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Experience.Ann Grindrod is a licensed Business Master Practitioner of NLP, with further professional qualifications in learning, HR, and counselling. She is a practising member of the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG), and the Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI). With a background in the services sector, at operational, management and director level, and a strong focus on care for the individual, Ann has worked with more than 50 organisations in her 18-year trading history. A full list of customers is available on request. Her customers cover global players such as British Airways and Holiday Inn, UK household names including Waitrose, W H Smith and the Arcadia Group, and local and national private sector organisations in the brewing, catering, cleaning, education, engineering, electronics, financial, health care, hospitality, insurance, retail, security, and surveying sectors. She has developed a wide range of learning, diversity, recruitment, employment, and redundancy initiatives for public sector organisations, including education providers, and for 14 different Government agencies and Departments. This includes project managing multiple rolling-year contracts with the Depts for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Education & Skills (DFES), Work and Pensions (DWP), and the former Training & Enterprise Councils. Ann also has a lifetime of paid and voluntary experience within the not-for-profit sector, within both national organisations and local groups, and she has been coaching individuals to achieve personal and career success for over 20 years (fee-paying or otherwise!).
Personal.Ann says: "I have been helping people discover their own and others’ potential throughout my career, and I have developed 5 passions in my working life: people, potential, diversity, learning, and simplicity People – in my first career in the services sector, continuous contact with customers and colleagues embedded a lifelong curiosity in how people think, work, learn, and develop. Potential – my next career choices, in the not-for-profit sector, involved dealing with people during life’s extremes. This taught me how we can all discover our potential, irrespective of circumstance, once we commit to do so. Diversity – I set up my first business, Equals, to coach and train jobseekers and career changers to gain education, work, or business opportunities. Based in London’s most culturally-diverse area, I pioneered a range of learning and recruitment initiatives which successfully promoted diversity within many organisations, at both local and global levels. Learning – in Y2k, I became an avid learner myself, when a loss in memory led me to discover brain friendly learning and like-minded colleagues! Since then, our brain friendly network has awakened a joy for learning in countless others, simply by stimulating individual learning potential. And Simplicity? – learning abounds with theories, models, and tests, which may seek to mystify what can be so straightforward – moving an individual or group from the present situation, to a desired future, by discovering existing untapped potential. Through Simply Learning, I am committed to ensuring that all our coaching and learning interventions are understandable, practical and pragmatic, and provide lasting benefits for our individual clients and organisational customers.”
Simply Learning supports the work of the Campaign for Learning whose aim is to stimulate a love of learning that will sustain people for life. Please visit their website at www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk for more information.
If you want to know more about how I use my passion for brain friendly learning to discover people's potential, click here to contact me today.
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