About us

Our Commitment To You:

Our commitment to you is to support and guide you through change. The 'Personal Summits' brand is about reaching your peak performance, navigating and conquering your professional and personal challenges.

We work with people with big goals, big mountains, supporting you along the way to reaching your own 'personal summits'.

Personal Summits Ltd was set up in 1999, by Richard Bisiker. As Lead Coach. Richard works directly with Business Owners, Partners and Managers coaching them through developing their business'.

Our commitment to continuous development means we regularly attend programmes and update our skills through our active membership in the following:

  • Fellow – Institute of Directors
  • Fellow – Institute of Leadership & Management
  • Life Member – Coach University.

Plus many other national and local networks. 

 

Richard Bisiker

Richard is a Business & Personal Coach, Trainer, and Author. He is the founder of Personal Summits Ltd, in 1999, and works around the UK with business owners. He has 15 years experience in training and coaching, 5 within the public sector and 10 with private businesses. Prior to this Richard spent 3 years in Malaysia recruiting and training associates to start small businesses within a group business network.

Richard works on developing the individual's personal performance in tandom with their strategic and operational management and business skills, also client aquisition, staff and people skills, and finance management.

His books “More of What You Want” and “Unlock your Personal Potential” are confirmation of the research he has conducted into personal development from his MSc and post-grad Diploma in Human Resource Development with Wolverhampton University.

Richard is also a qualified Business Master Practitioner of (NLP) Neuro Linguistic Programming.

He has trained in small groups over 7000 participants from a wide variety of cultures. Richard’s approach is highly practical and experiential. It is motivation and education. He has 1000's hours of coaching experience helping his clients achieve success.

Some clients he has worked with:

The Law Society, MoD, Goodrich-Lucas Aerospace, BT, NHS, Siemans, Alliance & Leicester, Lloyds TSB to name a few plus many smaller firms.

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Sharon Marshall

Business & Personal Coach. Sharon lets her clients speak for her in testimony to her professionalism and business accumen and personal support...

"Hello Sharon, I just wanted to thank you for the Coaching sessions over the last few months and to say how much I have got out of them. I can really see how you have helped me to rise to the challenge of a new and demanding role and the extra pressures from reductions in staffing.  You have been challenging, helping me to see that despite the pressures there were things I could do to help myself if I was serious about raising my game. Coaching has helped me to step back from the daily pressures and find new ways to plan and prioritise to achieve key objectives.  Importantly you helped me to focus on strategic policy issues and not to get bogged down in day to day business.  As a result I quickly felt more in control and able to apply both new techniques and a new mindset to achieve my goals.  It really helped that you held me to account making sure that I definitely committed to taking action following each session and then following up on what I had implemented.  
Judith Roe, Skills Group, DIUS

 

 

 

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Lyn Mortimer

Practice Manager, Lyn is an accomplished PA and Practice Manager keeping the office running smoothly. She champions the business and takes care of all our clients with the proffesionalism we all aspire to.

 

 

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Jamie McKelvie

Jamie successfully trains top executives and salespeople and continually works with leaders of excellence in the fields of industry, sport and training. He specialises in focusing on the performance of individuals and groups by developing an understanding of how they function and behave within their environment both at home and at work.

He has developed successful goal setting, career path planning, recruitment and selection, communication and performance coaching skills from a wide arena of experience from business, training, a university Masters programme and a successful short service commission in the Household Cavalry.

He has a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology, and a Business Master Practioner Certification in (NLP)Neuro Linguistic Programming.

 

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Peter Hill

Peter has been working as an executive coach for the past seven years, in the arena of corporate coaching for the past nine years and in the field of development and consultancy for the past 15 years.

Peter has been involved with most of the UK’s coaching qualifications and has a good overview of the UK coaching scene. He has been instrumental in preparing the groundwork of Coaching Standards in the UK with the European Coaching and Mentoring Council.
He has just written “Concepts of Coaching” published by the Institute of Leadership & Management. Peter uses the person-centred approach to coaching that has been developed in the field of counselling which allows his clients to develop their own solutions through guided learning.

He is a qualified coach from the University of Strathclyde. He co-founded the School of Coaching at The Industrial Society. He has developed seven UK Coaching Qualifications, and is a Business Master Practioner Certification in (NLP)Neuro Linguistic Programming.

 
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WHO ARE YOU?

Someone open minded, eager to change and expand. Would find it refreshing, enriching and exciting to have a coach stimulate your thinking and feeling. A need to explore ideas or difficult problems in a confidential setting. Someone who values support, challenges and to be asked questions that lead to discovering your own answers to profound change.  

 

“The value of having a regular opportunity to reflect on your role in your organisation cannot be underestimated”    

Institute of Directors.

Personal Summits ensures a programme of director development that is regular, tailored, and real-time!

“Many people often experience a sense of isolation and lack the facility to talk through ideas, problems or solutions”

Institute of Leadership & Management.

Personal Summits provides a safe, supportive and challenging coaching environment.

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        To find yourself

      Think for yourself

Socrates

We coach you to discover the best answers for

your unique situation,

not ours

or some other client!

 

 

 

 

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          Richard - Director

Business & Personal Coach

Testimonial:

"Richard’s experience in coaching, NLP, confidence building, teamworking, assertiveness, and appraisal skills has helped us to achieve excellent results. He is professional, enthusiastic, flexible and practical. He has provided high quality project management support, ensuring we met out targets. Richard has always delivered on time, to target and within budget, exceeding our expectations."

Mrs Rainy Faisey – Senior HR Manager. NHS Hospitals

 

             

     Sharon - Associate

Business & Personal Coach

Testimonial: of Sharon

"Having worked with Sharon for just a few months I can hardly believe the difference she has made to my personal development and to my business. I have grown in confidence, become more organised and professional, dealt with difficult business issues that were preventing me moving on and even developed an idea for a new service offering."

Managing Director,

Sarah Ainslie Marketing

    Lyn - Practice Manager

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        Jamie - Associate

Business & Personal Coach

Testimonial: of Jamie

"He has greatly assisted me in clarifying and refocussing on goals which have given me greater balance in my life."

Managing Director,

MNR Wealth Management.

 

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              Peter - Associate

Business & Personal Coach

Testimonial: of Peter

"In the true spirit of leading knowledge out of people, Peter fascinates and endears people to learn the way we did when we were children ."

Ian Chisholm
Chief Exec., Columba 1400. Isle of Skye

 

 

 

 

 

 

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