jim.hick@virgin.net
As an entrepreneur and skilled communicator Jim runs his own successful businesses, which include a brewery, restaurant and property business in rural Northumberland and Scotland. He has worked as management trainer / facilitator since 1982 and as Managing Director of his highly regarded nationwide people development company from 1989 to 2001. From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a Director of the UK Lake District based development organisation Dove Nest Group.
Working at senior manager and partner level current and recent clients include: KPMG, BT, St Gobain and the Jewson chain, Riverford Organics, Premier Foods to name a few. His work has taken him around the world with global organisations and recently completed assignments in Brussels, Bangkok and Dallas, USA.
Jim’s career began after an Honours degree from London University led him to Papua New Guinea as an agricultural development specialist. He then joined the Agricultural Training Board in the UK, which was his first introduction to management development. This was the grounding needed to provide a springboard to set up his own management and team development organisation using initially outdoor based training exercises as a medium to provide experiential training to delegates.
Jim is widely sought after as a highly effective facilitator who can work at board level in global organisations. He is particularly well suited to working cross-culturally and has the sensitivity and experience to work with those for whom English is not their first language.
