged just 21, and won a top award after being told by his journalism lecturer that he was unlikely to succeed in the profession; how he only just cheated death while taking on the challenge of a mountaineering expedition which was beyond his level of experience and technical ability; how he worked against prejudice and a raw hatred for authority as a Mentor to young criminals to change their lives for the better.

His three key ingredients for success are:

- Goal setting
- Self-belief
- Perseverance

Objectives & Benefits:
- Inspiring staff & colleagues to higher professional goals & achievements
- Inspiring staff & colleagues to higher personal goals & achievements
- Boosting morale among colleagues at all levels making them more effective internally & externally
- Helping to deal positively & powerfully with negative periods & setbacks
- Inspiring staff & colleagues to feel more passionate about their business & the way they conduct business
- Improving your confidence as a persuasive and productive communicator to win more business
- Improving your personal and professional passion & confidence
- Helping improve customer care
- Improving your personal and company image
- Enhancing your industry & peer group profile & reputation
- Winning over new clients
- Helping to increase market share
- Helping to increase profits


- I really enjoyed your presentation. If I could speak to an audience at 10% of your level I would be delighted! I started my business in January and sent off a press release to my local paper in an attempt to get a kick start and, of course, a bit of free advertising. The response - nothing. I picked up on a few things you said last Thursday and revamped my release and sent it to them again. I have just gotten off the phone having had a long chat with the business editor and the photographer is coming on Monday! This is as a direct result of me paying attention to you last week. - John Bates, Travel Counsellors.

- He was a fantastic investment for our pioneering conference in South Africa, both personally and professionally, as he gave so much of himself for the benefit of the delegates and the event organisers in and out of the conference hall. He was a great presenter who helped us achieve our aims with a wonderful mix of understanding, encouragement and great wit. He has the unique ability to engage with people of all cultures and meet them at their level whether in a group or a one-to-one setting.- Edward Okundi, CEO, Leadership Shines Through.

- The feedback from everyone was fantastic. You really inspired and entertained us all with a mixture of passion, insight and wit about how to communicate effectively to win business. It's not surprising therefore that, after your speech, people were queuing up to talk to you and to ask how to book your training workshops. - Anne Morris, Worcester Business Breakfast Club.
 

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