The Experts

Sharing many years of experience, our business experts will offer you and your team practical advice in an easy to understand and actionable way...

Simon Hartley

Simon Hartley

Creating a World-Class Team and Building a High-Performance Culture

Simon is a globally respected sport psychology consultant and performance coach who has worked with gold medallists, world record holders and world champions as well as in business, education, healthcare and the charity sector. Since 2011, he has published seven books.

Through the Academy, Simon will support you to understand world-class teams and building a high-performance culture and values during two dedicated workshops. His ‘Creating a World-Class Team’ workshop explores the six key characteristics of world-class teams, showing you how to use these to take your team from ‘good’ to ‘great’ to ‘world-class’.

His second workshop, ‘Building a High-Performance Culture’, will help you learn how to build a high-performance culture that drives success and instils a genuine sense of pride. He’ll also help you live your stated values and show you and your team how to translate words into choices, thoughts, and behaviours.

Richard Lane

Richard Lane

Strategic Sales Masterclass

Richard Lane is the co-founder and chief commercial office of durhamlane, a multi-million-pound strategic B2B sales and marketing agency established in 2011, which focuses on sales opportunity creation in the UK, EMEA and North America. durhamlane bridge the gap between marketing outputs and the inputs that sales teams need to be successful.

Richard is a true thought-leader, entrepreneur, business coach and a sought-after Sales 2.0 practitioner, trainer and consultant.

In addition to being a regular speaker at conferences, roundtables and panel contributor, Richard also co-hosts durhamlane’s podcast ‘The Insiders’.

“Every day I was practising what I was learning on the course. SULA really changed my mind-set and helped me get the business back in line. I learned to think like a CEO. I can’t tell you what it did for me.”

Steven Rawlingson, Samuel Knight International

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