Paul Fairhurst
- Speaking at the "The Future of Workplace LEARNING" afternoon seminar on day 2
Paul is a Principal Consultant in the Institute for Employment Studies consultancy team, responsible for helping clients gain sustainable benefits from the research and consultancy programmes they undertake.
He has over 20 years successful experience in business, most recently running his own Coaching and Management Development business.
Previously he was a Partner and member of the Executive Board of the UK Division of a European consulting firm responsible for People Development and HR. He has advised and consulted with leading blue-chip organisations in the areas of executive coaching, organisation design and development and business & marketing strategy. Prior to this he was a member of the management board of a leading edge subsidiary of Royal Insurance with responsibility for strategy and planning.
Paul is a certified NLP Coach and a Master Practitioner of NLP. He continues to maintain his skills at the leading edge and is an accredited Myers Briggs and Strengthscope psychometric user. He is a member of the European Positive Psychology Network and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has a BSc in Maths with Engineering and an MSc in Operational Research. He has written and published work in the areas of personal development, positive psychology and organisational design.
His consultancy clients have included Norwich Union, Cambridgeshire CC, Thomas Cook, Scope, Yellow Pages, Legal & General, Siemens and the Office for National Statistics as well as coaching clients from a wide range of private and public sector organisations.
