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Jo Ouston Director |
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Barbara
Houseman Trainer |
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Fairclough Director |
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Darell
Molton Trainer |
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Clare
Mellor Training Manager |
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Alison
Skillbeck Trainer |
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Sally
Marquiss Office Manager |
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Ken Rea |
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Frances
Jackson Training Administrator |
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Karen
McLachlan Trainer |
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Lorraine Higgins Financial Administrator |
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Simon
Culhane Trainer |
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John
Hunter PR and Marketing |
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Tess
Dignan Trainer |
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Kamal
Chopra Accountant |
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Howard
Bentley Trainer |
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Sian
Coakley Catering |
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Anthony
Aarons Trainer |
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Linda Lewis
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Jill
McCullough Trainer |
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Jean-Felix
Callens Trainer |
| Richard Quine Trainer Richard read music at Trinity College Cambridge, where he held a choral scholarship. After graduating in 1989, he joined Redland Bricks on their fast-track sales management programme, selling bricks and design advice to architects and building contractors. In 1991 he took up a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Since leaving college in 1994, he has sung solo roles with touring companies, as well as a highly varied concert and oratorio repertoire. Richard joined Jo Ouston & Co in 1996 using his experience of training singers and actors combined with his own experience in industry to help clients to communicate with presence and impact. At Jo Ouston & Co he has developed and run courses for many corporate clients. He also teaches on open courses and offers individual coaching. >top Barbara Houseman Trainer Barbara Houseman is a Voice Specialist and Theatre Director with twenty-five years experience. She spent six years as a member of the world renowned voice department at the Royal Shakespeare Company and was Associate Director with responsibility for voice and body work at the Young Vic. At Jo Ouston & Co, Barbara teaches both open and bespoke corporate courses on a range of subjects including Increasing Your Personal Impact, Developing Personal Presence and Releasing Creativity. Additionally Barbara is an executive coach particularly for speech and interview preparation. She has a particular skill in building confidence and self esteem in clients enabling them to manage their self criticism and to be open to developing their potential through increased presence and creativity. Barbara is the author of Finding Your Voice - a self-help manual for actors who want to train and develop their voices - published in July 2002 by Nick Hern Books. >top Darell Moulton Trainer Darell Moulton studied singing, violin and piano at The Royal College of Music. He played violin in many London orchestras and is well known in the music world as a lecturer and piano consultant working for the Royal College of Music in that capacity for 30 years and for Steinway from 1997 to 2000. He has also had a successful performing career. Darell's teaching experience is extensive including 32 years with the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. As Senior Singing Tutor at RADA he has taught many well known actors including Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Brannagh. Darell joined Jo Ouston & Co in 2001. He trains on the open courses especially Developing Personal Presence, as well as working with corporate clients. Darell is also in demand as an executive coach. His particular interest when working with clients is in enabling them to develop their physical presence and gravitas. >top Kenneth Rea Trainer Born in New Zealand, Kenneth Rea began his professional life in advertising, creating television commercials. He is a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is also in regular demand internationally and has taught in China, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Italy, New Zealand and Canada. In 1983 he was made a fellow of Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has worked as a Journalist and Theatre critic for the Guardian. Ken works with business and professional clients on delivering effective and polished speeches and presentations and on Increasing their Personal Impact. He also draws on his directing experience to deliver courses on working creatively in teams, Ken has a particular talent for bringing out the expression and creativity in his clients and honing their performing skills. >top Alison Skilbeck Trainer Alison Skilbeck is an actor, director and teacher. She read Spanish and French at Oxford University, and began her professional career by presenting a BBC Television Spanish Language Programme. Her theatre work has taken her all over the UK and abroad. Based in London for the last fifteen years, Alison has always combined teaching and directing with a busy and varied acting career in theatre and on television. She was made an Hon GSM in 1984 for her work with student actors and singers at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; during her time there she went with a team to teach at the Centre de la Voix in France. She gave workshops at American Universities during a Shakespeare tour, and at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts while appearing at the Hong Kong festival. She has taught and directed at many London drama schools, particularly RADA, where she is also a member of the audition panel. She brings her experience of directing and training actors to the business world by showing participants how to present themselves and how to communicate more effectively. >top Karen McLachlan Trainer Karen MacLachlan graduated from King Alfred’s College, Winchester in 1984 with BA Hons degree in Drama, Theatre and Television and has a broad range of experience in the creative media in production, performance and writing. On graduating, Karen joined VISIONS, a post production facility house specialising in editing pop promos and commercials. In 1986 she was a co-founder of KAHOON KAHOON, a physical theatre company that devised and wrote their own material, producing four shows that toured nationally. In 1996 Karen teamed up with Elemental Design to create narrative concepts for department store windows, winning Evening Standard Awards for their Dickins & Jones Christmas windows 1996 and also for the Dickins and Jones Fashion Week windows, 1997. In 1992 Karen started teaching movement at the Royal College of Music using her performance and physical theatre skills to help singers develop stage technique and presence. While teaching, she continued to perform with improvisation groups, Zoo House, Lonely Hearts Impro and as a guest performer with The Comedy Store Players. Karen is interested in the role of spontaneity and imagination in teams to develop listening and communication skills. Karen started writing professionally in 1998 and has written for film, for the West End stage and for television, including sitcoms and drama. >top Simon Culhane A consultant, Simon Culhane brings an interesting mix of experience at top levels in both the private and public sectors. He spent his early career in retail banking, including a secondment abroad, two strategic planning roles and a management training position. In the late 1990s he was seconded to the Cabinet Office for 3 years as Deputy Director in the Prime Minister’s Efficiency Unit where he carried out such diverse projects as a scrutiny of Prescription Fraud and the arbitration of the correct level of public funding for the BBC World Service. Subsequently he moved to Deutsche Bank as Director, Chairman’s Office, Investment Banking, where he had additional roles as Deputy Head of Government Relations and Head of Marketing and Government Relations, Deutsche Bank Scotland. Simon's consultancy assignments have included a role as Project Director, Foundation Trust at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the first wave of trusts to be considered for this status. >top Tess Dignan Trainer Tess Dignan was born in Edinburgh but trained in acting and voice training with the Webber Douglas Academy and the Central School of Speech and Drama both in London. She graduated with distinction as a voice trainer. Her passion is for voice, language and expression and she has a particular affinity for Shakespearian text. She has taught at all the major Drama Schools in London including, RADA, LAMDA and Central and at the National Theatre and the BBC. She has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford on Avon and at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Tess brings to Jo Ouston & Co her experience of training in voice and presentation and developing confidence. Her past clients include as well as those in the acting profession people from all walks of life and many professions including barristers, bankers, accountants, executive officers and reporters. >top Howard Bentley Trainer Following an initial career in BBC local radio, Howard has had a varied and distinguished career in retailing with Sainsbury's where he worked across the group in retail, training and development, HR, finance, quality development and buying. His roles included store management, senior management development, HR management, business improvement and strategy planning & change. During the last 15 years, Howard has been supporting business leaders to develop and achieve their strategic plans through better approaches to business planning. He has developed and facilitated change and leadership development activities within a range of organisations in both public and private sectors. Assignments have included developing and introducing new strategies, improving customer relationships, culture change, implementing new structures and new ways of working. In 2000, Howard achieved a Masters Degree in 'Total Quality Leadership', which studies the use of learning, quality approaches and human brain science in the leadership of change and development of business. Howard has been an advisor to the National Campaign for Learning, the DfES for the development of National Vocational Qualifications and the DTI as an industry representative supporting the development of 'Learning Organisations'. In further work with the DTI, Howard has advised on supply chain learning. He is an accomplished videographer and is also active in Scouting at a national level as a volunteer. >top Linda Lewis Trainer Linda Lewis has over 20 years experience in broadcast journalism. She is a highly experienced broadcaster and media trainer, with particular expertise in crisis response, business/finance and new technology. She worked for BBC Radio and Television for more than 15 years as a national TV news reporter and as a TV & radio presenter. She presented more than 500 editions of the 'PM' programme on BBC Radio 4, conducting interviews with many senior figures from politics and industry. She also worked for BBC Business Breakfast, producing and presenting TV features on business issues. She has conducted media training and been involved in crisis management exercises and crisis media training sessions for many well-known companies and organisations, including global chemical and pharmaceutical firms, food manufacturers, High Street retailers, utilities, banks, public authorities and regulatory bodies. Linda has extensive inside knowledge of how the media respond to major incidents or crises and now uses her considerable expertise to help others prepare themselves to cope with media scrutiny. Linda is an accomplished conference presenter on reputational issues and with Jo Ouston & Co provides training, coaching and mentoring to clients. >top Jill McCullough Trainer Jill McCullough is a specialist voice and dialect coach of internal renown working with such actors as Julie Walters, Mel Smith, Rhys Ifans and Michelle Pfeiffer and involved in films such as 'The Talented Mr Ripley', 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'The Phantom of the Opera'. She studied Drama at university and holds a distinction in the Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama. Jill worked as Cultural Representative for Leeds City Council and acted as press Officer for the United Nations International Year of Peace and for the National Student Drama Festival. Whilst working with Arthur Pike Associates Jill worked in Sales and Sales Promotion and Client Management generally in the Design and Communication field. She is also currently the speaker trainer for the Global Faraday Lecture. As a Voice and Dialect Specialist she has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, the Peter Hall Company and the Voice and Speech Centre in addition to teaching at RADA and other drama schools in London. Parallel to her work in the theatre, Jill trains business people and other trainers to increase their personal presence and the impact they have upon others through body language, posture and voice. Through Jo Ouston & Co she has designed and run courses for a range of corporate clients as well as running one-on-one executive coaching sessions. >top Anthony Aarons Trainer Anthony's professional trumpet career began in his native Canada at the age of five. Following his graduation from the Royal College of Music and Paris Conservatoire Anthony performed world-wide to great acclaim as a soloist and chamber musician. Anthony has taught and lectured on performance at some of the World's most prestigious universities and institutions including Cambridge University, Trinity College of Music, The Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and the Orkester Schule Bremen. It soon became clear that Anthony had both artistic ability and business acumen. He has successfully developed marketing / brand strategies, programming and planning for extremely diverse ensembles and festivals and made them commercially viable. More recently he moved into the creative sector acting as Brand Consultant for a number of well know Plc's, and following a period as a Marketing Director he now runs his own company. Anthony has however never lost site of his passion for music and continues to teach, perform and record regularly in the UK and Europe. Anthony uses his broad experience in the creative arts and business to enable professionals to improve communication skills, develop ideas and give them the tools to present them skilfully to their colleagues and clients. >top Jean-Felix Callens Trainer Born in Brussels, Jean-Félix trained as a professional gymnast from the age of 8. At the age of 15 he began training as an actor in parallel with his general education which included a degree in Business and Marketing. Jean-Félix has worked as an actor and voice over artist in the UK, Belgium and France since leaving University. >top Richard Fairclough Director As Director and company secretary, Richard supports the infrastructure and systems of the practice, including databases, websites and financial analysis. >top Clare Mellor Training Manager With particular responsibility for tailored corporate programmes and client liaison, Clare brings to Jo & Co a strong commercial background in HR, built up through her experience in the financial, retail and charity sectors. >top Sally Marquiss Office Manager Sally is Office Manager and also acts as Course Coordinator for our open course programme at JO & Co, including liaison with participants, joining instructions and course evaluations. >top Frances Jackson Training Administrator Frances handles enquiries, bookings and course administration at JO & Co, including liaison with clients, contact with participants, joining instructions and course evaluations. >top Lorraine Higgins Financial Administrator Lorraine handles financial admin, including purchase orders, billing, payments and credit control enquiries. >top John Hunter PR and Marketing John Hunter is editor of the JO & Co newsletter JOurnal and also authors articles and publications both for the practice and to support programmes developed for clients. John has a background in advertising and communications in business. Previously he formed and ran his own agency, which was acquired by the Saatchis in the 1980s. >top Kamal Chopra Accountant A Chartered Accountant in private practice, Kamal has provided financial accounting support to the practice since its inception. >top Sian Coakley Catering With an emphasis on vegetarian dishes – Sian’s Catering Company – produces the lunches that are an important feature of the courses held in our offices, whether open courses or tailored courses for clients. >top >back to top >Home >What We Do >They Say >Contact Us Copyright Jo Ouston & Company Limited 2000-2008 |