Simon McKibbin
Director, Consultant, Trainer, Coach

Simon's business experience lies in management and sales. In the 1980s and 1990s he contributed to one of the UK's fastest growing import-export businesses, Windhorse Trading (appearing in the Price Waterhouse Top 100 private companies list). As founder of Evolution, he has provided development training and consultancy to an extensive and varied group of clients, also acting as visiting university lecturer.

He specialises in Leadership, Team building and Nonviolent Communication™.  Simon is a keen-edged and approachable communicator, with an unusual ability for creating supportive environments where participants can enjoy learning and collaborating at their best.

Elizabeth English , D.Phil (Oxon.), M.Phil. (Oxon), BA (Hons).
Consultant, Trainer, Coach

Elizabeth's professional experience includes Arts Bodies and NGO's, as well as Higher Education as a university lecturer, researcher and author.

Her international certification in Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) gives her a special interest in communication training, ranging from conflict resolution to team-building and stress reduction. She also works with coaching and mediation in professional and personal contexts with leaders, teams and individuals. Her consultation and training style is notable for her warmth and positive engagement, and for her acute and insightful approach .

Rüdiger Jansen, M.A.
Consultant, Trainer, Coach

Following a career in music and university lecturing, Rüdiger became a management trainer and consultant in 1979. First as independent partner ( Impuls - Analyse. Beratung. Training), and later as founder and director of his own Management Training company ( Do Evolution Seminare und Verlag GmbH), he has worked with a range of high performance German companies and multi-national multi-utility providers (including Allianz, Hypobank, VGH, and RWE group).

His qualifications include Metaplan (group facilitation), NLP (Master Practitioner), and the licence for application of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI Step 1). It is the focus on people that inspires his work. "Even after years of experience, I don't want to miss the adventure that people bring. It's the people that matter – and the people that invariably turn out the surprises."