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Amanda Vickers

Amanda’s background is in banking where she worked both within business and support areas such as HR and training. She is now one of the Directors of a successful and well established Training Company – Speak First – that specialises in transforming business relationships. She is also the author of three books: Be Your Best Coach and Beyond, Teach Yourself NLP and Teach Yourself Coaching (published by Hodder Headline) and has expertise in communication, leadership, sales, customer relationship management and individual and team coaching at senior management level.

Expertise:

• Provides a balance of support and challenge to enable clients to move out of their comfort zones.
  
• Identifies strategies for moving people forward when they are stuck.
  ‘Holds a mirror up’ to provide new insights to behaviours that get in the way of success.
  
• Assists clients to discover and clarify what they want to achieve.
  
• Experienced in individual and team coaching at all levels.
  
  Amanda’s background is in banking where she worked both within business and support areas such as HR and training. She is now one of the Directors of a successful and well established Training Company – Speak First – that specialises in transforming business relationships. She is also the author of three books: Be Your Best Coach and Beyond, Teach Yourself NLP and Teach Yourself Coaching (published by Hodder Headline) and has expertise in communication, leadership, sales, customer relationship management and individual and team coaching at senior management level.
  
  Amanda has a passion for developing people and that is translated into the energy, compassion and pragmatic approach she takes to her work. She has helped many people increase their confidence and rapidly achieve satisfying results. When working as part of a team of coaches she works at a strategic level with organisations reflecting back patterns and themes that may affect organisational performance.
  
  Amanda has a BSc Hons in Psychology, is a Master Practitioner of NLP and a certified NLP Coach. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and The Institute of Directors. She is trained in the use of Extended DISC, Language & Behaviour Profiling, and Saville & Holdsworths Occupational Personality Questionnaires.
  

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