Learning

Meeting designing

Sue Tinnish is a Founding Principal at SEAL Inc.   She has 25 years of business experience working with businesses of varying size (privately owned companies through Fortune 1000 companies) and associations. 

Sue brings a wealth of business experience.  She worked in financial services for Citicorp and Wells Fargo Bank before her work at SEAL Inc.  She has experience in sales, product launches, sales management and operations­.  Her broad base of business skills allows her to address both strategic and tactical issues.  Sue’s expertise and career is a masterful blend of people skills, communication skills, and a quantitative perspective on business. 

Sue has a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.  She is the founder of a women’s networking group, The Links, which combines business networking with golf.  She is active in the Midwest Facilitators Network, Meeting Professionals International (Past President) and the University of Chicago Women’s Business Group.  

Areas of speaking expertise and interest: Communication Styles, Adult Learning, Generational Differences, Multi-cultural Differences

Rob Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in Business Travel and Tourism at the University of Westminster in London. He joined the University in 1998, after spending nine years in France teaching at two universities (Lyon and Montpellier) and at the ESSEC-Cornell Institute of Management in Paris. Prior to that, he spent five years as Education and Training Manager with VisitBritain in London. His main areas of expertise are conference and business travel, and over the last ten years he has written widely on these themes. His latest book was published in 2006: Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events, co-written with Tony Rogers of the British Association of Conference Destinations. In addition, he regularly writes articles for the professional business tourism press, including Conference News. Rob also runs his own consultancy business, and has carried out research for a number of conference organisations in the UK and overseas.

Conference and business travel

Certified Trainer of NLP, Certified PhotoReading™ Instructor, Certified Trainer of Hypnosis, Certified Trainer of Time Line Therapy®, Life and Executive Coach, Huna Practitioner, Archetypal Development Coach, and Management Consultant.

A Business Studies graduate, qualified member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and part-qualified Accountant, Marilyn has over 18 years industry experience, which encompasses Sales, Marketing, Event Management, Training, Education, and Finance. Having always had a strong interest in personal development, she decided to combine her extensive industry experience with her skills as a manager and coach to offer specialist coaching, training and consultancy.

Marilyn is also a freelance writer and has written and contributed to feature articles for a number of national magazines and newspapers including Zest, Slimming Magazine, The Metro, The Daily Mirror, Health Plus, Pass Accountancy Magazine, Aesthetic Medicine, Call Centre Focus, Here’s Health, Women’s Health, The Watford Observer, Boost, Natural Health, and Spirit & Destiny.  She is an Expert Contributor for Spirit & Destiny magazine has a monthly ‘Life Solutions’ problem page.

Marilyn is also an accomplished speaker and seminar leaders and has run workshops and seminars at the Skyros Holistic Resort in Greece, The Vitality Show at London Olympia, The Call Centre Expo at the NEC in Birmingham, the Integral NLP Conference in Glastonbury, Confex at Earls Court, The Aesthetic Medicine Show at Olympia, and The Call Centre & IT Directors Forum on The Aurora Cruise Ship. Confex at Earls Court, The Clothes Show Live/Eve Style Show at the NEC, and The Mind of an Entrepreneur at London Olympia.

Her first book, Stories of Transformation co-authored with Anthony Robbins, Dr Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, Paul Scheele, Marie Diamond, Chunyi Lin and Al Siebert will be published in Spring 2007.

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Mario Thelen is foundation partner of the consultancy company Frankfurt Economics, operating all over Germany, registered in Eschborn, near Frankfurt am Main. As an industrial engineer he is specialised in programme and project management and supports clients of all businesses in the integration of innovative technical solutions. As a management expert he applies established as well as innovative methods and approaches, as for example LEGO® SERIOUS PLAYä. The certified PRINCE 2 – Practitioner also offers organisational consultancy and project management to companies.

 Aged 38, Mario Thelen has management experience of more than 10 years: up to the foundation of Frankfurt Economics in 2001, he was head of the business segment “IT Business Services” at SerCon GmbH, an affiliate of IBM Deutschland GmbH. It was during this period that he carried out the development and operation of the WAP-Portal of T-Mobile. Additionally, at Commerzbank, he was responsible for the planning, coordination and conversion of processes effected by Y2K.

Pascal  van den Noort, B ma (1950) CEO of Master Plan BV has vast experience in setting up (inter)national organizations (Dutch Aids Foundation, The Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Velo Mondial); initiates and participates in projects (Velo.Info, Spicycles, UTBI, LUTR/PLUME, NATCYP), organizes conferences (Velo Mondial Amsterdam 2000 / Cape Town 2006) and raises funds for events. He specializes in making sustainability information better available (www.susta-info.net) and  is partner in the set up of bicycle infrastructure development in a.o. Qatar. He is member of advisory bodies to the City of Amsterdam and the World Carfree Network.

Dr. Domenico G. Bozza is a Psychologist in Rome. He teaches Psychology and Psychopatology and is involved in the management of study groups themed to Psychology and Society.

He is also a tutor at the academy of Italian State Police and a trainer in Motivation and Psychological Satisfaction in several professional environments.

Psychology and Sociology

Dr. Rodolfo Musco graduated in Business Administration and for 13 years has been responsible for strategic marketing in multinational companies. Since 1977 he has been fully dedicated to motivation and communication through meetings. Dr. Musco has managed over 350 incentive campaigns and over 200 conferences. Dr. Musco is past president of MPI (Meeting Professionals International) – Italian Chapter and president of SITE (Society of Incentive & Travel Executives)– Chapter Italy. He lectures in four continents.

Richard John is an event guru, according to public and private organisations, trade associations, academic bodies, suppliers, organisers, the MICE magazines and his mum.

As well as training, consulting, presenting, writing, researching, lecturing and dog-walking he is also a speaker at numerous events around the world, and anywhere that people stop to catch their breath.

He’s got so many professional qualifications to his name. Listing them becomes tedious. At the moment he’s currently finishing his MSc in Event Management at Leeds Metropolitan University in England.

He works extensively across all aspects of the events industry, but his big feet also lead him to a host of other management and marketing assignments which allow him to offer a much wider view of the whole issue of face to face communications. No silo thinking here.

His approach to life – and clients - is honest, open, challenging, thought-provoking, unbiased, undiplomatically, and (as you’ve probably guessed) – quite irreverent.

Ib Ravn, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Learning Lab Denmark, of the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen. He heads the research group ”Facilitating Knowledge Processes” that designs, facilitates and tests processes for learning and knowledge sharing at meetings, conferences, networks and in organizations generally. He was directed the projects ”The Learning Meeting” and ”More Effective Meetings” that were conducted in collaboration with some of Denmark’s largest corporations, among them Nokia Denmark, Novozymes and Danske Bank. His doctorate is in Social Systems Sciences from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously worked for thirteen years in the private sector, including five years as a business consultant. He has written four books in Danish on science and society, as well as Steen Elsborg and Ib Ravn: “Learning Meetings and Conferences in Practice” (People’sPress, 2007, 92 pages). Here are his bio page with publications, his blog, his research group and the lab.