Our Team
Andrew – Events Producer (All programmes)
Background
- British doubles racquet ball champion
- International racquets professional
- 30+ years team activity event management
Now
- Marketing and sales lead
- Event design and delivery – events – tv games
- Business networker extraordinaire
David – Instructor / Coach / Safety Lead (All programmes)
Background
- Water ski professional and coach
- Water ski boat engineer
- 30+ years team activity event management
Now
- Water activities lead (water-sking, wakeboarding)
- Safety lead
- Repairs everything the team breaks
Jay – Programme Director (Experiential Learning)
Background
- Board level marketing specialist – brewing industry
- Launched the UK’s first ever alcopop (it failed)
- 30+ years experiential learning programme design and facilitation
Now
- Built in the 1950s – still some original working parts
- International wanderer (All who wander are not lost)
- Programme design and delivery
Colin – Instructor (Team building and open water swimming)
Background
- 30+ years management training and development
- Swam in four charity cross channel relay teams
Now
- Teaches children and adults to swim
- Team development programme instructor
- Open water swimming instructor and safety
Chris – Facilitator (Leadership development)
Background
- Wild child
- Broke the corporate glass ceiling then got bored
- PhD research in leader awareness
Now
- Discovering neuroscience: the study of the brain and nervous system.
- Enables transformational change in leaders and organisations
- Programme design and implementation
Ian – Instructor / Coach (Team programmes and water ski)
Background
- 40+ years in water ski and wakeboard industry
- Qualified coach
- 10 years supporting adults with learning difficulties
Now
- Team development programme instructor
- Ski and wakeboard coach
- Best bacon rolls
Richard – Instructor / Sales (Team programmes)
Background
- 3 Counties archery champion
- 35+ years multinational corporate sales
- 30 years water-skiing and coaching
Now
- Team development programme instructor
- Ski and wakeboard coach
- Sales consultant
Mark – Facilitator (Leadership development)
Background
- BT Global Challenge Round the World skipper
- Authentic leader
- Fallible human being
Now
- Helping ordinary people to achieve the extraordinary when the only way out is through
- Motivational speaker
- Programme design and implementation
Will – Facilitator (Leadership development)
Background
- Royal Navy
- BT Global Challenge Round the World skipper
- Executive coach
Now
- Face to face and virtual leadership development
- Motivational speaker
- Programme design and implementation
Claire – Facilitator (Team and leadership development)
Background
- Financial services operational management
- Implementated major transformation programmes
- Natural trainer and facilitator
Now
- Enables transformational change in leaders and organisations
- Programme design and implementation
- Horse riding
James – Instructor (Team events and paddle sports)
Background
- Master cabinet maker
- Mountain leader
- Paddlesport instructor
Now
- Team development programme instructor
- Hand crafts our range of Challenge Me games
Denzil – Mascot
Background
- Rescued as a puppy from a Scottish Island croft
- 6 years on the Isle of Sheppey
- 4 years on a narrow boat on the Thames
Now
- Eats anything possible (especially Ian’s bacon rolls)
- Motivational distraction