Chris Cooper

 

Chris is the founder and Managing Director of CC1. During his 20 year career Chris has had senior roles (including main board level) in sales, marketing, procurement, logistics, sales training and HR. He has worked for many global brands, including, 7 years at Mars Confectionery. Led international teams at United Biscuits and ensured 5500 pubs had the supplies when they needed them (well most of the time anyway) at Punch. Prior to CC1 he set up a procurement consultancy with partners which grew to £2m turnover and delivered c£30m of cost reduction in 3 years to many household names. In 2004 he decided to follow his passion for developing people to deliver greater business results. To do this required some significant personal changes.

'Leaving a successful business was a tough call. Then I let my wife watch me invest several family incomes in my own development to learn from some of the worlds leading experts in human behaviour, culture, coaching, spiral dynamics, NLP and professional speaking. She is very appreciated. However, it is only through expanding your own thinking that you can add more value to others'

Please now meet some of the highly skilled network of team members, who are all high calibre thought leaders in their chosen fields.

Annie Bennett

 

Annie is a very experienced executive and career coach, and a motivational facilitator of leadership and team development programmes. She loves working with leaders and managers to enhance their authentic leadership skills and behaviours, and to develop strong team performance aligned with organisational goals. She also has a particular interest in organisational and personal transitions. She is warm, collaborative and open. Annie has coached and partnered clients from many organisations across a wide range of business sectors during her career. She has a first career background in education, teaching modern languages, followed by a further 12 years in international, generalist HR and OD within industry. She has been working as a coach and facilitator since 1998.

Dee Clayton

Dee is a certified Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP and uses this expertise to run specialist communication and influencing programmes and marketing communications training. Prior to moving into training and development Dee worked on a wide range of products across different companies. Her experience spans from Jacobs Creek to Jammie Dodgers, Bernard Matthews to Boddingtons and Marigolds to Murphy's giving her a wealth of experience ranging from TV advertising to direct mail and international event sponsorship to website design. She is therefore a people development expert who truly understands communication.

Dee is a 2:1 Business Studies with marketing graduate, winner of The Cooperative Prize for Best Marketing student and been a speaker at the MRS cooks tour and was a trainer at India's first ever ANLP accredited MLP Practitioner training in Mumbai.

Sharon Newey

 

Sharon is a highly experienced sales management and learning and development performance expert who has worked with many international businesses including Masterfoods. Her experience means she is highly qualified to tailor and deliver CC1 sales and coaching programmes. She is an outstanding speaker and facilitator who blends consultative selling and coaching techniques with behavioural insight acquired in part as a trained trainer of NLP. Sharon is also highly committed to continuous personal development which enables her to add value to an impressive client portfolio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise Oyston

 

 

Denise has had a very successful career managing and developing large results focused sales teams particularly within the Pharmaceutical sector. She is an expert in sales manager performance, coaching sales teams, human capital development and internet marketing. An essential component to anyone involved with CC1 is a commitment to personal development Denise invests continually in this area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuart Powell

  

       

Stuart is our Senior Development Manager. Stuart is an experienced and dynamic business trainer, coach and sales expert who is passionate about helping individuals and organisations to optimise their individual performance while helping people grow their existing businesses. Recognised by The Yorkshire Post as one of the 'Top 100 people under 30' most likely to influence the region in the coming years. Stuart has worked with a large range of clients to CEO across multiple business sectors.

 

Steve Robinson

 

Steve is our Insights Discovery Licensed Practitioner. During his career he has managed offshore trading businesses. Been a Board Director at Spec Savers and also a Director at Fitness First.  In the latter he was responsible for the commercial performance, training and development of 250 staff.