ASSOCIATES
Spread across the UK the Personal Summits Licensed Associates are all experienced in different fields and are all excellent business coaches with various associated qualifications. The team receives ongoing training and supervision with both face to face and weekly teleconference coaching to constantly update their knowledge and skills to maintain and develop a high degree of professional standards. Their biographies can be found on the website along with their location.
Industries covered by Personal Summits Associates:
- Legal Services Financial Services
- Professional Services Stock Trading
- Manufacturing Consulting
- Dentistry Marketing
- Logistics Telecommunications
- I.T. Leisure / Travel
- Pharmaceutical Architecture
- Accounting Airline Industry
- Surveyors Expedition/Outdoor Training
About Us
We are a UK ‘Personal and Business Growth’ company celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2009. Our aim is to support and guide you to reach your peak performance.
We operate a national team of Licensed Associates bound by a professional code of ethics and coaching standards. We are very proud of our positive and successful team who are focused on getting the best results for you. Constant development of the coaching programme is evidenced in the client testimonials of growth both professionally and personally. Our Business Growth Programme has the endorsed stamp of quality and external verification by the Institute of Leadership & Management ensuring the appropriate rigour is brought to the associates and the programme.
The Personal Summits’ Business Coaching Support Programme is endorsed by the Institute of Leadership & Management.
About our people
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Richard Bisiker
Douglas Brown
Peter Hill
Jamie McKelvie
Nick McCloud
Mike Slattery
Sharon Marshall
Angela Dunbar
Janet Manning
Founder: Richard Bisiker
Richard's Testimonials:
"Richard’s experience in coaching, NLP, confidence building, team working, 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
Richard Bisiker is a business development coach, trainer and author, and founder of Personal Summits Ltd. He has over 20 years experience working in the UK, Far East, Europe and America. During this time he has coached and trained over 8,000 participants in small and large groups from a wide range of cultures on personal and business development.
Richard’s books ‘More of What You Want’, and ‘Unlock Your Personal Potential’ are confirmation of his research with Wolverhampton University that personal development affects business growth.
Richard has worked with 100s of business owners and leaders helping identify business and personal growth plans and more importantly coaching them to follow through and implement them to achieve bottom-line results.
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Angus MacLennan
Angus's Testimonials:
"My sessions with Angus have been a great apprenticeship. Angus is a genuine and very positive person. Our sessions help me to find clarity to my needs and the confidence to move forwards. Angus is a professional who I admire and respect."
Gerard Numa - Operations Director
"I had been building my business for just under a year and had been really struggling with certain aspects of the business plan with the result that my business was not growing as I had expected.
I am now able to run on what I know to be the right road. Anyone who has the opportunity to work on a 1:1 basis with Angus should grab it with both hands. It is a life changing experience.”
Charlie Powell – Healthcare Products Business Owner
Angus is a Business and Personal Coach who gets results with motivated Entrepreneurs and Professionals. His mission is to deliver a quality service to develop his clients business’ and enable them to have the work/life balance they desire.
Over the past 5 years Angus has hundreds of hours experience coaching business professionals and is a Master Practitioner of NLP. He has a Degree in Industrial/Organisational Psychology and a Post Grad Dip in Personnel Management.
Sharon Marshall
Sharon's Testimonials:
"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
Business & Personal Coach. Sharon lets her clients speak for her in testimony to her professionalism and business acumen 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 mind set 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
Jamie McKelvie
Jamie's Testimonials:
"He has greatly assisted me in clarifying and refocusing on goals which have given me greater balance in my life."
Managing Director, MNR Wealth Management.
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.
Peter Hill
Peter's Testimonials:
"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
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 counseling 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.
Douglas Brown
With experience in financial planning, wealth management and coaching, Douglas Brown has developed the Plateau offering. His curiosity, empathy and understanding of what makes people successful led him to become an accredited coach and Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). He now spends his time helping professionals, entrepreneurs and people in general to focus on their careers, move their businesses forward and enjoy the things they value most in life. Basically, Douglas helps his clients to get things done.
In his words:
“Helping my clients to get things straight means a lot to me. Enabling them to simplify and gain clarity so they can enjoy life, financial security and the things they value most.”
Other things that mean a lot to Douglas are spending time with his wife Fiona and children Stuart, Sheona and Ross, playing guitar, cinema, reading avidly, running, cycling, and hill-walking. He has an ambition to experience as much of the world as possible, hopefully enabling Plateau's clients to do the same!
Nick McCloud
Over the years Nick has dealt with 100’s of small & medium businesses up and down the UK, as well as a few very large international firms in the UK, Europe & the US.
Along the way, Nick setup & ran a consumer lifestyle business with Helen, his wife, which they subsequently sold to start a family. He has developed and delivered productivity & leadership training to many of our clients. In support of this Nick has undertaken hundreds of hours of personal development, holding a NLP Diploma in Advanced Communication, been trained in training techniques, learnt from Chris Howard and Tony Robbins at their live sessions in the UK and learnt from master business coach, Richard Bisiker of Personal Summits Ltd.
Having setup two business from scratch, refreshed the family business, sold a business, hired & fired, commissioned advertising, run seminars, training, delivered consultancy, managed the accounts and everything else that goes with being at the coal face in a small business environment, Nick has the experience and the training to help his clients move further toward success.
Nick always wanted to be a lumberjack but settled for being a glider pilot, scuba diver and yacht sailor as his spare time activities.
It is his passion to assist people to achieve the very best.
Mike Slattery
Mike Slattery, Business and Executive Coach. Mike is a manufacturing professional having held senior positions with international companies, such as Land Rover, General Motors, ThyssenKrupp and Plastic Omnium. After over 35 years in corporate life Mike founded QLC (Quality Leadership Consultancy Ltd) to provide Business Improvement, Interim and Change Management, securing assignments with FIAT and Ferrari in Italy and GAZ Group in the UK, and more recently in the defence sector.
Mike is a graduate of Coventry University and holds a PgD (Management Studies)
He is also a qualified 6 Sigma practitioner with a vast amount of experience in introducing Continuous Improvement and Lean activities to many companies.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Motor industry, a member of Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Quality Institute.
Mike takes a very “Hands on” approach and strongly believes in releasing the full potential of every individual he works with to enable them to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.
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.