The UK Consulting Team
Here are details on our UK team:
David Bell (CEO of Standing Ovation)
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As a teenager, David demonstrated verve as a singer, arranger and multi instrumentalist, which led to his first career as a renowned session musician, singing and playing a range of instruments with some of Europe’s leading orchestras, bands and ensembles. At a chance meeting in 1996, David’s attitude and approach, albeit musically, to achieving and sustaining ‘world-class performance’ was spotted by the Managing Director of DHL International, who wanted to bring his influential mindset into the business. David was offered a role with DHL and left his professional (and very badly paid!) music career behind. The MD’s eye for talent was soon evidenced, as within 12 months, David became DHL’s #1 global performer and was awarded a 5 star holiday to Mauritius (which he and his new wife took as their honeymoon!) ... More Information.
Martin Cleator
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Martin is a truly World-Class facilitator and coach, dedicating over 20 years of his life enabling creativity in people, teams & organisations across the globe.
Martin has a PhD and is a Harvard Graduate, having completed the prestigious “Strategic Human Resource Management” programme at Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the International Association of Facilitators and is a formally accredited EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) assessor and facilitator, a Master Practitioner and trainer of NLP, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator qualified and a certified ChangeFirst™ Change Agent consultant ... More Information.
Barry Dore
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As with all of the individuals at Standing Ovation, Barry has extensive experience in actually delivering, not just talking about delivering, world-class results in his field.
Over the past few years, Barry has worked with thousands of people in hundreds of teams in dozens of organisations to unlock potential, build effectiveness and deliver truly measurable, world-class results ... More Information.
Jane Riley
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As with all of the individuals at Standing Ovation, Jane has extensive experience in actually delivering, not just talking about delivering, world-class results in her field.
Jane traded university for ballet school before working as a professional dancer around the world. When a back injury meant Jane had to pack up her dancing shoes (professionally that is), she joined the world of business with American Express.
Quickly realising a desk job was not her, Jane joined the training department, moving into Management Training and then the field of Personal Development, where her purpose became clear ... More Information.
Julie Lines
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Julie has, over the years, developed from a background in front line management in a FTSE top 50 company, to directing her own company, internationally facilitating change through leadership team development programmes.
For more than a decade she has dedicated herself to deepening her own capabilities in order to share this knowledge and skills with hundreds of others ... More Information
Jo Price
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As with all of the individuals at Standing Ovation, Jo has extensive experience in actually delivering, not just talking about delivering, world-class results in her field.
Jo Price has built up a global reputation in TV, Music, media and Business Industries over the last 15 years and is recognised as one of the world’s leading vocal, performance and presentation coaches.
Jo started to build her reputation in 1994, when she set global pop group ‘Take That’ on the road to superstardom. ... More Information.
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