Affiliates
GDP Global is a London-based business and investment promotion consulting firm. The company provides strategic consultancy as well as
direct invest promotion and lead generation services to economic promotion clients globally. Recent assignments include a global
strategy rethink at a German state IPA, future strategy development in Australia, sector targeting strategy for a South American
client, and free zones and labour market reviews in the Middle East and Asia. GDP Global also organises the annual monitoring &
evaluation of more than 200 economic agencies and special economic zones through its IPA Benchmarking and Zones Benchmarking Programmes.
GDP Global is dedicated to training and capacity building in investment promotion and trade development. In the last three years the
company has delivered more than 30 public and in-house training and development programmes, involving more than 700 CEOs, senior and
project personnel. John Hanna is Managing Director of GDP Global Development. He has 12 years of international business experience in
pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and publishing, with Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Wilkinson Sword and Euromoney Institutional Investor. He
also has 15 years of experience in economic development and economic promotion, including a period of eight years as a senior director
of the Welsh Development Agency.
Year One is specialist management consultancy, focusing on organisations in the creative and cultural industries. It helps clients
successfully tackle new phases in their evolution, such as adopting a new strategy, recruiting new people, creating new teams or
establishing a new way of working. From offices in Canterbury and Folkestone, Year One has worked with performing arts venues,
graphic designers, entertainment agencies and theatres as well as a cultural regeneration charity and with creative and cultural
sector teams in universities and local government.
Picture This Graphic Design is an award winning commercial art, graphic design, promotions and advertising service. The company works
for private and public sector clients in many areas, including economic development, regeneration, town centre management, ecology,
aerospace, mapping and security. It produces high quality work, on time and at competitive rates.
Run by John Sims, who has three decades of experience in large London advertising agencies, Picture This is also part of New Creatif,
a design collective that works extensively with clients in France.
Helen Ayres - Facilitator and Trainer
Helen Ayers combines her professional training as an actor, with a background in Clinical Psychology, She has a wealth of experience as a professional mediator in the wider field of conflict resolution in some truly challenging situations, for both the public and private sectors. This experience enables Helen to help business leaders overcome blockers to communication in their organisations.
Helen is also a trained facilitator. Combining her knowledge of performing, with her knowledge of Psychology, Helen helps business leaders to increase their personal impact and bring about genuine transformation within teams and individuals by creating a sense of genuine ease and simplicity in their communication. Her clients include Aviva, Norwich Union, BP, Amnesty International, Johnson & Johnson, Fujitsu, Janssen-Cilag, Severn Trent and the NHS.
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