Phil Dickson
FInstSMM
Commercial Director
Phil has over twenty years' sales, training and managerial experience including ten years Business Consultancy. Commencing work as Assistant Manager in a retail outlet, Phil pursued a career with Harper Collins as a Production Editor. He then progressed to sales, receiving Salesman of the Year Award for worldwide sales. This involved orchestrating media promotional activities such as winning air space for authors on regional radio and TV interviews. His career developed to a Senior Management position where his major projects included marketing, strategy design and sales operational initiatives.
Phil became a Director of Associated Training in 1989 and grew the business from a small team of 4 delivering to local clients in the North of England to a multimillion-pound operation, of 35 people, delivering to global clients in every industry sector.
A key designer of innovative management, leadership and team development programmes, Phil frequently underpins such commercially strategic solutions with in-depth research, outdoor activities and commercial themes. Such highly engaging and interactive tasks and challenges re-energize teams and allow practical experimentation and experiential learning whilst further developing team performance and dynamics.
Additionally, Phil happens to be one of only a very few Commercial Leadership Training Consultants to have delivered Leadership programmes at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Phil continues to deliver commercially strategic programmes to national and international clients such as AOL, O2, Unilever, Canon, Airbus, McAfee, T - Systems and the BBC. Phil is also a licensed Life Orientations (LIFO) behavioral styles practitioner.
He is married with a teenage daughter who keeps him 'grounded'. He plays Bach and Gershwin among many other composers along with his own material on the piano, reads voraciously and has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema, the Roman Empire and space exploration.
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