David has been involved in training and development and education for over twenty years. Having first trained and qualified as an accountant he moved on into more general management and then management development and training.

He has operated in both the public and the private sectors and has also lectured in General Management Theory and Practice, Financial Management and Accountancy. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group where he taught in the field of human resource management.

David has considerable experience of business and people management, organisational consultancy, training and development, and is a skilled facilitator and coach.


In addition to training and development David’s past consultancy experience includes:

• Business and strategic planning, capital investment appraisal, financial modelling, financial control and management information systems, business advisory activities, budgetary control

• Identification and design of management training and development strategy, training needs analysis, OD interventions and change programmes, problem solving workshops and group facilitated events, team building programmes and events

• Psychometric testing, design and delivery of assessment and development centres, recruitment and selection, job analysis, competency identification and definition, behaviour anchored rating scales


David holds Level B Intermediate qualification in occupational testing with the British Psychological Society

He is an accredited user of the TMI and associated instruments published by Team Management Systems, the NEO PI-R personality profile published by Psychological Assessment Resources Inc., Saville and Holdsworth's instruments including the OPQ, the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) and numerous other psychometric instruments for measuring ability and personality.

David’s Specialties:
Evaluating business strategies, financial and commercial evaluation of projects, cash flow management, management development, coaching, facilitation, psychometric testing, personality profiling.
Provides consultancy for SME's and larger organisations, offering business advice and support and project work, specialising in business planning and strategy and finance; a company 'doctor' service. Also management training and development including executive coaching, personality profiling and psychometric testing.