What teams say afterwards.
More than 250 teams, from boardrooms and leadership groups to fast-growing start-ups and public bodies. Here is what they said about the work once the room had cleared.
James facilitated our offsite with insight, empathy, and precision. He created a space where open, honest dialogue could flourish, and we are now operating with greater unity and purpose. His work goes beyond facilitation. It's transformative.Steve WilliamsonGeneral Manager · Global Inkjet Systems
Senior teams getting on the same page.
Our workshop with James achieved all our aims. It offered a chance for the team to think in different ways using different tools, some of which they have already put to use in other meetings. It was also brilliant to have someone independent of the team, which freed me as manager to be more involved and the team to be more confident about speaking up.
Just want to take the opportunity to thank you again for a really great, lively, useful session. Definitely the best I have been part of.
Pearson approached James to help conduct a series of workshops that would take our curriculum workstreams into the unknown. We have been really impressed with how adaptable, responsive and supportive he has been. Working with James has been a fantastic experience and one we would use again in the future.
An engaging and inspiring creative leadership workshop with James. So much learnt and a great way to team bond.
You have achieved so much. Your influence and training have resulted in outcomes that exceeded my hopes and expectations.
Thanks to James for facilitating our Teamwork workshop. The outcomes were very useful in steering the actions we now need to put in place to enhance the business.
James helped us run an all staff Away Day after 2 years of remote working. Many staff had never met and the event really brought us together. James listened to the brief and together we designed a fun and engaging programme which ensured we achieved our aims for the day. James was very easy to work with, efficient, accommodating and he is a skilled facilitator. Thank you for delivering a fantastic day James!
James ran an offsite for our board to define our strategy for the coming years. It was incredibly helpful to have a skilled facilitator to help us analyse our business, clarify our thinking and challenge us to make decisions on our future direction. Everything was clearly summarised in a concise report afterwards, which helped us maintain momentum and take tangible outcomes from the day.
Many thanks for your work preparing, facilitating and reporting on the meeting. We were really pleased with the session and with the write-up of the outcomes. You've been great to work with throughout the process and have delivered the output that we were looking for, so many thanks. If we find ourselves with similar needs again, we'd hope to work with you in the future.
Bringing teams back together.
James understood the needs of our teams and used his toolkit to deliver a short workshop on how to unite under a common purpose, share best practice and ideas, and support each other's strengths and weaknesses. The session delivered the outputs we required and more. I would recommend his services to others.
The Teamwork workshop was excellent and allowed our team to really think about its priorities and common shared goals. There were some excellent tasks and exercises in the session and a right balance of group work and discussions.
It was a very constructive day, focused on learning about each other and how to work better as a team. It helps pave a road to building better teams, and signposts you on what needs to be done as further to help map out the ways people can help you do your best work.
Really positive and insightful approach. Love the tools used and a really great tone. It brought the best out of the team, allowing them a chance to be heard and engage but also to feel they owned the solutions. Definitely recommend.
The teamwork workshop set us up perfectly for our strategy offsite and brought our team much closer.
You encouraged the team to be open and contribute during the workshop, and with excellent time keeping you both led and facilitated the conversation well. We all felt at ease, which is so important in a short session.
James delivered a great session and was so patient with the team as they explored their challenges and what bonds them. There has been an immediate shift in team dynamic and cohesiveness as a result of the workshop. James guided us, but did so lightly and ensured we had enough time to discuss the areas that were most important to us.
We gave James plenty of information about our objectives and goals. He used this information to totally tailor the programme around our team and the individuals in it.
Values and behaviours.
As a business, we wanted to come together to define our values, not what we did but how we wanted to do it. From the minute I spoke to James, he came across as an expert who was incredibly knowledgeable and wanted to understand our business and objectives so he could get the very best out of us. We agreed a plan, and James clearly talked through how the workshop would be delivered. The workshop was run exceptionally well and James tailored his approach to ensure everyone was heard, from physicists to HR!
James worked with us to decipher the National Space Centre's values. He facilitated group storytelling workshops and created bespoke resources for us. He asked the right questions throughout the whole process, and our team found him very easy to work with. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend James. His input was impartial, insightful and extremely valuable.
New tools, new ways of thinking.
After the session, my colleague and I couldn't stop talking about the new ideas we had generated, all of which happened in such a short period of time. I would recommend James to any company who have reached a creative stalemate.
James led us through some of the leading thinking in creativity and got us all engaged in hands-on activities specifically aimed at developing new ideas to solve the most important challenges we face.
A highly interactive session, full of energy, insightful ideas and new ways of working. I have no hesitation in recommending James.
I attended with my team, and we all found it very useful to take time out of our busy diaries to think about the art of ideation.
My team and I had a training session with James to improve our creative problem solving and team work in general. We found the day hugely beneficial and left with loads of practical actions to follow up on. The feedback from the team has been very positive and I would be very happy to work with James again.
Everyone very much felt like they got something out of the session. I liked the research based, psychology approach to the activities.
I can't recommend James enough for empowering our team. We all found the workshop inspirational.
With our marketing team we did the Creativity workshop, which had as an objective to inject more creativity into our marketing plans. The three-hour workshop was super insightful and has given us plenty of tools to work with. I would definitely recommend working with James.
Trusted by partners and collaborators.
James has great integrity, is down to earth and a really nice guy too. He brings a practical and clear approach to creativity tools and techniques, and strips out the mystique which is no small accomplishment.
You really helped us to quickly set up the right technology and skills to be able to confidently deliver our events and workshops online. For me you are a real expert in video workshops and remote meeting techniques. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to anyone who needs help in this area.
You did a good job of understanding what it was that we needed and guiding us to the right format to help us translate the event into the online version. Our chats in the lead up to the event were really helpful and helped clarify my thinking and focus my planning.
Your team could be next.
Every one of these started with a conversation. Tell me about your team and the moment it is in, and we will work out whether a session would help and what shape it should take.