Professional Experience and Education
Born in Brazil, and workedin Holland, France, Germany and Spain. Milton has more than twenty years professional experience in the commercial area (marketing and sales) and as Managing Director with multinational companies in the Netherlands, France and Spain (Melitta, Dow Brands, Wall Street Institute and Budelpack). He has been involved in mergers of several companies and managed the resulting joint venture companies.

• Master in Economics (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
• Advanced Management Program (INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France)
• Executive Coaching, certified by the International Coach Federation (ACTP)
• Practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
• Master in Problem Solving and Strategic communication (Giorgio Nardone)

Languages: Fluency in: Spanish, German, French, English, Dutch and Portuguese

Prior Corporate Career
Shell & Elf Petroleum, Ford Motor Co.

Global Experience
He has worked in the likes of; South Africa, Singapore, Brunei, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Turkey, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Nigeria.

Professional Experience and Education
Barry Ryan, is a UK National, has driven business transformation, optimisation and improvement programmes in many sectors where profit is threatened and programmes were not meeting objectives. He has been on the Board of Directors of a number of PLC’s. Barry provides expertise at a strategic level to improve overall business performance centred on complex, high profile, high cost, programmes of work.
He is a mentor, pragmatic leader, concise and a builder of client and stakeholder confidence at all levels.

He is a Chartered Marine, Mechanical and European Engineer and a member of the Assciation for Project Management. He has a Masters Degree in Project and Programme Management and is an Expert Witness and specialises in Forensic Project and Programme Management.

Barry’s expertise has been deployed to resolve business issues centred around:

• High risk/value multi-million pound projects
• Multiple sub-contracts / partner relationships
• Expert Witness work involving contract dispute and claims settlement
• Project & Programme Recovery & Turn-around expertise
• Large Change Management & Business Process Re-Engineering Programmes
• The effective management of cross-functional team
• The management of key and influential stakeholders
• The management of non-standard, technically and commercially complex programmes and their positive outcome, including Joint Venture’s Mergers & acquisitions.

He has applied his skills to help clients to recover failing projects and in so doing, has prevented catastrophic financial collapse. He brings to clients a quiet yet determined confidence and exudes leadership, coupled to first class people management skills, gained over many years working with blue-chip clients. Barry possesses significant ‘emotional intelligence’ which he uses to bring out the best in people and management teams, helping their own corporate and professional development.

Building upon that experience, Ralph added his studies in Advanced NLP, Coaching and Personal Development in revolutionising people’s attitudes to business.

Equally at home in the Board Room or the Despatch Department, Ralph has a highly infectious, positive attitude to all areas of business and people at all levels quickly warm to his down to earth attitude, humorous approach and generous style.

As an Inspirational Speaker, Ralph is engaging and charismatic with a down to earth approach, open sense of humour and the ability to “touch” his listeners at a deep level. His cultural sensitivity and respect earn him acceptance and friendship wherever he speaks, whilst his ability to challenge the “norm” at the same time facilitates interesting changes in thinking and attitudes. To date, Ralph has given key-note talks at a number of events, including the Istanbul HR Conference and Turkish Dental Congress as well as regular contributions as Visiting Lecturer at Stratford Campus (London) and FE institutions in the UK and Europe. He also regularly leads open personal development programmes and seminars and recently spoke on Creating Success in Times of Challenge to a full auditorium at the American University in Cairo.

2010 sees Ralph engaged in several major projects – Co-delivery of the first ANLP India Trainer Certification, design of the NLP content for a Degree programme being delivered at Stratford Campus in London and a Mini MBA programme for Talent Pool Leaders that will launch in the Middle East in 2011. Ralph’s book on negotiating, “Countermove” is already receiving high acclaim and he has recently been invited to speak at Henley Business School, one of the leading Business Schools in Europe.

Key areas of expertise

• Leadership Development
• Negotiating
• Sales and Key Account Development
• Coaching
• Trainer Development

Professional credentials

• Founding Organisational Member of the Association for Coaching
• Member of the Institute for Leadership and Management
• Certified Trainer with the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA)
• Trustee and Master Trainer – ANLP India
• Regional Director (Europe) – International NLP federation (INLPF)
• Visiting Faculty Member Stratford Campus, East London

When she was working at her own business, she also started to work for a non profit organization professionally; Alumni Association of METU, in İstanbul, where she holds senior executive position, gave her a chance to develop many kinds of gifts.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psycology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. During her profession she had chance to participate many international seminars and certificate programs such as Contemporary Management, Human Resources Management, NLP Practioner, Family and Couple Therapy.

Her passion is to help people and couples be more happy and successful by assisting them in balancing their lives.

Prior to this, she worked 21 years for Procter & Gamble, leading global consumer goods company. She has started her career in Finance and assumed several responsibilities at different levels. She worked as Sales Marketing Manager and also as National Accounts Sales Manager Turkey. She led European sales project located in Vienna and moved to Human Resources as the Regional HR Associate Director for the Sales function in Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. She is experienced in leading multifunctional and complex organizations, in multicultural environment. She has cross-functional & cross- country experience both in developed and developing countries.

Yıldız’s varied background in Finance, Sales, Marketing and Human Resources provided the perfect foundation for Business Consultancy. She is specialized in Consumer and Customer focused Marketing and Sales activities, with special focus on customer and trade experience. She is an expert on Strategy Development, Customer & Brand Management, Online Marketing, Talent Development, Organization Efficiency, Team Building, Change Management and Diversity. She led gender diversity project in EMEA for Sales group and initiated several activities & projects supporting females in business. Passionate about supporting females in business and its possibilities, Yıldız provides training & speeches that help females to improve their life.

Trainer of “Effective Management Techniques”, “Work & Life Balance”, Coaching & Mentoring”, “Change Management” and “Networking for Professionals – Converting Connections into Results” programs. She runs workshops at Sabancı University and Bahcesehir University in Turkey.

After a successful career in FMCG and Media industries, Yıldız coaches other people how to achieve the same success. She is a professional Executive, Career & Life Coach.

Author of Yenibiris.com, one of leading job websites and creator of “Supporting Women in Business” project with Elele & Garanti Emeklilik, “Zamane Hatunları“ (Women of our Time) (zamanehatunlari.com). She attends conferences and seminars as a speaker.

Currently she works as a management consultant in the National Bank of Greece.

Areas of expertise:
Strategic planning and managing projects and leading change.

Experienced management consultant, trainer and business coach in large banking and consulting organizations.

Professional Experience and Education:
Has worked for Vodafone SA, Fiat group, VW Group, BMW GmbH, the National Bank of Greece and as independent coach and consultant.

She holds an MBA from the University of Sunderland, UK and speaks Greek, English and French.

Work and values:
She is an innovative and open minded individual and a highly disciplined hard worker with passion for new challenges and change.

As a coach she helps people improve their skills and be successful and balanced by achieving their targets.

In our world of constant change her work focuses on helping modern organizations become more successful and sustainable by leading change.