Richard WinfieldRichard Winfield (www.richardwinfield.com) is the founder and principal consultant of Brefi Group (www.brefigroup.co.uk). He has more than thirty years experience as a management development consultant, including helping the first magistrates' courtsservice and the first local authority in Wales to earn Investor in People status. Richard helps directors and boards become more effective by, clarifying goals, improving communication and applying good corporate governance. His clients call him when they want to bring structure and clarity to their thinking. He can help them identify core issues and make the complex simple, holding the space for them to create their own solutions. He is highly qualified with a rich and varied career covering start-ups, privatisations and acquisitions with small, large and international organisations, public, private and third sector in the UK, Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia and Africa. A chameleon, he easily absorbs and relates to different cultures, whether they be organisational or geographical. Richard has a master's degree in management, is a Master Practitioner of both NLP and Wealth Dynamics, and has been trained in leadership at the Disney Institute in Florida. He is a past governor of the International Association of Coaching and has published five books on coaching. He is the designer of Brefi Group's ASEC Coach Certification Program and creator of 'Invisible Coaching(R) - the art of natural coaching'. He now focuses on director development and corporate governance, working internationally as a facilitator. He has written a 26-week e-course for directors and undertaken board performance evaluation and director appraisal reviews under the UK Corporate Governance Code. Read More Read Less