Our Speakers

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Larry is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Director in a firm of chartered surveyors that specialise in commercial and residential building surveying, building design, management of construction and building contracts, energy assessment and defects analysis. He is a Director of BlueBox partners and an assessor, internal verifier and trainer for NES SAVA.

Larry has co-written two books for RICS Books and is also advisory editor for ‘RICS Home Surveys – a Surveyor’s guide’ by Phil Parnham and ‘RICS Survey Writer sample phrases for the RICS condition report’, by Phil Parnham, both published in 2011 by RICS Books. He is the author of the RICS isurv section on building surveys.

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Matthew Hill is a senior Trainer and Executive Coach, helping directors and managers get to their goals in difficult economic and commercial circumstances.

His training sessions are high energy, interactive and humorous, focusing on the issues and skills of the participants. The aim is to bring out the best from the delegates in a safe and enjoyable environment to maximise their learning experience.

His teachings centre on the power of language to change business outcomes.

Matthew Hill has 20 years experience in International business working with such companies as Atkins, Balfour Beatty and General Electric.

Matthew writes for, presents and speaks at the BBC, SIETAR, the CIPD, the ECIA, the IOD, Human Capital Management Magazine, HR Director Magazine, European CEO Magazine, The Belgian, Hungarian and Australian / New Zealand Embassies and Chambers of Commerce and the Frost and Sullivan Excellence Awards.

He has worked with 100’s of senior managers from 40 countries in 20 territories and managed people from more than 12 different nationalities.

Certified Practitioner of NLP

BSc(Hons) Psychology – London

Hiltrop Negotiator

TMC Assessment Accreditation

Feedback

* Excellent speaker, very interactive
* Excellent presenter, made it an enjoyable day
* Exceeded my expectations and more. Speaker Matthew Hill was excellent

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Nigel joined BrunswickIS which is part of the Alway Group of companies in March 2003 as a Senior Consultant and has subsequently been made a Director. His workload has included commercial management for sub contractors, main contractors, developers and Local Authority Employer. He has also represented parties in adjudications. He is also fulfilling project management duties on a variety of projects and is currently deployed as Employers Agent on a large new build project having advised the employer through all stages of the project.

He is also a regular speaker for Construction Study Centre as well as providing open breakfast seminars and in-house full day seminars in a variety of construction related topics. His delegates have included local and regional contractors, sub contractors, developers and specialist trades as well as construction professionals such as architects, surveyors and engineers.

Prior to his appointment with BrunswickIS, Nigel was Group Commercial Manager of the Thyssen (Great Britain) Ltd group of companies and was appointed Director responsible for establishing an office and workload in Ireland. Thyssen worked mainly in the infrastructure sector undertaking water, rail, road, civil engineering and tunnelling projects. During this time Nigel, along with the personnel organised and developed the Human Resources of the management delivering regular training to staff and supply chain partners on topics including, management techniques, partnering, forms of contract, commercial awareness, commercial quantity surveying and company procedures.

Nigel has had significant success commercially managing projects and teams in the infrastructure sector. He has good communication, presentation and is strong in both commercial and project management skills.

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* Just a quick note to thank you very much for the seminar yesterday. It was one of the best I have attended – ticked every box for me. The day flew and I found it informative, interesting and exceedingly useful
* Trainer very knowledgeable, shared real experience.
* Very thorough delivery & very informative. Nigel was excellent !
* Very good, interactive and easily followed. Hit our audience well – could develop for others in company
* Nigel was careful to tailor the contract to our requirements/experience
* Very well presented, kept you interested and alert, good examples & analogies