Presenting skills workshop in Leeds – The Outside Inn

A opportunity for Story Telling We are just a few weeks away from running the annual “Stories from the Outside Inn” workshop in Leeds. This training focusses on how to become an excellent presenter and storyteller. Doug O Brien and I run this each year in New York and in the UK. Its a fascinating …

Training in Austin Texas

I am about to fly back to the UK after six amazing days in Austin Texas. I ran a PCW level 1 training hosted by Katie Raver who is a superb organiser and joins the ranks of my elite PCW international gals that make the impossible possible! The group really embraced the material and amazingly …

Working with The Performance Partnership in London

I just returned from the first Provocative Change Works training hosted by the Performance Partnership in London. This was an exceptionally well promoted and organized training and it was a real pleasure to work with a group that asked some many smart questions. Many folks will know that I run PCW trainings all over the …

The Power to Influence

I have been involved in personal development for over 35 years and a key part of my learning process is understanding the power of influence and how it’s used in business and personal life. In the 1980s and 1990s I worked extensively in the sales and marketing sectors being responsible for two startup operations that …

The Best and the Worst Customer Service

In recent years with a great deal of international travelling I have become increasingly aware of the massive variations in customer service. There are also common themes in these extremes of service and often common sense is not that common. Let’s start on a positive note! The best customer service I have come across to …

Nick Kemp Training in Japan

I just returned from my ninth trip to Japan to run trainings. Nick Kemp Training will be back again in 2016 for present another series of workshops in Osaka. I love Japan which is like no other place I have visited to date. The Japanese have the very best customer service on planet earth and an …

Why I advise now transferring all your sites to Word Press format

I have finally emerged from 10 weeks of total frustration to now having created a new platform for my websites. Back in February out of the blue my then IT consultant announced that he was leaving the UK to live overseas. Also the main tech I dealt for 7 years  left the company at the same time. This meant I would need …

The Appropriate Response?

When “Fuck you” is the appropriate response Many years ago Frank Farrelly told me a story. He was running a Provocative Therapy workshop in Europe and on day one an attractive woman came up to him and made the following comment – “I want to take you to lunch so I can see you on …

The Baptism of fire and lessons learned in the recruitment sector 1986 – 1999

Many people will know me primarily for my work in the personal development sector and particularly from developing the Provocative Change Works model and working closely with Frank Farrelly the creator of Provocative Therapy. What a lot of folks may not be aware of is that for an extensive period in the 1980s and 1990s …