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Who: The businessfruit team

Hywel Thomas
Hywel is founder of businessfruit. He is committed to working with organizations, teams and individuals to help them maximize business performance.
Hywel has been a specialist in strategic learning and development since 1990 and over the last 19 years Hywel has designed, delivered and facilitated many events for a broad range of multinational clients worldwide. Hywel is accredited to run several transformational workshops and he draws from a portfolio of key instruments that support personal, team and leadership development. He is a de Bono's Six Thinking Hats and Simplicity trainer, a Buzan Licensed Instructor, an accredited Writing Dynamics and Think On Your Feet instructor. He also is an accredited Smarter Selling and Exercising Influence trainer. He is certified to use instruments that include: Insights Discovery, MBTI, TMS, DISC, QO2.
Rebecca Stewart
Rebecca is an experienced corporate trainer and facilitator who brings a new dynamic to thinking, creativity and communications skills in the workplace. Rebecca has taught at all levels of organisations from front line staff to managing directors across Europe and Australia. Her extensive experience extends to the private, public and not for profit sectors.


Rebecca is licensed to deliver Think On Your Feet, Writing Dynamics, a variety of Creativity Workshops including Your Critical Path to Innovation, RapidConsensus, Dr Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats and PassionWorks!. She also facilitates using tools such as Open Space Technology, Rapid Consensus and Dr de Bono's Focus on Facilitation which incorporates Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking.

Nick Payne
As a graphic recorder and facilitator, Nick uses graphics to capture the content of presentations, conversations and debates as they happen. On large wall-charts, he uses colour, spatial organization, pictures and, yes, words to:

  • Record a discussion's content
  • Identify common themes and threads
  • Make big ideas and complex concepts more digestible

In short, he seeks to organize the thinking behind the discourse and to make it visible to everyone. As a result, his support:
  • Heightens the engagement of participants in meetings, workshops and conferences
  • Enables quick and clear identification of their direction, progress and actions
  • Provides a memorable summary of the gathering

Jill Walker
Dr. Jill Walker is a business psychologist with 17 years experience who conducts personal development and leadership training to realize people's potential.  Jill's courses are designed to give people the psychological edge to succeed.  Highly experienced at tailoring courses to suit all levels and types of audiences, her style is very interactive with a mixture of lecture, discussion, self-assessment and real-world exercises. Jill runs the Leadership and Personal Development programs on the MBA and the MSc in International Business at the Business School at Trinity College Dublin. She is also an experienced business coach and offers coaching on a one-to-one basis across a full range of areas. In addition Jill conducts facilitation sessions with teams and groups and is an accredited user of the MBTI, EQi and PDI Profiler (360 feedback).
Chris Webbley
Chris is an experienced coach, facilitator and trainer to leaders and management teams across a wide range of business skills. He designs and delivers successful courses, workshops, seminars and creative learning sessions for large companies, SMEs, national and local government and health sector organizations in the UK and mainland Europe. These events are always based on understanding the client's broad aims and specific objectives and selecting the best methods to achieve them. In a career with the UK Post Office and BT, Chris led many HR and operations teams and major change programs. He managed a major Advanced Leadership program for 150 senior UK executives over 18 months, coaching to MD and Director level. He has direct experience of aiding strategic change, managing and assessing transitions, facilitating the development of teams and helping people generate and exploit creative ideas.

One particular focus area for Chris is helping people to improve and use their communications skills. He is accredited to deliver the Writing Dynamics program and consistently receives highly appreciative feedback for his encouraging style, his professional delivery and the way he works to relate the learning to each participant's needs.
Bart Provost
Bart Provost brings more than 12 years experience in the marketing field to his focus on training, facilitation and coaching. As an executive coach he works with professionals in multinationals, government and education. He has been guest professor at the Lessius college for more than 8 years. He facilitates in Dutch, French and English. Bart is an adept facilitator with a contagious enthusiasm which places the needs of his customer always first. He is certified in MBTI, Mind Mapping, Situational Leadership, REBT Rational Emotive Behavior Training and Thought Provoking Dialogue. He gives training in MBTI, communication, leadership, coaching, MindMapping and productivity.
Keith Sheldrake
Keith is passionate about developing current and future business leaders. His expertise covers 3 main areas:
  • Finance for Non-Financial managers
  • Communication skills
  • Coaching
Keith is a qualified CIMA accountant and has nearly 20 years of experience in a variety of international roles in Finance including GE and William Grant and sons (makers of Glenfiddich Whisky). Keith delivers the programs Think on Your Feet and The Coaching Clinic, a course developed by Coach U to bring the coach approach into the office. Finance for Non-financial Managers can be designed and delivered working the client's own material and customized to suit the audience.
Stephanie Kuth
As an HR Consultant Stephanie has worked with all different kinds of organizations from SME to large multinationals. Projects included the design and implementation of Leadership programs for Middle and Senior Managers based on the Hogan Assessment, Induction Programs, Presentation skills and Coaching.

Stephanie stands out for her practical approach when facilitating programs and working with managers on their personal development.  She has conducted numerous 360 feedbacks with mostly Senior Managers.
Stephanie is certified in development instruments such as MBTI, Hogan Assessment, 360 feedback.
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